Originally Posted by
Marty33
I can only imagine the excitement and fulfillment that those posting here must have felt for the time that they knew her.....
Those who maintained her, engineered her, looked after her must have enjoyed immense satisfaction by doing something that MATTERED in life.
Yes, indeed.
There were the early days...
At the time there were only two programs that everyone wanted to be on.
They were Apollo and Concorde.
I was a part of one of those
There were the years after that, when Apollo was cancelled, when only 16 Concordes ever saw service, and one felt the world was no longer going forward.
And for me, there indeed was that immense moment of satisfaction, when I finally flew on one of the last AF Concorde flights, and got my brief cockpit visit, to see that everything I had helped to develop long ago still worked exactly as we'd designed it, close to 30 years later !
CJ