We used to joke that flight engineers weren’t rich ... there were only ever 57 who operated the airline’s Concorde aircraft. The flight engineer, as Tye puts it, “was often under-appreciated ...

For nearly three decades before it retired in November 2003, Concorde aircraft sped through the skies above the Atlantic in just under three and a half hours, flying at twice the speed of sound.

A Concorde plane is open for public tours at the Intrepid Museum in New York City. In 1962, the governments of Britain and France signed the Anglo-French Agreement, pooling their money and ...

Hazelby grew up plane-watching near Concorde’s birthplace in southwest England. He began his career as a 16-year-old engineering apprentice for British Airways forerunner BOAC.