Air France officials Thursday acknowledged the airline had not made a design change intended to reduce the chance that tire blowouts on the Concorde would damage the supersonic aircraft. British ...
Investigators say burst tire precipitated deadly Concorde crash. PARIS -- Air accident investigators have confirmed in a preliminary report published Thursday that a burst tyre se ...
WATCH as engineers get one step closer to supersonic travel for the first time since Concorde, after NASA’s “sonic thump” ...
If you boil it down to the basic facts, the era of commercial supersonic flight was a European phenomenon. Concorde, its ...
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, ...
The Olympus 593 was the soul of Concorde; it was its heartbeat and the force that let it slice through the skies at Mach 2.
Just over two decades have passed since Concorde exited the UK passenger market and no plane has ever topped one important detail since.
Concorde was the result of a joint program between France's Sud Aviation and the United Kingdom's British Aircraft ...
Concorde, the first and only supersonic commercial jetliner, operated from 1976 to 2003. Flown by royals, celebrities, and executives, it was discontinued because of high operating costs. A Concorde ...