A museum is celebrating 50 years since the prototype airliner Concorde 002 made its final flight and became one of their most ...
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 Heathrow ...
Supersonic travel once seemed like the future of aviation. The Concorde could cross the Atlantic in under three hours and became famous around the world. But loud sonic booms and rising fuel costs ...
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When Tye first piloted Concorde in the late 1990s, the airplane had been established for two decades. Peter Duffey was there at the very beginning, as one of the first British Airways pilots selected ...