On this day in 1969, a large crowd gathered around Toulouse airport to attend the first flight of the first supersonic airliner, Concorde. Test pilot Turcat, with engineer Guignard, Perrier, Retif, cranked up the 4 afterburners, another first for a future commercial aircraft. The flight lasted for 29 minutes. The British prototype would take-off from Filton a month later.

2005 , 215 , Aerospatiale , BAC , British Aerospace , CDG , Charles de Gaulle , Concorde , F-BVFF , France , Paris , Roissy , Sud Aviation , Sud-Aviation

Exposure Time	1/1600 s
ApertureFNumber	f/8.0
ISO	200
Model	Canon EOS 10D
Lens	100.0-400.0 mm
Focal Length	285 mm
Date Time of Original	2005:10:29 17:23:47

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Robin MORET

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Saturday 29 October 2005

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Wednesday 27 February 2019

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2005, 215, Aerospatiale, BAC, British Aerospace, CDG, Charles de Gaulle, Concorde, F-BVFF, France, Paris, Roissy, Sud Aviation, Sud-Aviation

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