A closer look at how Sir Richard Branson tried and failed to bring supersonic capabilities to the Virgin Atlantic fleet.

Equipped with special bullet-proof rubber lining on the fuel tanks and operating with new tough Michelin tyres, a BA Concorde completed a successful three hours 20 minutes test flight last week ...

Since the crash of an Air France Concorde near Paris in July last year in which 113 people were killed, three of BA's seven Concordes have been fitted with bullet-proof Kevlar rubber linings to ...

The flight numbers were originally SQ 301/BA 301 to London, and SQ 300/BA 300 back to Singapore. These would later be changed ...

IT ALL began with a tennis dinner. The year was 1981, and 47-year-old Captain Brian Walpole was flying high. As one of the first British Airways (BA) Concorde pilots, Mr Walpole had what he called ...

NASA has snapped a stunning image of a supersonic plane breaking the sound barrier – as its creators boast that there was “no audible sonic boom”. The Boom Supersonic XB-1 – dubbed a ...

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 ...

Boom Supersonic’ s XB-1 aircraft climbed over 35,000ft on Tuesday before accelerating to Mach 1.1 speed and then breaking the sound barrier in three high-speed runs spanning 35 minutes over the Mojave ...