Concorde's nose could heat to 260°F ... look was a by-product of the laws of physics rather than a target of the design team. Technology enabling planes to "fly themselves," automatically ...

but it did introduce an interesting design quirk. Because of the aircraft's body shape, Concorde jets needed to land with their nose angled higher into the air than a traditional commercial airliner.

Comac engineers have detailed in a recent academic paper the design of the airliner capable of flying farther and more quietly than the retired Concorde ... needle-like nose extension splits ...

Parts of the engines and nose cone were made in Scotland. After an air crash at Paris in 2000, economic factors led to Concorde's retirement in 2003 when the Concorde G-BOAA, which was the first ...