Where are they Now ? Concorde ist Commercial Flight

After lengthy negotiations, on 29th November 1962 , the French and British governments signed a draft agreement to jointly build a supersonic commercial plane. AS de Gaulle became involved this became a binding agreement.

The first Concorde to fly was Concorde Prototype 001 which cruised over Paris at subsonic speeds on 29 Februaryth 1968

Because Congress failed to allocate further funds for development, on 25th May 1971 eight years after it was launched, the US project for a supersonic plane was cancelled.

Thirty years ago today on 21st January 1976 one Concorde of the Air France fleet left Paris for Rio de Janeiro, Brazil via Dakar. A British Airways Concorde simultaneously left London Heathrow for its first flight to Bahrein.

Any fellow members of the Anti Concorde Project are welcome to contact Lord Patel - perhaps with the inention of some form of celebration that the RAF is still flying it's soldiers and fuel around in VC 10's built before Concorde was thought of - and still no prospect of replacement.

PS. For those fascinated by annversaries in 1994, on this day, Lorena Bobbitt was found not-guilty by reason of temporary insanity for severing the penis of her husband John Bobbitt.