To many, when they think of supersonic airliners, they instantly think of Concorde. The joint Anglo-French aircraft that served for nearly 30 years, ferrying people across the Atlantic at Mach 2.

When the first Tupolev Tu-144 thundered its way into aeronautical history 50 years ago, lifting off from Zhukovksy airfield on the last day of 1968, much of the supersonic programme remained cloaked ...

After the Space Race there was the supersonic race, as three countries vied to build the first passenger supersonic airliner ...

If you boil it down to the basic facts, the era of commercial supersonic flight was a European phenomenon. Concorde, its ...

Concorde was the result of a joint program between France's Sud Aviation and the United Kingdom's British Aircraft ...

Everyone knows about the Concorde, which shot across the Atlantic at over twice the speed of sound for decades. But it wasn't the only supersonic airliner. For a little while there was one more, and ...

The Concorde jet was one of the crowning achievements in aviation. It was a supersonic passenger jet, meaning that it broke the speed of sound while flying. Your average Boeing 737-800 flying with ...

Developed in the 1960s/1970s, the Tu-144 was the Soviet Union's only practical venture into supersonic commercial aviation. Though its career was all too brief, it was a major technological ...

When you think of super sonic flight, you probably first think of the Concorde. But that wasn’t the first super sonic transporter and it certainly wasn’t the first commercial plane break the sound ...

SITTING in a garden surrounded by rusting bits of metal lies the abandoned remains of Russia’s answer to Concorde. The Tupolev Tu-144 inevitably dubbed ‘Concordski’ was once the pride of its nation ...

The Soviet speedster did not last long in the air after its maiden flight but Kazan University is making sure the aircraft is not going to waste, by turning it into a museum. Artem Dergunov The first ...