This issue focuses on two anniversaries. The first, most sadly and obviously, is the 25th anniversary of the crash at Gonesse, on 25 July 2000. The second is the 40th anniversary of the Live Aid concert on 13 July 1985.
First, we look at the intensive work carried out in both France and the UK to investigate the cause of the crash in 2000 and then to return Concorde safely to the sky, and we hear from two of the people involved: British Airways engineer Carl Percey, and French pilot Pierre Grange of the Concorde professionals’ site APCOS.
The Live Aid concert was an extraordinary event for its time: a two-venue pop concert held in Philadelphia and London to raise money for those suffering famine in Ethiopia. Concorde played a surprising part in the mission to help these desperate people, by taking rock star Phil Collins across the Atlantic so he could play both venues on the same day. BA Concorde engineer Pete Comport recalls the careful organisation that made the flight possible.
In the present day, the news starts with an account from Graham Cahill of Heritage Concorde, about support for Concorde from enthusiasts in a very different world – restoration of steam engines. We end with our usual Concorde Watch report, giving the latest from Manchester and Duxford, plus a review of the new, enlarged edition of Supersonic, by Lawrence Azerrad.
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