On January 21, 1976 a teenage John Tye was among crowds of onlookers clinging to a chain link fence, cheering as the first commercial British Airways Concorde flight departed from London’s Heathrow ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Those who took the controls of Concorde say it was like no other airplane. Pilots tell CNN Travel the secrets of flying the ...

Duffey helped mastermind the first Concorde training scheme, and flew the aircraft until he retired in 1980. Also there at the beginning was pilot Jock Lowe, who shares a birthday with Concorde — he ...

Those who took the controls of Concorde say it was like no other airplane. Pilots tell CNN Travel the secrets of flying the world’s fastest commercial passenger aircraft at more than twice the speed ...

When Concorde reached the Bristol Channel, an inlet to the west of London leading to the North Atlantic, pilots would give passengers a heads up and then the aircraft would break through the sound ...

When Tye first piloted Concorde in the late 1990s, the airplane had been established for two decades. Peter Duffey was there at the very beginning, as one of the first British Airways pilots selected ...