The graceful, white aircraft dropped through the rain clouds, flirted with the runway below, then blasted back up, noisily tearing a hole in the sky and disappearing into the low, gray mist. It ...

Concorde’s Mach-2 eclipse chase (30 June 1973) set the airborne totality record of 74 minutes and cemented its legacy as a ...

China has gone up against the US in an aerospace race as its state-owned aircraft manufacturer unveils blueprints for a new supersonic jet that can fly further and more quietly than Concorde. The ...

But the sleek beak-nosed British-French Concorde jets that cut travel time between and London and New York to less than four hours only twice visited Australia. Operational costs, refuelling stops ...

Forty years ago, the Concorde broke the sound barrier for first time. Oct. 1, 2009— -- Bullets. Artillery. Horse whips. For a time, they all could do something humans only dreamed of: travel ...