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Concorde takes FIRST journey in 20 years and sails down Hudson River

CONCORDE sails down the Hudson River in its first voyage in 20 years

The iconic supersonic jet was loaded onto a barge from its home at the Intrepid Museum in New York City for restoration work.

It took roughly two hours for the British Airways jet to reach the Brooklyn Navy Yard – around 52 minutes less than the jet’s record-setting flight from New York to London in 1996.

The G-BOAD jet, which first flew in 1976, sailed past landmarks including the Statue of Liberty and Brooklyn Bridge.

It was one of just 14 supersonic passenger-carrying commercial aircrafts, all of which are no longer in operation.

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