A former Concorde pilot who drove the plane to the edge of space has shared his "phenomenal" memories on the aircraft's anniversary. John Tye, 67, who flew the plane from 1998 to 2000, will be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Tye flew Concorde planes for two years [John Tye] A former Concorde pilot said having the opportunity to fly the supersonic ...

Concorde and Tupolev are acknowledged as some of the first planes to break the sound barrier, but it wasn't them. Which one actually did it first?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Grounded: A retired British Airways Concorde being moved by a barge past the Statue of Liberty in New York City in 2024 ...

Sounds strange today, but not so long ago you could fly supersonic, on the iconic Concorde, out of Kent. We speak to the man ...

New stamps mark 50th anniversary of first commercial Concorde flights - The first commercial Concorde flights departed on January 21 1976.

(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 ...

It’s just over 50 years since the world’s only supersonic passenger jet launch. By today’s standards it doesn’t seem too luxurious – unless you were a Hobbit.

A former Concorde pilot said having the opportunity to fly the supersonic plane was "beyond my wildest dreams". John Tye, from Bristol, watched from the fence at London Heathrow as the inaugural ...

Those who took the controls of Concorde say it was like no other airplane. Here they reveal the secrets of flying the world’s fastest commercial passenger aircraft at more than twice the speed of ...