Concorde

Aviation anorak that I am, I’ve just watched the BBC’s coverage of the last commercial flight of Concorde touching down at Heathrow. The first and only time I’ve been to Rekjavik a charter flight from the UK came in while I was waiting to fly out to Brussels, and because I was air-side I could get right up to the jetway where it was parked and get some pictures through the windows. Having stepped off a 777 a week or so earlier, my first reaction was how small it was close-to. But about five years prior to that I happened to be driving past the end of the main runway at Birmingham airport one afternoon, when a Concorde took off overhead. Not expecting 4 Olympus engines to come across the road a few hundred feet up and at full takeoff power, it was a bit of a shock to put it lightly. After that I always had a degree of sympathy for the inhabitants of Windsor who got blasted twice a day if the wind was in the wrong direction…

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