MANCHESTER, England—Concorde is one of the most iconic aircraft in commercial aviation history. It was the only supersonic jet in regular commercial service. Of the 20 aircraft built ...

The XB-1 prototype is part of the development of a hypersonic aircraft called Overture. Concorde's successor is well on the way. Concorde ceased commercial flight in 2003. Since then, no civil ...

An Anglo-French project, Concorde entered service in the mid-1970s and is the world's only supersonic passenger aircraft. British Airways has seven Concorde aircraft, while six flew for Air France.

Mk-II Aurora rocket-powered aircraft broke the sound barrier with a speed of Mach 1.1 on November 12, 2024. Ever since the Anglo-French Concorde retired in 2003, civil supersonic flight has been ...

Aided by a quartet of Rolls-Royce Olympus 593 engines, the Concorde, the world's only commercially successful supersonic passenger plane, was capable of flying at speeds up to 1,354 mph (2,179 kph).

In 2003, British Airways and Air France retired Concorde—history’s only successful supersonic airliner. More than two decades later, a civil aircraft has broken the sound barrier once again.