The Tu-144's small retractable canard foreplanes, which were installed after 1971, are the most noticeable external ...
After the Space Race there was the supersonic race, as three countries vied to build the first passenger supersonic airliner ...
French Transport Minister Jean-Claude Gayssot has said he is convinced that Concorde flights will resume -- despite the supersonic jet being grounded following the disaster near Paris two months ago.
Supersonic jet the Concorde first took off in 1969, then started offering incredibly fast commercial flights from 1979. The ...
Concorde was grounded and finally retired in 2003, and in June 2025 the United States cleared a piece of legislation which ...
In June 2025, the United States passed legislation that lifted the decades-old ban on supersonic travel over land. This would ...