Today in Welsh history… 20th December 1912, Sir Morien Bedford Morgan, ‘The Father Of Concorde’ was born in Bridgend. Whilst a student at Cambridge, Morgan became fascinated with aircraft and won the John Bernard Seely prize in aeronautics in 1934. He spent some time at Vickers Aviation as an apprentice, before Morgan took up a position at the Aerodynamics Department within Royal Aircraft Establishment. In 1948 he began researching the possibility of a supersonic passenger airliner, and in 1956 when Chairman of the Supersonic Transport Aircraft Committee, selected the design of what would ultimately become Concorde. Concorde was grounded in 2003 three years after a fatal crash when all passengers and crew were killed. The retirement of the Concorde project is today considered by some as a symptom of the decline of the west.