Seven months after its first crossing of the Hudson, the Concorde left on Wednesday March 13, heading to the Intrepid Musuem in New York. The supersonic plane has undergone extensive renovation work at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where it has been since August.
According to the American press, the plane with its tapered nose was completely stripped, sanded and repainted in its original colors. A project which was initially supposed to last 3 months and which lasted 7. It was then transported by barge from Brooklyn to a dock in Jersey City, New Jersey.
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Arriving at the gates of the museum on Wednesday, it should be reinstalled this Thursday, March 14 and the public will be able to rediscover it from April 4, according to those responsible for the Intrepid Musuem in AP.
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A legendary plane
The Concorde took off for the first time on Sunday March 2, 1969, from Toulouse-Blagnac airport, in front of a crowd of journalists and curious people. It must be said that its launch is an event: the commercial plane is “supersonic”, that is to say it is capable of traveling at twice the speed of sound.
The plane quickly became legendary, but a tragic accident that claimed the lives of 113 people on July 25, 2000 threw the “white bird” into oblivion. Concorde’s last commercial flights with Air France landed at Roissy on May 31, 2003.
2024-03-14 08:30:30
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