After that chap fell out of a plane's undercarriage and landed in Clapham, I looked

[Sir C]

I didn't actually look as it was purely for the sake of the gag, but it turns out you're right - a 787.

I'm not a spotter, honest!

747s will all be gone within a few years, b. It's sad, really. There have been few airliners quite as elegant as the 'Queen of the Skies' as she is often dubbed. Now all airliners look the same. I can barely tell one form another.

When I started going to Heathrow as a child you'd see 747s, VC10s, 707s, DC10s, TriStars, Tridents, BAC 1-11s, Caravelles... all distinctive and individual. Now the aircraft, like the passengers, are dull, dull, dull.