The ticket cost a fortune, but you did get a lot for your money ...
Concorde's flight deck is dense, a 1970s analog anachronism in today's digital world. As I scan the vintage panel to get my bearings, I see the usual suspects, but it's also obvious I'm about to fly a ...
Operating other aircraft, you’d rarely fly with the same team, but with Concorde, there were always familiar faces in the crew, says Tye. “There were only ever 134 BA Concorde pilots the whole time ...
On Tuesday July 17 at 2:18 p.m. a plane dubbed Alpha Foxtrot took off from London’s Heathrow Airport two minutes ahead of its official departure time. It landed at its destination three hours and 20 ...
How will Mick Jagger even be Mick Jagger without the Concorde? In a blow to jet-setters everywhere, British Airways and Air France said yesterday that they will end the supersonic Concorde's ...
I’ll go and fly Concorde — not really realizing what was involved,’” Lowe tells CNN Travel. Like Duffey, Lowe was one of the first British Airways pilots to test out supersonic flying at RAF Fairford, ...
(CNN) — 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 ...
Little did Tye know some 20 years later, he’d be sitting in the Concorde flight deck for the first time, pinching himself that his teenage dream was coming true. Tye vividly recalls his first moments ...