When a plane like the Concorde Jet is ahead of its time and doesn't ultimately last, it's more than simply a defunct project, it's a failed promise of the future, of what could have been. There was ...

Concorde is a legendary airline, made famous for its super-fast jets and glamorous experience while in the air. Here's what ...

The iconic British Airways Concorde G-BOAD supersonic jet will return to NYC’s Intrepid Museum after it spent months being restored at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The Concorde, which holds the record for ...

Operating other aircraft, you’d rarely fly with the same team, but with Concorde, there were always familiar faces in the crew, says Tye. “There were only ever 134 BA Concorde pilots the whole time ...

This is part of a special series where NPR looks back at our coverage of major news stories in the past. Listen to the full audio story to hear NPR's archival audio. There was a time when you could ...

After a months-long restoration at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, one of the fastest commercial jets in the world returned home to the Intrepid Museum via one of the slowest methods of transport, tugboat.

They simulated flight conditions at Mach 5, which is roughly five times the speed of sound and far faster than the iconic ...

Minus 60 Temperature in Celsius of the outside air at Concorde’s highest altitude, 60,000 feet 1 Number of female pilots and flight engineers employed on British Airways’ Concorde operations; the ...