Photo: Inside The First Concord and Its Legacy

 
The first ever Concorde to land on American soil which paved the way for supersonic Atlantic crossings for the rich and famous is to open to the public

 


Pictures of the inside of the plane reveal the spacious seating on the luxurious service, which later became the commercial plane of choice for the rich and famous throughout the 1970s and 1980s


 
 
In its heyday, when the glamorous days of air travel were at the peak, it ferried film stars, musicians and politicians across the Atlantic in what became known as a party in the sky. In this picture, Queen Elizabeth is seen reading newspapers on the way back from Barbados


       The Queen and Princess Anne (foreground) in the cockpit of a Concorde having points explained by Brian Trubshaw, BAC's chief test pilot

                   
                      
Major broadcasters would use the service, and David Frost (left) considered himself the plane's most frequent flyer, using it an average of twenty times a year for twenty years. Jeremy Clarkson also used the aircraft, and Piers Morgan (background

  
                The Queen Mother takes a look around the cockpit and meets the pilot after getting a belated birthday present - a flight on British Airways' supersonic jetliner
   
               
Successive British Prime Ministers John Major (left, in 1995) and Tony Blair (in Denver, USA) on the steps to the famous aircraft
 
                
Former Beatles member Paul McCartney, wife Linda McCartney and their daughter Stella McCartney after flying on Concorde in 1979

 
Air France Concorde flight 4590 takes off with fire trailing from its engine on the left wing from Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris on July 25, 2000, the plane's first and last crash, killing all 190 passengers