Farewell Concorde, we will miss you, but not your booming engines

24 October 2003

The supersonic aircraft is no more, after making one final, much hyped, flight.

While some people will find this ending of an era a little sad, others may see things somewhat differently. My aunt in London lives under one of the flight paths into Heathrow airport, and there was no missing the twice daily flights of Concorde.

The whole house literally shook as the aircraft prepared to touch down. This was no sonic boom though, just the engines operating normally. But after a few days of hearing Concorde approaching Heathrow, other aircraft noise seemed positively inaudible in comparison.

And here I refer to the likes of those massive, lumbering, Boeing 747’s…

Originally published Friday 24 October 2003, with subsequent revisions, updates to lapsed URLs, etc.