‘This Prima Donna has to be treated as another airliner. We’re now a grimly competitive bus company, not a bunch of formula one fairies.’ Nobody actually said this, but perhaps you get the idea.

Jeremy turned round and said ‘Jump in, you can fly the accel.’ . . . Wow! Is he serious? I’ve never been supersonic before, even as a passenger. Of course, his confidence belied the Concorde’s agreeable nature when doing the very thing it was designed for.