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 I’m old enough to remember. 

IMO it was not natural. What better way to ground it forever than put it on tv for all to see. 
 I flew on one in 1997, my claim to fame is I couldn’t wait for it to break the sound barrier so I went to the toilet and pissed through Mach 1 
 Hilarious. And impressive tbh.