Like any aircraft, the Concorde has had some trouble over the years. In 1979, one of the tires of a British Airways Concorde burst on landing. The incident led to a design modification.

Concorde crossed the Atlantic at twice the speed of sound, cutting travel time in half compared to a conventional passenger plane. The groundbreaking jet made its final flight on Nov. 26, 2003.

The iconic British Airways Concorde G-BOAD supersonic jet will return to NYC’s Intrepid Museum after it spent months being restored at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

But Concorde was designed to cruise at twice the speed of sound, or 1,350 mph (2,170 km/h). To do that, it required four Olympus jet engines, each capable of a continuous 28,000 lbs of thrust, or ...

La Concorde is also the home of the 3,300-year-old Luxor obelisk, which was erected on the square in 1836.The obelisk is both a landmark in the square and the world's largest sundial. Place de la ...

Just look at Concorde, the SR-71 Blackbird, or the X-59—all long and very slender. That's why Concorde could take only 100 passengers on board. And this determined who these passengers were.

Concorde flew at 1,350 mph (2,200 km/h) — Mach 2 — along the path of totality in the same direction as the moon's shadow, thereby keeping up with it as long as possible.

L-R: The last Concorde to ever fly touches down at Filton airfield on November 23, 2003, in Bristol, England. An illustration of NASA's experimental X-59 supersonic jet.

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Just before the Concorde took to the skies, the Soviet Union made its own ill-fated version of a supersonic passenger jet called the Tupolev Tu-144.

Fascinating colourised images have been released of Concorde's birth to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the supersonic aircraft's first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic, from Washington DC to ...

La Concorde is also the home of the 3,300-year-old Luxor obelisk, which was erected on the square in 1836.The obelisk is both a landmark in the square and the world's largest sundial. Place de la ...