The supersonic Concorde jet makes its last commercial passenger flight, traveling at twice the speed of sound from New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport to London’s Heathrow Airport ...

Concorde, the first and only supersonic commercial jetliner, operated from 1976 to 2003. Flown by royals, celebrities, and executives, it was discontinued because of high operating costs. A Concorde ...

The Olympus 593 was the soul of Concorde; it was its heartbeat and the force that let it slice through the skies at Mach 2.

If you boil it down to the basic facts, the era of commercial supersonic flight was a European phenomenon. Concorde, its ...

After the Space Race there was the supersonic race, as three countries vied to build the first passenger supersonic airliner ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Ever since the Concorde retired in 2003 after only 27 years of flying, supersonic commercial flights have seemingly been a pipe dream, but new developments in science in technology ...

Aided by a quartet of Rolls-Royce Olympus 593 engines, the Concorde, the world's only commercially successful supersonic passenger plane, was capable of flying at speeds up to 1,354 mph (2,179 kph).