We take a look back at the iconic Concorde airliner, and explore whether there's a viable future for supersonic aviation.
If you had been staring at the skies over London or Paris 50 years ago today, you might have seen something special. Jan 21 ...
At 28, Mike Bannister was the youngest person to fly Concorde, in 1977.
Supersonic passenger flight worked technically – but never added up commercially It is 50 years since Concorde began scheduled passenger flights, with British Airways operating a London-Bahrain ...
I went on board two Concordes, including the first prototype, at Paris's air and space museum. Concorde, retired in 2003 due to costs and a crash, flew at more than twice the speed of sound. Boom ...
Half a century on, a beautifully crafted anniversary film invites viewers to rediscover the Air France Concorde.
And so I became 11 again watching this documentary, with its plentiful footage of this sublime piece of engineering - as sleek and white as the perfect paper airplane - taking off, landing and flying ...
A former Concorde pilot said having the opportunity to fly the supersonic plane was "beyond my wildest dreams". John Tye, from Bristol, watched from the fence at London Heathrow as the inaugural ...
Concorde began its signature route from London Heathrow to JFK airport in New York in November 1977. That journey takes ...