I remember somebody shouting: “There it is, there’s the aircraft!” I was so excited just to see it, I took a picture straight away, and then thought, “hold on, I’ve got to wait until it’s over the ...
The Runway Visitor Park (RVR) at Manchester Airport houses Concorde G-BOAC, a flagship British Airways plane, offering various tours including access to the cockpit and a unique nose-drop ...
Concorde, the first and only supersonic commercial jetliner, operated from 1976 to 2003. Flown by royals, celebrities, and executives, it was discontinued because of high operating costs. A Concorde ...
Carefully I put down the glass of cognac, placed my cigar in the ashtray and followed the purser to the cockpit. Walking forward along the ridiculously cramped aircraft aisle, I was sure I detected ...
In the Concorde lounge at JFK, where the “Air France staff oozed élan,” Marshall chatted with an elegant French woman, and admitted that it was her first flight on the SST. “She was a Concorde regular ...
By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Concorde flight engineer Warren Hazelby gets chills recalling his first supersonic flight from London to New York in 2002. Hazelby remembers stepping onto the flight ...
Supersonic flight refers to aircraft travelling faster than the speed of sound, approximately Mach one at sea level, or ...
(CNN) — Concorde flight engineer Warren Hazelby gets chills recalling his first supersonic flight from London to New York in 2002. Hazelby remembers stepping onto the flight deck and taking it all in.