As the first and only supersonic commercial jetliner, Concorde was popular with royals, celebrities, and business executives.
(CNN) — On January 21, 1976 a teenage John Tye was among crowds of onlookers clinging to a chain link fence, cheering as the first commercial British Airways Concorde flight departed from London’s ...
“Concorde was all first class, so you were treated in a great way,” says Larry Mueller – former boss of IBM Europe and now chief executive of the ultra-high-end travel company Cuvee. “But for me, it ...
The US taxpayer invested $1 billion in a supersonic plane that never took to the skies.
Spike Aerospace’s S-512 was designed as a quieter answer to the problem that helped kill Concorde overland sonic boom. The ...
Operating other aircraft, you’d rarely fly with the same team, but with Concorde, there were always familiar faces in the crew, says Tye. “There were only ever 134 BA Concorde pilots the whole time ...