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Never-before-seen footage from a 1970 Concorde test flight has surfaced, showing Tony Benn—then Labour’s technology minister—wearing a parachute in the cockpit as the plane roared from Mach 1 to Mach 2. Filmed during a critical test run from RAF Fairford, the grainy but historic clip was rejected by the BBC decades ago for poor quality, only recently rediscovered by Benn’s son, Hilary Benn. Aviation historians are calling it a rare, thrilling window into the dawn of supersonic travel and the political passion behind Concorde, including Benn’s fight to preserve its iconic name.

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