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What Actually Happened to the Concorde
The Concorde, a symbol of supersonic travel, met a tragic end with the crash of Flight 4590. This story details the ...
History Today: How the Concorde took to the skies on this day
January 21 is remembered as the day the first commercial Concorde flight took off from London and Paris Airports ...
Boom Supersonic breaks sound barrier paving way for 3.5 hour London to New York flights
A 'new Concorde' has broken the sound barrier - the Boom XB-1 test plane was launched from California's Mojave Air and Space ...
What we know about the American Airlines plane and Army helicopter crash over D.C.'s Potomac River
A regional jet carrying 64 people collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter. Reagan National Airport grounded all flights.
London to New York in 3.5 hours: How Boom Supersonic is learning from Concorde’s mistakes
More than two decades after Europe’s failed attempt at a supersonic airliner, the USA is on track to make it work. View on ...
Independently funded jet’s sound barrier mark revives talk of commercial supersonic travel
An aircraft developed by Boom Supersonic has become the first independently funded jet to break the sound barrier.
Last major commercial airliner plane crash before D.C. tragedy departed from Newark
The grim event recalls the last time a major airline crash occurred, when Flight 3407 departed from New Jersey nearly 16 years ago.
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The company planning a successor to Concorde makes its first supersonic test
In 2000, a Concorde was involved in a fiery crash shortly after takeoff from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport that killed all 100 passengers and nine crew aboard France Air Flight 4590. The ...
Daily Mail1mon
Concorde in 'last ever' flight home
The date for the last ever Concorde flight has been announced by British Airways. The Concorde will take off from Heathrow, fly over the Bay of Biscay and land in the supersonic jet's birthplace ...
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US supersonic aircraft nearly breaks sound barrier in test flight over Mojave Desert
The last Concorde flew over 20 ... afterburner for the first time. The flight path that the Black Hawk helicopter involved in the American Airlines crash was flying isn't complicated, US Army ...
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Boom XB-1 test flight – ‘new concorde’ prototype jet smashes through sound barrier
Boom's XB-1 jet breaks the sound barrier, bringing supersonic passenger travel closer to reality. Find out more about this ...