Going Supersonic

France

New York to London in 3 hours 30 minutes - with a boom!

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Concorde was a joint venture between the British Aircraft Corporation and Aérospatiale. First flown in 1969 it entered service in 1976 and continued commercial flights for 27 years.

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Until 2000, when it crashed taking off from Charles de Gaulle Airport, with a death toll of 113, mostly German tourists, on a trip of a lifetime to New York and a luxury Caribbean cruise.

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It's final commercial flight was October 23, 2003.

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... the end of an era for Concorde but the dream of supersonic flight lives on!