It was 100% full... passengers were mostly media, celebrities, and a few lucky folks who just happened to have booked tickets for that date far far in advance. Christie Brinkley and Richard Quest were on that flight.
I was there, at I think, about 7am for that last take-off. It brought a tear to my eye, a thing of beauty, gone forever. March 2, 2009 will mark the 40th anniversary of its first flight!
crazy thing is... that "futuristic shape" will have made its debut 40yrs ago by next year. Concorde was first commissioned before the handheld calculator, personal computer, and email even existed. Concorde first flew ten years before the first (commercial) cellular phone went up for sale!
Thank you for posting. I wonder if I will live to see another SST in service. I remember watching these things carving noisy turns over the Thames as they approached Heathrow. I always felt like I was in a science fiction movie looking at that futuristic shape suspended in the air by a column of smoke and din. We were alive in a special time when a combination of technical brilliance and economic naiveté brought the Concorde to life.
Absolutely fantastic 👏
It was 100% full... passengers were mostly media, celebrities, and a few lucky folks who just happened to have booked tickets for that date far far in advance.
Christie Brinkley and Richard Quest were on that flight.
I was there, at I think, about 7am for that last take-off. It brought a tear to my eye, a thing of beauty, gone forever. March 2, 2009 will mark the 40th anniversary of its first flight!
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Got a hunch they shut down the afterburners but still left a lot of power on. What a beautiful aircraft she was.
crazy thing is... that "futuristic shape" will have made its debut 40yrs ago by next year.
Concorde was first commissioned before the handheld calculator, personal computer, and email even existed.
Concorde first flew ten years before the first (commercial) cellular phone went up for sale!
Thank you for posting. I wonder if I will live to see another SST in service. I remember watching these things carving noisy turns over the Thames as they approached Heathrow. I always felt like I was in a science fiction movie looking at that futuristic shape suspended in the air by a column of smoke and din. We were alive in a special time when a combination of technical brilliance and economic naiveté brought the Concorde to life.
Good one,dont ever delete it
Stunning
Hey Fraser , I was on this flight 👍
I was lucky enough to fly on that bad boy a couple of times. Awesome
Brilliant !!
nice
The best in the world 🌎
literal wired Jetsons
What?