Before the Concorde there was the Russian-built Tupeluv 144D. Two fatal crashes—one in 1973 at the Paris Air Show and another in Russia in 1978—spelled the end of that airplane.

JFK → LHR in half the time. Part of the legendary appeal of the Concorde was that it cut many international flight times in half, attracting business executives and other busy travellers.

Like Concorde, Overture will fly at 60,000ft, above turbulence and jet streams and weather systems, twice as high as conventional airliners, where the sky is turning navy.

Concorde’s original program was estimated at £70m in 1972 (about £1.2bn in today’s money), but overruns and delays meant it ended up costing somewhere between £1.5 and £2bn.

CONCORDE'S purported successor, the XB-1 prototype, will undergo testing in the coming months, the jet's designers Boom Technology have announced.

If that sounds familiar, it should. That was the promise of the now-retired Concorde, which first flew in 1969 and operated until 2003. Concorde was capable of flying from New York to London in ...

A new rocket-propelled successor to the supersonic Concorde is in the works. Is the Zero Emission Hypersonic Transport (Zehst) the future of flying?

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.

The company is promising an aircraft which will fly 2.6 times faster than current airliners, at Mach 2.2 (1,451mph and almost 100mph faster than Concorde).Boom's biggest claim is how it can ...

Fifty years since the world's only supersonic airliner took to the skies, 16 years after it was grounded for good, can Boom Technology founder Blake Scholl follow in the Concorde's trail and ...

WATCH NASA assemble the "son of Concorde" - an incredible jet that is set to revolutionise the commercial flight industry once again - but this time with quiet, supersonic flight.