It’s now almost 55 years since the 002 prototype for Concorde first flew at Mach 1 on March 25, 1970, and more than 21 years since commercial supersonic travel ended with the Anglo-French airliner’s ...
BOOM It’s now almost 55 years since the 002 prototype for Concorde first flew at Mach ... ended with the Anglo-French airliner’s final flight in November 2003. There have been several ...
This was the first time a civil aircraft had broken the sound barrier in level flight since the final flight of the Aérospatiale/British Aerospace Concorde in 2003. (A test version of a Bombardier ...
The XB-1 demonstrator has broken the speed of sound, hitting Mach 1.1. It is the first civil supersonic aircraft in US history and the first to do so since Concorde was retired in 2003. That was an ...
Former chief Concorde pilot for British Airways, Mike Bannister, said: “I’ve been waiting over 20 years for the return of supersonic speeds, and XB-1’s historic flight is a major landmark ...