A new 50p coin celebrating the speed and elegance of Concorde has been launched by the Royal Mint, marking 50 years since the aircraft’s first commercial flight. The coin was made in partnership with ...

I went on board two Concordes, including the first prototype, at Paris's air and space museum. Concorde, retired in 2003 due to costs and a crash, flew at more than twice the speed of sound. Boom ...

BA and Air France both operated one more Concorde than they had intended due to aircraft being built for other customers, but not delivered.

In 1956, the Supersonic Transport Aircraft Committee was established with the aim of investigating the feasibility of SSTs.

Comparing the Boom Overture to Concorde and its commercial viability.

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).

1 Number of female pilots and flight engineers employed on British Airways’ Concorde operations; the corresponding number for men is 171. Barbara Harmer had an interesting career as a hairdresser and ...