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During the Mexican oil boom, AF flew Concorde twice weekly to Mexico City's Mexico City International Airport via Washington, DC, or New York City, from September 1978 to November 1982. [17] [18] The worldwide economic crisis during that period resulted in this route's cancellation; the last flights were almost empty. The routing between ...
Data from The Wall Street Journal, [229] The Concorde Story, [230] The International Directory of Civil Aircraft, [73] Aérospatiale/BAC Concorde 1969 onwards (all models) [231] General characteristics. Crew: 3 (2 pilots and 1 flight engineer) Capacity: 92–120 passengers (128 in high-density layout) Length: 202 ft 4 in (61.66 m) Wingspan: 84 ...
It made its final flight to Manchester Airport – where a "glass hangar" was later built at the viewing park for its display – on 31 October 2003 after flying 22,260 hours. [12] Concorde G-BOAB in storage at London (Heathrow) Airport, following the end of all Concorde flights. G-BOAA (206) first flew on 5 November 1975 from Filton.
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The last passenger flight of the Tu-144 was in June 1978 and it was last flown in 1999 by NASA. Concorde's last commercial flight was in October 2003, with a November 26, 2003 ferry flight being its last flight. Following the termination of flying by Concorde, there have been no SSTs in commercial service.
In 2003, Lewis Whyld took an instantly classic photograph of the Concorde on its last flight, soaring over the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, United Kingdom.
Paul Roitsch of Pan American World Airways became the first commercial pilot to fly the supersonic Concorde airliner, [17] although Pan Am would never add the Concorde to its fleet of aircraft. Died: Dave O'Brien (stage name for David Fronabarger), 57, American film actor; from a heart attack during a yachting race