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  Very interesting stuff there guys and yes indeed it was probably the most beautiful plane ever to fly. When I lived in London it used to go fairly low over the flat every day at four o clock roaring happily and always gleaming majestically in the blue sky. I also saw it much lower at an air display when it roared over Brands Hatch in all its glory rattling the earth beneath. It sure was noisy, but it was a good noise, a ferrari type noise. Some noises are good.
  
  Paul refers to the backward step...as we are not now all flying supersonic. Well yes indeed. Economy is the reason. More volume in the air, rather than speed, was what was required by the 1990's. So many of us ordinary bods were travelling then, so many of us flying to Spain and wherever, that small high speed planes with expensive tickets were no longer required at a large enough scale to justify their exhorbitant development costs. It was a sad end though as everybody loved it. Very sad end over Paris.

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