Never flew on her but I was stationed in Cyprus on the day of her inaugural passenger flight to Bahrain. I was on Mt. Olympus radar station and we watched as Concorde appeared on the radar display and skipped smartly across it at M2. Someone radioed her to wish her good luck, then we rushed outside to see the aircraft streak across the sky and leave a double sonic boom in its wake. By the time we got back inside, she was off the far side of the display. The sonic boom was a regular feature of daily life in Cyprus in the mid-to late1970s.
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