The author and the two Concordes in Paris's Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace.Pete Syme/BI Commercial flights faster than the speed of sound are one of the few historic innovations that have fallen out of ...

The first Concorde as it was being transferred to the Aeorscopia aviation museum in Blagnac The Concorde 001 takes off for its first flight on March 2, 1969 in southern France The first Concorde ...

This article, written by former Sud Aviation chief test pilot, Andre Turcat, was published in Flight International’s issue of 21 October 2003, to mark Concorde’s retirement from service. Turcat flew ...

_ Nov. 29, 1962: The French and British governments sign agreement to develop prototypes for a supersonic transport aircraft, eventually dubbed Concorde. Aerospatiale of France and the British ...

This year will make the 40th year since the Anglo-French commercial aircraft, the Concorde, made its first flight. Aircraft number 001 first lifted off on 2 March 1969 piloted by Andre Turcat from the ...

The British-French supersonic Concorde 001 took its first trip last week, but the journey was only a matter of a mile at the Sud Aviation plant at Toulouse, France. With front wheels jacked up so that ...

Half a century ago this week, a dart-like airliner that promised to revolutionise the air-transport industry broke cover in Toulouse. And the state-of-the-art machine that emerged would henceforth be ...

_ Nov. 29, 1962: The French and British governments sign agreement to develop prototypes for a supersonic transport aircraft, eventually dubbed Concorde. Aerospatiale of France and the British ...