Part of a continuing weekly series on Alaska history by local historian David Reamer. Have a question about Anchorage or Alaska history or an idea for a future article? Go to the form at the bottom of ...

On March 2, 1969, history was made as Concorde flew for the first time. In 1976, the aircraft entered service, and the type flew until 2003 when it was retired without replacement. Like the Airbus ...

(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 ...

On July 25, 2000, a Concorde crashed and burned killing 109 people. A tire from the landing gear blew out after hitting a piece of metal on the runway and the rubber shards hit a fuel tank which ...

Tye was exhilarated, amazed and inspired as he saw this sleek, supersonic airplane of the future climb into the skies and make history. Little did Tye know some 20 years later, he’d be sitting in the ...