It's a classic aerodynamic problem: most wing shapes that perform well at high speeds by minimizing "drag" don't have the "lift" needed for takeoff. The solution for Concorde was an elegant delta ...

In a pre-computer age, flight engineers were crucial to aviation. Former Concorde flight engineer Warren Hazelby explains how ...

The history of Concorde . In the early 1960s, the governments of the UK and France agreed to design an aircraft capable of ...

Boeing has made a number of aircraft over the years, but what's also interesting are the concepts that never happened. Here ...

Concorde was also the first commercial aircraft ... rocket power by combining nitrous oxide and solid rubber, and wings that fold up to provide high drag for reentry. In a nod to modernity ...

Eventually Tupolev settled on a tailless delta wing configuration, which matched the Concorde designers’ own final choices in a way that’s generally agreed to have been organic rather than a ...

In the first incident in May 1998, a New York-bound BA Concorde had to return to Heathrow airport after parts of its wing fell off. Then in October 1998, the crew on the very same Concorde felt a ...

Concorde, the supersonic airliner beloved by ... The aircraft that emerged had the familiar thin fuselage and long curved delta wing, and had four Rolls-Royce Olympus 593 turbojet engines derived ...

Dubbed the “Son of Concorde”, the aircraft is expected to ... on the plane's ability to handle strong airflow across the wings and to help shape the aerodynamic features further.

Concorde Flight 4590 departed that airport outside ... the damage was discovered only after a passenger noticed a hole in the plane's wing. Fuel was streaming from the plane, which was in flight.

“Concorde had these very complicated wings. They’re very thin, which you need for high speed flight, but they don’t produce any lift on the ground, which is a real problem for ...