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The author and the two Concordes in Paris's Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace.Pete Syme/BI Commercial flights faster than the speed of sound are one of the few historic innovations that have fallen out of ...

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 ...

(CNN) — On January 21, 1976 a teenage John Tye was among crowds of onlookers clinging to a chain link fence, cheering as the first commercial British Airways Concorde flight departed from London’s ...

A museum is celebrating 50 years since the prototype airliner Concorde 002 made its final flight and became one of their most popular permanent exhibits. The aircraft is on show a ...

With no aviation experience, I tried my hand at piloting two iconic aircraft, and even got to fly a Jet Ranger Helicopter ...

Concorde’s final flight was, for Tye, a “a very, very sad, emotional day.” “It was a very emotional period, a lot of tears were shed,” echoes Westray, recalling an “emotional farewell” from air ...