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An elegy for Concorde, the most beautiful airliner of all time

Patrick Skene Catling recalls blissful supersonic flights—before the age of terrorism, and when newspapers still paid travel expenses

14 November 2015

9:00 AM

14 November 2015

9:00 AM

Concorde: The Rise and Fall of the Supersonic Airliner Jonathan Glancey

Atlantic, pp.320, £20, ISBN: 9781782391074

The Concorde experience, a fleeting indulgence in luxurious grandiosity, began each day with circumvention of the hugger-mugger of the hoi polloi at Heathrow. In the tranquillity of the exclusive Concorde departure lounge, insulated against the vulgar cacophony of the rest of the terminal building, elite passengers, only 100 at a time, while awaiting the call to the aircraft, were able to sip gratis buck’s fizz and make gratis unlimited international telephone calls.

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