Fred Finn is a frequent flyer like no other.<\/p>\n
At 83 years old, he\u2019s spent a significant portion of his life in the sky.<\/p>\n
Specifically 60,000 feet up, going twice the speed of sound.<\/p>\n
As Concorde\u2019s most loyal customer, Finn holds a world record that\u2019s pretty much impossible to beat.<\/p>\n
READ MORE:<\/strong> Man becomes first person in the world to visit every country without flying<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Fred Finn was obsessed with all things aviation from a young age.<\/p>\n He took his first commercial flight in 1958 from the UK to the USA, which took 19 hours and four stops.<\/p>\n 38 years later he took the same trip in less than three hours on board Concorde.<\/p>\n He began his career as a traveling salesman, earning a reputation amongst airline staff for flying from New York to London<\/a> every weekend.<\/p>\n So naturally he was the first person invited to board Concorde\u2019s maiden flight.<\/p>\n After that, he made the supersonic journey a habit.<\/p>\n <\/a>Heritage Concorde<\/p>\n Flying Concorde<\/a> was a unique experience.<\/p>\n Most passengers were businessmen, and check-in involved networking in a private lounge with champagne.<\/p>\n Finn even had a special seat aboard the plane: 9A.<\/p>\n Why?<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s where they started the refreshment service from,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Because he was such a regular, he\u2019d always find a bottle of Dom Perignon stashed under his seat and was even allowed into the cockpit<\/a>.<\/p>\n Since his first flight in 1976, Finn clocked an incredible 2.5 million miles flying on Concorde.<\/p>\n The aircraft was in service for 27 years, during which Finn took 718 flights.<\/p>\n This means that he holds the Guinness World Record for the most supersonic passenger flights.<\/p>\n Finn would make two return trips from London to New York a week, once fitting three flights in on one day.<\/p>\n In total, he spent about $2.5 million on his plane tickets.<\/p>\n <\/a>Steve Fitzgerald \/ Wikimedia Commons<\/a>Gabriel Goncalves \/ Unsplash<\/p>\n While flying at Mach 2 was certainly a thrill, it\u2019s the social element that Finn misses most.<\/p>\n The salesman knew the staff well and was involved with everything from calming down anxious passengers to playing for the Concorde cricket team.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s easy to say it\u2019s the speed I miss but it\u2019s actually the connectivity,\u201d Finn says.<\/p>\n \u201cConcorde made the world a much smaller place.\u201d<\/p>\n Since its last flight in 2003, nothing has come close to achieving what Concorde did.<\/p>\n There are a number of supersonic planes in the testing stages<\/a> right now.<\/p>\n Given the controversy associated with Concorde<\/a>, however, we\u2019re probably still years away from regular commercial supersonic flight.<\/p>\n And even more years away from Fred Finn losing his world record title.<\/p>\n The post The world\u2019s most traveled man has a record no one will ever beat<\/a> appeared first on Supercar Blondie<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fred Finn is a frequent flyer like no other. At 83 years old, he\u2019s spent a significant portion of his life in the sky. Specifically 60,000 feet up, going twice the speed of sound. As Concorde\u2019s most loyal customer, Finn holds a world record that\u2019s pretty much impossible to beat. READ MORE: Man becomes first …<\/p>","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":41548,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}