User:AbandonedTakeoff

I was lucky enough to experience an abandoned take-off in Concorde on Cairo runway. Being Concorde they gave us champagne whilst they tested out the engines on the taxi way. Of course they were not going to take the champagne off us when it was time to take off. Since alcohol is not normally allowed to be served until after take-off, I am one of very few people to have drunk champagne during a Concorde take-off.

If you a curious, the throttle amplifier was not responding as fast as it should have, though we could still have make take-off. We just flew back using the one we flew out on.

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