It flew at supersonic speed for the first time the following October.
The aricraft, powered by Rolls-Royce/Snecma Olympus 593 engines, was a joint Franco-British project.
The plane was taken out of srvice on October 24, 2003.
This article appeared in The Irish Times on Saturday. It is an excerpt from Seán Lemass: The Lost Memoir edited by Ronan McGreevy If this ex...
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