The Concorde crash is a rare chain of events that began with runway debris: a titanium strip was struck during takeoff, a ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Concorde, the first and only supersonic commercial jetliner, operated from 1976 to 2003. Flown by royals, celebrities, and ...

Since Concorde is very pitch sensitive and flying on the back of the drag curve at lower speeds, where her minimum drag speed (VMD) at maximum takeoff weight exceeds VMO, the airplane's designers ...

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, ...