Concorde and Tupolev are acknowledged as some of the first planes to break the sound barrier, but it wasn't them. Which one actually did it first?

BA and Air France both operated one more Concorde than they had intended due to aircraft being built for other customers, but not delivered.

I went on board two Concordes, including the first prototype, at Paris's air and space museum. Concorde, retired in 2003 due to costs and a crash, flew at more than twice the speed of sound. Boom ...

The closest I’ve ever been to being on a supersonic flight was looking at the Concorde on static display at the Intrepid Museum in New York. But, for an entire generation of travelers and aviators, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Peter Archer says the Concorde at Duxford was important for helping the first commercial flight [Dave Webster/BBC] A Concorde test ...

After World War II, as early supersonic military aircraft were pushing the boundaries of flight, it seemed like a foregone conclusion that commercial aircraft would eventually fly faster than sound as ...

There have been no commercial supersonic flights since the Anglo-French Concorde retired from scheduled service more than 20 years ago. But the U.S. space agency NASA is testing an improved supersonic ...

(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 ...