It looks as if I'll not achieve one of my ambitions...I always wanted to fly on Concorde and as it's being retired from service tomorrow this is unlikely to happen.
Given that I've never set foot on the plane it may sound odd, but I'll miss it. I grew up living about eight miles away from Heathrow airport and have seen Concorde's futuristic form countless times but I still remember the first time I laid eyes upon it. I reckon I would have been about eight or nine years old and playing in the back garden when it flew overhead. Compared to the various ordinary airliners I saw all the time, this was in another league altogether.
I know that the plane was a commercial failure, but I maintain that it was a technological success of which everybody in England and, of course, France should be justifiably proud.
When will we see its like again?