The Concorde Story is a vintage documentary about the development of the world’s first supersonic airliner, it was filmed during the early, heady days of the now retired aircraft and it provides a fascinating look into how the Concorde came to be – starting with early designs from WWII.
With a running time of just under 1 hour, the documentary provides an interesting look into how a team of engineers were able to create such an extraordinary aircraft using nothing but slide rules, blackboard mathematics and very primitive computers. It includes a lot of behind the scenes footage of 002 and 001 – the first two Concordes, including their first flights.
If you’d like to read more about Concorde you can click here to visit the entry in the Encyclopaedia Britannica or here to visit the entry in Wikipedia.
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