Hi Wallabie-my comments about the Concorde were to express hope that it will be flying again very soon on revenue flights. We departed CDG (my young son's first trip outside the US) just a few weeks before the nightmarish tragedy.
This is a sincere suggestion to everyone: if pilots (and others) don't learn to relax and stay detached from almost everything, they can later develop high blood pressure and fail a flight physical exam. Almost all of us need to remember this. Taking everything personally only creates frustration. Almost nobody in "Ppruneland" knows us personally, anyway. We are the invisible man (or woman).
Let's do what we can to keep flying safe; for example, if I need to learn a bit of Italian or understand ein bissl schwabisch in order to fly safer, then ok.