If you’re a bit of a plane nerd—and if you’re reading this site, the odds are good that you are—a rather interesting eBay auction ended over the weekend. The auction site knows it as item number ...
I actually do IAD>LHR a few times a year and if you have global entry and status with BA so you can use the first check in wing, it should only take 15 min to check in and get past security, with ...
A Concorde turbojet engine that spent years listed on eBay finally sold over the weekend to one lucky buyer, but that doesn't mean they'll be making supersonic booms of their own anytime soon. It's ...
The Aérospatiale/BAC Concorde was essentially a high-performance laboratory flying at twice the speed of sound. To survive the brutal friction of Mach 2 and safely stop its massive weight on the ...
A French enthusiast group borescoped the engines of a Concorde supersonic airliner on display at the Le Bourget Air and Space Museum outside Paris and found them to be in perfect condition internally.
In 1970, Jean Calmon was appointed director at Snecma of all activities related to developing the engine for Concorde. He later became senior vice-president for engineering and production and after ...