The Concorde suffered a fatal crash in July 2000, which spurred the end of the supersonic jet program. What's next for mach ...

The Birth of the Concorde. On October 14, 1947, Chuck Yeager broke through. Cruising in an experimental Bell X-1 aircraft at an altitude in excess of 40,000 feet, the test pilot made history by ...

Five years before Concorde’s first flight, another majestic supersonic aircraft took to the skies — and almost became the inspiration for an even faster passenger plane.

The most revolutionary passenger aircraft ever to fly made its first commercial flight on this day in 1976. It's hard to believe that it has already been 12 years since its retirement! Let's take a ...

In May 2024, I toured a Concorde jet at the Intrepid Museum in New York City. The sea, air, and space museum is housed on a 900-foot-long aircraft carrier. Take a look inside.

The Concorde—a plane that epitomized glamour as it whisked celebrities and dignitaries across the Atlantic in under four hours—hasn't flown since 2003 (blame a combination of high costs, bad ...

Concorde, constructed by French aerospace company Aérospatiale and British Aircraft Corporation, was retired after 27 years of commercial service in 2003 due to a number of factors.

At takeoff, Concorde carried roughly 31,500 gallons of fuel weighing more than 200,000 pounds, an enormous weight that, depending on the fuel's location, changed the plane's center of gravity.

Like any aircraft, the Concorde has had some trouble over the years. In 1979, one of the tires of a British Airways Concorde burst on landing. The incident led to a design modification.

Concorde was a rather singular aircraft. Just fourteen out of the twenty built went into service. When the Anglo-French design made its public debut in Toulouse in 1967, two years before its ...

Those who took the controls of Concorde say it was like no other airplane – here they reveal the secrets of flying the world’s fastest commercial passenger aircraft at more than twice the ...