In 1964, Air France already had a considerable network, one of the most extensive in the world. It served most major cities. Yet it didn't fly to Washington D.C.! Not surprising, actually. Due to its eastern position and buoyancy, New York was the...
The idea of the third Paris airport emerged in the 1950s. With the exponential increase in air traffic, Orly and Le Bourget were close to saturation. The advent of wide-body jets able to offload over 400 passengers at a time was already on the...
These days, if women can access jobs across the airline industry, it's thanks to the pioneering women of aviation and their struggle to have to have their skills recognized. On International Women's Day on 8 March, don't miss the tribute paid to the...
2 March 1969. The eyes of the 400 journalists and thousands of onlookers massed on the perimeter of Toulouse-Blagnac are glued to the spindly outline of the prototype “Concorde 001” at the far end of the runway. For more than six years- since the...
According to the Encyclopædia Universalis, the machmeter, in technology, is the on-board instrument used to measure an aircraft’s Mach number, its speed in relation to the speed of sound. On Concorde, two copies of machmeters were installed at the...
