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.

In 1962, Britain and France stunned the world by announcing Concorde, the first supersonic passenger airliner. Determined not to fall behind in the Cold War race for technological prestige, President ...

The Tu-144 was the Soviet Union’s attempt to outpace Concorde and prove technological superiority. Built under extreme ...

The Avro Vulcan, a thunderous and charismatic Cold War bomber, is the most well-known British bomber after the wartime Lancaster. Its iconic delta wing tends to overshadow a more advanced ...

It’s just over 50 years since the world’s only supersonic passenger jet launch. By today’s standards it doesn’t seem too luxurious – unless you were a Hobbit.

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 Heathrow ...

The Concorde celebrates 50 years since it appeared on the world aviation scene, but it is a bittersweet 'golden anniversary' ...

Benoist, the Benoist Type XIV first flew from the Florida city of St Petersburg to Tampa in January 1914 and was one of two ...

Sounds strange today, but not so long ago you could fly supersonic, on the iconic Concorde, out of Kent. We speak to the man ...

The MD-11's unique design choices impacted cruise and landing speeds.