Concorde

In Concorde Jonathan Glancey tells the story of this magnificent and hugely popular aircraft anew taking the reader from the moment Captain Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier in 1947 through to the last commercial flight of the supersonic airliner in 2003. It is a tale of national rivalries technological leaps daring prototypes tightrope politics and a dream of a Dan Dare future never quite realised. Jonathan Glancey traces the development of Concorde not just through existing material and archives but through interviews with those who lived with the supersonic project from its inception.