VIEWPOINT
Jenni Murray
Filled with love and pride for Concorde, our columnist hopes one day everyone will get to admire this world-beating aircraft
Supersonic Concorde was taken out of service in 2003
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There are certain events in a long life that come back to you with absolute clarity with the most minor jog of your memory. For me it was a recent TV documentary about Concorde and the battle in the 50s and 60s to be the first to achieve supersonic flight.
The Americans went too big; the Soviets did all they could to steal secrets from the French and British, who were working as a European team. Europe triumphed. Shame the French won the title, putting an ‘e’ at the end of the preferred English name, Concord.