No, it wasn’t the Concorde, nor was it the Tupolev Tu-144 “Koncordski.” The first airliner to exceed Mach 1 was a near-stock Douglas DC-8. And just to rub it in, the Diesel Eight carried the livery of a Canadian airline: Canadian Pacific. It happened five decades ago, 15 years before the Concorde would carry its …
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