"In the business, we call this a 'droop snoot.'" Supersonic aircraft designed today are now circumventing this issue using technology that the Concorde didn't have access to when it was designed ...

The company’s XB-1 demonstrator aircraft’s supersonic ... the pilots’ view of the runway. While Concorde dealt with this by having a moveable droop nose, Boom’s augmented reality vision ...

The solution for Concorde was an elegant delta- or triangular-shaped wing reminiscent of 1950s military aircraft. It had few moveable parts compared to the wing of a subsonic jet, but the sleek ...

The American-built civil supersonic jet is made from carbon fibre, and unlike Concorde’s droop nose ... the size of the line’s “Overture” aircraft – set to be the “world’s fastest ...

Guests also had the chance to board the plane and see a demonstration of Concorde's famous nose droop. People flocked ... A week later the flagship aircraft in British Airways' Concorde fleet ...