Supersonic: 50 years after its first flight, the Concorde story is still remarkable

Fifty years ago, the first Concorde supersonic transport took to the skies over Toulouse, France. Hailed in its day as a technological achievement to rival the first manned Moon landing, It not only set an aeronautical standard that we cannot match today, it also showed that engineering and sheer beauty can be melded into a single package. So, get your VIP boarding pass as we look back at the career of the luxury passenger aircraft that flew faster than the Sun.

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• British Airways
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