The Aerospatiale/BAC Concorde supersonic passenger transport jet hasn't flown since November 2003. To think mankind could fly from London to New York in roughly three hours 20 years ago, yet people ...

One of the defining features of Concorde is its long and pointed nose, which also droops. This article explores why Anglo-French engineers designed the aircraft with that nose and how emerging ...

The progress of technology can seem inexorable—a kind of unstoppable lunge. It’s curious, then, to consider the trajectory of Concorde, the first (and last) supersonic passenger airplane. Americans ...

Everyone thinks they know Concorde. The champagne… the glamour… the mach numbers…the delta wing and droop-snoot… and Phil Collins doing two concerts in one day for Live Aid. Concorde was an instantly ...

This is an edited version of an article published in Flight International in August 1971 A prominent feature of Concorde at take-off and landing is the pendulous nose of the fuselage drooped (at a ...