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It fits the bill very accurately.
As part of a series of fundraising talks, at our local church, we have just had one by John Hutchinson, one of the pilots of Concorde. They had top of the range cuisine and fine wines. At one point the pilots were part of a package deal on which you could travel one way on Concorde and the other way on the Queen Elizabeth II liner. They flew Concorde one way and then traveled back on QEII giving lectures to several groups of passengers during the voyage.
I am giving the next talk, more a slideshow, of my stained glass safaris or should that be pilgrimages, as most of the windows are in churches or cathedrals, over the last year. I must stop spending so much time in this website and get on sorting my photos and adding some text!!

Great photo and recollections of your trip! Flying was certainly a different experience then.

Thanks, Phil! And that's what it was, now I remember - a Concorde!
Are you still getting ready for your presentation - or did you give it already?

Sorry Deborah. I was busy getting the photos in the right order and stringing the commentary together. I had got on top of that - then last Tuesday I got a nasty viral throat infection and had several very miserable days with no voice. The bug is on the way out now, which is just as well as the talk is on Tuesday.

Thank you, Alan. - It was pretty darn luxurious!
I would have really loved to have done the trip Phil mentioned though - Concorde out, Queen Elizabeth back!

hmm - just looked at when the Concorde started commercial flights (1976) so it wasn't a Concorde that we flew in, after all.
I do remember some excitement about what we were flying on, and the luxury of the flight - but perhaps a plane expert might have some ideas about what it really was..

It clearly wasn't Concorde with the round jet intake. Your seating arrangements sound rather a lot to fit in. I have just looked up the 747 Jumbo jet seating plans and the most they seem to accommodate is 3-4-3 and they must have been the widest planes at that time.