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Officials in Britain and France insisted Wednesday that the Concorde is not dead, despite aviation authorities’ decision to revoke the aging supersonic jet’s airworthiness certificate. British ...
The charges against Continental stemmed from the fact that prior to the Concorde taking off, a Continental Airlines DC-10 roared down the same runway, and on take-off, ...
Concorde may have retired but a number of projects hope to bring supersonic air travel back to the masses. On a gusty March day in 1969, the future of air travel was revealed. A spontaneous burst ...
The Concorde was the world's longest-serving supersonic airliner. It could cross the Atlantic in record time. Learn why this particular plane was discontinued.
N E W   Y O R K, Sept. 4 -- It occured on July 25 of last year, but the images still seem vivid: an Air France Concorde bursts into flames and crashes while taking off near Paris, killing ...
PARIS — Was an abandoned scrap of metal on the runway really the main culprit in the fiery crash of an Air France Concorde shortly after takeoff? That finding, insisted upon by French investi… ...
Between 1976, when Concorde began flights to the United States, and 2003, when the aircraft was retired, you may have been fortunate enough, as I was once, to see Concorde take off.
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.
July 31 -- Concorde crash investigators said it could take more than 18 months to determine what caused the Concorde to crash minutes after takeoff. “We are at the beginning of a difficult ...
The plane is the needle-nose Concorde that has spent the last 15 years on the Intrepid Sea, ... It will be hoisted off the deck, lowered onto a barge and delivered to a shipyard in Brooklyn.
Imagine taking off from London's Heathrow airport at 9 a.m. and after an immaculately smooth flight arriving in New York before 8 o'clock that same morning. It was possible on Concorde, ...
Concorde may have retired but a number of projects hope to bring supersonic air travel back to the masses. On a gusty March day in 1969, the future of air travel was revealed. A spontaneous burst ...