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 ...

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Only two projects made their way to large-scale production and commercial use - the Soviet Tu-144 and the French-British Concorde. Russian Tsar’s daughter might have escaped 1918 execution ...

Alongside the Concorde, passenger flights were also served by its eastern competitor, sometimes called the "Konkordski," the Russian Tu-144 ... for take-off and landing tests.

A private company aiming to build the first supersonic airliner since the Concorde retired more than two decades ago ...