Sep 4 1971

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Concorde 001, French prototype of Anglo-French supersonic transport, left Toulouse for Cayenne, French Guiana, on first leg of first transatlantic test flight, to Rio de Janeiro. Flight would promote sale of aircraft in South America and continue performance testing and long-range flying in context of commercial airports. (BAC-Aerospatiale France Release 17C/71)

September NASA launched series of two Black Brant IIIB sounding rockets from Resolute Bay, Canada, carrying Univ. of California particles and fields experiments. Flights were partially successful, (SR list; GSFC Proj Off)

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