(CNN) — On January 21, 1976 a teenage John Tye was among crowds of onlookers clinging to a chain link fence, cheering as the first commercial British Airways Concorde flight departed from London’s ...

Two Concorde cabins can fit side by side in an Airbus A350. The sim at Brooklands is the only bona fide Concorde simulator in operation. It was used by British Airways for flight crew training until ...

A former Concorde pilot who drove the plane to the edge of space has shared his "phenomenal" memories on the aircraft's anniversary. John Tye, 67, who flew the plane from 1998 to 2000, will be ...

The former chief pilot of the British Airways Concorde fleet has predicted the world will have to wait another quarter-century before passenger planes break the sound barrier again. Captain Jock Lowe ...

But other Concorde employees lost their jobs — particularly the flight engineers. When Concorde launched, this was a key aviation role, but by the early 21st century the role was becoming obsolete ...

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 ...