Air France's streamlined white Concorde swooped into a Paris airport on its final commercial flight home, an emotional end to years of supersonic travel between New York and Paris. The plane ...

Since the plane had a high angle of attack during takeoff and landing, the nose pivoted down five degrees for takeoff and 12.5 degrees for landing to enable the pilots to see the runway. Concorde ...

And people called us crazy for doing that ... retirement of the world’s first supersonic commercial passenger plane, the Concorde, in 2003. High fuel costs and loud engines made that aircraft ...

During takeoff and landing, Concorde flew at a steep angle, with its front end tilted skyward and its tail pointing down. If a conventional plane were in this position, its nose would block the ...

But its flagship aircraft, the Overture ... the international stage after it crashed at the Paris Air Show in 1973. Concorde went on to fly executives, celebrities, and even royalty from New ...

The Anglo-French plane took off from Toulouse and was in the air for just 27 minutes before the pilot made the decision to land. Concorde’s first commercial flights took place in 1976 between ...

The plane had its first commercial flight on January 21, 1976, so was retired after 27 years of service and 50,000 flights. Several reasons led to the decision to retire Concorde. Air France and ...

It’s now the first piloted non-military aircraft to break the sound barrier since the Concorde was retired from service in 2003. It’s the first step in Boom’s ambitious goal to have ...