Summary
Ticket given to Qantas employee John P. Lynch for a Concorde (G-BOAC) flight from Melbourne to Singapore on 12 August 1975 lasting four hours and three minutes with a supersonic flight time of two hours and 47 minutes. The pilot was Brian Trubshaw, Director of Flight Test for BAC.
Physical Description
Two cardboard cover sheets with paper ticket and two baggage check stubs
Significance
The BAC/Aerospatiale Concorde supersonic airliner was one of the most significant technological developments of the twentieth century. It engendered both support and fierce environmental opposition. It was intended that Concorde flights from Australia to Europe should begin in about 1977 but no regular passenger flights were every operated.
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'Ticket number BAC 1677'
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210 mm (Width), 90 mm (Height)
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