This is from an article in Wired about the Concorde...I like the line about the future. I think it epitomizes the Baby Boomers. I don't think I'm offended by the statement- the future was there for the taking. Rather, I'm offended by what they did with that opportunity...I read somewhere that this election [2004] is very important to the Baby Boomers because they want to recapture some of the idealism (and emotion?) of the sixties. How else can you explain the reunion tour of S&G? Two old hippies in their dotage singing about the dark ages of U.S. history.

Jetinder Sira has been traveling to Heathrow for 27 years to watch the Concorde soar and descend. Since May, when the jet's retirement was announced, he's been making his airport pilgrimage at least three times a week. It's a journey of two hours -- each way -- from his home in Romford, Essex.

Sira's devotion to the supersonic inspired fellow members of a Concorde fan site to raise the money to buy him a ticket before the plane is encased in museum glass.

"She represents the hopes and dreams of a generation of people for whom nothing was impossible; the future was there for the taking," Sira said in an e-mail message. It was all about Mach 2 airliners, fast cars, man walking on the moon, manned space stations and moon bases. The technology used in Concorde was decades ahead of her time. She is still decades ahead of our time and needs to be saved and kept flying at Mach 2."