And so I became 11 again watching this documentary, with its plentiful footage of this sublime piece of engineering - as sleek and white as the perfect paper airplane - taking off, landing and flying ...

Concorde was an icon of the skies. But after Air France Flight 4590 crashed with the loss of all on board, investigators discovered a shockingly simple explanation for the catastrophe.

"Based on Air disasters : up in flames, created by Cineflix and shown in the United States on the Smithsonian Channel."--Title page verso. The white bird -- "You have flames behind you" -- A lunar ...

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 ...

But other Concorde employees lost their jobs — particularly the flight engineers. When Concorde launched, this was a key aviation role, but by the early 21st century the role was becoming obsolete ...

(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 departed from London’s ...