NOTE: this is the original Beluga, NOT the Beluga XL with the cute face. The Concorde is not specifically Pepsi Concorde, but you can imagine it is if it helps.
@flavinbagel (who also provided the delightful meme above): "What? It can't be!! But yes, your fave (and mine) is problematic, bestie. It's hard to ignore the elegance, the feat of ingenuity and human accomplishment, and the sheer engineering excellence of the fastest airliner to operate in commercial service. It's all too easy, then, to ignore that there were reasons why the Concorde was more commercially viable as a Lego set than as an aircraft. For one thing, it was loud when it was slow, and it was even louder when it was fast, and while being on the thing was grand, being below it (as most of us were) sucked major droop snoot. It also used 3 times more fuel per passenger than a 747 making the same transatlantic trek, while spewing soot and CO2 directly into the ozone layer. This was known for decades, but what has changed in view of more modern light is probably the prestige aspect of the supersonic airliner; flying Concorde meant being part of an elite club that proved you were in the big boy's club, where the wealthy and powerful shake hands with fistfuls of cash and a knowing nod. Hard now to believe we once viewed that with anything less than dreaded disgust, and the Concorde's legacy has soured with that shift. "It let you go to more meetings in one day!" so what? Meetings suck! Perhaps then, like the Saturn V or the Big Boy locomotive, the Concorde deserves to remain a revered marvel of engineering history, but history nonetheless."
Anonymous: "It is called a Beluga, but unlike the current Beluga XL planes, Airbus didn't bother painting cute whale faces on them... Lame!"
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