By charging premium fares to business travelers, they made Concorde a prestige service, but financial success was elusive.

To account for the price, the service was top-notch and ... Even though the Concorde cabins were slender and barebones, with the ceiling measuring a cramped six-feet tall, few could complain ...

But on October 24, 2003, that era came to an abrupt end. That day, British Airways operated its last commercial Concorde service from JFK International Airport to London Heathrow. Air France ...

Nonetheless, the Concorde entered service to the public in 1976. A traditional airframe is not suitable for supersonic flight and engineers designed the Concorde with a delta-wing configuration ...

Those rapid flights were undertaken on Concorde, the supersonic passenger jet that was retired from service in 2003. Now, a vintage BBC report lifts the lid on the construction of the supersonic ...

The seats are expected to be innovated for comfort. The Concorde was infamous for its low door and ceiling. Scholl said Overture's entry door would be 10 inches taller. "That's an inch taller than ...

Aviation authorities immediately grounded every Concorde still in service. The planes wouldn't return for over a year amid government investigations and intense regulatory scrutiny. Concorde never ...

straightened my tie and – minding my head on the low ceiling – stood up to visit the flight deck. The sun was rising in the west. The evening Concorde departure from Heathrow had chased the ...

Dan Kuhn: "The WT White High School Band pictured was on hand for the ceremony inaugurating a Concorde service to Dallas Fort Worth airport in 1979. We (the members of the band) were given these ...

When Concorde service ended in 2003, 75 air museums around the world put in bids for the 13 planes then in use. New York's Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum got the British Airways Concorde that ...