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What it was like to pilot the supersonic Concorde jet BWP Media/Getty Images via CNN Newsource Those who took the controls of Concorde say it was like no other airplane. Pilots tell CNN Travel the ...

Former Concorde pilot Captain John Tye has explained what made it so amazing to fly the supersonic airliner at Mach 2, and why it’s such an incredible aircraft technically, over 20 years after its ...

The former chief pilot of the British Airways Concorde fleet has predicted the world will have to wait another quarter-century before passenger planes break the sound barrier again. Captain Jock Lowe ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Those who took the controls of Concorde say it was like no other airplane. Pilots tell CNN Travel the secrets of flying the ...

The Concorde’s supersonic status also afforded pilots a vantage point like no other. “By the time you’re at 60,000 feet, you could see a quarter of a million square miles,” says Lowe. “So you could ...

When Tye first piloted Concorde in the late 1990s, the airplane had been established for two decades. Peter Duffey was there at the very beginning, as one of the first British Airways pilots selected ...

(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 ...

Duffey helped mastermind the first Concorde training scheme, and flew the aircraft until he retired in 1980. Also there at the beginning was pilot Jock Lowe, who shares a birthday with Concorde — he ...