Concorde

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You Can Fly The Concorde Under London’s Tower Bridge

2:40AM May 10, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

I wish that someone actually did this in real life, back when the Concorde connected London and New York in just 3.5 hours: Taking off from Heathrow 28L runway and turn to the Thames to get under the Tower Bridge. More »

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The Weird Supersonic Plane That Will Not Boom

10:40AM January 25, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

There’s a reason why the Concorde only flew over the Atlantic Ocean: sonic booms. If every aeroplane were supersonic, it’d be extremely noisy and annoying. Fortunately, NASA is working in a solution. More »

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The Concorde Took Its First Flight To Failure 35 Years Ago

6:20AM January 22, 2011 | Sam Biddle

The Concorde was birthed as a symbol. It was a symbol of diplomacy (the result of a treaty between France and England) and a symbol of progress (the first commercial supersonic airliner). But it died a symbol of failure. More »

Entertainment

A Concorde Family Reunion

2:20PM December 28, 2010 | Sam Biddle

While it was an abject financial, engineering, and public relations nightmare, the Concorde was certainly a beautiful, beautiful machine. And up until the 1988 gathering at Heathrow Airport, pictured here, they had never been photographed together in such great numbers. More »

Cars

These Are The 11 Prototypes Of The Doomed Concorde

10:20AM December 7, 2010 | Sam Biddle

Here, decades ago, the Concorde stood in prototype form. The plane, even as a small model, was a symbol of future travel – the way we’d all luxurious fly supersonic someday. Half a century later, that dream’s dead forever. More »

Gadgets

One Man’s Quest To Collect Every Single Item From The Concorde

2:40AM October 7, 2010 | Sam Biddle

He says he’s not obsessive – we’ll leave that for you to decide. But Nathan Shedoff certainly has an obsessive eye for good design, prompting him to amass a multi-year collection of stuff you would have found aboard the jet. More »

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Climb Inside A Concorde With These 360-Degree Panoramas

7:28AM October 5, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

Ever wondered what it was like to fly in a Concorde? Every wondered what it was like to fly a Concorde? Then dive into these pannable, zoomable panoramas of the aircraft (as well as some less peaceful supersonic birds). More »

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The Supersonic Concorde Jet: Can We Go Back To 1979?

4:30AM July 19, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

Many of our Gizmodo ’79 posts have illustrated just how far we’ve come in the past three decades, but in one important tech example, 1979 kicks 2009′s ass: The Concorde Jet. More »

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Now You Can Fly a Full-Sized Concorde (Simulator)

4:00AM April 28, 2009 | Jesus Diaz

The Concorde fleet was grounded a long time ago but, if you want to pilot one, now you can thanks to the full simulator just restored at the Brooklands Museum in Surrey, UK. For free:

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British Airways’ Last Concorde May Become Dubai Novelty

9:00AM April 9, 2009 | Wilson Rothman

It’s like those sci-fi rich guys who collect everything including somebody’s frozen head, only it’s real: Dubai collectors—possibly the same ones turning the QE2 ocean liner into a hotel—are trying to buy BA’s last Concorde.

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