The Concorde was called many things in its lifetime: sleek, sexy, supersonically sublime. Ricky Bastin: It was the speed. It was the grace. It was the pace. A magnificent flying machine that ...

The Concorde bowed out Friday with a spectacular triple-landing finale, closing an era of supersonic passenger travel and leaving the skies to the slower, cheaper jets that proved to be the future ...

WASHINGTON, June 12 (UPI) -- An aviation era ended Thursday when the Air France Concorde made its last transatlantic journey, touching down at Dulles International Airport. The historic three-hour ...

From 1976 to 2003, the Concorde was the world’s most expensive high-tech form of air travel: $1,500 for a round trip the first year and $12,000 by the last. Jet-setters — who included Princess ...

The Concorde competition Boeing isn't the only company working on a supersonic jet. Lockheed Martin ( LMT 1.65% ) is also working with NASA to overcome barriers to a supersonic commercial jet, and ...

On Sept. 27, 1986, an estimated 50,000 people watch the Concorde land in Syracuse ... The Carrier employee turned down a fishing trip to ... The Concorde could attain top speeds of 1,350 ...

Concorde at 50: How supersonic passenger jet with 1,350mph top speed and iconic nose-cone made the world a smaller place... before devastating air-crash that killed 113 chimed its death knell ...

The Concorde was the only supersonic jet that flew commercially, boasting a top speed of 1,354mph - one of the jets was housed in a New York museum after the flights were retired.