Arrival of Concorde in Darwin Airport, 1972 [picture] / Michael Jensen
- Bib ID:
- 3550860
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Jensen, Michael, 1943-
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- 1972
- 1 photograph : gelatin silver ; image 26.8 x 39 cm., on sheet 30.3 x 40.1 cm.
- Summary:
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The Aerospatiale-BAC Concorde supersonic transport (SST) was one of only two models of supersonic passenger airliners to see commercial service (1976-2003). The Concorde 002, a prototype, reached Darwin on June 15 1972 having flown from Tokyo as part of a round the world proving flight. Arrival was delayed for about 90 minutes by the need to replace an air conditioning valve at the Manila transit stop, but the Tokyo-Darwin leg was completed in just over four hours. After a day's servicing, Concorde flew to on to Sydney, along a route that had been carefully planned by the Department of Civil Aviation to avoid townships and Aboriginal reserves. The flight corridor passed near Alice Springs where the boom was measured and its effects studied.
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- Title from photographer's caption list, see file NLA03/919.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-137087157
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased from the photographer, 2005.
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- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1972
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