As the first and only supersonic commercial jetliner, Concorde was popular with royals, celebrities, and business executives.

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There was nothing like the Concorde when it went into flight service in 1976, and there's been nothing like it since. This supersonic jet was able to fly faster than sound travels, breaking the sound ...

Concorde's retirement marked the end of luxury jet travel for many. But developments in faster-than-sound flight could ...

Fifty years after the Concorde first flew, a new era of innovation and entrepreneurial ideas seeks to make supersonic flight practical and sustainable. Flying passengers at twice the speed of sound, ...

The closest I’ve ever been to being on a supersonic flight was looking at the Concorde on static display at the Intrepid Museum in New York. But, for an entire generation of travelers and aviators, ...

The craft is part of the US space agency's mission to find a way for ordinary planet travel to become much faster. Find out more here.

More than two decades after Europe’s failed attempt at a supersonic airliner, the USA is on track to make it work. View on euronews ...

I went on board two Concordes, including the first prototype, at Paris's air and space museum. Concorde, retired in 2003 due to costs and a crash, flew at more than twice the speed of sound. Boom ...

It was the airborne modern marvel of a golden age of travel. When Concorde first took to the skies in 1969, it quickly became a symbol of speed, luxury, and Anglo-French engineering prowess.

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