As 25 July marks the 20-year anniversary of Concorde’s fatal crash, we look back on the highlights – and lowlights – of the famed supersonic jet. November 1956 The Supersonic Transport Aircraft ...
(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 ...
It would take him back to the day he stood at Heathrow, watching the first commercial Concorde flight take off. He remembers one occasion when an American Airlines pilot who was cleared to line up and ...
Fifty years after the Concorde first flew, a new era of innovation and entrepreneurial ideas seeks to make supersonic flight practical and sustainable. Flying passengers at twice the speed of sound, ...
A new commemorative 50p coin has been released to celebrate 50 years since Concorde's first commercial flight. The Royal Mint created the coin in partnership with British Airways and Airbus, featuring ...