The first commercial Concorde flights took off on January 21, 1976. Two Concordes, each operated by one of the partner airlines that funded and developed the supersonic technology, departed ...

The Concorde program was the world's first supersonic airliner, undertaken in a joint development and manufacturing effort by Sud Aviation and the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC). Concorde took its ...

As the first and only supersonic commercial jetliner, Concorde was popular with royals, celebrities, and business executives.

Concorde was not just another airliner. It flew at the speed of sound, crossed the Atlantic in under three and a half hours, and cruised at altitudes so high that some passengers reported seeing the ...