Go to the site link below and vote for your favourite all time Great British Design Icon.
My vote went to Concorde. I mean how can we ever top that?
Just look at the picture (courtesy of the marvellous Google Images) of this beautiful soaring bird in full flight. Has anything so lovely ever graced the skies? Will anything ever top this or are we stuck with the generic aircraft design for passnger airliners we see today? I still think it s a complete travesty that the graceful gorgeous lines and thundering engine noise is not gracing the skies today. My brother, Skank who works for the murderers of Concorde once told me that even after 20 years of working at Heathrow, Concorde was the one aircraft that everyone still stopped and watched when it took off. I saw it once as twilight set in, and the sight of the afterburners lighting the rear as they thrust this marvel of modern flight into the darkening clear sunset skies was something that will stay with me forever. Couldn't BA have let Virgin run the things for a few years. Couldn't they have kept one or two flying for Air Shows and charter tourist flights? No, only in crap old GBUK PLC would we let something as brilliant as this slip from our grasp, without any replacement.
Still lets do what we always do and sit back and let the US and Japan plagiarise the ideas and principles behind this to produce a new Supersonic machine to rule the globe. Perhaps we could get the contract to design the toilets. We seem to be good at designing toilets, or things that end up going down them (proverbially of course)
A great Concorde site can be found here for any other saddos, or nostalgia freaks who want to wallow in what was probably the last Great British Design Icon and technological marvel.
Vote here for your Great British Desgn Icon, because frankly I can't see where any future ones are coming from.
Later, GrocerJack
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