Dec 6 1973
From The Space Library
Concorde 201-Air France's first Concorde supersonic air-liner, the first production Concorde and the fifth Concorde to fly-made its maiden flight, from Toulouse, France, including 45 min supersonic flight. The aircraft reached mach 1.57, more than 1600 km (100 mi) per hr, at 1280 m (42 000 ft) during its 2-hr 50-min flight. Command pilot was Aerospatiale's Andre Turcat. (Concorde Bull 12, 1/1/74)
Sen. Gaylord Nelson (D-Wis.), on behalf of himself and Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.), introduced S. 2782 to establish a National Energy Information System, to authorize the Dept. of the Interior to undertake an inventory of U.S. energy resources on public lands and elsewhere, and for other purposes. (CR, 12/6/73, S22002)
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