A good documentary that, thanks
‘Dear Mr. President, please could I land my noisy, smelly aeroplane in your country’ Private Eye at the time of negotiations with the USA 
A tad hypocritical of the demonstrators at JFK blocking the roads with their huge fume-belching gas-guzzlers
Concorde was a magnificent piece of engineering, epitomising Harold Wilson’s embrace of ‘the white heat of technology’, though the fact that Boeing never bothered with designing a supersonic passenger plane speaks volumes, and of course no one has built one in the 60 or so years since Concorde was launched, save for the ill-fated Russian ‘Concordski’, the prototype of which crashed at an air show and was promptly cancelled.
There were only around 20 ever built, far removed from the 350 planned when devised in the ’60s
Just a beautiful plaything for the rich really. Breakfast in London, then breakfast again in New York: what jolly good fun 
It did make a dreadful racket on take-off. I was staying with friends in Reading when one took off from nearby Heathrow. ‘What the hell is that’ I asked ‘It’s effing Concorde’ came the weary reply.