Concorde: A Photographic Tribute

Perfect for my Computer project. Thank you.

From plans and testing, through to service with British Airways and Air France, this is an amazing story, of the world's first Supersonic Airliner. It has kept me spellbound for ages reading the personal memories and history of this wonderful aircraft. I hope Adrian Meredith is very proud of the pictorial history of (so far) the world's only scheduled supersonic airliner, be cause I feel he really should be 🤗❤️

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I bought this item as a gift for a friend who is bonkers about Concorde, so have no direct experience to offer. All I can say is that she is delighted and quite overwhelmed by the contents and I can genuinely award a 5 star review after this reaction

Wonderful book, full of terrific pictures and info

This book is described as `a photographic tribute'. It is a bit more than that; rather an act of homage by someone who seems to have been in love with the aircraft. Adrian Meredith took many of the photos, often in his capacity as an official photographer. He seemed to be fated that many of the formal events took place on days with awful weather although the finished results give no indication of challenging circumstances.The photos are arranged according to topics such as first flights, crew fashions, celebrity passengers, interiors, catering and so forth. There is a chapter on Concorde ephemera and another showing the aircraft in formation with the Red Arrows. The present locations of the ten surviving British-built Concordes (seven operational, a prototype, a pre-production, and a development aircraft) are given. There is also a section that gives brief sketches of possible successors to Concorde.The photos are accompanied by a somewhat trite text that contains a few errors ("President Putin...is supposedly the richest man in the world...") and quite a lot of boyish enthusiasm ("Despite having many fantastic flights on Concorde, the experience is always very exciting."). There is not even a note as to why these wonderful aircraft were grounded.One sad omission from the book was the other half of the Concorde experience: all the aircraft built in Toulouse and operated by Air France. These were hardly mentioned and only one picture featured a French aircraft despite the many exotic locations they flew to in Latin America and the South Pacific.In summary: a comprehensive photographic record of the British Concorde story but a rather weak narrative.

I highly agree with Mr. Morgan review.The good points in this book are some never before seeen pictures, and the description of how they we're taken. As an aviation spotter, I enjoyed them a lot, but they're a tad short and not technical at all.A few photos are clearly manipulated and some look suspicious, without any description of information.It contains a resumed version of Concorde history with chapters as a guideline and a way to group the photographs, a good solution in my opinion.I enjoyed the book, but would only recommend to real hardcore Concorde fans. The sensation after reading is that it could have more and bigger photos.

I was somewhat disappointed with this book. Photo reproduction in some cases isn't good, some of the photos have been printed way too small and the layout of the book leaves something to be desired.When you consider Adrian Meredith's connection with Concorde photography I would have preferred larger photos, more of them and less wasted space. Do we really need entire pages devoted to just four captions?Some of Adrain's photos in this book are also in Jonathon Falconer's book (credited to British Airways) and in that latter publication they are reproduced far sharper than in this one.The book does have some good points. For example, the detail that goes into explaining how some of the photo shoots were set up is fascinating.However, I feel the book is really let down by poor layout, mediocre photo reproduction in some cases and a lot of blank spaces that could have been put to better use.I would like to see more of Mr Meredith's work on the Concorde but done to a higher standard than this.In a way this book is like Concorde...........what might have been.