The Aerospatiale/BAC Concorde supersonic passenger transport jet hasn't flown since November 2003. To think mankind could fly from London to New York in roughly three hours 20 years ago, yet people ...

One of the defining features of Concorde is its long and pointed nose, which also droops. This article explores why Anglo-French engineers designed the aircraft with that nose and how emerging ...

Fifteen years after it last flew, supersonic airplane Concorde’s distinctive drooping nose is back in action. Since its final landing in 2003, Alpha Foxtrot (the final Concorde model to be built and ...

This is an edited version of an article published in Flight International in August 1971 A prominent feature of Concorde at take-off and landing is the pendulous nose of the fuselage drooped (at a ...