The closest I’ve ever been to being on a supersonic flight was looking at the Concorde on static display at the Intrepid Museum in New York. But, for an entire generation of travelers and aviators, flying at twice the speed of sound was a daily reality, at least for the wealthy.
July marks 25 years since an Air France Concorde suffered a catastrophic incident just after departing Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport, and a few years later, the entire commercial supersonic flight program ended.
As private entrepreneurs and the Trump administration renew a push for supersonic flights, I had a chance to speak to a student filmmaker who brought the history of the Concorde to light for a new generation of aviation professionals.
Jillian Preite produced a short film about the Concorde for a class at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and shared why the plane is so inspiring, even to those who never got to see it fly.
“I honestly didn’t know much about it before starting this project,” she said. “It had such an impact way back in the 1960s that’s still being put into place now.”
