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BA and Air France both operated one more Concorde than they had intended due to aircraft being built for other customers, but not delivered.
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 ...
Comparing the Boom Overture to Concorde and its commercial viability.
In 1956, the Supersonic Transport Aircraft Committee was established with the aim of investigating the feasibility of SSTs.
(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 ...