Working close to the busiest airport in the world has its advantages, like being handy for business trips and for meeting customers from their flights. Today, however, I took a half-day and hightailed it as quickly as possible back to this side of town. The first reason being I need to be home for the birthday party of one of my sprogs - a low maintenance affair involving a stack of DVDs, popcorn and cakes. The other reason to be nowhere near Heathrow this after noon is that, in the next two hours, the final flight for Concorde will land there, bringing to end the era of supersonic flight. For 34 years, Britain and Concorde led the world in supersonic passenger services but never recovered, commercially speaking, from the tragedy of the Paris crash 3 years ago.
Posted by bignoseduglyguy at October 24, 2003 02:29 PM | TrackBack