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Own A (Big) Piece Of Concorde History

Is there an 18 foot hole in your air travel collection?Â If so, you won’t want to miss an auction currently underway.Â For only 1.25 million Pounds, you can own an 18 foot long 3.5 ton engine, together with operating manual and certificatw of authenticity.Â The engine was used on one of British Airway’s Concordes,…

The Beginning of the End for the Concorde

On July 25th, 2000, a Concorde, operated as Air France flight 4590, en route from Paris to New York crashed after takeoff from Paris, killing all onboard. (NYCAviation keeps reminding us of things like this). The crash was caused by a strip of metal that fell from a Continental DC-10 heading to Houston, which punctured…