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12 Things We Most Remember About 1976

August 3, 2021August 19, 2022Phil AndrewsLeave a Comment

1. Concorde enters service On January 21st 1976 a British Airways Concorde took off from London Heathrow airport with a full compliment of passengers destined for Bahrain, while at the exact same time Air France’s maiden Concorde flight left the runway at Paris’ Orly airport for Rio de Janeiro. After initially having been refused permission […]

It’s a Beautiful Noise – 1976, the Year of Concorde

September 30, 2019November 6, 2023Phil AndrewsLeave a Comment

I first saw Concorde fly over my home in 1970. I was eight years of age, and the Anglo-French supersonic jetliner was landing at London’s Heathrow airport, under the flightpath of whose Runway 28-Left my Isleworth home was located. My late father, who saw it too, was unconvinced. He told me it was a Vulcan […]