2024-03-02 07:30:31
The staff of the Sud-Aviation factory in Nantes, who participated, like those in Saint-Nazaire, in the construction of several sections of the Concorde, are celebrating on March 2, 1969. On that day, the supersonic plane makes its first flight. It concretizes the Franco-British cooperation agreement, signed on November 29, 1962, tasking Aérospatiale and British aircraft corporation with carrying it out.
In the cockpit, for this first, there is André Turcat, chief pilot, Jacques Guignard, co-pilot, Henri Perrier, flight engineer, and Michel Rétif, flight engineer.
What we expect from this plane is much better than this first 29-minute flight. The goal is to connect Paris to New York in less than three and a half hours.
It was not until January 21, 1976 that the Concorde F-BVFA in the colors of Air France, which took off at 12:30 p.m. from Charles de Gaulle airport with one hundred lucky people on board, crossed the Atlantic, destination Rio de Janeiro. Janeiro, after a stopover in Dakar, to refuel. Because the Concorde has a fault, it consumes kerosene. It will land at 3:10 p.m. at Galeao airport. Sugarloaf Mountain is flooded with light and Copacabana Beach shines in the sun. Forty years ago, Mermoz had linked Paris to Buenos Aires in 63 hours!
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