{"id":341603,"date":"2026-01-02T12:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T02:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/50-years-supersonic-concorde-enterted-service-made-history\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T12:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T02:00:18","slug":"50-years-on-how-the-supersonic-concorde-entered-service-made-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=341603","title":{"rendered":"50 Years On: How The Supersonic Concorde Entered Service &amp; Made History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2045032\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/inside-concorde-passenger-jet\/\" >On March 2, 1969, history was made as Concorde flew for the first time<\/a><\/span>. In 1976, the aircraft entered service, and the type flew until 2003 when it was retired without replacement. Like the Airbus A380, <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"3525590\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/concorde\/\"  >Concorde<\/a><\/span> was an engineering marvel, but also, like the A380, it was built on the wrong assumption about the future of commercial aviation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concorde made history and continues to influence the industry, even though it was a government-funded enterprise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,5625,1702,120,819],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-aircraft-history","category-concorde","category-europe","category-supersonic"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=341603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341604,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341603\/revisions\/341604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=341603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=341603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=341603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}