This piece is more than a bit long in the tooth. Producer William Hammack describes the Concorde as “soon to stop flying.” He uses the present tense to say that the Concorde “flies higher and faster than any other commercial jet.”

Unless my memory disappeared off the radar screen, the Concorde stopped flying in 2003. Hammack apparently dusted off this drop-in and uploaded it onto PRX without the P.S. that its subject is nearly seven years out of date.

Still, Hammack is right on target when he says that today “with cell phones, cheap long distance service, and express mail, there are many times where a person can just stay put, instead of hop a continent.”

I’ve noticed that Hammack is an enormously prolific producer. He’s uploaded dozens of pieces onto PRX.

This is one of them that should have stayed put in an archive. Without at least a footnote, it doesn’t fly.