But Concorde's long, pointed nose had a hinge. As the plane took off, landed, and taxied, the pilots tilted its nose forward so that they could see the runway. For supersonic flight, the nose was ...

This is Reg Turnill in Toulouse, and right in front of me Concorde is winding up her engines at the start of the runway, a magnificent sight with her beaky-nose drooped, all ready to go.

This means that Boom's vision for a far wider range of destinations is a lot more possible. Potential routes include San ...

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 ...

The date for the last ever Concorde flight has been announced by British Airways. The Concorde will take off from Heathrow, fly over the Bay of Biscay and land in the supersonic jet's birthplace ...

But Boom’s test flight in January “proved that we could do something Concorde never did,” Scholl says: “to fly supersonic with no audible boom.” This means in addition to flying us from ...

On November 26, 2003, Concorde took off for the last time. After revolutionising air travel for nearly 30 years, spiralling costs and a fatal crash in the year 2000 forced the aircraft to retire.