A number of factors led to the Concorde ceasing all operations in 2003, including a fatal crash that killed 113 people in 2000 Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty The Concorde was the ...

It would make a great Jeopardy question — what was the first airliner in the world to reach supersonic speeds? Many people would likely answer the Concorde, the distinctive and sleek supersonic ...

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).

Of all the commercial aircraft that have been in operation since the beginning days of flight technology, the Concorde stands alone as the fastest and longest-serving supersonic airliner. The aircraft ...

Two decades after Concorde’s last flight a new class of supersonic commercial jets are on the horizon. Boom Supersonic's experimental XB-1 jet (shown in a Schlieren photograph) has flown at supersonic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Those who took the controls of Concorde say it was like no other airplane. Pilots tell CNN Travel the secrets of flying the ...

The Concorde once cut flight times between London and New York to around three hours from eight and a half hours, but high costs and limited routes led to the plane's retirement in 2003. The Concorde ...

Commercial airline travel just isn’t what it used to be, to put it gently. October 24, 2003, marks the end of the last golden age of public aeronautical travel. On that day, the Concorde was retired, ...

Operating other aircraft, you’d rarely fly with the same team, but with Concorde, there were always familiar faces in the crew, says Tye. “There were only ever 134 BA Concorde pilots the whole time ...