Concorde - A Great Future Behind Us.
It's easy to knock the crass commercialism of the London 2012 Olympics. That's why I keep doing it on a semi-regular basis.
But whoever decided to market a promotional toy of an aeroplane originally designed and built in conjunction with the French, and which hasn't flown commercially since 2003*, decked out with the official 2012 logo really needs to re-examine that "forward-thinking" part of the remit:
Buy it here: http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/3887550/Trail/searchtext%3ECONCORDE.htm
Go on. Do it for Britain! (Model of defunct London Routemaster bus also available. Probably.)
*http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3211053.stm
But whoever decided to market a promotional toy of an aeroplane originally designed and built in conjunction with the French, and which hasn't flown commercially since 2003*, decked out with the official 2012 logo really needs to re-examine that "forward-thinking" part of the remit:
Buy it here: http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/3887550/Trail/searchtext%3ECONCORDE.htm
Go on. Do it for Britain! (Model of defunct London Routemaster bus also available. Probably.)
*http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3211053.stm