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Captain Jock Lowe will never forget the first time he flew Concorde.
“I’d never actually seen the aeroplane before,” he says. “I can remember that it was a February morning, we walked around the hangar and there it was.”
Concorde’s maiden commercial flight was on January 21, 1976. Two years beforehand, Lowe had been seconded as a test pilot. Simulating the take-off for a trip to New York, he took Concorde up to 60,000ft before bringing it back into land.