Concorde first flew in 1969 (April 9th for the British prototype) but these shots were taken in the '80s. (Clue is that Les Brodie is in the RHS and still a first Officer, he was captain at the time of retirement of Concorde in 2003.)

The cckpit was cramped, fairly comfortable, and efficient just like a Porsche but accelerated rather better and for MUCH longer !!

Remember, flight times were short, JFK-LHR 2 hrs 52 minutes , LHR-JFK around 3hrs 15mins, day in day out, twice a day, sometinmes three or four times including Air France and charters, for almost a quarter of a century with incredible reliability.

To show how fast she was I flew a VC10 from London to Washington in the 1970s. Concorde took off 2 hours after us, passed us overhead, we saw her, in mid Atlantic and had been on the ground for two hours when we arrived !

Indeed a most remarkable aeroplane, certainly no bad boy, (Concorde is a she and thoroughly good !) and, yes whodaman, a few hundred times !

Regards, David Gladwin.