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#OnThisDay in 1974, the Concorde landed at SFO. This brief visit was part of a promotional tour to airports around the world. The Concorde was a supersonic transport aircraft that flew primarily commercial transatlantic flights. British Airways and Air France were the two main operators of the Concorde. The inaugural Air France flight from Paris to Washington, DC on May 24, 1976, took 3 hours and 50 minutes, and a ticket cost about $8,000 in today's currency. Comparatively, a standard direct flight from Paris to Washington took about 8 hours. The Concorde was in service between 1976 and 2003. Did you ever fly on a Concorde? Image: British Airways brochure, Concorde, c. 1980. Gift of Thomas G. Dragges. 2001.080.271 This image was posted on October 21, 2020.

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