Alas, the moderators will likely delete both your message and mine.
This mod errs on the side of leaving things alone .. unless they be quite out of order.
a slightly younger Tartare heard the unearthly roar of 4 Olympuses
June 72 we first saw the bird in Oz.
I was a UniSyd final year engineering undergrad at the time. The lot of us nicked off from lectures that day to watch the departure .. forget how it was organised but we stood about where the 16 GP antenna is located now in front of the international terminal construction work.
The bird's takeoff was to the south (our left to right) .. lots of mach diamonds and the visceral excitation was not at all comfortable ... but, what a hoot.
The aerodynamics lecturer - one of whose lectures we absented ourselves from - opined at the start of the next lecture that we should study independently for the finals in his subject and walked out ... nice chap but a rabid greenie and more than a tad anti-Concorde.
C'est la vie ... vague memory suggests I think I scored an HD for the subject and we all passed anyway .. the power of fearful heads in the textbooks in the absence of lectures in a subject.