Jonathan Glancey

Jonathan Glancey traces the development of Concorde from the moment Captain Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier in 1947 through to the last commercial flight of the supersonic airliner in 2003. He uses not only existing material and archives, but also interviews with those who lived with the supersonic project from its inception.

First flown in 1936, the Spitfire soon came to symbolize Britain's defiance of Nazi Germany in the summer of 1940. This work is a celebration of a great British invention, of the men and women who flew it and supported its development.