As the first and only supersonic commercial jetliner, Concorde was popular with royals, celebrities, and business executives.

Duffey helped mastermind the first Concorde training scheme, and flew the aircraft until he retired in 1980. Also there at the beginning was pilot Jock Lowe, who shares a birthday with Concorde — he ...

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 ...

The Concorde was once the ultimate symbol of speed, prestige, and futuristic air travel, cutting flight times in a way no ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The closest I’ve ever been to being on a supersonic flight was looking at the Concorde on static display at the Intrepid Museum in ...

The former chief pilot of the British Airways Concorde fleet has predicted the world will have to wait another quarter-century before passenger planes break the sound barrier again. Captain Jock Lowe ...

Rory Sutherland explores our obsession with speed through the prism of Concorde.

With its deep-rooted influence in the history of aviation, the Navitimer has links to some of the most legendary planes ever ...

The closest I’ve ever been to being on a supersonic flight was looking at the Concorde on static display at the Intrepid Museum in New York. But, for an entire generation of travelers and aviators, ...

(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 from London’s ...

Concorde’s final flight was, for Tye, a “a very, very sad, emotional day.” “It was a very emotional period, a lot of tears were shed,” echoes Westray, recalling an “emotional farewell” from air ...