Nice to hear. Concorde was a beautiful airplane, but limited to '60s technology (it even had vacuum tubes in the flight deck computers). But it did pave the way for a lot of technological advances at that time, such as carbon brakes etc.

Be good to see what engineers can come up with using current technology to make things stronger, faster and lighter.

Always intrigued by the fluctuations in the airline industry. I remember a time when it was said 'smaller aircraft were dead, and it is the time of the super jumbos', and now the reverse is true with airlines shunning huge aircraft for smaller aircraft that can do regional hops.

Given that the R&D and deployment process for a new aircraft type is measured over decades, it would be incredibly difficult to build a plane today that will fit the market in 10 years time. Hats off to Boeing, Airbus, Embraer et al for their efforts.