Originally Posted by
421dog
Never sat in a warbird as pilot or freight that had a really comfortable seat. Matter of fact, the best ones had metal pans and I sat on my parachute. Concorde beat them all…
A friend of mine used to work for Airwork in Saudi Arabia. They used to do contract maintenance for different air forces. He had some holiday, so decided to catch Concorde from Bahrain to London, and back. High pay, low tax environment, loads of disposable...
He told the story of the day after he got back, one of the Lightning pilots coming in in his G suit, helmet etc, saying to Slim "I've just done mach 2". Slim said "I did that yesterday, but I was drinking champagne and eating caviar".
Truly a remarkable aeroplane.