Even when the plane reached its top cruising speed of 1,350 mph, the speed of airflow to the engines remained less than 300 mph. Concorde's air intake system, developed 40 years ago, is still ...

you can sense the staggering power which one of these Concorde engines develops. It's an Olympus 593. With its intake and exhaust pipes it's about as long as a single-seater fighter. Each one of ...