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 ...

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 New York. But, for an entire generation of travelers and aviators, ...

In 1976, the president of United Airlines made a number of predictions about what air travel would look like in 50 years—the ...

It has been over two decades since the operations of commercial supersonic services ceased due to Concorde's withdrawal. However, it appears that commercial supersonic flights are returning amid Boom ...

Supersonic flight is a form of travel that is neither accessible today nor viewed as particularly glamorous. Ever since Concorde was retired from service in 2003, all commercial flights have flown ...

I’ll go and fly Concorde — not really realizing what was involved,’” Lowe tells CNN Travel. Like Duffey, Lowe was one of the first British Airways pilots to test out supersonic flying at RAF Fairford, ...

(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 ...