It’s always a kick to consider that within the span of an average human’s life—about 70 years—we went from the Wright Brothers making their first flight in a 12-horsepower wooden glider to supersonic ...

If you’re a bit of a plane nerd—and if you’re reading this site, the odds are good that you are—a rather interesting eBay auction ended over the weekend. The auction site knows it as item number ...

For a fleeting 30 years during the 20th century, supersonic commercial air travel was a reality. But on October 24, 2003, that era came to an abrupt end. That day, British Airways operated its last ...

The Aerospatiale/BAC Concorde supersonic passenger transport jet hasn't flown since November 2003. To think mankind could fly from London to New York in roughly three hours 20 years ago, yet people ...

Four afterburning turbojets, room for up to 120 high-paying passengers, and a top speed of just over Mach two limited not by the engine's capabilities but by the fact that the aircraft's skin stood a ...

Airbus may have left Boeing in the dust with 16 times more worth in confirmed contracts—a whopping $44 billion worth—at the Paris Air Show this week, but the real draw for audiences was the unveiling ...

Air France aims to begin the reintroduction of its Aerospatiale/BAC Concorde fleet in September. The carrier is preparing to start installation of the Kevlar/rubber fuel tank liners to clear the way ...

As 25 July marks the 20-year anniversary of Concorde’s fatal crash, we look back on the highlights – and lowlights – of the famed supersonic jet. November 1956 The Supersonic Transport Aircraft ...

The Concorde program was the world's first supersonic airliner, undertaken in a joint development and manufacturing effort by Sud Aviation and the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC). Concorde took its ...

When the first Tupolev Tu-144 thundered its way into aeronautical history 50 years ago, lifting off from Zhukovksy airfield on the last day of 1968, much of the supersonic programme remained cloaked ...