Concorde: How the supersonic jet zoomed from boom to bust

For the residents of west London and of the New York borough of Queens, the greatest act of noise abatement in history was the grounding of Concorde in 2003. By the end of its deafening career, a route network that had ranged from Rio to Singapore had shrunk to just one link: the world’s premier intercontinental air route, between Heathrow and New York.