Today in flying history January 21 1976 - 40 years!

[cowpatz]

The first Concorde jets carrying commercial passengers simultaneously take off from London's Heathrow Airport and Orly Airport outside Paris at precisely 11:40am.
The London flight was headed to Bahrain in the Persian Gulf, and the Paris flight was headed to Rio de Janeiro via Senegal.


(Source: British Airways - Heathrow 21/1/1976)






courtesy of Grayson Ottoway

[Splitpin]

Great post CP .... that photo says it all , the 707 in the background with Concorde dominant .
But history thought otherwise ,and kept the 707 flying (mainly in uniform ) and the beautiful one relegated to museums .

[Ian Warren]

The amount off times it flew in and outta Christchurch and even to watch the unique approach's.