Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Those who took the controls of Concorde say it was like no other airplane. Pilots tell CNN Travel the secrets of flying the ...

The author and the two Concordes in Paris's Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace.Pete Syme/BI Commercial flights faster than the speed of sound are one of the few historic innovations that have fallen out of ...

Concorde is fondly remembered as a symbol of international co-operation. But back in the 1960s, its top-secret designs became part of the Cold War race to see who could be the first to build a ...

NASA and Lockheed Martin’s X-59 Quiet Supersonic Technology aircraft has flown, aiming to prove supersonic travel without the ...

Kingston University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. An experimental supersonic aircraft called the X-59 took to the skies for the first time in October. The plane lifted off from ...

The first commercial Concorde flights took off on January 21, 1976. Two Concordes, each operated by one of the partner ...

The intrepid human spirit has constantly pushed the boundaries of how fast we can go. From 100-yard dashes and marathons to the land speed records set on various vehicles, the pursuit of speed has ...

(CNN) — On January 21, 1976 a teenage John Tye was among crowds of onlookers clinging to a chain link fence, cheering as the first commercial British Airways Concorde flight departed from London’s ...