Champagne At The Speed of Sound

I broke the sound barrier on January 16, 1995 on the Concorde and this is what it was like:

Air France upgraded my return trip from Paris → New York to a seat on the only passenger jet to fly faster than the speed of sound, in fact it cruised across the Atlantic at the edge of earth’s atmosphere at more than twice the speed of sound. At the time I had a hunch the Concord’s days were numbered (it flew only 8…