The environmental movement came into full bloom in the 1970s, and protesters who resented the Concorde’s fuel-guzzling routinely greeted the plane’s arrival at airports with ire-laden protests. Countries banned the jet from flying over their airspace because of the cacophonous sonic boom, which...
Work has begun on the forward passenger cabin, the entrance area, the forward galley and the “tunnel” that leads to the cockpit. There have been many requests for an interior that the user can “walk” through, and that's something that we wanted to provide. Features include working flig...
Hazelby grew up plane-watching near Concorde’s birthplace in southwest England. He began his career as a 16-year-old engineering apprentice for British Airways forerunner BOAC. He admired Concorde for years and then, finally, he found himself behind the controls of a supersonic jet. “The fi...
With an interior fuselage width of about eight and a half feet (2.63 meters), Concorde’s cabin was just wider than that of today’s Bombardier Regional Jet. The SST had a single aisle, with a two-two seating configuration. “The actual layout of the plane was in two sections. There...