Concorde

Man finds out what happens if Concorde nose visor failed during flight

The Concorde droop snoot was an iconic piece of aviation design

Why commercial aircraft speeds have stalled despite massive leaps in technology

There’s actually a very good reason for it

The Concorde finally has a successor as the ultra fast Global 8000 enters service

The plane has gone to its new owner

Man tests what actually happens if Concorde loses its wing in flight

Wings are apparently pretty important

Concorde's unforgettable landing in Kenya became a historic moment for aviation fans across Africa

It was a day they’ll never forget…

Pepsi’s $500 million Concorde makeover didn’t last long, but the jet visited a remarkable number of places

It went off on a month-long tour

Man has never seen anything as extraordinary as a Concorde cockpit, especially with an ex-captain there to explain everything

Concorde is one of the most iconic passenger airplanes around, and this guy got a front seat in the cockpit. The jet had the ability to hit the speed of sound and cut travel time across the Atlantic to almost nothing. Sadly, though, the jets were retired at the start of the Noughties, leaving behind […]

British Airways once took four Concordes off-duty just to treat staff to a champagne formation flight

British Airways once took four Concordes off-duty on Christmas Eve to treat its staff to an hour of champagne in the skies. This all happened back in 1985 when the company decided to splurge on a festive treat for its hard-working employees. Across each jet, 65 BA flight deck crew got to live in luxury […]

World's largest RC model is 32ft Concorde which has four jet turbines attached

This RC Concorde is 32-feet long

YouTuber who flew on Concorde in his 'ultimate flight' recounts everything that happened as he went twice the speed of sound

YouTuber Sam Chui once flew on the supersonic Concorde in his ‘ultimate flight’. And he has recounted everything that happened on that day. Concorde, of course, was capable of flying at supersonic speeds. And the YouTuber in question has recalled what happened when he traveled at twice the speed of sound. DISCOVER SBX CARS: The global […]

Larry Ellison, worth over $300,000,000,000, once rented an entire Concorde just to show off his product

Now the richest man on the planet and worth over $300 billion, Larry Ellison once rented an entire Concorde just to flex a new Oracle database and prove that it was faster than any other rival product. Talk about showing off. Even when Oracle was in its adolescent stage, CEO Larry Ellison knew he was […]

Remarkable old footage captures the building of the final Concorde, and it’s like looking into the past

Remarkable old footage capturing the building of the final Concorde has been released. The iconic aircraft was first built in 1969 as a partnership between France and the UK. As a matter of fact, the very name ‘Concorde’ means ‘peace’ or ‘harmony’ in French. The footage, courtesy of the BBC Archive YouTube channel, comes from […]

Jeremy Clarkson had a question for God about Concorde 38,000 feet in the air

He wasn’t wrong 20 years, and he’s still right somehow

Disney once staged a double Concorde landing for EPCOT and the jets almost destroyed the runway

It might be ‘the most magical place on Earth’, but when Disney World, Florida, staged a double Concorde landing for EPCOT, it defied belief. On October 18, 1982, two supersonic Concorde jets from British Airways and Air France touched down almost side by side at Orlando International Airport – almost wrecking the runway in the […]

A Concorde flew so high the US Navy scrambled F-14s to intercept it and it took a veteran pilot's quick thinking to save the day

The supersonic speedster caused quite a stir

This is the real deal-breaker companies are working on to bring back supersonic jets like Concorde

This is a bigger problem than we thought