Concorde 002 became the first UK-built supersonic airliner to take flight, lifting off from Filton Airport and marking a major milestone in aviation history. Piloted by a British test crew, the ...

Concorde’s 002 prototype in Melbourne in 1972.Credit: Neville Bowler Laurie Henry was threatened with arrest for causing a public nuisance, but no police sergeant seemed keen to be remembered ...

1976: President of the Young Liberals, Peter Hain, is acquitted of robbing a branch of Barclays bank. On the same day, singer-songwriter Phil Ochs hangs himself at his sister’s home in Queen’s, New ...

Box 1—figure 2. The Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde 102 is an iconic aircraft manufactured from 1965–1979. This photo shows British Airways flight 002 on the eve of its final commercial flight on October 24 ...

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).

In a recent academic paper, Comac engineers revealed the blueprint of a 1.6-Mach airliner designed to fly further and much more quietly than the retired Concorde – a feat that could position ...

It’s been 22 years since the world-famous supersonic passenger jet Concorde was retired. The aircraft, developed by the UK and France, was an icon of our skies, and its speed meant destinations ...

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Forward-looking: It's a bummer that, more than two decades later, commercial flights still can't touch the Concorde's blistering speeds. Today's airliners cruise between Mach 0.74 and 0.85 – the ...