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“That 20 minutes was the most incredible experience in my aviation career.

Then, the Concorde was in the air, building height. “It’s ‘three, two, one – now,’ and I pushed all four throttles fully forward in my left hand and I was just shoved back into my seat – an experience I could never describe, the acceleration as you shot off down the runway,” he says. Then, they counted down and prepared for takeoff. Tye synchronized his watch with the training captain and the flight engineer. “We got in and started the engines, and to feel those four Rolls-Royce Olympus engines starting up and the airplane vibration for the very first time was just absolutely mind blowing,” Tye tells CNN Travel. It was a beautiful Thursday evening – “the sun was just setting, you could see a big ball of fire at the end of runway,” as Tye puts it. Tye and his fellow training pilots were in Seville, Spain.

It was a feeling he could never have fully prepared for.

#First tea to use flying wedge simulator#

Sure, he’d gone through extensive training, he’d practiced on the simulator – but this was the real deal. Tye vividly recalls his first moments flying Concorde. Little did Tye know some 20 years later, he’d be sitting in the Concorde flight deck for the first time, pinching himself that his teenage dream was coming true. Tye was exhilarated, amazed and inspired as he saw this sleek, supersonic airplane of the future climb into the skies and make history. On Janua teenage John Tye was among crowds of onlookers clinging to a chain link fence, cheering as the first commercial British Airways Concorde flight departed from London’s Heathrow airport.