Today is a special date in aviation history as the first Concorde flight with commercial passengers took off from London’s Heathrow Airport and landed in Bahrain on January 21, 1976.
Simultaneously a flight took off from Paris to Rio de Janeiro via Senegal in West Africa.
At their cruising speeds, the innovative Concordes flew well over the sound barrier at 1,350 miles an hour, cutting air travel time by more than half.
The flights were the culmination of a 12-year effort that pitted English and French engineers against their counterparts in the USSR.
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