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<\/a>I saw a Concorde take off from Heathrow and it sounded like two F-15s at afterburner at the same time.<\/p>\n
I’ve linked some videos to show how awesome the Concorde was.<\/p>\n
The last flight of the Concorde was October 24, 2003. Believe it or not, there is a generation\u00a0out there that doesn’t even know what Concorde was about. I was born in a time that\u00a0promised the future of flight and we had it at Mach 2.04 – New York to London in 3.5 hours. Coming back home on the London to New York route you could arrive in the Big Apple two hours before you left London…think about that.<\/p>\n
Today that flight takes 6.5+ hours.\u00a0The future was more than 12 years ago.<\/p>\n
The Concorde was an engineering marvel but wasn’t without problems. It flew so high (60,000 feet)\u00a0there were concerns about radiation exposure, it flew so fast it had heating concerns, it devoured fuel, and the terrible crash in July 2000 at Gonesse, France\u00a0eventually took it out of service.<\/p>\n I saw a Concorde take off from Heathrow and it sounded like two F-15s at afterburner at the same time.<\/p>\n I’ve linked some videos to show how awesome the Concorde was.<\/p>\n<\/a>