The Concorde was the world's longest-serving supersonic airliner. It could cross the Atlantic in record time. Learn why this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Those who took the controls of Concorde say it was like no other airplane. Pilots tell CNN Travel the secrets of flying the ...

The Bombardier Global 8000 is the fastest civil jet since Concorde, combining Mach 0.95 speed, 8,000-nm range, and record-setting performance.

NASA’S “Son of Concorde” jet that could fly from the UK to New York in four hours has smashed through the sound barrier without triggering the usual sonic boom. The experimental ...

The first commercial Concorde flights took off on January 21, 1976. Two Concordes, each operated by one of the partner airlines that funded and developed the supersonic technology, departed ...

Sonic boom restrictions limited Concorde to transatlantic flights, reducing its route flexibility and revenue potential.

Operating other aircraft, you’d rarely fly with the same team, but with Concorde, there were always familiar faces in the crew, says Tye. “There were only ever 134 BA Concorde pilots the whole time ...

When Tye first piloted Concorde in the late 1990s, the airplane had been established for two decades. Peter Duffey was there at the very beginning, as one of the first British Airways pilots selected ...

(CNN) — On January 21, 1976 a teenage John Tye was among crowds of onlookers clinging to a chain link fence, cheering as the first commercial British Airways Concorde flight departed from London’s ...