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Days That Shook the World: Season 1

1x11 Marconi's First Transatlantic Radio Transmission/Concorde's First Transatlantic Flight

  • 2003-11-26T21:30:00Z on BBC Four
  • 1h
  • Alex Lay
  • Alex Lay
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
It is 19th October 1977 and Concorde taxis onto the runway at Toulouse Airport. Onboard, the crew are preparing for an historic day - the first supersonic test flight to New York. At JFK airport, protestors are waiting with a hostile welcome, but for the Concorde team and the French and British governments it is a moment that represents the end of an exhausting struggle.
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