John Tye flew a Concorde plane 23 years after he watched the inaugural flight leave London Heathrow.

Sounds strange today, but not so long ago you could fly supersonic, on the iconic Concorde, out of Kent. We speak to the man ...

I’m seated in "Le Club," Air France's Concorde Lounge at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (LFPG). It's May 2000, and across from me, outside a panoramic window, Concorde waits in silhouette-poised, ...

Concorde and Tupolev are acknowledged as some of the first planes to break the sound barrier, but it wasn't them. Which one actually did it first?

It’s just over 50 years since the world’s only supersonic passenger jet launch. By today’s standards it doesn’t seem too luxurious – unless you were a Hobbit.

New stamps mark 50th anniversary of first commercial Concorde flights - The first commercial Concorde flights departed on January 21 1976.

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 speed of ...

Could this private jet become the successor to Concorde? - Plane Talk: The Bombardier Global 8000 provides ‘the one thing that is always in short supply: time’ ...

The rather short-lived Concorde has set the standard for speed when it comes to civilian aircraft. With a maximum cruise speed of Mach 2.04 (1,350 mph/2,179 kph) at an altitude of 60,000 feet (18,288 ...

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