You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Commercial flights faster than the speed of sound are one of the few historic innovations that have ...

Concorde is a legendary airline, made famous for its super-fast jets and glamorous experience while in the air. Here's what ...

The first commercial Concorde flights took off on January 21, 1976. Two Concordes, each operated by one of the partner airlines that funded and developed the supersonic technology, departed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

A closer look at how Sir Richard Branson tried and failed to bring supersonic capabilities to the Virgin Atlantic fleet.

As 25 July marks the 20th anniversary of Concorde’s fatal crash, we look back on the highlights – and lowlights – of the famed supersonic jet. 5 November 1956 The Supersonic Transport Aircraft ...

When a plane like the Concorde Jet is ahead of its time and doesn't ultimately last, it's more than simply a defunct project, it's a failed promise of the future, of what could have been. There was ...

When Chuck Yeager reached Mach 1 on October 14, 1947, the entire frame of his Bell X-1 aircraft suddenly started to shake, and the controls went. A crew observing the flight in a van on the ground ...

America's Concorde successor promises 1,122 mph flights. See how boomless tech could bring back supersonic travel in two years.