Originally Posted by tartare
Impressive to see that peel off though; a few hundred tons of airliner rolling away like a fighter...
Not quite several hundred tons, and much more fighter-like than any other airliner, but, BA flew 4 of it's Concordes in formation back in the 1980's to celebrate 10 years service.
A good friend of mine was a BA employee at the time and was in one of them for the flight (BA drew staff numbers out of a hat to fill the four a/c and he was one of the lucky ones).
He said the best bit was when they rolled away in the formation break
