Passengers on the Concorde celebrated breaking the sound barrier with French disco and champagne toasts.
As heard by us
Ridiculous History takes a conversational, skeptical look at Concorde and the aviation lore around it.
Ridiculous History opens in its usual wandering register, with plane jokes and studio banter before it settles into Concorde, the Tupolev TU-144, and the Britain-and-France prototype moment that frames the story.
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You want the Concorde story with jokes first and gravity waiting at the runway threshold.
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