With the promise of supersonic business jets about five years away, yesterday marked the 20th anniversary of the last Concorde flight. The joint project between Britain and France, which made its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Concorde, the first and only supersonic commercial jetliner, operated from 1976 to 2003. Flown by royals, celebrities, and ...

Comparing the Boom Overture to Concorde and its commercial viability.

The 1960s were a period of change, transition and unstoppable optimism. It was the age when propeller driven aircraft had all but been phased out by jets, man had successfully gone to space and ...

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Blake Scholl is confident his XB-1 test plane is the forerunner of Overture, a commercial aircraft which will carry 80 passengers long distances at 1,300mph - Benjamin Rasmussen My journey to meet ...

The supersonic Concorde is, literally, in a class by itself: it flies faster than a rifle bullet, higher than any other civilian aircraft. And in three decades of flight, it has inspired the extremes ...

Up in the air: It was one of Whyld's first jobs as a photographer. He had to stand on the skid of a helicopter, suspended 3,000 feet in the air. Pictured here: Whyld in 2003, the year he photographed ...

Forty years ago today the supersonic Concorde took its first test flight, and a design paragon flashed across the skies over Toulouse. With its droop nose and delta wing, the Concorde was a high point ...