Concorde: The Race for Supersonic
★ 8 · 2023 · 46m · Documentary
The true story of the battle to build the world's first supersonic airliner. A tale of genius, Cold War espionage, and an whole new kind of jet plane.
Episodes
1. Episode 146m · The Soviets, Americans, and an Anglo-French alliance, begin the race to build Concorde - a plane so fast and so radical it looks like it fell out of the pages of a sci-fi comic
2. Episode 247m · The race for the first successful supersonic airliner is a tale of espionage, tragedy and, finally, triumph. But was Concorde really the winner, or just a white elephant?More Like This
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