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About the Concorde: The Concorde's first flight was in 1969. On January 21st 1976 British Airways began commercial supersonic travel from London to Bahrain. It regularly flew from Paris Charles de Gaulle (Air France) to New York JFK. This supersonic airliner set many records, including a flight across the Atlantic in 2 hours, 52 minutes and 59 seconds between New York City and London, on February 7th 1996. The aircraft was initially referred to in Britain as "Concorde," with the French spelling, but was officially changed to "Concord" by Harold Macmillan in response to a perceived slight by Charles de Gaulle. In 1967, at the French roll-out in Toulouse the British Government Minister for Technology, Tony Benn announced that he would change the spelling back to "Concorde". This created a nationalist uproar that died down when Benn stated that the suffixed "e" represented "Excellence, England, Europe and Entente (Cordiale)." In his memoirs, he recounts a tale of a letter from an irate Scotsman claiming: "you talk about 'E' for England, but part of it is made in Scotland." Given Scotland's contribution of providing the nose cone for the aircraft, Benn replied "it was also 'E' for 'Ecosse' (the French name for Scotland) — and I might have added 'e' for extravagance and 'e' for escalation as well!" This model is one of the world's most famous and revered aircrafts, the Concorde. It has been reproduced in kiln dried Philippine mahogany, carved, joined and sanded by hand. Details are hand painted onto each piece with no decals used. The final product is this marvelous wooden sculpture. Dimensions: Length: 8 1/2" Wingspan: 3 1/2" Includes desk stand. This product can be found under the following descriptions: model aircraft, model airplane, aviation model, scale model aircraft, concorde References:
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