"hear about its history and peer into its sophisticated flight deck." The museum also renovating a section of Pier 86 adjacent to the Concorde's display area. The British Airways Concorde ...

The fastest ever commercial transatlantic flight was in 1996 when a British Airways Concorde flew from New York JFK to Heathrow in two hours 52 minutes and 59 seconds. It comes as millions of ...

Boom Supersonic confirmed on Monday that the “Son of Concorde” once again flew faster than the speed of sound, marking its second and final supersonic test flight. Boom plans to focus on ...

For every British Airways Concorde that plied the Atlantic from ... could get a head start over the Americans in equipping the airlines of the 1970s. The aircraft that emerged had the familiar ...

The Concorde, one of a fleet of seven once owned by British-Airways, departed the Brooklyn Navy Yard following a months-long restoration project at the GMD Shipyard en route to the Weeks Marine in ...

But Concorde's long, pointed nose had a hinge. As the plane took off, landed, and taxied, the pilots tilted its nose forward so that they could see the runway. For supersonic flight, the nose was ...

A British Airways Concorde jet was transported across the Hudson River and back to the Intrepid Museum in New York after undergoing a seven-month restoration. The aircraft was known for its ...

Air France and British Airways announced they would be retiring their fleet of Concorde planes on April 10, 2003. The plane had its first commercial flight on January 21, 1976, so was ...

The jet that could fly at twice the speed of sound made its final commercial flight from Manchester on 22 October 2003. A week later the flagship aircraft in British Airways' Concorde fleet ...

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 ...