Tag: concorde

  • Concorde: Faster Than the Speed of Sound

    On this date in 1976, the first Concorde flight between London and Washington, D.C. took place. Here are some things you may not have known about Concorde. The idea of supersonic passenger flights began in the early 1950s, a few years after Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time in 1947. The…