Concord: 46th Anniversary of first flight

Posted on March 2, 2015 by bill

2 mars 1969, premier vol du Concorde

L’éphéméride par Sandrine Chesnel lundi 2 mars 2015

Il y a 46 ans, le tout premier Concorde s’envolait pour un vol d’essai de 40 minutes © MAXPPP

Il y a 46 ans, le tout premier Concorde s’envolait pour un vol d’essai de 40 minutes.                                                                              46 years ago, the first Concord 40 minute test flight.

Le fait du jour.                                                                                            The day it happened.

Il y a 46 ans aujourd’hui, le Concorde 001 s’élançait sur la piste d’essai de l’aéroport de Toulouse pour son tout premier vol de 40 minutes. Sept mois plus tard, il passera pour la première fois la vitesse du son, Mach1, puis Mach 2, 18 mois plus tard. Mais il faudra attendre janvier 1976 pour que soit inauguré le tout premier vol commercial: un Paris-Rio en 7 heures et 26 minutes.                                                                                                                   46 years ago today, Concord aircraft serial nr 001 (MSN Manufacturers Serial Nr or Constructors Nr), generally the first aircraft off the assembly line, made it’s way to the test ramp in Toulouse airport (Blagnac) for it’s first full test flight of 40 minutes. Seven months later it flew at a speed, for the first time, of sound: Mach 1, then Mach 2, 18 months later. But it was necessary to wait until January 1976 for the inaugural first commercial flight: A Paris – Rio flt in 7 hours and 26 minutes.

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Worked in the technical / engineering area as a Science Laboratory Technician and as an Aeronautics Engineer. The artistic side involves writing under the nom de plume of Billy Olsenn, his recently written play 'A Case of Wine' was staged by the players group Straight Make-Up at the 2012 Birr one act drama festival. It's next staging was in the one act circuit is in Cavan, at Maudebawn on Sat 10 Nov 2012. Then it was performed in the Bray, Co.Wicklow at the very popular one act festival in January 2013. Next play is FEAR. A dark tale about revenge on the cruel death of two pensioners by young thugs. Neighbours hatch a devious and dangerous plan to exact old-style revenge. Bill is a member of the Drama League of Ireland and his plays have been critically vetted and certified as original pieces of work by the DLI. Another literary project is that of commemoration of an aircraft crash on Djouce mountain in Wicklow in 1946. Bill wrote articles for the 50th, 60th and most recently the 70th anniversary, (12 Aug 2016) all were published in the Wicklow Times and ensured the survivors of the crash, all French Girl Guides, were not forgotten. Articles reproduced on this website. But mostly this site gives a more general European and specific French slant on popular and not so popular articles of French news, translated to English by the author. Each article is translated on a paragraph by paragraph basis so easy to read in either language and even possible to improve either language by comparison of the short English and French paragraphs. Amusez vous bien. The author is currently writing an easy to read technical aviation book centered around the Fokker 50. Another interest is that dealt with in another of Bill's websites www.realnamara.net, a Statue of the mother of God, Mary. It was erected in 1972 in Dublin, at the end of the Bull Wall near Clontarf, and my grandfather William Nelson, was the main instigator of that project. I give talks on the history of the statue and my grandfather's adventurous and dangerous life at sea. Technical assistance with each website is by J O'N.
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