(CNN) — Concorde flight engineer Warren Hazelby gets chills recalling his first supersonic flight from London to New York in 2002. Hazelby remembers stepping onto the flight deck and taking it all in.

On January 21, 1976 a teenage John Tye was among crowds of onlookers clinging to a chain link fence, cheering as the first commercial British Airways Concorde flight departed from London’s Heathrow ...

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But while six months of training on a Concorde simulator – and two decades as a flight engineer on other aircraft – went some way to preparing Hazelby for this logistical challenge, nothing could ...