When I say American Concorde, you think of the Boeing 2707. But another design almost won the government contract, the Lockheed L-2000. It was cheaper and easier to build and had it been put into ...

Aerospace Bristol welcomed 109,000 visitors in 2023/24 – an increase of 40% compared to the previous year. The figures were revealed in the museum’s first impact report, which is available to ...

CHALK are one of the best acts around at the moment and is the three-piece project of Irish filmmakers and award-winning musicians Ross Cullen, Benedict Goddard, and Luke Niblock. The trio sprung out ...

The American-built civil supersonic jet is made from carbon fibre, and unlike Concorde’s droop nose, pilots use an “augmented reality vision system” to see past its long nose for takeoff and ...

While the prospect of commercial supersonic flights is probably at least a decade from becoming a reality due to Boom Supersonic's extremely slow development process, there is a strong likelihood that ...

In the case of Pan Am and the Aérospatiale/BAC Concorde SST, the hooning took place at nearly three times the speed of sound. And yet, it was seemingly all for nothing in the end. This is the ...

There were 57 instances of Concorde planes suffering burst or punctured tyres before last July's Air France crash, according to an interim report by accident investigators. Of these incidents ...

The XB-1 has been dubbed the “Son of Concorde,” referencing the supersonic plane that could fly from London to New York in under three hours before it was retired in 2003. The Concorde was ...

It’s now almost 55 years since the 002 prototype for Concorde first flew at Mach 1 on March 25, 1970, and more than 21 years since commercial supersonic travel ended with the Anglo-French ...