Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A British Airways Concorde taking off at Heathrow airport in 2001 There were many adjectives, superlatives and descriptions thrown ...

Supersonic passenger air travel is a thing of the past, but you can still tour the plane that made it possible. In 1962, the governments of Britain and France signed the Anglo-French Agreement, ...

The first commercial Concorde flights took off on January 21, 1976. Two Concordes, each operated by one of the partner airlines that funded and developed the supersonic technology, departed ...