(CNN) — On January 21, 1976 a teenage John Tye was among crowds of onlookers clinging to a chain link fence, cheering as the first commercial British Airways Concorde flight departed from London’s ...

Experiencing a total eclipse for 74 minutes, passengers of Concorde 001 followed the path of totality as it crossed Africa in 1973, setting a record for the longest-ever total eclipse observation.

Once the Concorde was in the air, it would climb fast, “at 100 knots faster than an ordinary subsonic jet,” as former Concorde First Officer Tony Yule explains. “You would probably climb somewhere ...

Duffey helped mastermind the first Concorde training scheme, and flew the aircraft until he retired in 1980. Also there at the beginning was pilot Jock Lowe, who shares a birthday with Concorde — he ...