July marks 25 years since an Air France Concorde suffered a catastrophic incident just after departing Paris-Charles de ...

Concorde was taken out of service in 2001 is on track to become the world’s leading supersonic passenger aircraft once again.

The Concorde suffered a fatal crash in July 2000, which spurred the end of the supersonic jet program. ... Zach Wichter is a travel reporter and writes the Cruising Altitude column for USA TODAY.

The Concorde suffered a fatal crash in July 2000, which spurred the end of the supersonic jet program. ... Zach Wichter is a travel reporter and writes the Cruising Altitude column for USA TODAY.

The uncrewed supersonic aircraft climbed to an altitude of 82,500ft (15.6miles) in just 118.6 seconds. That speed is 4.2 seconds better than that achieved by a specially modified 5-15 in the 1970s.

Denver-based Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator plane, with Chief Test Pilot Tristan "Geppetto" Brandenburg at the controls, hit Mach 1.122, or 750 mph, at an altitude of about 35,000 feet.

It reached a rapid Mach 0.81, dwarfing the Mach 0.67 it achieved on the flight before, with the aircraft also reaching a new maximum altitude of 23,015ft. This was 3,000ft more than the previous test.

Former Concorde flight engineer Warren Hazelby explains how he helped fly the supersonic jet. ... Once you get to that sort of altitude, the sky is a really dark blue, ...

The Concorde suffered a fatal crash in July 2000, which spurred the end of the supersonic jet program. ... Last week's Cruising Altitude: Want to fly in a fancy seat for less?