The sleek needle nose of a supersonic Concorde jet was sold to an anonymous buyer for nearly $554,000 at a Paris auction, 30 times the price it had been expected to fetch, Christie's auction house ...

The Concorde passenger jet set a record when it flew between New York City and London in 2 hours, 52 minutes, 59 seconds. The supersonic plane could fly at more than twice the speed of sound.