>>1348215When you think about it, Concorde has a 'mystique' because it was held as an incredibly safe aircraft, it was undeniably an engineering wonder, and it predates the 'pack the cheap bastards in tight and use a tin opener to get them out' days. It's stark white, incredibly loud, and looks almost swanlike. In an elegant way, it's beautiful.
In *practical* terms it's a narrow steel pipe with little room for luggage, but that didn't matter because they built the thing assuming people would fly across the Atlantic, spend an afternoon at the other side, and then fly back again that day; a little bit like you can do London-Paris or London-Amsterdam now via Eurostar. Ferraris are beautiful machines, but an F40 isnt practical for doing the shop at Morrisons on a lazy Sunday.
