In the mid-1950s, the U.S. military realized it needed a better platform to track Soviet military ... to see the runway. Concorde was also the first commercial aircraft to use "fly-by-wire ...
A full-size replica of the front a Concorde aircraft is just one of the items up for auction after the closure of a theme ...
This was absolutely unheard of for a passenger aircraft. One Concorde contemporary model, the Vickers VC10 ... uncertainty following the loss of the Soviet Union's supersonic Tu-114 in 1973 ...
The Soviet-built Tupolev Tu-144 was the first one to conduct test flights in 1968. Engineers in the US also tried to develop a supersonic plane ... Air Show in 1973. Concorde went on to fly ...
The USSR started developing such an aircraft in the early 1960s. Only two projects made their way to large-scale production and commercial use - the Soviet Tu-144 and the French-British Concorde.
Donald Trump was all smiles while showing off a sleek model of Boom Technology's supersonic airliner, Overture ...