It was a DC9 hiding inside a sleek design… “The striking, dagger-like outside gave way inside to a DC-9-sized cabin . . . lovingly appointed, but in the end, a pretty tiny tube.
   “And yet, when the aircraft made its farewell tours at iconic airports, people came out to gasp and point and laugh and smile and show their grandkids.
   “Somehow, the appearance of Concorde made today's all-too-ordinary airline experience special again,” writes pilot Jim Matthews in Things With Wings.
   The first time we saw Concorde we drove down to Dulles Airport from New York, where the aircraft had been banned and demonstrators with nothing better to do had blocked up the inner roadways at JFK International Airport.
   That was 38 years ago on May 24th, 1976, and we were able to see two for the money, as a pair of supersonic commercial flights was headed west at twice the speed of sound.
   One from Paris and the other from London, both landed at Dulles Airport within three minutes of each other.

Concorde Film Needs Funding
   But now, alas, Concorde has disappeared as a high flier of the skies, resigned to static display on the Intrepid in New York harbor and elsewhere, but director Chris Purcel of the Discovery Channel and an eager volunteer team of first class filmmakers in the UK want to create a proper homage to the unique aircraft. They are attempting to raise money—the goal being £5000 pounds—to create a short film titled simply, Ode To Concorde.