It took off with a bang. Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 jet broke the sound barrier for the first time on Monday as the American ...

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 ...

The Civil Aviation Authority and its French equivalent the DGAC made a joint decision to allow the plane to return to the skies more than a year after an Air France Concorde crashed near Paris ...

The first UK-built Concorde flew from Filton, near Bristol, to Bahrain in 1969, entering regular service with Air France and British Airways in 1976 for flights to New York and Washington DC.

Several reasons led to the decision to retire Concorde. Air France and British Airways cited low passenger numbers and high maintenance costs. By the early noughties, the planes were outdated ...

A US company's prototype jet has broken the sound barrier in a demonstration it hopes will pave the way for a successor to the Concorde. Boom Supersonic's XB-1 is the first civilian aircraft to ...