Aided by a quartet of Rolls-Royce Olympus 593 engines, the Concorde, the world's only commercially successful supersonic passenger plane, was capable of flying at speeds up to 1,354 mph (2,179 kph).

Humanity has always strived to go a lot faster than biology allows, and to meet that goal it developed all sorts of machines for air, land, and sea. But, because most things are not created equal, not ...

Part of a continuing weekly series on Alaska history by local historian David Reamer. Have a question about Anchorage or Alaska history or an idea for a future article? Go to the form at the bottom of ...

One of the most famous airline advertisements in the UK, the British Airways BAC-Aérospatiale Concorde model at London Heathrow airport, is to disappear and will probably be replaced by an Emirates ...

Fifteen years after it last flew, supersonic airplane Concorde’s distinctive drooping nose is back in action. Since its final landing in 2003, Alpha Foxtrot (the final Concorde model to be built and ...

Fifty years ago, the first Concorde supersonic transport took to the skies over Toulouse, France. Hailed in its day as a technological achievement to rival the first manned Moon landing, it not only ...

Emirates has formally unveiled a 45-tonne model of the Airbus A380 which has been constructed on the entrance road to London Heathrow Airport, after the Middle Eastern carrier took over the ...

The pointy-nosed plane barreled down the French tarmac and into the air. The crowd of 200,000 spectators that gathered near the runway at Le Bourget Airport for the 1973 Paris Air Show watched the ...

The British-French supersonic Concorde has so far survived difficulties that could easily have wrecked a less prestigious project. The airliner’s development cost has soared in four years from $790 ...

Why do aircraft made by Boeing feature slightly different noses to those made by Airbus?