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Negative, we’re trying Le Bourget.

First Officer Jean Marcot

Last recorded words (translated into English) in the cockpit of Air France 4590, Concorde F-BTSC. Suffered FOD impact on the runway causing an in-flight fire and loss of control. La Patte d’Pie in Gonesse, 16:44 local time, 25 July 2000.

It is not unreasonable to look upon Concorde as a miracle.

Brian Trubshaw

Concorde Chief Test Pilot, opening line of his 2000 book Concorde: The Inside Story. It was published the day after the Air France Concorde crash.

Concorde

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This is where astronauts and fighter pilots fly, only they’re in spacesuits and you’re in chinos and a cotton shirt, sipping fine wine and listening to Mozart on headphones. From Concorde I have seen the Northern Lights, the deep blue of outer space, the curve of the Earth, and have traveled faster than most of the human race can even imagine.

Graham Boynton

A Flight of Fancy That Made Your Spirit Soar, Telegraph newspaper, 26 July 2000.

Without doubt, Concorde died yesterday at the age of 31. All that will remain is the myth of a beautiful white bird.

Le Figaro newspaper editorial

The day after AF 4590 crashed at takeoff from Charles de Gaulle aerodrome, 26 July 2000.

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It is clear to us all that a tyre burst alone should never cause a loss of a public-transport aircraft.

Sir Malcolm Field

Head of Britain’s Civil Aviation Authority, 16 August 2000. This was following the Air France Concorde crash in Paris, a causation chain started by a piece of metal left on the runway damaging the tires on takeoff.

Concorde is like a great wine; you dream of it beforehand, you savor it while drinking, and remember it for the rest of your life.

Philippe Faure-Brac

Voted world’s best wine sommelier in 1992, he selected the wines for Air France to serve on their re-introduction of Concorde service, November 2001.

Air France concorde in flight

Concorde is back and will be here for at least another decade.

Sir Rod Eddington

Chief Executive of British Airways, comments to the press on the return of supersonic Concorde service, 7 November 2001. Less than two years later, the fleet was permanently grounded.

AF and BA concordes return to service

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The Concorde is loud, unreliable and has been literally falling to pieces for years. It should have been grounded a long time ago.

Anthony Weiner

On the demise of Concorde. The congressman for the 9th district of New York, the Kew Gardens area, was never a fan. Press reports 16 April 2003.

It is a magic aircraft … the pleasure of flying in it is almost a carnal one.

Joelle Cornet-Templet

Air France’s Chief Steward regards Concorde. Quoted in Concorde’s demise brings the French out in flights of fancy, The Sunday Times newspaper, 29 May 2003.

There’s no better way to test an idea than to take it outside and see if it flies.

Alan Perry

One of the supersonic designers at the British Aircraft Corporation in Bristol, UK. Quoted in press reports of the Science Museum unveiling the original 1959 papier mache and sticky tape models made by W. E. Gray for use in wind tunnel trials at the Royal Aircraft Establishment in Farnborough, Hampshire, for the project that became Concorde. 27 September 2007.

Paper models
He added: “Sometimes we’d even use our punch cards. We’d fold them up, take them outside at lunchtime if the weather was nice and see who can fly them furthest from the hanger.”

Paper concorde

New York to Tokyo could be less than an hour. You could be traveling at 19,000 miles per hour orbitally. After we’ve done the space program, we will be producing supersonic planes, which will go far, far, faster than Concorde.

Richard Branson

CEO Virgin Group, interview on CNBC TV, 6 May 2014.

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