Great thread, its taken some time to read through
The anecdotes from landlady , m2dude and the others are great
My main recollections are after coming back from Detroit to LHR, sitting on the National Express bus at dusk as Concorde took off from the runway parallel to the road, the whole bus shaking and watching the 4 engines glowing blue as she took off - brilliant. Sadly after that the next experience was passing 4 of them parked up after the AF disaster
As an Engineer I love things that push the envelope and limits - Concorde is one of those
Having just returned from Chicago on a 767, as capable as it is, I know what I would prefer to be riding in
I sadly doubt that we will see these flying again but I really would like to see effort in the next supersonic airliner rather than A380's and the like