The graceful, white aircraft dropped through the rain clouds, flirted with the runway below, then blasted back up, noisily tearing a hole in the sky and disappearing into the low, gray mist. It ...
Concorde’s Mach-2 eclipse chase (30 June 1973) set the airborne totality record of 74 minutes and cemented its legacy as a ...
China has gone up against the US in an aerospace race as its state-owned aircraft manufacturer unveils blueprints for a new supersonic jet that can fly further and more quietly than Concorde. The ...
After its final flight across the Atlantic, in June 2003, Air France Concorde F-BVFA lands at Washington Dulles International. The airplane is on view today at the National Air and Space Museum’s ...
Forty years ago, the Concorde broke the sound barrier for first time. Oct. 1, 2009— -- Bullets. Artillery. Horse whips. For a time, they all could do something humans only dreamed of: travel ...