A Surrey pilot who became the youngest person to fly a Concorde says he is still fascinated by the supersonic plane, 50 years after its first commercial flight.
Concorde first flew passengers from London Heathrow on 21 January 1976 and ran for nearly 30 years before retiring in 2003.
Mike Bannister, who flew Concorde’s last commercial journey, said that while it was sad the plane had to be retired, he was excited for the next generation of supersonic travel.
Bannister, from Staines, said: “It’s fascinating to think that Concorde was designed in the late 1950s and early 1960s and there’s still nothing that can do all the things it could all that time ago.”
