On a Tuesday afternoon in Paris in 2000, an aeronautical marvel returned to earth in flames. A tire burst on the Concorde, the world’s first and only commercially viable supersonic transport (SST) jet ...

Cambridge University student Alice Brooking had just arrived at the hotel and was on the phone to her sister when she heard a huge explosion and the phone line went dead. She was staying in the ...

When planes fly faster than the speed of sound, air molecules can’t get out of the way fast enough and begin to pack together. Eventually they form a wave in front of the aircraft, creating a burst of ...