The dream of flying: Is this the future of aviation?

Sweats, comfortable shoes and travel pillow handy: That's what most passengers look like on long-haul flights today, no matter what class they're traveling in. But there was also a time when flying was a chic party in the air, especially if you had the privilege of traveling in the "Queen of the Skies," as the Concorde was once called. The super-rich used the plane to travel the nearly 6,000 kilometers from Paris to New York in a fabulous three and a half hours at supersonic speed, and in the greatest possible style. "It was like a kind of last gasp of the golden era of travel. You always dressed better than usual for it because you never knew who you were going to run into," recalls supermodel Cindy Crawford.