Aided by a quartet of Rolls-Royce Olympus 593 engines, the Concorde, the world's only commercially successful supersonic passenger plane ... back with news about the model, and announced that ...

The single-seat jet, a 201-foot-long test model by Boom Supersonic ... The XB-1 has been dubbed the “Son of Concorde,” referencing the supersonic plane that could fly from London to New ...

Boom Technology’s XB-1 test plane. On January 28 ... (Photo by John Keeble/Getty Images) In the meantime as with Concorde, the XB-1 test model can’t fly supersonic over land in the U.S ...

After the Wright brothers developed the first powered airplane, it didn't take long for the military to want to adopt it. Here's who built the first one.

Ever since the Anglo-French Concorde retired in 2003, civil supersonic flight has been something of a lost art. In recent years, a number of startups have been working on various projects to ...

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On disembarking, actress Joan Collins said there were "cheers and tears" among the passengers when the plane landed ... of the number of times he had been on Concorde - "somewhere between 300 and 500, ...

A Concorde plane is open for public tours at the Intrepid Museum in New York City. In 1962, the governments of Britain and France signed the Anglo-French Agreement, pooling their money and ...

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On November 26, 2003, Concorde took off for the last time. After revolutionising air travel for nearly 30 years, spiralling costs and a fatal crash in the year 2000 forced the aircraft to retire.