But none will come close to achieving what Concorde 001 did on June 30, 1973, when it raced the moon's shadow along the Tropic of Cancer during a total solar eclipse.. Flying at 55,000 feet ...

Total solar eclipses don’t happen every day, so when they do you’ve got to take advantage. That’s exactly what a group of scientists did from the inside of a Concorde back in June of 1973.

But none will come close to achieving what Concorde 001 did on June 30, 1973, when it raced the moon's shadow along the Tropic of Cancer during a total solar eclipse.. Flying at 55,000 feet ...

Today, people across North America will witness a total solar eclipse. It should be spectacular (assuming the weather holds), coinciding as it does with the solar maximum. As enjoyable as it will ...

I started preparing for the 1973 eclipse about a year in advance. At the time, the Concorde was not yet in commercial service. It could fly in excess of Mach 2, or twice the speed of sound.And it ...

No matter how amazing your plans might be for Monday’s total solar eclipse over North America, you’ll never top what Kitt Peak astronomer Don Hall got to do just over 50 years ago. On June 30 ...

For eclipse chasers of all kinds, the unlikely mission remains the stuff of legend, the first and last trip of its kind. Supersonic eclipse chasing ended with the cancellation of the Concorde in 2003.

In 1973, though, passengers aboard the Concorde had prime seats for over and hour. During the recent eclipses, NASA used a WB-57 jet to chase the eclipse in the hopes of gathering more data, ...

HOW TO WATCH A SOLAR ECLIPSE will particularly speak to artists and art students, interdisciplinary thinkers, and dreamers as well–everyone is invited. The lecture concludes with an invitation to ...

In 1973, scientists using the supersonic Concorde jet extended totality to 74 minutes by flying almost as fast as the moon's shadow was moving across Earth. Skip to main content.