Did the Concorde come to Colorado Springs? Back in the "80s, I seem to remember a British Airways Concorde landing in Colorado Springs. Why did it land here? Mike Allison
A retired British Airways Concorde supersonic jetliner was placed on a pier next to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum on the Hudson River in New York last week as part of the exhibit. Here are some things that you might not know about the Concorde: * In 1962, an agreement was signed by the British and French governments to jointly pursue the design and manufacture of a supersonic jetliner. Concorde assembly lines were established at Toulouse, France, and Bristol, England. A total of 20 Concordes were built.
... while on board British Airways' Concorde Flight 189, en route from London to Washington, D....
NEW YORK - A year has passed since the last Concorde flight, and after 27 years of crossing the Atlantic at supersonic speeds, most of the sleek white jetliners were retired to museums. Of the nine planes flying at the end of service, three are now on display in the United States, at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, the Intrepid Air- Sea-Space Museum in New York and the Uvdar-Hazy Center near Washington, D.C. My interest in Concordes began long before they became museum pieces. When British Airways and Air France announced they were ending Concorde service last year, I was fortunate enough to purchase one of a thousand tickets offered by British Airways at half the usual $6,000 one-way fare. The flight from London to New York was one I had dreamed of ever since I stood at the edge of th...
Commentary - British Airways PLC and Air France S.A. decide to retire the Concorde - Brief Article
S. plane makers Boeing, Lockheed, and North American also caught the SST fever and did designs, but market realities made them abandon the idea in the early 1970s. Besides the intense, politically popular satisfaction of beating the Americans at the game of air transport they had dominated for so long, this kept British and French state-owned aircraft manufacturers busy. [...] when it was built, the reasoning went, they could always sell it to their subsidized national airlines. [...] all prospective buyers canceled their options except the captive Air France and British Airways, which got the plane at bargain prices from their governments.
...As Concorde Prototype 001 took off in its patriotic blue, whit...
NEW YORK A year has passed since the last Concorde flight, and after 27 years of crossing the Atlantic at supersonic speeds, most of the sleek white jetliners were retired to museums. Of the nine planes flying at the end of service, three are now on display in the United States, at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, the Intrepid Air- Sea-Space Museum in New York and the Udvar-Hazy Center near Washington, D.C. My interest in Concordes began long before they became museum pieces. When British Airways and Air France announced they were ending Concorde service last year, I was fortunate enough to purchase one of a thousand tickets offered by British Airways at half the usual $6,000 one-way fare. The flight from London to New York was one I had dreamed of ever since I stood at the edge of the...
... the posh jet-setters abandoned by Concorde, a line of supersonic jets owned by British Airway...
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