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Anoxinon e.V. 
Yep, I got to fly in that baby once, way back in 1979. I still have the souvenir kit from it, which I need to rehome. The coolest thing was being able to see the curvature of the earth and the darkness above from that high up (60,000 feet or 18,300 meters). #ThrowbackThursday #Concorde #Supersonic #BritishAirways #Mach2 #aviation
@IdahoLark
I definitely envy you!
As a kid, I once got to watch #Concorde take off in the twilight, which made the flames from its afterburners easily visible. This sight and of course the groundshaking, thunderous noise made this an unforgettable experience for me. But the really surprising aspect of this story is, that all this happened in #Leipzig, back then Eastern Germany, *before* the iron curtain came down!
@lejapproach Wow! Cool to see. Whenever I fly into Seattle I try to look for the one parked at the Museum of Flight at Boeing Field.
@lejapproach@social.anoxinon.de@IdahoLark
My next contact with the #supersonic #airliner was in 2008, when I visited the "Technik-Museum #Sinsheim" in south-west #Germany, as far as I know the only place on the planet, where you find #Concorde and its #Russian counterpart, the #Tupolev #Tu144 in the immediate vicinity of each other!
@lejapproach Cool! I didn't know about the Russian jet.
@IdahoLark
High time you learned about it then! 
It's larger and quicker than Concorde, but it wasn't quite as sophisticated as its Western counterpart and so it couldn't compare in flying range for instance.
The funny thing about the Tu-144 is, that it was built for domestic flights! That's how huge the #SovietUnion was!
And it's history, although rather short in comparison, is far too turbulent for one message on #Mastodon, so I recommend
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-144