Curious about the now-defunct Concorde airplane? Read on. Two Concordes made simultaneous maiden passenger voyages on January 21, 1976. From the Concorde’s windows, other airplanes looked like they were flying in reverse. Passengers flying west from London to New York arrived before they left because the Concorde flew faster than the earth’s rotation. The flight [read more]

Stealth Design Designed by Clarence “Kelly” Johnson of Lockheed, the SR-71 Blackbird was a high-speed high-altitude spy plane that pioneered stealth technology when it was built in 1962. The sharp edges, made of radar-absorbing composite materials, and tail fins that leaned toward each other were part of the stealth design. The structure was coated in [read more]