Hardly surprising that WWW can see little to get dewy eyed about in the demise of Concorde. If you are so recent a member of the flying fraternity as is WWW, it would undoubtedly seem to be rather 'old hat'.
However, for those of us lived through the conception, growing pains and birth of such a remarkable baby, the product was so technically exceptional as to merit the reverence.
I suspect that WWW wasn't exposed to the comparison between (for example) the B58 and Concorde - the former crossed the Atlantic with its crew 'luxuriating' in pressure breathing suits and with the requirement to react with exceptional speed and skill to an engine failure; the latter had its passengers suffering the indignities of champagne and haute cuisine and the 'desperate measures' of a selected diversion for a similar occurence. It is a truism that the younger generation rarely consider the energy and inspiration which went into the technicalities which they take for granted. One can only hope that ultimately their collective consciousnesses will be stirred by something of an equivalent nature - experience, however, leads me to suspect quite the opposite.
