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Index
Cover
Title
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Contents
Foreword by Richard Noble
Foreword by Fred Finn
Introduction
The End of an Era – Tears and Cheers: London Heathrow Airport
Concorde Beginnings and Design Issues
Now, What Shall We Call It? Naming Issues
The Stage is Set and a New Icon is Born
The American Response
The Air Stewardess: How It All Began
A Flying Start – the 747 Fleet
Subsonic to Supersonic
The Supersonic Experience – ‘Flying Hotel’ to ‘Pocket Rocket’
The Working Day: Behind the Scenes
The Flying Wardrobe
Flight 001 is Now Ready for Boarding
Life at the Sharp End
Into the Stratosphere, the Curvature of the Earth and to New York
A Well-stocked Wine Cellar and Food Fit for a Prince
The New York Stopover and Dinner with a Singing Legend
Concorde Charters and a Good Excuse to Display Concorde’s Flying Abilities
The Vienna Ball
Round-the-World Charters and One for Opera Lovers
Promoting Concorde: Unique Times and a Trip to Detroit
Barbados Bound
Life with the Superstars, Rock Stars and Mega Stars
Stars of Stage and Screen
Rock Stars on Board
The Supersonic Commuters
The 11-Mile-High Club – the Shortest Chapter
Breaking Records: Washington to Nice, 11 September 1984, and a Kind-hearted Bellboy
Life Doesn’t Always Go According to Plan
Do Not Upset the Captain!
All in a Day’s Work
The Royals and Other Famous Flights
Crew Shenanigans: You Would Expect It, Wouldn’t You?
The Concorde Crash
The Aftermath
And Finally …
The Future of Supersonic Flying
Postscript: Crossing the Atlantic – 3 Hours and 30 Minutes to Seventeen Days
Life After Concorde
Concorde Timeline
Concorde’s Vital Statistics
Plates
Copyright
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