Aerospatiale/B.Ae. Concorde

One of the first successes in international aviation collaboration, the Concorde was flown only by Air France and British Airways. The elegant Concorde was a milestone in aviation history and remains a testament to the great technical advances that were made in aircraft engineering in the 1960’s and 70’s. The rising costs of fuel in the 1970’s put paid to any large scale production of the Concorde and eventually the ten remaining airworthy aircraft only flew scheduled services on the North Atlantic routes. The Concorde was withdrawn from use in 2005.

                                   G-BOAB              c/n 100-008                France/UK  Photo: John Chalmers

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