All news on the topic: Concorde

An iconic Concorde jet engine is being sold on online auction site eBay by a plane fan in Hampshire, but it cannot be used on an aircraft and is for display only

Other milestone moments include the first flight of a commercial jet airliner in 1958, and the opening of the Channel Tunnel, in 1994

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft aims to fly from London to New York in less than two hours and will be almost twice as fast as Concorde, which had a maximum cruising speed of 2,179 km (1,354 miles) per hour

An 11 foot model of the iconic supersonic plane Concorde is set to take to the skies above Somerset on November 25, to mark the final ever flight of the supersonic aircraft

An American Airlines plane flew at 778mph this week due to the strength of the jet stream, which pushed trans-Atlantic flights from the US to UK to new highs

After years of development from Sud Aviation (later Aérospatiale) and the British Aircraft Corporation, Concorde took to air for the first time in 1969, only to be grounded for good 34 years later

Boom Supersonic have been given special allowance to test their unconvential new prototype craft, which is expected to run on sustainable bio-fuel, at the Mojave Air & Space Port in California

NASA's new plane will be the fastest passenger aircraft to exist, surpassing the speed of sound. The London to New York journey time will be around half of Concorde's fastest ever flight

A crane hoisted the supersonic jet on to a barge in the Hudson river in New York to take it to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where it will be repainted and returned to museum

The famous plane was heading from Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport to New York and ploughed into a hotel in the small town of Gonesse, just one minute 17 seconds after its pilot was told it was on fire