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Cabinet of Curiosities

I have few regrets in life. That said, I wish I could tell you that I had once flown on Concorde. I haven’t. But I do remember its very last flight over London, hearing that distinctive sound, and running out into my tiny garden to watch the magnificent bird-like airliner soaring majestically overhead.

Concorde was the world’s first commercial supersonic passenger airliner, an Anglo-French project, initially flown in

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