Lego Concorde

Now this will be a pretty cool gift for kids into lego.

From: JAF Communications Inc. "Appealing to collectors who care more about details and accuracy than play value, Lego's Icons line has delivered everything from brick-built recreations of the Titanic to NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery. But as an aviation enthusiast who still remembers first seeing the Concorde visit my city's small airport when I was just 10 years old, I jumped at the chance to give Lego's 2,083-piece recreation of the now retired supersonic passenger plane a test flight. A close-up of the Lego Concorde's instruction manual. The 290+ page instruction manual for the Lego Concorde is peppered with interesting facts about the real aircraft.The Messenger | Andrew Liszewski First, some background. The real Concorde was an impressive feat of aviation engineering that never had the chance to reach its full potential. Created through a collaboration between France and the United Kingdom, it was the first and only non-Soviet passenger aircraft capable of regular supersonic travel. This allowed it to fly 100 passengers at twice the speed of sound—Mach 2.04, or 1,354 MPH—across the Atlantic ocean in just three hours. It was meant to revolutionize air travel, but competition from the Boeing 747 (which could instead carry over 500 passengers), cost overruns, a limited range and a steep price tag meant that just 20 Concordes were ever built. The plane served as a novelty until it eventually ceased commercial service in 2003."