During takeoff and landing, Concorde flew at a steep angle, with its front end tilted skyward and its tail pointing down. If a conventional plane were in this position, its nose would block the ...

In order to land, you had to get rid of that nose, so down it went. [To learn more about the plane's unique features, see Anatomy of Concorde.] NOVA: Looking back over the years you were a pilot ...

The American-built civil supersonic jet is made from carbon fibre, and unlike Concorde’s droop nose, pilots will use an “augmented reality vision system” to see past its long nose for ...

The Concorde passenger jet set a record when ... "They actually had to devise a way for the nose to go down [mechanically]," he said. "In the business, we call this a 'droop snoot.'" ...

if we have faster airplanes, we don’t need as many.” Like Concorde, the XB-1 and Overture both have a long nose and a high angle of attack for takeoff and landing, which interrupts the pilots ...

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