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Old 30th Mar 2009, 15:34
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crisso
 
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Whilst the above an ironic quote from the late great Sir George Edwards, my personal favourite of his (at the risk of going slightly off-topic), was on the first commercial flight of Concorde. A VIP sitting next to Sir George commented that, flying at twice the speed of sound in Concorde seemed absolutely no different, as to flying in a conventional subsonic jetliner. Sir George laconically replied 'yes, that was the difficult bit...'
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