BA Concorde Tech stop - Gander
Not the best of explanations, perhaps.... Was he trying to say that the Concorde could not take off with full fuel because of the high temp?
Londoners experienced the hottest day in the city's history when the temperature hit 35.4 degrees C, beating the 35 degrees recorded in 1990. A British Airways Concorde was forced to make an unscheduled stop in Gander, Nfld., during a flight from London to New York to refuel because the hot weather meant it needed to carry more fuel.
The aircraft, which flies at twice the speed of sound, usually takes just three hours and 20 minutes to make the transatlantic crossing. But the detour was expected to add 90 minutes to the flight.
"When it gets this hot, Concorde has to carry more fuel because the air it is travelling through is of a higher pressure," a BA spokesman said. "It is unusual, but . . . not the first time it has happened because of hot weather."