Editing Concorde (section)

===Special missions===
[[File:Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip disembark from a British Airways Concorde.jpg|thumb|alt=The Queen, in a pink floral dress, cream hat and long white gloves, descends from a BA-liveried aircraft via a set of movable aircraft steps, with the Duke, in a grey suit and dark tie, close behind her |[[Elizabeth II]] and the [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh|Duke of Edinburgh]] disembark Concorde in 1991]]

The heads of France and the United Kingdom flew in Concorde many times.<ref>{{cite web|title=Concorde Clipreel: Part 9 |url=http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/Concorde-Clipreel-Part-9/7ece56f04f3cf534e71bd4b4454b8d9e?searchfilter=Compilations%2FAccidents+%26+Disasters%2FConcorde%2F19602|publisher=AP Archive|access-date=12 December 2013|archive-date=11 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140911235954/http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/Concorde-Clipreel-Part-9/7ece56f04f3cf534e71bd4b4454b8d9e?searchfilter=Compilations%2FAccidents%20&%20Disasters%2FConcorde%2F19602|url-status=live}}<br/>* {{cite web |url=http://heritageconcorde.com/passenger-experience-2/famous-concorde-passengers-2|title=Heritage Concorde |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020092029/http://heritageconcorde.com/passenger-experience-2/famous-concorde-passengers-2|archive-date=20 October 2013}}<br/>* {{cite web |url=http://www.aviation-news.co.uk/archive/concordeChronology.html|work=[[Aviation News]]|title=Concorde chronology|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305062119/http://www.aviation-news.co.uk/archive/concordeChronology.html|archive-date=5 March 2016}}</ref> Presidents [[Georges Pompidou]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Concorde Clipreel: Part 8|publisher= AP Archive |url=http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/Concorde-Clipreel-Part-8/3e56c7b758bb1e049f6763222b9e93c2?searchfilter=Compilations%2FAccidents+%26+Disasters%2FConcorde%2F19602|access-date=12 December 2013 |url-status=live |archive-date=11 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140911232705/http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/Concorde-Clipreel-Part-8/3e56c7b758bb1e049f6763222b9e93c2?searchfilter=Compilations%2fAccidents+%26+Disasters%2fConcorde%2f19602}}<br/>* {{cite web |author=Keystone |url=http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/french-president-georges-pompidou-at-the-microphone-in-the-news-photo/3375737|title=French President Georges Pompidou at the microphone in the cockpit of... |work=Getty Images |date=15 April 2004 |access-date=12 December 2013|archive-date=16 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150216170328/http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/french-president-georges-pompidou-at-the-microphone-in-the-news-photo/3375737|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Valéry Giscard d'Estaing]]<ref>{{cite web|title=The Amarillo Globe-Times from Amarillo, Texas |page =31 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/29590760/ |work=Newspapers.com|date=17 May 1976 |access-date=15 March 2016|url-status=live|archive-date=16 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160316063908/https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/29590760/}}<br/>* {{cite web |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/49473870/ |title=The Ottawa Journal from Ottawa |page =29 |work=Newspapers.com|date=6 January 1976 |access-date=15 March 2016|archive-date=17 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160317232134/https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/49473870/|url-status=live}}<br/>* {{cite news |title=Giscard Arrives for Talks With Ford |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/05/18/archives/giscard-arrives-for-talks-with-ford.html |work=The New York Times |author=Flora Lewis |date=18 May 1976}}<br/>* {{cite web |url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1976/may/27/the-queens-visit-to-north-america |work=[[Hansard|Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)]] |title=The Queen's Visit to North America  |access-date=12 December 2013|archive-date=26 December 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121226130451/http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1976/may/27/the-queens-visit-to-north-america|date=27 May 1976 |url-status=live}}</ref> and [[François Mitterrand]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/7733286/Francois-Mitterrand.html|archive-date=8 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140908221955/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/7733286/Francois-Mitterrand.html|url-status=dead|title=François Mitterrand|date=9 January 1996|work=Telegraph.co.uk}}<br/>* {{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-11-27-mn-1081-story.html |title=French Cosmonaut Aboard: Mitterrand Sees a Soviet Space Launch |work=Los Angeles Times |date=27 November 1988 |access-date=12 December 2013 |archive-date=18 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131218124628/http://articles.latimes.com/1988-11-27/news/mn-1081_1_soviet-space |url-status=live |url-access=subscription}}<br/>* {{cite news |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/kingston-gleaner/1985-09-12/page-9 |title=President Francois Mitterrand prepared today to fly by Concorde |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220125024502/https://newspaperarchive.com/kingston-gleaner-sep-12-1985-p-9/ |archive-date=25 January 2022 |work=Kingston Gleaner |date=12 September 1985 |page=9}}<br/>* [https://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/13/weekinreview/mitterrand-s-travels-are-well-received-back-home.html ''The New York Times''. Miitterrand's travels are well received back home] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160724123838/http://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/13/weekinreview/mitterrand-s-travels-are-well-received-back-home.html |date=24 July 2016}}</ref> regularly used Concorde as French flagship aircraft on foreign visits. [[Elizabeth II]] and Prime Ministers [[Edward Heath]], [[Jim Callaghan]], [[Margaret Thatcher]], [[John Major]] and [[Tony Blair]] took Concorde in some charter flights such as the Queen's trips to Barbados on her Silver Jubilee in 1977, in 1987 and in 2003, to the Middle East in 1984 and to the United States in 1991.<ref name="burleigh2008">{{cite web |url=http://www.burleighphoto.com/pages/stk-qe77/qe2.htm |title=Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubillee Barbados 1977 – Most Historic Concorde Takeoff Ever – Queen's First Flight on Concorde|website=Burleigh Photo|access-date=25 January 2020|url-status=live |archive-date=2 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002132513/http://www.burleighphoto.com/pages/stk-qe77/qe2.htm}}<br/>* {{cite web |url=http://www.royal.gov.uk/MonarchAndCommonwealth/TheQueenandBarbados/Royalvisits.aspx |title=Queen and Barbados: Royal visits|access-date=16 January 2010|website=The official website of The British Monarchy|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100420051139/http://www.royal.gov.uk/MonarchAndCommonwealth/TheQueenandBarbados/Royalvisits.aspx |archive-date=20 April 2010|url-status=dead}}<br/>* {{cite web |title=Concorde SST: Timeline – 90's |url=http://www.concordesst.com/history/00s.html |access-date=12 December 2013 |work=concordesst.com |archive-date=6 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131106015823/http://www.concordesst.com/history/00s.html |url-status=live}}<br/>* [http://www.barbadosconcorde.com/ Barbados Concorde Experience] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130818095250/http://www.barbadosconcorde.com/ |date=18 August 2013}}, barbadosconcorde.com</ref> [[Pope John Paul II]] flew on Concorde in May 1989.<ref>{{cite web |title=Concorde F-BTSC – French Production Test Aircraft |url=http://www.concorde-art-world.com/html/f-btsc.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080511025729/http://www.concorde-art-world.com/html/f-btsc.html |archive-date=11 May 2008 |access-date=11 May 2014 |website=Concorde Art World}}</ref>

