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When British Airways and Air France announced that Concorde was to be retired from service in October 2003, it signalled the end of nearly three decades of supersonic passenger flights. Concorde had flown for years without a major incident. But in July 2000, an Air France Concorde crashed near Paris, killing all 109 people on board and four on the ground. By the time the modified aircraft went back into service in November 2001, both BA and Air France faced mounting problems, which spelled the end for Concorde. As the former British chief test pilot, Brian Trubshaw's close association with Concorde placed him in the unique position of being able to write the inside story of this world-famous supersonic passenger jet. Brian was closely involved in the exhaustive investigations into the 2000 tragedy. Heavily illustrated, this book covers the Paris crash, Concorde's brief return to service and its decommissioning in 2004.
7th November, 2023 in Aviation, Biography & Memoir
Concorde was conceived in the 1950s, first flew in the 1960s and then took over 2.5million people to ‘the edge of space’ at twice the speed of sound for the rest of the 20th century. And into the 21st. Designed and developed by a team of far sighted British and French engineers,…
28th February, 2019 in Aviation
On 2 March 1969, Concorde took off from Toulouse for what was described as a ‘faultless’ maiden test flight. The flight lasted just 27 minutes, but it flew Concorde into history as surely the most iconic airliner of all time – as beloved by the fortunate travellers on board as by…
5th April, 2016 in Aviation
A look back at the history of the iconic record-breaking supersonic airliner, from early developments in supersonic transport, through to the decommissioning of Concorde in 2003. 1954 February – A group meets to study the supersonic transport (SST) concept for the first…
