First flight of the BAC-Aerospatiale Concorde became an influential consideration when, just two weeks later, the UK attorney general outlined to the government its chances of cancelling the UK's role ...

For a fleeting 30 years during the 20th century, supersonic commercial air travel was a reality. But on October 24, 2003, that era came to an abrupt end. That day, British Airways operated its last ...

It’s always a kick to consider that within the span of an average human’s life—about 70 years—we went from the Wright Brothers making their first flight in a 12-horsepower wooden glider to supersonic ...

Almost exactly 20 years after the Aerospatiale/BAC Concorde's final revenue flight from New York touched down in London in October 2003, a commercial jet will once again cross the Atlantic at speeds ...

The Aerospatiale/BAC Concorde supersonic passenger transport jet hasn't flown since November 2003. To think mankind could fly from London to New York in roughly three hours 20 years ago, yet people ...

It’s been 13 years since one of Aérospatiale/BAC’s Concorde jets last took to the skies. Plans to bring the Franco-British aviation icon back into service, long in the making, won’t be realized until ...

It should be noted that there is one significant omission from your “composites as a percentage of total aircraft weight” graph (15 July, p 40). Aerospatiale/BAC Concorde was the first commercial ...