Lego Concorde released for IDR 3 million
TIME.CO, Jakarta – Lego The group has released a new product in the form of agrees Set to. “Concorde can be said as one airplane the most iconic and famous in history”, quoted by the company website on Thursday, August 10, 2023.
Concorde can fly at twice the speed of sound which is called supersonic. But now it’s just a memory because the Concorde is no longer on the air. As an engineering masterpiece, Concorde is now available in the form of Lego bricks that can be displayed on cabinets or tables in residents’ homes.
If you are interested in owning one, prepare a seat that contains an airplane 105cm long and 43cm wide. On the box contains 2,083 parts of an accurate scale model of the aircraft.
The position of the aircraft can be set as if it is flying or in tilt mode for takeoff and landing. So builders can use three cool tricks on the arm. Not only does it capture many of the original plane’s iconic curves, but it has an amazing Lego mechanism hidden inside to raise and lower its landing gear with a twist of the tail cone at the end.
The hidden gears operate along most of the length of the aircraft, and at the front Concorde’s distinctive sloping nose can be manually lowered, which pilots would do to improve visibility during takeoff and landing, before raising it again to simplify. As with real airplanes, there is a second windshield mounted inside the windshield.
This miniature retails for US$199.99 or approximately Rp. 3 million, intended for assemblers who are over 18 years old. The sale takes place on 4 September 2023 for LEGO VIPs and 7 September 2023 for all.
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Concorde was built in the 1960s as part of a joint venture between England and France. This is the first supersonic passenger aircraft to become a commercial aircraft.
Meanwhile, it has been reported that there is investment in the field of supersonic aircraft again. “United Airlines, American Airlines and Japan Airlines have all ordered 130 aircraft from Boom Supersonic, targeting 2027 for first flight,” reports The Verge.
NASA is still preparing its X-59 Quest prototype to collect data on the possibility of silent supersonic flight on the ground, also aiming to deliver results by 2027.
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