When Concorde reached the Bristol Channel, an inlet to the west of London leading to the North Atlantic, pilots would give passengers a heads up and then the aircraft would break through the sound ...
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 all in. The ...
Almost 22 years after Concorde made its final commercial flights, a prototype passenger jet has broken the sound barrier during a supersonic test flight. Boom Supersonic founder and CEO Blake Scholl ...
What makes the Bombardier Global 8000 the fastest civilian jet since Concorde is a combination of design, certification, and ...
As Sud-Aviation's chief test pilot, André Turcat flew Concorde on its first flight on 2 March 1969, and headed the French side of the flight test programme. He retired at 55 as flight test director of ...
A former Concorde engineer speaks to the BBC about discovering he worked alongside a Russian spy at the height of the Cold ...
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 Heathrow ...
“Everybody’s heard of pilots. No one’s ever heard of a flight engineer,” says Hazelby, who also worked on Lockheed Tristar L1011s prior to his stint on Concorde. “And even people who’ve heard of a ...