An air france concorde took off from paris for new york shortly before the british airways jetliner left london as both companies resumed concorde passenger services . " an englishman in new york 斯汀说： "协和飞机的速度是声速的两倍，坐在上面可以感到耳边嗡嗡做响。
Government - led industrial plans commonly produce white elephants like the supersonic concorde aircraft in europe and the synfuels fiasco in this country in the late 70 ' s 政府主持的工业计划通常既费钱又无用，好像欧洲的协和超音速各机以及我国70年代合成燃料的惨痛失败。
British pop star sting checked in for the first commercial concorde flight from london since a deadly july 2000 crash of the supersonic jetliner , aiming to become , in the words of one of his countless hits , an englishman in new york 11月7日的飞行是协和飞机恢复客运以来的首次飞行。斯汀登上了这架从伦敦飞往纽约的飞机，正如他的一首歌的歌词，斯汀这次要体验一下"英国人在纽约
Man was landing on the moon ; huge computers made thousands of calculations a second ; the basic genetic code had been broken ; major infectious diseases had been defeated through antibiotics and vaccination ; concorde was flying at twice the speed of sound and for the first time we could watch colour tv transmitted live from around the world 人类曾经登上了月球，巨型计算机在一秒的时间内完成成千上万的计算、基本的遗传密码得到破解、通过抗生素和免疫接种使传染性疾病得到控制、协和式飞机也曾以两倍于音速飞行，我们也第一次能看到全球实况直播的彩色电视节目。
