British Airways iconic Concorde aircraft made its way back home to the Intrepid Museum from the Brooklyn Navy Yard on a barge Tuesday, crossing under the Brooklyn Bridge and sailing the Hudson.

But there were a plethora of reasons which forced the French-British venture to stop flying - but what were they? Concorde remains the most renowned aircraft ever, more than 50 years since it was ...

(Photo by John Keeble/Getty Images) In the meantime as with Concorde, the XB-1 test model ... aircraft, which had been flying commercial services for 27 years, was retired by British Airways ...