The author and the two Concordes in Paris's Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace.Pete Syme/BI Commercial flights faster than the speed of sound are one of the few historic innovations that have fallen out of ...

As the first and only supersonic commercial jetliner, Concorde was popular with royals, celebrities, and business executives.

Concorde was not just another airliner. It flew at the speed of sound, crossed the Atlantic in under three and a half hours, and cruised at altitudes so high that some passengers reported seeing the ...

To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the first commercial flight of the Concorde, Air France presented a unique documentary ...

The closest I’ve ever been to being on a supersonic flight was looking at the Concorde on static display at the Intrepid Museum in New York. But, for an entire generation of travelers and aviators, ...

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).

A French enthusiast group borescoped the engines of a Concorde supersonic airliner on display at the Le Bourget Air and Space Museum outside Paris and found them to be in perfect condition internally.

Both Air France and British Airways operated the aircraft, but it was expensive to operate, so only the very wealthy could ...

The flights at Edwards Air Force Base in California support NASA’s Quesst mission to demonstrate supersonic flight that ...

A French court found that Continental Airlines was guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the 2000 crash of the Concorde airline that killed 113 people.