📅 Concorde makes its first flight (1969)
The first prototype is now at the Air and Space Museum at Le Bourget, Paris.
Where: Toulouse, France
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📅 On This Day: March 2
March 2, 1969: Concorde makes its first flight. On 2 March 1969, Concorde 001 flew for the first time in Toulouse, France. Built together by Britain and France, the plane flew at twice the speed of sound and could cross from London to New York in about three and a half hours.
✨ More events on this day
- 1972 🚀 Pioneer 10 launched from Cape Canaveral; it became the first spacecraft to cross the asteroid belt and fly past Jupiter.
- 1978 🚀 Czech pilot Vladimír Remek flew to the Salyut 6 space station, becoming the first person in space who was neither Soviet nor American. Baikonur Cosmodrome →
- 1998 🚀 Data from the Galileo spacecraft suggested that Jupiter's icy moon Europa has a liquid ocean hidden under its frozen crust.
🧠 Question of the day
How fast did Concorde fly?
- As fast as a bicycle
- Faster than light
- Twice the speed of sound
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Answer: Twice the speed of sound
Questions
What happened on March 2?
March 2, 1969: Concorde makes its first flight. It happened in Toulouse, France.
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Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde