Latecoere late 28 in the colours of Air France, filmed here for the feature film ‘Courrier Sud’, a French film based on the novel of the same name by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, in 1937.

#Aerospatiale-BAC #Concorde, #Air France (F-BTSD) by Jorge Rafael Solano R. (#San Jose - Juan Santamaría Intl) #Airliners #aviation #photography #avgeeks

F-BVFC arguably suffered worse damage than F-BTSC. However, F-BTSC was overfuelled, flown with the wind, with wheels out of alignment, with one engine shut down incorrectly.

In 2001, it was not able to fly out of trouble due to sheer panic and recklessness.

Concorde fact of the day:

In 1979, F-BVFC experienced an exact copy scenario of the situation which would cause Concorde to crash in 2001.

A tyre burst penetrating fuel tanks 2, 5, and 6 on takeoff from Washington.

Because F-BVFC was flown correctly and well maintained, it made a safe landing.

A historic moment occurred when British Airways and Air France put Concorde into service. www.airwaysmag.com/new-post/con...

#CeJourLà #OnThisDay - Le 21 janvier 1976, les Concorde 🇫🇷 et 🇬🇧 décollent simultanément pour réaliser le 1er vol commercial du supersonique. Le #Concorde d’ #AirFrance (F-BVFA) effectue le vol Paris - Dakar - Rio et celui de #BritishAirways (G-BOAA) relie Londres à Bahreïn. #Avgeek

#CeJourLà #OnThisDay - Le 20 janvier 1930 naissance de Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr. alias #BuzzAldrin à Glen Ridge (NJ). Il a notamment participé au programme Gemini et la mission Gemini 12. Il a été avec #NeilArmstrong l'un des premiers à fouler le sol lunaire avec #Apollo11.

#CeJourLà #OnThisDay - Le 19 décembre 1975 Air France prend livraison de son premier #Concorde F-BVFA (5e avion de série et surnommé par la suite “Air France One”). C'est avec cet appareil qu' #AirFrance ouvrira sa 1ère ligne commerciale supersonique, Paris-Dakar-Rio.

Magnificent Aurora over Loften, Norway ~ time lapse

#Dassault #Rafale B F3-R, #Croatia - Air Force (170) by Chris Lofting (#Zagreb) #Military #aviation #photography #avgeeks

It is now 22 years since we were able to travel as fast as we could in 1969.

In terms of pure speed, in the commercial aerospace world we are still in 1968.

Concorde fact of the day:

Concorde’s cockpit had over 1000 buttons, switches, dials, and knobs.

By comparison the a320 has about 575.

Despite this, Concorde’s cockpit felt relatively familiar to new pilots with instead technical procedures such as fuel transfer being the most complicated element.

On l'aime beaucoup aussi dans sa livrée historique Air France ! ☺️❤️✈️ #avgeeks #aviation #Concorde

In june 1930, Henri Guillaumet, pilot on the Buenos Aires-Santiago mail service, crashed his Potez 25 in the Andes Mountains, waiting 2 days for rescue before finally leaving on foot. He walked for 3 days and 3 nights before collapsing in front of a shepherdess who came to his aid.

#CeJourLà #OnThisDay - Le 24 octobre 2003, après 27 ans d'exploitation, le #Concorde G-BOAG réalise le dernier vol commercial (BA 002) entre New York et Londres sous les couleurs de #BritishAirways (📸 d'illustration) #AvGeek

#CeJourLà #OnThisDay - Le 9 octobre 1975 #Concorde reçoit en France son certificat de navigabilité (📷 d'illustration) #AvGeek

A Concorde seen taxiing at JFK Airport on December 5, 1980 by a KH-9 spy satellite's stereo cameras.

I don't recall if I've shared this one here before.

Concorde was and will remain one of the most beautiful creations that aviation can give us, here an Air France Concorde lands in Rio.