There's never been anything quite like Concorde, a supersonic jetliner that could fly from New York City to London in under ...
The solution for Concorde was an elegant delta- or triangular-shaped wing reminiscent of 1950s military aircraft. It had few moveable parts compared to the wing of a subsonic jet, but the sleek ...
The interior was smaller than the Boeing 707s ... there were only ever 57 who operated the airline’s Concorde aircraft. The ...
In May, 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 last Concorde flight ...
Although 18 airlines initially placed orders for Concorde, only British Airways and Air France ended up operating the ...
Hundreds of Concorde fans gathered to watch. The plane and the rest of the Air France Concorde aircraft will be retired -- one to an exhibit at Charles de Gaulle Airport and the other four to museums.
Concorde was also the first commercial aircraft to use "fly-by-wire," or computer-based flight control. In the end, it was too costly to fly profitably, and it was retired in 2003. Arguably the ...
The aircraft, named Overture, would succeed Concorde in providing ultrafast connections between Europe and the United States, more than 20 years after the latter ceased operation. The new aircraft ...
Boom Supersonic says its XB-1 one-third-scale trijet demonstrator — also known as "Baby Boom" — has reached a new top speed ...
Based on the 1988 novel of the same name by Jilly Cooper, ‘Rivals’ revolves around the feud between Tony Baddingham and ...