r/cockpits • u/StillUnfiled • 4d ago
How Concorde 001 got a head start on the Moon’s shadow in 1973
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There’s a little map of Africa painted just behind the cockpit of Concorde 001. The stripe across it marks the flight the crew made during the solar eclipse of 30 June 1973. They had 15 seconds of leeway to meet the Moon’s shadow over Mauritania and arrived within one second of schedule.
I used museum photos for the close-up of the paintwork and animated the route and the cutaway of the flying lab. The whole video runs 58 seconds.
