Last month, a Virgin Atlantic Boeing 787 Dreamliner hitched a ride on a powerful jet stream and flew from Los Angeles to London in a record-setting nine hours and 13 minutes, hitting 801 miles per ...
The Concorde supersonic airliner looks like it will make a return to the skies thanks to some aviation enthusiasts with very deep pockets. Club Concorde, a group of ex-pilots, airline executives, ...
For 27 years, the Concorde carried passengers across the Atlantic Ocean at twice the speed of sound, on the very edge of space. A flight from New York to London took a mere 3 ½ hours; the supersonic ...
Say goodbye to the days of swilling champagne with the likes of Sting and Donald Trump while flying over the Atlantic at twice the speed of sound. The beautiful supersonic bird that is Concorde will ...
The Concorde fleet operated for over a quarter century, yet just 14 of the awe-inspiring supersonic passenger jets ever flew commercially. When compared to the more than 6,500 Boeing 737s operating ...
There will never be another aircraft quite like Concorde ...
Club Concorde plans on doing just that, with an example stored at Le Bourget airport in Paris at the top of their shopping list. They want to acquire and restore the aircraft, potentially for a sum ...
He sports a navy blue "Brooklands Concorde" flight jacket, a shock of white hair, and a palpable pride for the airplane. As Captain Bannister briefs me on cockpit layout, his flow reflects his more ...
Aided by a quartet of Rolls-Royce Olympus 593 engines, the Concorde, the world's only commercially successful supersonic passenger plane, was capable of flying at speeds up to 1,354 mph (2,179 kph).
Part of a continuing weekly series on Alaska history by local historian David Reamer. Have a question about Anchorage or Alaska history or an idea for a future article? Go to the form at the bottom of ...
While that scale B-52 might be the biggest, it’s far from the only model airplane taking advantage of those tiny jet engines for modelers. This beautiful Concorde model (with working subsonic nose ...
The Concorde jet was one of the crowning achievements in aviation. It was a supersonic passenger jet, meaning that it broke the speed of sound while flying. Your average Boeing 737-800 flying with ...