PROTOTYPE OF THE CONCORDE SST made its first flight 30 years ago yesterday.
PROTOTYPE OF THE CONCORDE SST made its first flight 30 years ago yesterday, taking off from Aerospatiale's airfield at Toulouse. Concorde airliners, each powered by four Rolls-Royce-Snecma Olympus 593 engines, have since logged more than 900,000 flying hours, two thirds of them above Mach 1. These...
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