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Old Aug 19, 2009, 7:56 am
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Originally Posted by Globaliser
Now, a trivia question from me: Is it still true that British Airways has amassed more supersonic flight experience (in supersonic hours) than all of the world's air forces combined?
Direct from the pages of Wikipedia.
"..By its 30th flight anniversary on 2 March 1999 Concorde had clocked up 920,000 flight hours, with more than 600,000 supersonic, much more than all of the other supersonic aircraft put together in the Western world.."

I take it they're excluding the former Soviet Union countries.
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