It was a structural necessity driven by the demands of supersonic flight.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Concorde, the first and only supersonic commercial jetliner, operated from 1976 to 2003. Flown by royals, celebrities, and ...

Concorde flight engineer Warren Hazelby gets chills recalling his first supersonic flight from London to New York in 2002. Hazelby remembers stepping onto the flight deck and taking it all in. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Those who took the controls of Concorde say it was like no other airplane. Pilots tell CNN Travel the secrets of flying the ...

Once the Concorde was in the air, it would climb fast, “at 100 knots faster than an ordinary subsonic jet,” as former Concorde First Officer Tony Yule explains. “You would probably climb somewhere ...