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 ...

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 ...

The Russian-built Tupolev Tu-144 was the first supersonic passenger plane ever to fly, but it had some built-in flaws. Bigger, heavier, and less technologically advanced than Concorde, its ...

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.

Five years before Concorde’s first flight ... However, the downing of an American U-2 spy plane over the Soviet Union in 1960 caused a shift from manned bombers to ballistic missiles, and ...

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 ...