Speaking ahead of the plane's departure, chief Concorde pilot Captain Bannister, 54, said he would look back with pride as he powered her engines down for the last time. "What we have tried to do ...

If a conventional plane were in this position, its nose would block the pilots' view. But Concorde's long, pointed nose had a hinge. As the plane took off, landed, and taxied, the pilots tilted ...

The American-built civil supersonic jet is made from carbon fibre, and unlike Concorde’s droop nose, pilots use an “augmented reality vision system” to see past its long nose for takeoff and ...

Boom Technology began ground testing of the aircraft in December 2022. Following a comprehensive taxi test campaign, the ...

NASA and Boom Supersonic capture a stunning image of the XB-1 aircraft breaking the sound barrier using the Sun as a backdrop ...

Like Concorde, the XB-1 and Overture both have a long nose and a high angle of attack for takeoff and landing, which interrupts the pilots’ view of the runway. While Concorde dealt with this by ...

Concorde's complex flight deck had unique instruments and tight quarters due to its supersonic nature. The three-person ...

From the thunder of wartime bombers to the rumoured assignations of a Prince of Wales, a soon-to-be shut airfield in ...

For Edinburgh-based former Concorde pilot Andy Baillie, the memories are particularly special: he is among an elite few who took controls of the iconic plane for the last time. Having been ...

Overture also ditches the moveable nose, a staple of the Concorde design that helped pilots see out the front windshield when traversing airports. Scholl said Overture would replace that with an ...