Five years before Concorde’s first flight, another majestic supersonic aircraft took to the skies — and almost became the inspiration for an even faster passenger plane. It was the XB-70 Valkyrie, an ...

In 1962, the British and French governments announced the world's first supersonic aircraft: the Concorde. To compete with ...

A private company aiming to build the first supersonic airliner since the Concorde retired more than two decades ago achieved its first sound-barrier-busting flight over California's Mojave desert on ...

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

Concorde flight engineer Warren Hazelby gets chills recalling his first supersonic flight from London to New York in 2002. Hazelby remembers stepping onto the flight deck and taking it all in. The ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Ten years after a Concorde crash killed 113 people, Continental Airlines faces a trial on Tuesday to determine its responsibility in a disaster which ended an era of luxury ...

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.