Concorde Randomly
Aww for some reason I'm sad that Concorde has gone (I knew it services were stopped years ago and I was sad then). I was just thinking, on my commute back from Lisa's this evening, about how sad an icon such as that no longer flies. I saw the one remaining Concorde at Heathrow two weeks ago and actually it was quite nice to see it at an airport. Casp used to say, when he worked close to Heathrow, that out of his window they would always be moving the Concordes around Heathrow. It's one of the very few aircraft where all but two of them are preserved (one having been dismantled in 1994 and the other one being involved in the terrible crash in France) which proves what a remarkable icon it really is.
It's also quite interesting that I've seen quite a few references to Concorde as the late 20th Century Flagship for the UK.
Oh.God. I sound like my father.