No Concorde for you…or me…

If you’re a certain age, you’ll remember this picture and what you were doing when it happened.  You’ll remember watching CNN and whatever other news channel you could get then to find out more information or, really, to watch more video of the Concorde crashing.

Admit you watched it, watched it again and then kept watching it.

It was a horrific, terrible, awful thing that happened and we couldn’t turn away from the television.

Thjs was in 2003.  If you’re too young to remember it crashing, look it up on Youtube or CNN, in fact, has a story on their site today about it.

As a man of a certain age, I remember how incredibly cool it was that this plane even existed.  How cool it was during the Live Aid benefits when Phil Collins and some others performed in one city and caught the Concord to the other.  It was crazy space age and we were by gawd living right smack in it.

Of course now with the world economy in the toilet, we’re all reduced to flying cheap ass airlines where you have to buy water, after you’ve been probed, scanned and tickled in places that most of us won’t even let our spouses touch w/out going out for margarita’s and beers, have to pay to have your bags fly with you and are generally packed into the airplane like a bunch of cattle going off to slaughter.

Bring back the Concorde!  I’ll fly on it. Who’s with me?