The Olympus 593 was the soul of Concorde; it was its heartbeat and the force that let it slice through the skies at Mach 2.

Air France officials Thursday acknowledged the airline had not made a design change intended to reduce the chance that tire blowouts on the Concorde would damage the supersonic aircraft. British ...

I’m seated in "Le Club," Air France's Concorde Lounge at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (LFPG). It's May 2000, and across from me, outside a panoramic window, Concorde waits in silhouette-poised, ...

Investigators say burst tire precipitated deadly Concorde crash. PARIS -- Air accident investigators have confirmed in a preliminary report published Thursday that a burst tyre se ...

IRA FLATOW: Finally, the tower gave the go-ahead for the approach, and the first commercial supersonic airplane began its landing at Dulles. That's NPR on the ground at Dulles International Airport in ...

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The Concorde was going to change the way we fly. But the Concorde actually had far more orders beyond the two carriers British Airways and Air France. Who were these other airlines, where would they ...

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