Measurements taken in flight do not allow for determination of whether the air quality on board is negatively affected as a result. With the Bleed Air Contamination Simulator (BACS), researchers at ...

Captain Mike Bannister, who flew more Concorde hours than any other pilot, is hopeful about the future of the Boom Supersonic's Overture ...

The flight took place 11 ... British Airways Concorde made just shy of 50,000 journeys, flying more than 2.5 million passengers, and Air France carried a further 1.3 million.

XB-1’s supersonic flight took place in the same historic airspace where Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time in 1947, among many other historic firsts. The first supersonic ...

The XB-1 aircraft accelerated to Mach 1.05 at about 35,000 feet during a test flight in the same Mojave ... On July 25, 2000, an Air France Concorde crashed into a hotel and exploded shortly ...

The Concorde passenger jet never really took off, ceasing operation after just a couple of decades due to high operating costs. That jet flew its last flight ... an Air France Concorde crashed ...