Apr 12 2016
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NASA wants to build the next Concorde, bringing in a new age of supersonic jets that hopefully won’t rupture your…
Mar 1 2016
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NASA’s new series of bullet-shaped “X-planes” are the first step towards trying to resurrect the dream of…
Jan 25 2016
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In addition to wowing us with a heartbreaking 120,000-piece model of the Titanic breaking in two, Ryan McNaught also…
Oct 24 2013
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We were promised supersonic flights. Today, we stay well below the speed of sound. We were promised transatlantic…
Apr 4 2012
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Lunch break? Like planes? Watch this old documentary on the story of the Concorde, the first and only…
Mar 16 2012
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When you think of super sonic flight, you probably first think of the Concorde. But that wasn't the first super…
Jan 24 2011
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There's a reason why the Concorde only few over the Atlantic Ocean: Sonic booms. If every airplane were supersonic,…
Jan 21 2011
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The Concorde was birthed as a symbol. It was a symbol of diplomacy (the result of a treaty between France and…
Dec 27 2010
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While it was an abject financial, engineering, and public relations nightmare, the Concorde was certainly a…
Oct 6 2010
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He says he's not obsessive—we'll leave that for you to decide. But Nathan Shedroff certainly has an obsessive eye…
Oct 4 2010
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Ever wondered what it was like to fly in a Concorde? Ever wondered what it was like to fly a Concorde? Then dive…
Oct 4 2010
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Thanks to Scotland's Museum of Flight, you can look at high resolution photos of every inch of the cockpits of…
Jul 18 2009
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Many of our Gizmodo '79 posts have illustrated just how far we've come in the past three decades, but in one…
Apr 27 2009
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The Concorde fleet was grounded a long time ago but, if you want to pilot one, now you can thanks to the full…
Apr 8 2009
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It's like those sci-fi rich guys who collect everything including somebody's frozen head, only it's real: Dubai…
Mar 3 2009
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Damn, we missed the Concorde's 40th Anniversary yesterday. I love this amazing view of its cockpit. Looks like the…
Oct 27 2008
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This weekend marked the fifth anniversary of the last commercial flight of the Concorde. Capable of flying at a…
Jul 14 2008
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This Lego Concorde may not be as big as the Lego Airbus A380, the biggest Lego airplane in the world, but it's still…
Oct 1 2007
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As the auction of Concorde gear in Toulouse enters its last day, let's see what's been snapped up, shall we? Well,…
Jun 20 2007
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The iconic embodiment of the commercial airline supersonic era is being sold off piece by piece in France. Scheduled…