Concorde sometimes made special flights for demonstrations, air shows (such as the [[Farnborough Airshow|Farnborough]], [[Paris Air Show|Paris-Le Bourget]], [[EAA AirVenture Oshkosh|Oshkosh AirVenture]] and [[MAKS (air show)|MAKS]] air shows) as well as parades and celebrations (for example, of Zurich Airport's anniversary in 1998). The aircraft were also used for private charters (including by the President of [[Zaire]] [[Mobutu Sese Seko]] on multiple occasions),<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Tharoor|first=Ishaan |url=http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2097426_2097427_2097458,00.html|title=Mobutu Sese Seko |series=Top 15 Toppled Dictators|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|access-date=30 April 2013|date=20 October 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130424213126/http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2097426_2097427_2097458,00.html|archive-date=24 April 2013}}<br/>* {{cite book |last1=Shaw |first1=Karl |last2=Hajník |first2=Zdeněk |title=Šílenství mocných |trans-title=Power Mad!|year=2005 |publisher=Metafora|location=Praha|language=cs|isbn=978-80-7359-002-4|pages=47, 58}}<br/>* {{cite web |url=http://www.concorde-jet.com/e_photos.php?ref=club_concorde2136|access-date=12 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090703131449/http://www.concorde-jet.com/e_photos.php?ref=club_concorde2136|archive-date=3 July 2009|url-status=dead|title=Zaïre|work=Concorde-Jet.com}}</ref> for advertising companies (including for the firm [[Oki Electric Industry|OKI]]), for Olympic torch relays ([[1992 Winter Olympics]] in Albertville) and for observing [[solar eclipse]]s, including the [[solar eclipse of June 30, 1973|solar eclipse of 30 June 1973]]<ref name=Vice-Motherboard-2016-03-09>{{cite magazine |url= https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-concorde-and-the-longest-solar-eclipse/ |title= When Astronomers Chased a Total Eclipse in a Concorde |author= Chris Hatherill |date= 9 March 2016 |magazine= Motherboard |publisher= Vice }}</ref><ref name="spirit">{{cite web |url=http://www.concorde-spirit-tours.com/ |title=Concorde Spirit Tours |work=concorde-spirit-tours.com |access-date=28 July 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070629051800/http://www.concorde-spirit-tours.com/ |archive-date=29 June 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> and again for the [[solar eclipse of August 11, 1999|total solar eclipse on 11 August 1999]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Solar Eclipse Viewed from Concorde |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-L0eRgzxE0|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211124/Y-L0eRgzxE0| archive-date=24 November 2021 |url-status=live |publisher=AP Archive|orig-year=Aug 1999|via=YouTube |date=21 July 2015}}{{cbignore}}<br/>* {{cite web |title=Concorde eclipse august 99 collector |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMDrrSDoghQ&t=2m25s |publisher=jean-luc |date=5 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170526173914/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMDrrSDoghQ| archive-date=26 May 2017 |url-status=dead |via=YouTube}}</ref>