The author and the two Concordes in Paris's Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace.Pete Syme/BI Commercial flights faster than the speed of sound are one of the few historic innovations that have fallen out of ...

Rory Sutherland explores our obsession with speed through the prism of Concorde.

As the first and only supersonic commercial jetliner, Concorde was popular with royals, celebrities, and business executives.

(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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The closest I’ve ever been to being on a supersonic flight was looking at the Concorde on static display at the Intrepid Museum in ...

There was nothing like the Concorde when it went into flight service in 1976, and there's been nothing like it since. This supersonic jet was able to fly faster than sound travels, breaking the sound ...

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 ...