Concorde completes last flight

Concorde touched down for the very last time today after a special flight from Heathrow Airport to the site where the supersonic plane was made.

Thousands of aviation fans and aerospace workers braved the showers at Airbus UK’s Filton airfield in Bristol to see Concorde 216 fly overhead at 2000ft and then land.

The aircraft will eventually go on display at the site.

One hundred British Airways staff who have worked on Concorde were on board the flight which took off from Heathrow at 11.29am.

Hundreds lined the surrounding roads of London’s biggest airport to see the plane take off in grey skies.

At Filton a sombre silence fell over the crowd as the plane roared to touch down at 1.05pm.

The showers momentarily stopped as the craft glided home to rest amid a huge cheer from spectators.