Supersonic Dream

NOVA | Supersonic Dream | Shock Treatment | PBS: "Between 1976, when Concorde began flights to the United States, and 2003, when the aircraft was retired, you may have been fortunate enough, as I was once, to see Concorde take off. I noticed it from a distance, while landing at New York's JFK airport in another plane. But it stood out unmistakably from other nearby aircraft, like a giant white swan among so many geese and ducks. As it lifted from the tarmac it did indeed look like a swan rising from a stretch of still water, its wide-spread wings angled steeply, its distinctive slender head bent forwards as if unwilling to lose sight of the Earth even for a moment."