On 21 January 1976, British Airways and Air France flew Concorde passengers on the first scheduled supersonic flights, from London to Bahrain and from Paris to Rio de Janeiro. Built by a joint Anglo-French programme, it flew at Mach 2.04, twice the speed of sound, and crossed the Atlantic in under three and a half hours. It had only 20 aircraft built, was noisy and costly, and could not fly supersonic over land. After the crash of an Air France Concorde near Paris on 25 July 2000, which killed 113 people, and the downturn after 11 September, it was retired in 2003.
Before and after
- from 1976 to 2009Rise of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
- 1976Miguel de Cervantes Prize
- 5 January 1976Kingsmill massacre
- 12 January 1976Death of Agatha Christie
- 21 January 1976Concorde begins supersonic passenger service
- 1 February 1976Death of Werner Heisenberg
- 3 March 1976Construction of Khalifa International Stadium
- 22 March 1976Birth of Reese Witherspoon
- from 24 March 1976 to 10 December 1983National Reorganization Process
More in Science & technology
- 1964Discovery of rutherfordium
- 29 October 1969Invention of Internet
- 18 February 1970Discovery of dubnium
- July 1974Discovery of seaborgium
- 1976Discovery of bohrium
- 1984Discovery of hassium
The era
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