Concorde Still Most Amazing Flying Experience Five Years Later

This weekend marked the fifth anniversary of the last commercial flight of the Concorde . open of fly at a sail speed of Mach 2.02 thanks to its four Olympus 593 Mk 610 afterburning turbojets , the Concorde bridge London to New York in just 3.5 hours . Still today , this ultrasonic spurt remains one of the most technologically advanced , credibly the prettiest - in that futurist 70s aesthetic thatwould make Jon I ve faint - and , as you’re able to see in the television , perhaps the most astonishing commercial gentle wind ride ever created . The quickest - ever Concorde returned to the Intrepid museum in NYC a few day ago , where it “ flew ” for the last prison term thanks to a 500 - long ton crane :

Capuccinos on add-in ? What a sad sad destiny to a proud flying machine :

The Concorde locomote to the Intrepid in 2003 , after its last flight . [ Wikipedia ]