As it's over a year since we last looked at
these here and less than 660-days to Christmas, time we looked at them again,
and we'll start with another report from the January Toy Fair . . . it's been a
funny year!
Ohhh! Pretty Lady, what happened to you?
Forty-years of Thatcherite-Raganomic,
bigoted, middle-England, parochial, reactionary, Tory-policy, that's what, and
what they did to you they're now doing to the whole country! Although we can't
escape from the fact you were only ever a planet-destroying, Anglo-French
vanity-project for the very rich, so maybe museums are the best place for you?
It's a Concord glider, in laser-cut,
coated-balsa wood, too cool for aviation-school! In the background an even more
traditional - undecorated, plain balsa - glider, but with the added gimmick of
adjustable wing positions to provide what I believe they call 'variable
flight-profiles'!
Two more; there aren't many 'Icons of the
Air' you can collect the whole fleet-of, but Concord is definitely one, with a
few rub-down letters and a bit of Tipex
you could make the whole BA-fleet!
Meanwhile, in the background you can see
two more Icons of the Air, namely Spitfires and Hurricanes from WWII.
My favourite, I know the Spitfire was
prettier, faster, more manoeuvrable . . . yada, yada, yada, but this did the
bulk of the work and could take more punishment, it's the 'British Bulldog' to
the Spit's greyhound!
The other one! I don't know if you've
realised from the camera-shots, but these are much bigger than the
pocket-money, enveloped, expanded polystyrene ones we were looking at in the
main last time, this is around 1:48th, even 1:32nd maybe? I suspect that both
fighter-plane models are based on Battle of Britain Memorial flight airframes?
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