The Concorde was the world's longest-serving supersonic airliner. It could cross the Atlantic in record time. Learn why this ...

Days That Shocked The World looks back on an incident in 2000 when a Concorde crashed in France. Concorde went into service on the 21st January 1976, hurtling along at more than twice the speed of ...

The Soviet Tu-144 flew before Concorde and became the first passenger aircraft to exceed twice the speed of sound. During the 1973 Paris Air Show, its crew performed an aggressive display before the ...

NASA's Quesst mission looks to develop a supersonic aircraft that could one day transform commercial air travel in the United ...

A ban on continental supersonic flight has been in place since the 1970s, to ensure nobody endures the noisy sonic booms left in their wake. Aeronautic engineering has come a long way since then, ...

When Concorde entered service in 1976, it transformed long-distance travel. Cruising at more than twice the speed of sound, the aircraft could connect London and New York in under three-and-a-half ...

A Concorde jet is moved into New York’s Intrepid Museum in 2023. (Mary Altaffer/AP) Imagine flying commercial between the West and East coasts in under three hours. It won’t happen anytime soon, but ...

Editor’s Note: To watch a video version of this article, click here. For 53 years, one federal regulation has stood between ...

The crash in 1952 killed 52 people and led to requirements for the passenger safety briefings given on every commercial flight.

An aviation search team has found the wreckage of a plane that crashed in the Atlantic Ocean more than seven decades ago, the ...

British-French supersonic jet Concorde flew so close to the edge of space that it had to carry a special radiation meter to ...

Search teams found the wreckage of a Pan Am plane that crashed off Puerto Rico in 1952, resting 2,000 feet deep.