The plane had its first commercial flight on January 21, 1976, so was retired after 27 years of service and 50,000 flights. Several reasons led to the decision to retire Concorde. Air France and ...

Lower airfare and a taller cabin Boom's plan to eliminate the high costs associated with the Concorde may bring down supersonic ticket prices — making the jet more affordable for airlines and ...

But while the successful test flight of XB-1 shows that supersonic flight without sonic booms is technically feasible, the ...

A newly released image shows the sound barrier being broken on February 10 as Boom Supersonic’s XB-1, America’s first civil ...

NASA has snapped a stunning image of a supersonic plane breaking the sound barrier – as its creators boast that there was “no audible sonic boom”. The Boom Supersonic XB-1 – dubbed a ...

The flight numbers were originally SQ 301/BA 301 to London, and SQ 300/BA 300 back to Singapore. These would later be changed ...

Air France's streamlined white Concorde swooped into a Paris airport on its final commercial flight home, an emotional end to years of supersonic travel between New York and Paris. The plane ...

Today, the Aérospatiale/BAC Concorde, the turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airliner icon, first flew in 1969.

British Airways plans to resume Concorde passenger flights in September, it was revealed today. Air France intends to follow suit a month later, an Anglo-French Concorde working group said after ...