An aircraft developed by Boom Supersonic has become the first independently funded jet to break the sound barrier.
But Concorde never went mainstream, due to challenging economics and its sonic booms that led it to be banned on many ...
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 ...
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 ...