Waterman pens, including fountain model, made for Air France's Concorde

This work made handling the Boeing 747 and Concorde possible.

* LH platform, a type of Chrysler car made from 1993 through 2004: New Yorker, 300M, Concorde, LHS, Intrepid and Vision

In 1974, Ontario was the only Riverside-San Bernardino Area airport to host the Concorde supersonic aircraft as it made its promotional around-the-world flights in October of that year.

Secondary factors for the ATLB's rejection of Caledonian's applications included the delay in the introduction of Concorde and the non-availability within the envisaged timeframe of widebodied aircraft that were smaller and carried a lower price tag than the Boeing 747, which would have made them better suited to the type of operation proposed.

On 26 November 2003, Concorde 216 ( G-BOAF ) made the final ever Concorde flight, returning to Filton to be kept there permanently as the centrepiece of a projected air museum.

Theories include: the Tu-144 tried to avoid a French Mirage chase plane which was attempting to photograph it, that changes had been made by the ground engineering team to the auto-stabilisation circuits to allow the Tu-144 to outperform Concorde in the display circuit, and that the crew were attempting a manoeuvre — to outshine Concorde — that the aircraft was not capable of.

Nevertheless, Insull had made frequent declarations that he was " now a poor man " and descended a long flight of stairs at the Place de la Concorde station and died of a heart attack just as he stepped toward the ticket taker ; he had 30 francs ( eighty four cents ) in his pocket at the time and was identified by a hotel laundry bill in his pocket.

Waterman pens made for Air France's Concorde

They were important in implementing early autoland systems and Concorde made use of the technology for the control of its engine air intakes before development of a system using digital electronics.

Especially notable aircraft in the collection include a de Havilland Comet which made the first eastbound jet-powered trans-Atlantic passenger flight on 4 October 1958, and Concorde G-AXDN 101, a pre-production aircraft which achieved the highest speed of any Concorde, making a westwards trans-Atlantic flight in two hours, 56 minutes.

As proof of the airport's prestige, the Concorde made its scheduled maiden-flight with Air France on January 21, 1976, flying from Paris – Charles de Gaulle to Galeão via Dakar.

The airport was also one of the few destinations in the world where British Airways ' Concorde aircraft made regularly scheduled flights, and also for repairs, before Concorde was retired.

In the 1970s, the supersonic airliner Concorde made a few flights into the airport on special occasions.

On 26 November 2003, Concorde 216 ( G-BOAF ) made the final ever Concorde flight from Heathrow, passing over the Bay of Biscay before making a low pass over Bristol and finally returning to Filton where it is now maintained on a temporary apron as a visitor attraction.

A further downhill extension to the main runway was made for the Concorde project in the late 1960s.

Soon after, the famous Concorde, flown by British Airways, made a stop at the airport.

Book 9 of this series was made into a film, called Saigon Commandos by Roger Corman's Concorde Studios.

* F-WTSS ( production designation 001 ) was the first Concorde to fly, on 2 March 1969, and was retired on arrival at the French air museum at Le Bourget Airport on 19 October 1973, having made 397 flights covering 812 hours, of which 255 hours were at supersonic speeds.

* 1977 – British Airways inaugurates a regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.

** British Airways inaugurates regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.

* Concorde – an Anglo-French supersonic transport, it remains the only supersonic aircraft to sustain a regular passenger service

To date, the only SSTs to see regular service have been the Concorde and the Tupolev Tu-144.

After British Airways had ceased regular passenger operations in 1983, BA continued to intermittently use Prestwick as a site for pilot training, especially for training Concorde pilots.

Despite there never being a regular Concorde service in Switzerland, the supersonic aircraft twice landed in Geneva.

* Concorde G-BOAD was moved by agreement with the Aviator Sports concession to their entertainment complex on Floyd Bennett Field in December 2006 and was on display there for almost two years while the aircraft's regular home, the USS Intrepid, was moved out of its regular dock in Manhattan to be rehabilitated.

In 1976, the airport marked another significant first with the inauguration of supersonic flights, which saw the start up of regular BA Concorde service between London and Bahrain.

The introduction of the Concorde supersonic transport ( SST ) airliner to regular service in 1976 was expected to bring similar social changes, but the aircraft never found commercial success, and after a fatal crash in Gonesse, near Paris ( the only loss of an SST in civilian service ), flights were discontinued in 2003.

Calculating the lift on the Concorde during cruise can be an example of a supersonic aerodynamic problem.

On September 11, 1792, while Louis XVI and his family were confined in the Palais des Tuileries near the Place de la Concorde during the early stages of the French Revolution, a group of thieves broke into the Garde-Meuble ( Royal Storehouse ) and stole most of the Crown Jewels during a five-day looting spree.

Three years later, on 25 October 1836, King Louis Philippe had it placed in the center of Place de la Concorde, where a guillotine used to stand during the Revolution.

The two fountains in the Place de la Concorde have been the most famous of the fountains built during the time of Louis-Philippe, and came to symbolize the fountains in Paris.

It was used as a test airport for the Concorde during the 1970s, to determine how the aircraft would perform while taking off and landing at high altitude.

After some re-engineering and a re-designation to Chrysler code LH, the Eagle Premier went on to form the backbone of Chrysler's passenger car lineup during the 1990s as the Chrysler Concorde ( a revived model name that was briefly used by Plymouth in 1951 and 1952 ), Chrysler New Yorker, Chrysler LHS, Dodge Intrepid, and Eagle Vision.

A Concorde visited AVL during a 1987 promotional tour and was snowed-in overnight.

* June 5 – President John F. Kennedy announces during a speech at the United States Air Force Academy that the United States Government would team with private industry to quickly develop " the prototype of a commercially successful supersonic transport superior to that being built in any other country ," a reference to the British-French Concorde and the Soviet Tupolev Tu-144.

* July 25 – A Concorde of Air France, operating as Air France Flight 4590, catches fire during takeoff then crashes at Gonesse, France, killing all 100 passengers and all nine crewmembers on board and four people on the ground.

During the 1980s, the Concorde returned for commercial flights to Barbados and thereafter flew to Barbados during the busy winter season.

There was also a shorter concrete runway at Filton with a roughly north-south orientation, which was sometimes used by a Dakota to ferry key BAC personnel to Fairford during Concorde development in the early 1970s.

The ball was in motion for 26. 17s, during which time the Concorde, at 1, 270 mph, travelled 9. 232 miles, beating U. S. golfer Brad Faxon's previous record of 8. 5 miles, set in 1997.

Later, the Concorde system was basically an improved version of the VC10 one, benefiting from advances in electronic circuit technology during the late 1960s.

A series of test aircraft, such as Handley Page HP. 115 were built during the 1950s to study the various problems with the design, which eventually led to the advanced ogive shape used on Concorde.

He was present on board the Air France Concorde ( F-BVFC ) during its retirement flight, on the 27th June 2003, to the Airbus plant at Toulouse, where the French aircraft was built.

The nose can be drooped to one of two positions-5 degrees ( for taxiing and for take-off ), and the fully drooped 12. 5 degree position ( used during landing, when the nose-high attitude of Concorde requires this lower nose position so the pilots can see the approaching runway ).

Kevin Harrison ( Robert Wagner ), an arms dealer, attempts to destroy an American-owned Concorde on its maiden flight after one of the passengers, Maggie Whelan ( Susan Blakely ), learns of his weapons sales to communist countries during the Cold War.