The Concorde crash is a rare chain of events that began with runway debris: a titanium strip was struck during takeoff, a ...

Since Concorde is very pitch sensitive and flying on the back of the drag curve at lower speeds, where her minimum drag speed (VMD) at maximum takeoff weight exceeds VMO, the airplane's designers ...

July 25 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1909, French pioneer aviator Louis Bleriot became the first person to fly a "heavier-than-air machine" across the English Channel. It took him 36 minutes.

(CNN) — On January 21, 1976 a teenage John Tye was among crowds of onlookers clinging to a chain link fence, cheering as the first commercial British Airways Concorde flight departed from London’s ...