As 25 July marks the 20-year anniversary of Concorde’s fatal crash, we look back on the highlights – and lowlights – of the famed supersonic jet. November 1956 The Supersonic Transport Aircraft ...
It would take him back to the day he stood at Heathrow, watching the first commercial Concorde flight take off. He remembers one occasion when an American Airlines pilot who was cleared to line up and ...
(CNN) — On January 21, 1976 a teenage John Tye was among crowds of onlookers clinging to a chain link fence, cheering as the first commercial British Airways Concorde flight departed from London’s ...
“So you could actually see the things that you saw on maps — there they were, for real.” For Tye, it was also surreal to take off and land and see crowds of people lined up to watch. It would take him ...