Aided by a quartet of Rolls-Royce Olympus 593 engines, the Concorde, the world's only commercially successful supersonic passenger plane, was capable of flying at speeds up to 1,354 mph (2,179 kph).

Whether you're familiar with planes or not, you'll be familiar with the Concorde, and we'll bet you can almost definitely pick one out of a line-up too, thanks to its iconic silhouette and 'drooping' ...

Other than spacecraft, aircraft are the fastest vehicles, leaving cars and bikes for dust. We take a look at the ten fastest planes ever flown. Though some uncrewed aircraft (like the X-43) have flown ...