British Airways iconic Concorde aircraft made its way back home to the Intrepid Museum from the Brooklyn Navy Yard on a barge Tuesday, crossing under the Brooklyn Bridge and sailing the Hudson. Videos ...
BA and Air France both operated one more Concorde than they had intended due to aircraft being built for other customers, but not delivered.
There have been no commercial supersonic flights since the Anglo-French Concorde retired from scheduled service more than 20 years ago. But the U.S. space agency NASA is testing an improved supersonic ...
Concorde flight engineer Warren Hazelby gets chills recalling his first supersonic flight from London to New York in 2002. Hazelby remembers stepping onto the flight deck and taking it all in. The ...
Comparing the Boom Overture to Concorde and its commercial viability.
Schenectady, NY (WRGB) — It looked like an angry bird when it made its debut in 1962--the Concorde--a craft with no tail, a narrow fuselage, a drop nose and the ability to travel1350 miles an hour at ...
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).
“Concorde was the ultimate aircraft for a flight engineer to work on,” says Hazelby. “When you get everything right, and Concorde performs well, then you get a huge feeling of achievement. At the end ...