French president Jacques Chirac was almost killed in the Concorde crash in Paris in July 2000, a new book claims. On that day, the burning Air France Concorde passed within seven yards of an Air ...

More than two decades after Europe’s failed attempt at a supersonic airliner, the USA is on track to make it work. View on ...

Concorde's landing gear was state-of-the-art in the ... shredded by a piece of metal lying on the runway during takeoff, caused a crash that killed 113 people and ultimately contributed to ...

Denver-based Boom Technology's XB-1 demonstrator plane hit Mach 1.122 — 750 mph. It's the first independently developed ...

January 21 is remembered as the day the first commercial Concorde flight took off from London and Paris Airports ...

A significant leak resulted, and escaping kerosene "was whisked around in the turbulence of the landing gear and caught ... only 16 days before the Concorde crash. The report said that ...

Will Boom bring boom time back to supersonic travel? 'New Concorde' prompts revival talk - The aircraft developed by Boom ...

A deadly crash more than two decades ago hastened the jet's demise. On July 25, 2000, an Air France Concorde crashed into a hotel and exploded shortly after takeoff in Paris, killing all 109 ...