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The official handover ceremony of British Airways' first Concorde occurred on 15 January 1976 at Heathrow Airport. Air France Concorde (F-BTSC) at Charles de Gaulle Airport on 25 July 1975, exactly 25 years before the accident in 2000 British Airways Concorde in Singapore Airlines livery at Heathrow Airport in 1979 Air France Concorde (F-BTSD) with a short-lived promotional Pepsi livery in ...
British Caledonian (BCal) came into being in November 1970 when the Scottish charter airline Caledonian Airways, at the time Britain's second-largest, wholly privately owned, independent [nb 1] airline, took over British United Airways (BUA), then the largest British independent airline as well as the United Kingdom's leading independent scheduled carrier.
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As the first and only supersonic commercial jetliner, Concorde was popular with royals, celebrities, and business executives.
Cal Air International, [nb 13] the former British Caledonian Charter operation, [25] [166] and British Caledonian Flight Training were not included in BA's acquisition of the British Caledonian Group. [166] British Airtours, BA's wholly owned, Gatwick-based charter subsidiary, was rebranded Caledonian Airways.
Former Concorde flight engineer Warren Hazelby explains how he helped fly the supersonic jet. In a pre-computer age, flight engineers were crucial to aviation. Former Concorde flight engineer ...
[N 1] Concorde's pilots and British Airways in official publications often refer to Concorde both in the singular and plural as "she" or "her". [209] In 2006, 37 years after its first test flight, Concorde was announced the winner of the Great British Design Quest organised by the BBC (through The Culture Show) and the Design Museum.