The world's only supersonic passenger aircraft has bowed out.

Concorde began commercial flights in 1976, becoming one of only two supersonic passenger planes to ever fly.

At the time the Soviet Union and the West were competing to produce the world's first supersonic passenger aircraft.

That's faster than the average cruising speed of Mach 2 achieved by the original Concorde, the first supersonic passenger-carrying aircraft.

The airplane that could herald a new generation of supersonic passenger flight looks an awful lot like a fighter jet.

The decision to retire the needle-nosed jet, the world's first and only supersonic passenger aircraft, to museums brings to an end 27 years of service.

Supersonic passenger flights have been banned over land since the early 1970s because of the boom.