The prototype Concorde made a dramatic live television appearance at Farnborough, flying low passes at roughly 410–415 mph ...

Duffey helped mastermind the first Concorde training scheme, and flew the aircraft until he retired in 1980. Also there at the beginning was pilot Jock Lowe, who shares a birthday with Concorde — he ...

Former Concorde pilot Captain John Tye has explained what made it so amazing to fly the supersonic airliner at Mach 2, and why it’s such an incredible aircraft technically, over 20 years after its ...

(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 ...

When Concorde reached the Bristol Channel, an inlet to the west of London leading to the North Atlantic, pilots would give passengers a heads up and then the aircraft would break through the sound ...

When Concorde launched, this was a key aviation role, but by the early 21st century the role was becoming obsolete thanks to advances in technology. Lowe was among the Concorde pilots who retired when ...

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 ...