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 ...

Answer: The highest commercial airliner altitude was 60,000 feet by Concorde. The highest military ... may be able to maintain altitude above service ceiling, depending on the weight and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...