Concorde flew at the cruising speed of Mach 2, twice the speed of sound, where even small increases in drag would have had a significant impact on fuel burn and range. A wider cross-section would have ...

The interior was smaller than the Boeing 707s and 747s he’d worked on for much of his career, ... The Concorde aircraft that operated the final flight is now on display at the Aerospace Bristol ...

Nearly 14 years after the last flight of the Concorde, Supersonic air travel is back in fashion.The Virgin-backed Boom project, aims to get passengers from London to New York in 3.5 hours and they ...

The Concorde aircraft, despite actually managing to be profitable, proved that airlines could, in theory, turn a profit if they operated supersonic flights on routes where they were able to charge ...

On the day a Concorde jet took off for the first time since the supersonic fleet was grounded, engineers say they have designed a way to prevent crashes like the one that killed 113 people in July ...

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 ...

As airlines worldwide slash schedules, lay off thousands of workers and ground hundreds of jets because of the slump in air travel, one airplane that was widely considered doomed is poised to fly ...

In a pre-computer age, flight engineers were crucial to aviation. Former Concorde flight engineer Warren Hazelby explains how he helped fly the supersonic jet.

By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Concorde flight engineer Warren Hazelby gets chills recalling his first supersonic flight from London to New York in 2002. Hazelby remembers stepping onto the ...

By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Concorde flight engineer Warren Hazelby gets chills recalling his first supersonic flight from London to New York in 2002. Hazelby remembers stepping onto the ...