Despite the Concorde being discontinued well over two decades ago, it remained ahead of its time and became a much-discussed aircraft among aviation enthusiasts and the general public. Its popularity ...
The sleek needle nose of a supersonic Concorde jet was sold to an anonymous buyer for nearly $554,000 at a Paris auction, 30 times the price it had been expected to fetch, Christie’s auction house ...
The Runway Visitor Park (RVR) at Manchester Airport houses Concorde G-BOAC, a flagship British Airways plane, offering various tours including access to the cockpit and a unique nose-drop ...
This is part of a special series where NPR looks back at our coverage of major news stories in the past. Listen to the full audio story to hear NPR's archival audio. There was a time when you could ...
Volunteers have restored a Concorde enabling its nose cone to "droop" for the first time in 37 years. The aircraft is housed at Imperial War Museum Duxford, in Cambridgeshire. Its electrical and ...