Concorde: 40 Years of Supersonic Magic

Concorde pilots show off their expensive new piece of hardware at the Farnborough Air Show
Hulton-Deutsch / Corbis

Air On a G String
Concorde's pilots pull a few more Gs than usual as they show off their expensive new piece of hardware at the famous Farnborough Air Show, England, in 1970. The more formal scheduled flights began on 21 January 1976 on the London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio (via Dakar) routes.

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