O CONCORDE E A MARCHA DE “THUNDERBIRDS”

O CONCORDE E A MARCHA DE “THUNDERBIRDS”

Thunderbirds is very popular with real-world scientists, inventors and engineers, much to creator Gerry Anderson ‘s own surprise. Gerry had an interest in aircraft from his boyhood days as his brother Lionel was a pilot in the RAF during the World War 2. This interest took him to Feltham, England, where the Supersonic Aircraft “Concorde” was being built. A design engineer gave Anderson a tour of the facility. “I was dreading that he would ask me what work I did” recalled Anderson, “because here was state-of-the-art aircraft, supersonic, and here I was, a filmmaker of puppet shows.” The engineer did, indeed, ask Anderson what he did for a living, but he remained evasive until he finally offered only that he was in film business and finally later that he was a producer. The engineer persisted. “Finally I mumbled Thunderbirds” says Anderson. The response was electric. “I was told. ‘Don’t move!’ He ran upstairs and all of the designers came down with him. They talked with me for an hour. All of them were fans. They even had a theory that Thunderbird 2 would fly if it were built. Quite amazing. I thought they would all sort of laugh.” When the Concorde made its maiden flight to Toulouse, France, to be unveiled, it was greeted by the Band of the Royal Marines striking up Barry Gray’s Thunderbirds March.

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