British Airways iconic Concorde aircraft made its way back home to the Intrepid Museum from the Brooklyn Navy Yard on a barge Tuesday, crossing under the Brooklyn Bridge and sailing the Hudson. Videos ...

As the first and only supersonic commercial jetliner, Concorde was popular with royals, celebrities, and business executives.

(CNN) — Concorde, the world’s fastest commercial aircraft, has been making a rare journey – floating down New York’s Hudson River. The British Airways Concorde, one of only 20 of the supersonic ...

Aided by a quartet of Rolls-Royce Olympus 593 engines, the Concorde, the world's only commercially successful supersonic passenger plane, was capable of flying at speeds up to 1,354 mph (2,179 kph).

Many other factors can also affect journey length.

Supersonic passenger air travel is a thing of the past, but you can still tour the plane that made it possible. In 1962, the governments of Britain and France signed the Anglo-French Agreement, ...