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

For nearly three decades, the Concorde revved up air travel by flying passengers at more than twice the speed of sound. After making its first scheduled supersonic flight in 1976, the Concorde held ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The main reason that no picture was taken of the Concorde at Mach 2 was that it would have likely required another jet, also going at Mach 2, and that was apparently ...

Supersonic flight is a form of travel that is neither accessible today nor viewed as particularly glamorous. Ever since Concorde was retired from service in 2003, all commercial flights have flown ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Concorde, the first and only supersonic commercial jetliner, operated from 1976 to 2003. Flown by royals, celebrities, and ...

You're currently following this author! Click to unsubscribe from email alerts. Commercial flights faster than the speed of sound are one of the few historic innovations that have fallen out of favor, ...

After its final flight across the Atlantic, in June 2003, Air France Concorde F-BVFA lands at Washington Dulles International. The airplane is on view today at the National Air and Space Museum’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I remember somebody shouting: "There it is, there's the aircraft!" I was so excited just to see it, I took a picture straight away ...

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 ...

Concorde was the most glamorous airliner the world has seen. But what was it like to fly? Jack Stewart delves inside the Science in Action archive to find out. It was the ultimate airliner. From 1976 ...

Supersonic passenger air travel is a thing of the past, but you can still tour the plane that made it possible. In 1962, the governments of Britain and France signed the Anglo-French Agreement, ...