(Originally published by the Daily News on October 20, 1977. This story was written by Frank Mazza and Alton Slagle.) Like a great prehistoric bird, the supersonic Concorde landed at John F. Kennedy ...

How the legacy of an aviation icon lives on today.

In 2003, Air France donated Concorde F-BVFA to the Smithsonian. The aircraft was the first Air France Concorde to open service to Rio de Janeiro, Washington, D.C., and New York and had flown 17,824 ...

On a Tuesday afternoon in Paris in 2000, an aeronautical marvel returned to earth in flames. A tire burst on the Concorde, the world’s first and only commercially viable supersonic transport (SST) jet ...

Forty years ago today, two Concordes took off from London and Paris on the first supersonic flights with commercial passengers aboard. It was a stunning achievement for British and French engineering ...

Is there anything that hasn't been said about the Anglo-French Concorde supersonic passenger airliner that hasn't already been said? Even over half a century after its first flight, no aircraft from ...

The world changed in 1962 when the United Kingdom and France officially signed a treaty to jointly build the Concorde. Fearing that the United States would fall behind in the global race for aerospace ...

THE U.S. has seldom been reluctant to embrace either technological change or the challenge of great national projects. It is a sign of the questioning times that disquiet now attends a project of just ...

Ever since the supersonic Concorde was grounded in 2003, airline passengers — at least, wealthy airline passengers—have yearned for the return of faster-than-sound transit. Today, a trip from New York ...

This guest essay reflects the views of Daniel Serota, mayor of the Village of Brookville and chair of the Regional SST Oversight Coalition. Is Long Island destined to hear once more the approach of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When United Airlines announced earlier this month that it had made a deal to purchase 15 airliners still under development from ...