The aircraft, a Concorde chartered by the German cruise line operator Peter Deilmann, carried 100 passengers, six cabin crew, two pilots, and a flight engineer. The captain on that fateful day was ...
Concorde's seats were narrow, upright, and had no screens. The passengers who flew it regularly did not care. Here is why.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Those who took the controls of Concorde say it was like no other airplane. Pilots tell CNN Travel the secrets of flying the ...
The Concorde was the world's longest-serving supersonic airliner. It could cross the Atlantic in record time. Learn why this particular plane was discontinued.
How the legacy of an aviation icon lives on today.
When Tye first piloted Concorde in the late 1990s, the airplane had been established for two decades. Peter Duffey was there at the very beginning, as one of the first British Airways pilots selected ...
It would take him back to the day he stood at Heathrow, watching the first commercial Concorde flight take off. He remembers one occasion when an American Airlines pilot who was cleared to line up and ...
By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — On January 21, 1976 a teenage John Tye was among crowds of onlookers clinging to a chain link fence, cheering as the first commercial British Airways Concorde flight ...