Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Those who took the controls of Concorde say it was like no other airplane. Pilots tell CNN Travel the secrets of flying the ...

John Tye was one of the lucky 208 pilots that got to fly the Concorde plane during its legendary 27-year-run. He was witness to the jet’s first flight and its last, and he got to sit in the cockpit ...

The solution for Concorde was an elegant delta- or triangular-shaped wing reminiscent of 1950s military aircraft. It had ...

Today is the anniversary of the Concorde crash in France (Image: Langevin Jacques, Jacques Langevinvia Getty Images) The aircraft, a Concorde chartered by the German cruise line operator Peter ...

What it was like to pilot the supersonic Concorde jet BWP Media/Getty Images via CNN Newsource Those who took the controls of Concorde say it was like no other airplane. Pilots tell CNN Travel the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...