FRANCE, BRAZIL, BAHRAIN, AUSTRALIA, U.S.A. & U.K.: SPECIAL REPORT: CONCORDE READY FOR THE WORLD'S FIRST SUPERSONIC PASSENGER SERVICE.
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FRANCE, BRAZIL, BAHRAIN, AUSTRALIA, U.S.A. & U.K.: SPECIAL REPORT: CONCORDE READY FOR THE WORLD'S FIRST SUPERSONIC PASSENGER SERVICE.
- Title: FRANCE, BRAZIL, BAHRAIN, AUSTRALIA, U.S.A. & U.K.: SPECIAL REPORT: CONCORDE READY FOR THE WORLD'S FIRST SUPERSONIC PASSENGER SERVICE.
- Date: 16th January 1976
- Summary: 1. GV PAN Concorde prototype takes off, AIR TO AIR Concorde in flight (2 shots) 0.19 2. AIR TO AIR Concorde flies over Rio (2 shots) 0.38 3. SV Ruler of Bahrain talks to officials, enters Concorde (2 shots) 0.54 4. SV INTERIOR Pilots at controls in cockpit (2 shots) 1.09 5. GROUND TO AIR Concorde flying away, dirty exhaust 1.14 6. SV & CU New combustion chamber (2 shots) 1.23 7. MELBOURNE: GV Demonstrators harass State Premier Hamer leaving airport and entering car (2 shots) 1.47 8. CU Bishop Montefiore speaking 1.55 9. CU Goldwater speaking 2.03 10. GV Concorde taxiing, PAN TO Chinese delegation inspecting 2.11 11. SV Chinese watching, PAN TO Concorde fly-past 2.26 12. LOW ANGLE SHOT PAN Soviet TU-144 (2 shots) 2.40 13. CU INTERIOR Fittings installed (4 shots) 2.51 14. GV Concorde takes off overhead through heat haze (2 shots) 3.18 MONTEFIORE: "No sensible mother would feel happy about leaving her baby in a pram in the garden in the neighbourhood of Heathrow while these Concordes are passing." GOLDWATER: "The SST is charged with doing everything but causing ingrowing toe nails, and I'll be surprised if the misinformers do not find a way to do that." On the second of March, 1969, the first Concorde roared into the air from Toulouse in Southern France. It was the outcome of six and a half years of joint effort by the manufactures, the British Aircraft Corporation and the French company, Aerospatiale. Now she is about to inaugurate the world's first supersonic passenger service. Starting next Wednesday, Air France will make the round trip to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil twice every week, by way of Dakar, Senegal. Each journey will take just over seven hours -- little more than half the present scheduled flying time. Simultaneously, British Airways will start a twice-weekly service to Bahrain. The Emir came to the airport to look over the new aircraft when she landed there on a promotion flight in 1972. The manufacturers say Concorde has been more thoroughly tested than any other civil airliner. By the end of last year, eight Concordes had already flown more than five million miles and visited forty-nine countries. Early models left a trail of black smoke behind them, and brought complaints about pollution. This problem has been solved, it is claimed, by a new combustion chamber and new engines. The aircraft has produced a storm of controversy -- about expense, pollution, and above all, noise. Demonstrators made their point forcibly to the State Premier of Victoria when Concorde landed at Melbourne, Australia. There was outspoken comment on both sides at the recent hearing in Washington -- from the British bishop Montefiore and the United States Senator Barry Goldwater: The Chinese have shown a keen interest in Concorde. The former Foreign Minister, Chi Peng Fei, went to look at it during a visit to Britain. China has signed a preliminary agreement to buy three and Iranair two. The only firm sales are five to British Airways and four to Air France. Other airlines are waiting for the economic and permission problems to be solved. Meanwhile, the Soviet supersonic TU-144 is already in the field with a regular service between Moscow and Kazakhstan -- but for mail and freight only, not passengers. This began the day after Christmas. The finishing touches are now being put on the two aircraft that will take off, from London and Paris, at eleven thirty Greenwich Mean Time next Wednesday morning. British Airways and Air France both have plans for extending the Concorde routes. They depend on obtaining permission to bring this still controversial aircraft in and out of the world's major airports -- particularly New York and Washington. 2 Initials CL/2215 CL/2245 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: FRANCE, BRAZIL, BAHRAIN, AUSTRALIA, U.S.A. & U.K.
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- Country: USA United States Brazil France Australia Bahrain
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