Last Flight of Concorde F-BVFA
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OK, so I wasn't at the controls of this particular flight, but it was historic, nonetheless.
I took these pictures of the Concorde as it flew over my office near Dulles International Airport (in Virginia near Washington, DC) on its last flight at about 10am, 12 June 2003. It will eventually be on display at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum Dulles Annex. So what's so special about pictures of a plane landing? Well, its an historic flight in a couple of ways.
This is the first time a Concorde has been seen at Dulles since the 1980's, so it's a rare sight in Washington skies. Soon, nobody will be seeing Concordes anywhere except museums.
British Airways and Air France, the two operators of the world's only supersonic civilian transport, announced earlier this year that they would be retiring the entire fleet. The plane pictured here is the oldest of the five Concordes in Air France's fleet and is being made available to the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum.
I've posted still photos here.
Additional photos by Ed Levine are here.