The Concorde, developed in the 1960s under a partnership between British and French manufacturers, was the first (and so far, only) commercial supersonic aircraft. It entered service in 1976 with ...

The Concorde crash Throughout its service history, Concorde suffered only one catastrophic hull loss. On July 25, 2000, an Air France plane that had been chartered by a tour group struck a piece ...

The Concorde was expensive to operate and out of the price range of most people (a round-trip ticket for a transatlantic flight cost about $12,000 in today's dollars), but that's not why it was ...

I went on board the first Concorde prototype, and one of the last built, at a Paris museum. Boom's Overture means supersonic flight could soon return.

Continental Airlines, several mechanics and a former French official went back on trial in France Thursday over the deadly 2000 crash of a Concorde supersonic jet.With one of the defendants too ...

Amid efforts to lift a ban on supersonic flight over US soil, plane developer Boom says it’s getting closer to creating Concorde’s successor. But will enough people want to use it?

The first Concorde supersonic passenger aircraft has been named as a historical monument, France's culture minister said Monday. Concorde 001, which was the first of the 20 aircraft built and the ...

The jet design is reportedly supposed to have a range 50% longer than the Concorde. 3 Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 jet on a test flight on Jan. 28, 2025. Photo by HANDOUT/Boom Supersonic/AFP via Getty ...

The commercial supersonic aircraft made the trip from New York to London or Paris in about three and a half hours, less than half the time it takes a traditional jet, but passengers paid a premium ...

The Concorde, developed in the 1960s under a partnership between British and French manufacturers, was the first (and so far, only) commercial supersonic aircraft. It entered service in 1976 with ...