Supersonic passenger air travel is a thing of the past, but you can still tour the plane that made it possible. In 1962, the governments of Britain and France signed the Anglo-French Agreement, ...

The Concorde program was the world's first supersonic airliner, undertaken in a joint development and manufacturing effort by Sud Aviation and the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC). Concorde took its ...

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 ...

It was a structural necessity driven by the demands of supersonic flight.

(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 ...

Once the Concorde was in the air, it would climb fast, “at 100 knots faster than an ordinary subsonic jet,” as former Concorde First Officer Tony Yule explains. “You would probably climb somewhere ...