Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With the promise of supersonic business jets about five years away, yesterday marked the 20th anniversary of the last Concorde ...

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 Heathrow ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Concorde, the first and only supersonic commercial jetliner, operated from 1976 to 2003. Flown by royals, celebrities, and ...

When a plane like the Concorde Jet is ahead of its time and doesn't ultimately last, it's more than simply a defunct project, it's a failed promise of the future, of what could have been. There was ...

Commercial aviation used to get faster, but Concorde was retired in 2003, and the world’s passenger planes quietly slowed down. Now NASA is trying to change that. Here’s Everything We Know About ...

The iconic British Airways Concorde G-BOAD supersonic jet will return to NYC’s Intrepid Museum after it spent months being restored at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The Concorde, which holds the record for ...

This is part of a special series where NPR looks back at our coverage of major news stories in the past. Listen to the full audio story to hear NPR's archival audio. There was a time when you could ...

Aerion, the supersonic jet company has shut down completely. Now there's only real one contender, maybe apart from Spike Aerospace who are building their version to become the next private jet or ...

After a months-long restoration at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, one of the fastest commercial jets in the world returned home to the Intrepid Museum via one of the slowest methods of transport, tugboat.

The famed British Airways Concorde from the Intrepid Museum made its way along the Hudson River Thursday, returning to its home after a months-long restoration in Brooklyn. The Concorde was removed by ...

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, ...