On March 2, 1969, history was made as Concorde flew for the first time. In 1976, the aircraft entered service, and the type flew until 2003 when it was retired without replacement. Like the Airbus ...

NASA’S attempts to bring back Concorde-style supersonic flights have suffered a setback after its latest major test. The ...

Supersonic passenger air travel is a thing of the past, but you can still tour the plane that made it possible. In 1962, the governments of Britain and France signed the Anglo-French Agreement, ...

(CNN) — On January 21, 1976 a teenage John Tye was among crowds of onlookers clinging to a chain link fence, cheering as the first commercial British Airways Concorde flight departed from London’s ...

Aided by a quartet of Rolls-Royce Olympus 593 engines, the Concorde, the world's only commercially successful supersonic passenger plane, was capable of flying at speeds up to 1,354 mph (2,179 kph).