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Product details
- ISBN 9780750939805
- Weight: 260g
- Dimensions: 124 x 185mm
- Publication Date: 17 Mar 2005
- Publisher: The History Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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As the world's first - and only - supersonic passenger transport aircraft, the Anglo-French Concorde has never been out of the news. From its maiden flight in 1969 until its retirement from airline service in 2003, Concorde's achievements have been perpetually in the superlativ - the fastest, highest, most luxurious, most expensive (to build as well as to fly in) - to name just a few. The sleek white bird set standards in aeronautical design and passenger service that remain unsurpassed to this day. Here is the incredible story of an icon of 20th century design technology.
PETER R. MARCH is an aviation author, photojournalist and pilot. He was the editor of the Royal Air Force Yearbook for twenty-two years and has produced two special editions marking the 50th and 60th anniversaries of the Battle of Britain. Peter is the author of seventy-two aviation books, including 50 Years of the Red Arrows (The History Press), and has had nearly 8,500 original photographs published since the mid-1950s. As contributing editor, he continues to produce the Old Timers vintage, warbird and classic aircraft section in Pilot magazine.
