Two Concorde cabins can fit side by side in an Airbus A350. The sim at Brooklands is the only bona fide Concorde simulator in operation. It was used by British Airways for flight crew training until ...

(CNN) — On January 21, 1976 a teenage John Tye was among crowds of onlookers clinging to a chain link fence, cheering as the first commercial British Airways Concorde flight departed from London’s ...

It would take him back to the day he stood at Heathrow, watching the first commercial Concorde flight take off. He remembers one occasion when an American Airlines pilot who was cleared to line up and ...

Duffey helped mastermind the first Concorde training scheme, and flew the aircraft until he retired in 1980. Also there at the beginning was pilot Jock Lowe, who shares a birthday with Concorde — he ...