Concorde Gone

Posted by Michael Palmer on Tuesday, October 28, 2003

I know this is a little late, but man do I wish I could have flown on the Concorde just once.

He told the last passengers: “We’re going to take you to the edge of space, where the sky gets darker, where you can see the curvature of the earth.

“We’re going to travel across the Atlantic at twice the speed of sound, faster than a rifle bullet, 23 miles every minute. We’re going to travel so fast, we are moving faster than the earth’s rotation — and the world will be watching us.”

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