Originally Posted by
landlady
October 1st 1969 - Concorde's first supersonic flight.
Happy Birthday to a lovely lady, provider of wonderful memories.
From this sentimental old fool.....
I've always felt their 'Birthday' was their very first flight.... when from a huge collection of bits and pieces of aluminium and steel and titanium and plastic and electronics and whatever.... they each became an 'individual' of their own right, doing what all of us had worked so long and hard for her/him to achieve. They flew!
So today, to me, is a day to wish 001 "Happy
Anniversary".
And I hope somebody today at Le Bourget sneaked in a bottle of champagne to share that anniversary with him.
CJ