Concorde -Retirement and Final Star-Studded Flight
Following a crash at Charles de Gaulle crash in 2000, an investigation led to a series of safety improvements to the design of the Concorde. However, this wasn’t enough to save the service, which was eventually retired in 2003. Richard Branson had offered to buy the fleet for £1 to keep it in service -later […]
Concorde -Maiden Flight and Supersonic Passenger Travel
Concorde quickly became a symbol of technological advance and British pride despite being a joint enterprise with the French government. More than 2.5 million passengers flew supersonically on British Airways’ Concorde since she entered commercial service in 1976. The most frequent passenger, an oil company executive, clocked up almost 70 round trip transatlantic crossings a […]
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