On the Aug. 11, 1999 three Concordes followed the total solar eclipse. Two were affreted by British Airways (BA99S and BA91N) and one by Air France (AF4500).
Concorde was the only civil plane able to "chase" the eclipse because of its speed superior to Mach 2 and because the speed of the eclipse umbra was about Mach 2.3 over Europe. Thus the Concordes managed to stay in the darkest shadow for about 4 to 8 minutes while someone standing on the surface would only stay 2 minutes.
Provided in this file : - Trace and placemarks for the three flights icluding real runways infos - Trace, umbra (as a polygon) and placemarks (ordered by Zulu time) for the eclipse
Thanks to Xavier M. Jubier for the KMZ files of the Eclipse I used to provide eclipse shadow as a polygon. His website contains infos on infos all the eclipses with KMZ folders and are available through a Yahoo Widget !!!
P.S. : The altitudes are set to 0 because I have no altitude data for the moment.
-------------------- Google Earth addict and Concorde lover --------------------------------------
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