Concord First Flight 2 March 1969

[TxD]

As a young aviator 50 years ago this event held a lot of excitement for me.
Someone said at the time that a man on horseback could travel about 75 miles in one day.
After this event a man could travel about 7,000 miles in one day.

Remembering now makes me feel kinda old.

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[Noggin]

My father's brother worked on the Project at Filton near Bristol in the UK. He arranged for our family to have a tour of the plant in the spring of 68 where the UK built prototype 002 was nearing completion. It certainly got me much more excited about aviation developments. If you had told me then that the average speed of aircraft crossing the Atlantic in the 21st Century would actually be slower than those in the 1960s I would not have believed you. Like most of my generation we feel sort of cheated out of the wonderful future that we were supposed to be getting in this century. The only thing that has exceeded our expectations of those days have been small computers and the www. I still feel cheated out of my flying car, jet pack, and Martian tourist resort.

[flechero]

I still feel cheated out of my flying car...

My grandfather was actually a test pilot for a flying car prototype, developed around 1950.

[powerboatr]

i remember the huge fanfare we got in Dallas when the 1st concord came to deliver passengers to england...