A more glamourous airliner turns 40....

[Mictheslik]

Sadly no longer flying, it's 40 years to the day since Concorde 001 left the ground at Toulouse....

.mic

[FlyingPerson]

It was indeed a great aircraft. But I guess it were to stop flying at some point anyway - using it with today's fuel & maintenance prices would just not be possible, unless the prices went drastically high.

Shame that the Concorde only flew for a little over 30 years.

PS: Can you guess what the first aircraft in my signature is?

[EJW]

Shame they withdrew it from operation. I'm 16 and fortunately got to see it in flight nearly a dozon times.
I'll never forget how it made the ground vibrate and then that ear popping rumble that soon followed.