Morning rant Trump: We abandoned supersonic flight, and if you think about it, 30 years ago I used to fly in a supersonic plane. It flies incredibly fast, twice as fast as modern airplanes. This is probably the only industry in the world where we have gone backwards. We would fly on the beautiful Concorde, one of the most beautiful works of art I have ever seen. It was a real work of art. I used to fly it a lot, and one day they lowered the speed by about a third. I asked: "What happened? "So this is one of the few industries that has gone back, but it won't happen again..