18 Years Have Passed Since The Concorde Left The Skies

the concord was every lavish spender's fantasy. I used to see concord leave Miami around 11am several days a week, the sound, the sound was ear-filling. The taxi out for takeoff was impressive because the aircraft seemed to sit so far off the ground. No flaps, four noisy engines with afterburners and after a long takeoff roll a liftoff and climb out still fresh in memory. But, the environmental degredation just from the half-dozen or so examples, what would the damage to our atmosphere if there were dozens of them? Now some selfish rich dillatentes want mini-concords so their time to tokyo is 4 hours or so, damn the ecological damage which is unrepairable. One morning i was flight testing something out over the everglades, and i look sideways and saw COncord flying west well south of MIA, then she banked north, and i lost sight of her, a heavenly aparition. That memory is precious and vivid to this day. Concord and her ilk are not affordable to our civilization, no matter what the fuel consumption. Nobody should be in that much of a hurryto be elsewhere, especially if they have granchildren or want to have grandchildred.