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It made Concorde's final flight on Wednesday 26 November 2003. Departing from Heathrow at 11:30 GMT , it made a last, brief, supersonic flight, carrying 100 BA staff, over the Bay of Biscay. It then flew a "lap of honour" above Bristol , passing over Portishead , Clevedon , Weston-super-Mare , Bristol Airport and Clifton Suspension Bridge ...
The official handover ceremony of British Airways' first Concorde occurred on 15 January 1976 at Heathrow Airport. Air France Concorde (F-BTSC) at Charles de Gaulle Airport on 25 July 1975, exactly 25 years before the accident in 2000 British Airways Concorde in Singapore Airlines livery at Heathrow Airport in 1979 Air France Concorde (F-BTSD) with a short-lived promotional Pepsi livery in ...
[N 1] Concorde's pilots and British Airways in official publications often refer to Concorde both in the singular and plural as "she" or "her". [208] In 2006, 37 years after its first test flight, Concorde was announced the winner of the Great British Design Quest organised by the BBC (through The Culture Show) and the Design Museum.
2008 (February): British Airways announces plans for London City-New York JFK flight using a small subsonic aircraft, the A318. It is nicknamed “son of Concorde”. It is nicknamed “son of ...
The supersonic aircraft suffered a catastrophic crash in Paris on 25 July 2000
The British Airways Concorde, one of only 20 of the supersonic aircraft to ever fly, ... It made its last flight in 2003, on its way to Intrepid. The fleet of Concordes was gradually phased out in ...
Occasionally, the British Airways supersonic Concorde was used to transport the prime minister and royal family, particularly to international conferences abroad. Queen Elizabeth II's first supersonic flight was on 2 November 1977 at the end of her silver jubilee.
It all began, says British Airways, on August 25, 1919, when the world’s first scheduled international flight between London and Paris took off with one passenger, plus some Devonshire cream and ...