Tag: Concorde

My new book is published today

~ Richard Edwards

Heroes and Landmarks of British Aviation
By Richard Edwards and Peter J Edwards

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This week Pen and Sword Books published Heroes and Landmarks of British Aviation by Sussex authors Richard and Peter Edwards.

The book tells the dramatic stories of Britain’s aviation pioneers, the men and women who often risked everything to be the first into the skies, to fly the furthest, the highest and the fastest. Continue reading “My new book is published today” →

Maiden flight of the Concorde

~ Richard Edwards
Concorde Prototype, Imperial War Museum, Duxford

Without doubt the British Aircraft Corporation’s (BAC) most memorable contribution to British aviation was the Aérospatiale BAC Concorde, the world’s only supersonic passenger airliner.

The Concorde 001 made its maiden flight on 2 March 1969, when pilot French Major André Edouard Turcat took-off from Toulouse Airport for the first time. The aircraft made its first supersonic flight on 1 October 1969. The British prototype, Concorde 002, made its maiden flight on 9 April 1969, when pilot Brian Trubshaw flew the aircraft from Filton to RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire. Continue reading “Maiden flight of the Concorde” →