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How a Tiny Piece of Metal Doomed the Concorde Jet
On July 25th, 2000, Air France Flight 4590 took off from Paris on what should have been a routine journey to New York.
It was the airborne modern marvel of a golden age of travel. When Concorde first took to the skies in 1969, it quickly became a symbol of speed, luxury, and Anglo-French engineering prowess.
Despite the Concorde being discontinued well over two decades ago, it remained ahead of its time and became a much-discussed aircraft among aviation enthusiasts and the general public. Its popularity ...
After World War II, as early supersonic military aircraft were pushing the boundaries of flight, it seemed like a foregone conclusion that commercial aircraft would eventually fly faster than sound as ...
Brothers (from left) George and Gary Mueller and Dr. Daniel Meenan gaze at the ‘field of honor’ where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed on Sept. 11, 2001, from the Flight 93 National Memorial’s flight ...
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