Step inside, and the first thing you’d notice is how small it was. The cabin had just four seats across — two on each side of a narrow aisle. Think of it as a private jet vibe, but with a hundred other passengers. And the windows? Tiny, because the fuselage had to be super strong to handle the heat of supersonic flight.
But the real magic happened when the pilot pushed the throttle. You’d feel a gentle push into your seat, and soon the Mach meter would climb past 1.0, then 2.0. Outside, the sky turned a deeper shade of blue as you flew at 60,000 feet — high enough to see the curve of the Earth. Can you imagine sipping champagne while looking at the curvature of our planet?