| I flew twice Concorde twice while working on an early telepresence project back in 1999-2000. Once on Air France and once on British Airways. Things that stood out for me: It is REALLY small inside, I bumped my head both times getting into the plane, and they just laugh and said "first time?" Passengers were all 50-70 year old white men, no women at all on either flight I was on, I was the youngest person on both flights. Takeoff is violent, Landing is more Violent, the Concorde was just not designed for low speeds. I thought something was wrong both landings, but that is just the way it lands. It felt like slamming into the ground at 100 MPH. The windows were really tiny, just a few inches wide and probably thicker than they were wide. The view outside was amazing and you really had a sense of being at the edge of the atmosphere, but it was so hard to see it through the tiny little windows. It was pretty amazing to be at a 9AM meeting in Europe and then make it back to New York for a 10 AM meeting. |