An iconic and retired supersonic Concorde jet sailed down the river ... It travelled by barge along the Hudson river, with the metropolis’ skyline and a crystal blue sky in the background ...

A Concorde jet has been floated down the Hudson River in New York after months of refurbishments. After the supersonic flights were retired in 2003, one of the 17 jets that flew across the ...

A British Airways Concorde jet was transported across the Hudson River and back to the ... Concorde jets were retired in 2003 and many can be visited at museums and airports.

A private company aiming to build the first supersonic airliner since the Concorde retired more than two decades ago achieved its first sound-barrier-busting flight over California's Mojave desert ...

Today, for the first time since Concorde was retired in 2003, a commercial-type aircraft, the XB-1, flew supersonic, touching just over Mach 1.1 three times during its one-half-hour test flight ...

A US company's prototype jet has broken the sound barrier in a demonstration it hopes will pave the way for a successor to the Concorde ... which was retired in 2003. The XB-1 broke the sound ...