Concorde

The Soviet’s had a supersonic airliner that was faster than Concorde…but there was a catch

Everyone knows about Concorde, the world’s only successful supersonic airliner – but did you know the Soviet Union also had its own version, called the Tu-144? Yup, thanks to spies, espionage, and a push to beat the West, the Soviets built their version of Concorde, the Tupolev Tu-144. Dubbed Konkordski by those outside the USSR, […]

Retro footage shows Concorde touching down at tiny British airport in 1999 with a beautiful landing

Sensational footage on YouTube shows a Concorde supersonic airliner landing at Leeds Bradford Airport in the UK back in 1999. Concorde, capable of traveling faster than the speed of sound, first took flight in 1969 and entered commercial service in 1976 before being retired in 2003. The 1999 footage shows an excited crowd watching the […]

In the 1960s Oklahoma City was tortured with jet sonic booms in an attempt to prove something

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 prototype recently broke the sound barrier and did so without creating an audible sonic boom on the ground. The upcoming ‘son of Concorde’ airliner could become the aircraft that overturns a long-standing Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ban. The ban, stretching back to 1973, prohibits supersonic flights over land due to noise concerns. […]

Incredible close-up footage of Concorde landing is the closest most people will ever come to seeing it

Given that the once-majestic aircraft are all supposed to be ‘grounded’, this incredible footage of a Concorde landing might be the closest you’ll ever get to seeing it in action. The supersonic jets were first commercialized back in the late 60s but have since been pulled out of the air. But one of these twenty […]

Unparalleled footage from 2003 shows exactly what it was like to fly on Concorde as a passenger

There was no experience like it

Chinese scientists have tested a potentially revolutionary hypersonic jumbo jet that’d fly from New York to London in 45 minutes

Are we ready to fly supersonic again?

‘Son of Concorde’ jet capable of flying from London to New York in 3.5 hours achieves major milestone smashing high-speed test

Supersonic flights are almost here

China tests commercial supersonic prototype plane at twice the speed of Concorde

They say the first test flights might take off next year

Andy Warhol was so obsessed with the strangest thing onboard Concorde that he’d fly just to steal it

He pushed others to steal it

Flight engineer revealed what it was actually like to operate Concorde

It’s a unique POV that most of us can only imagine

Footage shows when Concorde was forced into dramatic go-around as A340 blocks runway

What a machine this was

Man holds the record for most-traveled Concorde passenger with a storied history

An unbeatable record

This is how much it cost to fly on Concorde back in the 1970s

The supersonic flights didn’t come cheap

Chief Concorde pilot flies next-gen supersonic aircraft

Spoiler alert: he loved it

First images of Boom Supersonic Overture cockpit show how different it is from Concorde’s

Supersonic flight has come along way

Two Concordes once landed simultaneously at Orlando in spectacular parallel landing

Not something you see every day