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 made history and continues to influence the industry, even though it was a government-funded enterprise.
(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.
I went on board two Concordes, including the first prototype, at Paris's air and space museum. Concorde, retired in 2003 due to costs and a crash, flew at more than twice the speed of sound. Boom ...
There have been no commercial supersonic flights since the Anglo-French Concorde retired from scheduled service more than 20 years ago. But the U.S. space agency NASA is testing an improved supersonic ...
“Concorde was the ultimate aircraft for a flight engineer to work on,” says Hazelby. “When you get everything right, and Concorde performs well, then you get a huge feeling of achievement. At the end ...