As the first and only supersonic commercial jetliner, Concorde was popular with royals, celebrities, and business executives.
“Concorde was all first class, so you were treated in a great way,” says Larry Mueller – former boss of IBM Europe and now chief executive of the ultra-high-end travel company Cuvee. “But for me, it ...
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What actually ended the Concorde after decades of supersonic flight
The Concorde was once the ultimate symbol of speed, prestige, and futuristic air travel, cutting flight times in a way no ...
(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 ...
The piece is a new take on the Navitimer B01 Chronograph 43, with all its usual aviator-centric bells and whistles, but, as you may expect, it has a few tributes to the Concorde woven in. In fact, the ...
Once the Concorde was in the air, it would climb fast, “at 100 knots faster than an ordinary subsonic jet,” as former Concorde First Officer Tony Yule explains. “You would probably climb somewhere ...
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