What happened on 1Jan69?
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What happened on 1Jan69?
I've been asked a quiz question as follows:
"What made its first trial flight on January 1, 1969"
The 747 & Concorde both first flew in 1969 and there was also a great deal of US & USSR space activity but so far as I can see nothing first flew on that date.
Any ideas?
"What made its first trial flight on January 1, 1969"
The 747 & Concorde both first flew in 1969 and there was also a great deal of US & USSR space activity but so far as I can see nothing first flew on that date.
Any ideas?
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Perhaps the quizmaster has duff gen.
Thank you for your help and pesket & wysiwyg, your daddies must have been stalwarts at that time of year - as the bard wrote of the booze " . . . provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance . . ."
Thank you for your help and pesket & wysiwyg, your daddies must have been stalwarts at that time of year - as the bard wrote of the booze " . . . provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance . . ."
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ust for the records...
001 Concorde flew in 1967 and 002 in 1969, all to read at the British Science Museum in London.....the first Concorde went in service on 21. January 1976
On 21. Dec 1968 for the first time a manned vehicle left the earth orbit and made it around the moon. The first man on the moon happened just months later in 1969.
1969 Air Atlantique was established in Jersey, sorry, donīt have the exact date...
and on 03.Jan 1969 Michael Schumacher was born
001 Concorde flew in 1967 and 002 in 1969, all to read at the British Science Museum in London.....the first Concorde went in service on 21. January 1976
On 21. Dec 1968 for the first time a manned vehicle left the earth orbit and made it around the moon. The first man on the moon happened just months later in 1969.
1969 Air Atlantique was established in Jersey, sorry, donīt have the exact date...
and on 03.Jan 1969 Michael Schumacher was born
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Sorry, but Concorde did not fly in 1967.
The first flight was on the 02 March 1969 when Concorde 001, F-WTSS, under the command of Andre Turcat, Director of Flight Test at Sud Aviation, took off from Toulouse.
The first flight of a British Concorde, as you rightly say, was some five weeks (and nine flights by 001) later on 09th April 1969, when Concorde 002, G-BSST, under the command of Brian Trubshaw, Chief Test Pilot for BAC, took off from Filton, landing at Fairford.
Both were beaten by the Russian TU 144, which first flew on 31st December 1968.
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Sorry, but Concorde did not fly in 1967.
The first flight was on the 02 March 1969 when Concorde 001, F-WTSS, under the command of Andre Turcat, Director of Flight Test at Sud Aviation, took off from Toulouse.
The first flight of a British Concorde, as you rightly say, was some five weeks (and nine flights by 001) later on 09th April 1969, when Concorde 002, G-BSST, under the command of Brian Trubshaw, Chief Test Pilot for BAC, took off from Filton, landing at Fairford.
Both were beaten by the Russian TU 144, which first flew on 31st December 1968.
[This message has been edited by Bellerophon (edited 02 January 2001).]
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Ratboy & EC - Hmm, I wonder . . .
Where in the USSR did the TU144 first fly? They have/had an enormous E-W spread. I can well remember about 8hrs Riga to Bloodybostok
Thanks for the idea.
Where in the USSR did the TU144 first fly? They have/had an enormous E-W spread. I can well remember about 8hrs Riga to Bloodybostok
Thanks for the idea.
