The upgrades featured new leather seats, larger overhead bins, new leather covers on the bulkheads, improved galleys and toilets, and new passenger and cabin lighting. These 2000/2050 Series Double ...

Concorde flew at the cruising speed of Mach 2, twice the speed of sound, where even small increases in drag would have had a significant impact on fuel burn and range. A wider cross-section would have ...

As expected, the Concorde program was very costly. In March 1971, The New York Times reported that work on the aircraft as a whole had already passed the value of $2 billion, over four times the ...

Flight engineers were crucial to the operation. And on top of that, Concorde was a “dynamic” aircraft, as Hazelby puts it, operating unlike any other commercial plane.

I went on board the first Concorde prototype, and one of the last built, at a Paris museum. Boom's Overture means supersonic ...

The British Airways Concorde supersonic jet made its way back home to the Intrepid Museum on Thursday, March 14, 2024, in New York City. The retired jet, which still holds the record for the fastes… ...

The Concorde was essentially a record-breaking machine. It could achieve speeds of 1,354 mph, otherwise known as Mach 2.04, which is more than twice the speed of sound.

“Concorde was the ultimate aircraft for a flight engineer to work on,” says Hazelby. “When you get everything right, and Concorde performs well, then you get a huge feeling of achievement.