The Concorde program was the world's first supersonic airliner, undertaken in a joint development and manufacturing effort by Sud Aviation and the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC). Concorde took its ...

This is part of a special series where NPR looks back at our coverage of major news stories in the past. Listen to the full audio story to hear NPR's archival audio. There was a time when you could ...

Supersonic passenger air travel is a thing of the past, but you can still tour the plane that made it possible. In 1962, the governments of Britain and France signed the Anglo-French Agreement, ...

Concorde couldn’t fly supersonic over land, so after the initial ascent, it would operate subsonically — although the velocity was still “well over the speed of a 747,” as John Tye explains.

Experiencing a total eclipse for 74 minutes, passengers of Concorde 001 followed the path of totality as it crossed Africa in 1973, setting a record for the longest-ever total eclipse observation.