He later flew the de Havilland Comet, the first commerical turbojet engine aircraft, and one of its successors, the de Havilland Comet 4. When Concorde came calling, Duffey was an established British ...

With a booming passenger market, increasing premium demand, and access to modern technology and designs, the Overture will be ...

Supersonic passenger air travel is a thing of the past, but you can still tour the plane that made it possible. In 1962, the governments of Britain and France signed the Anglo-French Agreement, ...

(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 ...

Tye reckons it’s “something that could definitely happen again,” but points out engines would need to be quieter and more fuel efficient. “We couldn’t have Concorde engines now, they’re far too noisy ...

Once the Concorde was in the air, it would climb fast, “at 100 knots faster than an ordinary subsonic jet,” as former Concorde First Officer Tony Yule explains. “You would probably climb somewhere ...