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

The expansion of the Sales and Service Tax (SST) is part of the government's strategy to focus taxation on discretionary ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Tu‑144’s legacy is more complex, as the world’s first SST to fly (beating Concorde to Mach 1 by a few months in 1969), it demonstrated the Soviet Union’s ability to compete in advanced ...

Concorde Has Good Safety Record July 25, 2000 / 1:22 PM EDT / CBS/AP Until Tuesday's crash of an Air France jet outside of Paris, the Concorde SST had been considered among the world's safest planes.

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 ...

Last week, we delved into the history of supersonic passenger planes — how they were developed, when and where they flew, and ultimately, what killed them. We also enumerated the many challenges ...