Every aspect of its design was focused on performance, making it one of the most recognizable aircraft in history. Flying on Concorde was an exclusive and luxurious experience. In the 1990s and ...

During takeoff and landing, Concorde flew at a steep angle, with its front end tilted skyward and its tail pointing down. If a conventional plane were in this position, its nose would block the ...

Concorde enabled passenger air travel faster than the speed of sound. Comments are closed for this object What's this? Most of the content on A History of the World is created by the contributors ...

with the loss of Concorde, it feels as if we’ve gone backwards. The crash in Paris, in 2000, had a major part to play. ‘British Airways understood very well that, if there was ever an accident, it ...

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French president Jacques Chirac was almost killed in the Concorde crash in Paris in July 2000, a new book claims. On that day, the burning Air France Concorde passed within seven yards of an Air ...

There were 57 instances of Concorde planes suffering burst or punctured tyres before last July's Air France crash, according to an interim report by accident investigators. Of these incidents ...

Here, we map the history of flight from its beginnings and ... From the Boeing 707 to Concorde, the second half of the 20th century witnessed great change in the accessibility of air travel ...

Examines the bittersweet destiny of the Concorde, one of the only commercial aircraft in history to break the sound barrier, through interviews with former pilots, engineers, archival materials ...