With new flights poised for JFK, the 1970s war over Concorde landings show the harm in delaying conversations with LI ...

When I say American Concorde, you think of the Boeing 2707. But another design almost won the government contract, the Lockheed L-2000. It was cheaper and easier to build and had it been put into ...

The Concorde SST sits on the runway at New York Kennedy airport on Oct. 19, 1977 after it’s flight from France. The landing was the first in New York for the airplane and came only days after ...

Concorde flying toward JFK Airport in 1977. “Takeoff procedures have to be adapted to the Airport, to the runway and to housing,” said pilot Franchi, of Aerospatiale, the French company that ...

A few weeks ago, the supersonic Concorde reached its 20th anniversary in airline service. As originally planned, the plane would be coming to the end of its useful life by now. Designers figured ...

Both the Concorde and the Tupolev Tu-144 were frighteningly inefficient in the air. The Tu-144 consumed a staggering 36,000 kg (79,366 pounds) of fuel per hour in supersonic flight. The Concorde ...

The Concorde flew so fast and high (up to 60,000 feet) that it succumbed to intense heat during supersonic flight, hot enough to physically stretch the aircraft from six to ten inches while in the ...

“If any of Boom’s aeronautical engineers have an institutional memory, they will know that the first-generation Concorde SST died, in part, because of the ferocious opposition from residents ...