What it was like to pilot the supersonic Concorde jet
Those who took the controls of Concorde say it was like no other airplane. Pilots tell CNN Travel the secrets of flying the world’s fastest commercial passenger aircraft at more than twice the speed of sound.

By Francesca Street, CNN (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 Heathrow airport. Tye was exhilarated, amazed and inspired as he saw this sleek, supersonic airplane of the future

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