Farnborough, United Kingdom – September 10, 1986: Concorde making a pass at an airshow [iStock]
Key Takeaways:
The author recounts a personal, extraordinary experience flying round trip on Concorde in April 2000, highlighting its unique capabilities such as reaching Mach 2.02 at FL580 and allowing passengers to see the Earth's curvature.
The article commemorates the 20th anniversary of Concorde's final scheduled commercial flights on October 24, 2003, marking the end of an unparalleled era in supersonic passenger travel.
Concorde is celebrated as a groundbreaking feat of aeronautical engineering, with former pilots expressing deep pride and nostalgia for an aircraft that achieved technical advancements unmatched by modern commercial aviation.
Though Audrey Hepburn didn’t actually deliver that line in her 1954 film Sabrina, it’s widely attributed to her, and having lived in Paris for three years, I couldn’t agree more. To this day, I never need an excuse to go. I’d happily hop the pond to La Ville-Lumière for the opening of an envelope.
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Jeff Berlin is a photographer, cinematographer, writer, and instrument-rated pilot. A passionate aviator, he has flown a wide range of aircraft and contributed words and images to many of the world’s leading aviation
