A peaceful retirement was interrupted in 2000, when an Air France Concorde crashed on take-off at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, killing everyone on board. Mr Walpole still remembers the horror. “I ...

An aircraft developed by Boom Supersonic has become the first independently funded jet to break the sound barrier.

Three main problems existed with the plane - noise, smoke, and money. The 1973 stock market crash and an oil crisis in the ...

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 ...

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 ...