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The nearly almost last time the British fooled the French (or was it the other way round?) was the day the convinced each other to build one of the most amazing, anachronic and fascinating inventions of
the XXth Century, the Concorde.We recently created a new section within our blogsite to what we call "inventos bizarros" that is wild, recklees, bizarre inventions which no one else dares to construct. The latest one we wrote of, was the Concorde.
A result of the anachronistic technology of Great Britain in the aftermath of World War II, the Concorde was a business failure from the very beggining, a trap in which both the British and the French State were caught up, spending loads and loads of money in a product which never seemed to arrive to be profitable.
So it did in the end, almost a few years before the blast of one of them leaving for NYC, which seemed to put an end to the only 20 aircrafts that came to be constructed in the whole history of it, a putting and end to this disastrous experience.
Not so ruinful was it, as it seems. AIRBUS aircrafts seemed to heir a lot of its design, and the new european aerospatial icon seems to be a terrible terrible enemy to its former challenger the Boeing, in a fascinating dead hear race which is making both the american and the european company revolution airship market.
However, we could not avoid here paying a little hommage to that anachronic, magical invention, which enables us to say to kids, in the wake of such a high-speed XXIst Century world, something as strange, as beautiful and uthopian as: "In my times, there was a faster plane than today´s ones, you see? It was able to cross the Athlantic in three hours, half the time a commercial plane does today".
A pleasure to say so. No? At last for the time we can-.
