During takeoff and landing, Concorde flew at a steep angle, with its front end tilted skyward and its tail pointing down. If a conventional plane were in this position, its nose would block the ...

The eyes of the world were on Concorde as it darted at supersonic ... and wrestling a heavy trolley packed with food up the aisle of a plane that flew with its nose proudly stuck in the air.

Parts of the engines and nose cone were made in Scotland. After an air crash at Paris in 2000, economic factors led to Concorde's retirement in 2003 when the Concorde G-BOAA, which was the first ...

This is Reg Turnill in Toulouse, and right in front of me Concorde is winding up her engines at the start of the runway, a magnificent sight with her beaky-nose drooped, all ready to go.

Overture also ditches the moveable nose, a staple of the Concorde design ... would hover around $5,000 roundtrip instead of the Concorde's up to $20,000 — and that's with fewer seats onboard ...

Next, we are scaling up the technology on XB-1 for the Overture ... jet is made from carbon fibre, and unlike Concorde’s droop nose, pilots use an “augmented reality vision system” to ...

The eyes of the world were on Concorde as it darted at supersonic speed ... and wrestling a heavy trolley packed with food up the aisle of a plane that flew with its nose proudly stuck in the air. It ...