What was Concorde? Find out more as new coin celebrates super fast plane

With lots of amazing tech being developed all the time, you might think we've got planes faster than ever - but that's not true.

One of the fastest ever passenger planes was called Concorde, which isn't in use anymore.

It was a supersonic plane that set the world record for the fastest ever transatlantic commercial flight.

That journey between New York, USA, and London, UK takes around 8 hours today, but Concorde set the record at a rapid 2 hours and 52 minutes.

Now, a special coin has been made to celebrate 50 years since Concorde's first ever flight.

Air companies from the UK and France worked together in the 1960s to create Concorde, which started to fly passengers on 21 January 1976.

It was a supersonic airplane, which means that it travelled faster than the speed of sound.

In fact, with a cruising speed of 1350mph in the air, Concorde flew at more than twice the speed of sound.

Supersonic planes cause something called a sonic boom, which is when an object 'breaks through' a bundle of pressurised sound waves, leading to a very loud bang.

Because of this loud noise, Concorde could only fly over oceans, so that it didn't disturb people.

As it could only fly a limited number of routes, Concorde couldn't run do many journeys and this limited how much money those flights could make.

It was also a very expensive flight, with fuel costs high, making it unaffordable to many people.

After an accident with a Concorde flight in 2000, many people did not want to fly on the plane.

Concorde's final flight was on 24 October 2003 and it was broadcast on TV.