. . the steward from the front galley shot into the cockpit – shaking. “What’s happening?”

‘Should fly-by-wire products come with a Use Responsibly label?’

‘As compared with a bird, man is a very clumsy creature. . ’

When the stationary air above a stationary runway is approached by a landing Concorde it gets squashed - squeezed like Polyfilla under an expensive filling knife.

‘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.