If you are looking to buy that airplane, DON'T

If we assume that it is still being flown, it needs a very thorough and probably expensive going through.

Nobody has had a proper look at it for 16 years, I would be a bit wary about taxying it, let alone flying it!

Flying it would, of course, be completely illegal, not to mention foolhardy.

I am a professional pilot, now retired, and I am happy to assist you.

Do not waste time on an aviation degree, they are only good if you stay in aviation, there is no guarantee that will happen and an aviation degree won't get you a good job, an MBA will.
Airlines don't care what degree you have, they just want you to have one.

No problem so long as your glasses correct your vision to the required standard, I currently fly with bi-focals.

Start with getting a medical, if you can't do that, the rest is irrelevant, then simply go to a flying school and start learning to fly, you will learn the rest as you go along.

You don't really need to know physics, you will learn what you need to know in the course of your training. You only really need physics and high levels of maths if you want to delve into theoretical aerodynamics, very few pilots ever need or want to do that.

You will need to know navigation, but you will be taught that during your PPL theory lessons, you don't need to know it before you start

Your last question is pretty accurate, but the one way you can be sure of not succeeding is, if you don't try!

However, that is why we tell you not to get an aviation degree but get something useful instead.

It is a little bit like a bicycle tyre pump, but what the plunger is working against is oil, which cant be compressed, so it flows through a small hole in the plunger, allowing it to move at a slow rate into the other chamber and cushioning any shock.

At rest the two chambers are balanced. When the weight comes off the oleo, the weight of the wheel or whatever slowly pulls the plunger back down, transferring oil back into the first chamber, ready for the next shock load

The most powerful fighter jet engine is the US aircraft engine manufacturer, Pratt and Whitney's engine for the F-35 Lighting II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF). Whilst its published power is rated at 28,800 lb thrust (128.1 kN) in intermediate power and 43,010 lb thrust (191.3 kN) in maximum power, on 18 September 2006, it set a record for thrust from a fighter engine reaching more than 40,000 lb thrust (178 kN).

NB, it is normal to quote engine power in lb thrust (hence metric in brackets).

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How about changing the questions of hypothetical Concorde updates etc. to questions about the De Havilland DH-106 Comet,,,?

Like making the Comet 1 updates to become supersonic...?
How about designing variable geometry wings for the Comet...?

These Concorde questions are boring...
I love historic questions about Concorde...
But not questions starting with "IF Concorde would..."

I have an idea...
"What if Colombus had 32 knots ship from Cadiz to the Bahamas in 1492...?"
Or "What if Ben-Hur got speeding tickets racing his chariot in Rome...?" -