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By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Concorde flight engineer Warren Hazelby gets chills recalling his first supersonic flight from London to New York in 2002. Hazelby remembers stepping onto the ...
When I say American Concorde, you think of the Boeing 2707. But another design almost won the government contract, the Lockheed L-2000. It was cheaper and easier to build and had it been put into ...
What caused the Concorde Air France crash? 25 years on from the tragedy that set supersonic travel back decades - Exclusive: ‘To see such a beauty fail so catastrophically was hard to comprehend’ – ...
Francesca Street, 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 ...
Boom: America’s answer to Concorde completes its first supersonic flight. By CNN Newsource. Published January 28, 2025 7:34 AM January 28, 2025 ...
Concorde crossed the Atlantic at twice the speed of sound, cutting travel time in half compared to a conventional passenger plane. The groundbreaking jet made its final flight on Nov. 26, 2003.
NEW YORK (AP) — The retired Concorde jet that belongs to New York’s Intrepid Museum will return to its home on a west side pier after a seven-month restoration. Museum officials say the ...
United Airlines has announced it will purchase up to 50 Boom Overture supersonic jets for commercial use by 2029, heralding the return of supersonic ...
(CNN) — Concorde flight engineer Warren Hazelby gets chills recalling his first supersonic flight from London to New York in 2002. Hazelby remembers stepping onto the flight deck and taking it ...
The Concorde’s supersonic status also afforded pilots a vantage point like no other. “By the time you’re at 60,000 feet, you could see a quarter of a million square miles,” says Lowe.
Boom, the American company building what promises to be the world’s fastest airliner, broke the sound barrier for its first time with a test flight in Mojave, California.. The company’s XB-1 ...