I was a passenger in a
Boeing 757 sitting on the
tarmac at
Boston-Logan International Aiport last Thursday (October 9) at 6:20 pm EST. The tug pushed the plane back from the gate and rolled it to the end of the
terminal. The plane then sat there for about ten minutes, and I noticed out the window that a crowd (150+) of
baggage handlers and other workers were clustered around the end of the terminal looking at the runway. I thought to myself that this was really unusual, so I looked out the other window and about that time the
captain came on the intercom:
"Ladies and gentlemen, if you'll look out the right side of the aircraft you're about to have the pleasure of seeing the Concorde take off on its last transatlantic flight."
Pictures do the Concorde absolutely no justice. The entire plane shook with the thunder of the Concorde's engines, at least 500 yards away, with full afterburners engaged. It sped away as if someone had put the Concorde in a slingshot. A fitting end to the 50 minute wait through security and the Concorde's multi-decade run.