MadameConcorde From San Marino, joined Feb 2007, 10243 posts, RR: 40 Posted (4 years 2 months 3 weeks 18 hours ago) and read 2276 times:
Toulouse-Blagnac 2 March 1969 on a foggy Sunday: BAC-Aerospatiale Concorde Prototype F-WTSS took to the sky for the first time at 3.15 in the afternoon.
On board were chief test pilot André Turcat in command of the aircraft, flight engineer Michel Rétif and co-pilot Henri Perrier. The flight lasted 29 minutes.
This original picture from my own personal collection shows prototype F-WTSS aligned on the runway 1 March 1969 ready for take off. They could not go because of bad weather conditions the same as the day before. It took 3 days of waiting until she could fly.
Happy 40th Anniversary Concorde!
There was a better way to fly it was called Concorde
Another picture of mine Chief test pilots André Turcat and Brian Trubshaw at the 1969 Paris Air Show. Both Concorde prototypes F-WTSS and G-BSST took part that year.
There was a better way to fly it was called Concorde
MadameConcorde From San Marino, joined Feb 2007, 10243 posts, RR: 40 Reply 3, posted (4 years 2 months 3 weeks 10 hours ago) and read 2082 times:
A better, longer colour film of the first flight with English subtitles. Thank you, Mark.
You can hear Raymond Baxter in the background: "She flies... Concorde flies".
Viscount724 From Switzerland, joined Oct 2006, 21483 posts, RR: 24 Reply 4, posted (4 years 2 months 2 weeks 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 1971 times:
Quoting MadameConcorde (Thread starter): Toulouse-Blagnac 2 March 1969 on a foggy Sunday: BAC-Aerospatiale Concorde Prototype F-WTSS took to the sky for the first time at 3.15 in the afternoon.
As a sidenote, another notable aircraft, the 747, made it's first flight just 3 weeks before Concorde, February 9, 1969.
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