The Tu-144's small retractable canard foreplanes, which were installed after 1971, are the most noticeable external ...
After the Space Race there was the supersonic race, as three countries vied to build the first passenger supersonic airliner ...
Just over two decades have passed since Concorde exited the UK passenger market and no plane has ever topped one important ...
French Transport Minister Jean-Claude Gayssot has said he is convinced that Concorde flights will resume -- despite the supersonic jet being grounded following the disaster near Paris two months ago.
Lockheed Martin is constructing the X-59 prototype for NASA in California and is planning to operate test flights of the ...
The supersonic Concorde jet makes its last commercial passenger flight, traveling at twice the speed of sound from New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport to London’s Heathrow Airport ...
Supersonic jet the Concorde first took off in 1969, then started offering incredibly fast commercial flights from 1979. The ...