A former Concorde pilot who drove the plane to the edge of space has shared his "phenomenal" memories on the aircraft's anniversary. John Tye, 67, who flew the plane from 1998 to 2000, will be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The closest I’ve ever been to being on a supersonic flight was looking at the Concorde on static display at the Intrepid Museum in ...

The rebirth of commercial supersonic flight has kind of, sort of come to pass as Dawn Aerospace announces that its 16-ft (4.8-m) Mk-II Aurora rocket-powered aircraft broke the sound barrier with a ...

Supersonic passenger air travel is a thing of the past, but you can still tour the plane that made it possible. In 1962, the governments of Britain and France signed the Anglo-French Agreement, ...

Aided by a quartet of Rolls-Royce Olympus 593 engines, the Concorde, the world's only commercially successful supersonic passenger plane, was capable of flying at speeds up to 1,354 mph (2,179 kph).

As 25 July marks the 20th anniversary of Concorde’s fatal crash, we look back on the highlights – and lowlights – of the famed supersonic jet. 5 November 1956 The Supersonic Transport Aircraft ...

A private company aiming to build the first supersonic airliner since the Concorde retired more than two decades ago achieved its first sound-barrier-busting flight over California's Mojave desert on ...

A "son of Concorde" that could fly from London to New York in under four hours has passed a milestone test. NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft flew with its "wheels-up" for the first time ...