{"id":359177,"date":"2026-01-31T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T23:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/concorde-1st-commercial-flight-50-years\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T09:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T23:00:17","slug":"50-years-on-looking-back-at-concordes-1st-commercial-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=359177","title":{"rendered":"50 Years On: Looking Back At Concorde&#8217;s 1st Commercial Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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 famously <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2045032\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/inside-concorde-passenger-jet\/\" >a joint Anglo-French national project planned and funded by the two countries as a prestige project<\/a><\/span>. The respective flag carriers, British Airways and Air France, were essentially gifted seven examples each by the governments, as the aircraft had no realistic chance of making a profit if the airlines had to buy them outright. So, which country had the honor of flying the aircraft on its inaugural paying flight?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How the first flights of Concorde reflected the exuberance and geopolitical realities of the time.<\/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":[396,1702,9067],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-concorde","category-supersonic-jet"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359177","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=359177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359179,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359177\/revisions\/359179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=359177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=359177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=359177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}