Flying at a staggering Mach 2.05 (around 2,200 km/h) over the Sahara Desert, researchers matched the speed of the lunar shadow, stretching a brief 7-minute eclipse into 70 minutes of continuous totality.

To put that into perspective, this single legendary flight provided more total eclipse observation time than all other ground expeditions in the 20th century combined. Science fiction made reality in the twentieth century.

(Fox Bravo, Fox Fox, Sierra Delta and 001)

Bonus : Leiji Matsumoto cameo at the Air and Space Museum and Concorde drawn by him (thanks to Julien Pirou from Triple 9 for the picture !!!)