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1976 CE, January 21

The first Concorde commercial flights take off simultaneously on January 21, 1976; an Air France flight from Paris Orly to Dakar and then Rio de Janeiro and a British Airways flight from London Heathrow to Bahrain, marking the dawn of supersonic passenger travel. The flights, carrying fare-paying passengers and flying at over twice the speed of sound cut transatlantic travel times in half.

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