Celebrate Concorde as the supersonic aircraft turns 50. Explore its origins, prestige clientele and why the famous aircraft ...
31 December 1968 Concorde’s Soviet rival, the Tupolev Tu-144, took off for the first time from a runway to the side of the ...
The new coin ‘honours both the aircraft and the engineers whose genius made supersonic travel a reality’, the Royal Mint said ...
Unveiled at the aircraft's current home, the Aerospace Bristol Museum, the reverse or 'tails' side of the coin portrays the ...
Ahead of the 50th anniversary of Concorde's first commercial flight next week, the Express speaks to its most frequent flyer ...
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).
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 ...