Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new set of stamps and co-ordinated nose drop events will mark the 50th anniversary of the first commercial Concorde flights. The ...

The first commercial Concorde flights took off on January 21, 1976. Two Concordes, each operated by one of the partner airlines that funded and developed the supersonic technology, departed ...

It is 50 years since Concorde began scheduled passenger flights, with British Airways operating a London-Bahrain service and Air France flying from Paris to Rio de Janeiro.… Technically, the Soviet ...

(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 ...

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A new set of stamps and co-ordinated nose drop events will mark the 50th anniversary of the first commercial Concorde flights. The Royal Mail said it has produced 12 stamps which pay tribute to the ...