When Concorde came in to land for the very last time, Labour's Tony Blair was Prime Minister and Westlife's Mandy was at number one in the UK charts. It’s 21 years to the day since the iconic ...
There have been no commercial aircraft even capable of supersonic flight since the Concorde. The aircraft were banned in the UK because they were deemed too noisy and extremely expensive to operate.
Air France's streamlined white Concorde swooped into a Paris airport on its final commercial flight home, an emotional end to years of supersonic travel between New York and Paris. The plane ...
But if all goes to plan, passengers could fly supersonic in 2029. Concorde made its final flight in 2003. Overture would similarly cruise at 60,000 feet, albeit with a slightly smaller capacity of ...