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by cafard 895 days ago
According to Wikipedia, the Concorde was agreed on in 1962 and had its first test flight in 1969. One usually counts the Baby Boom as starting in 1945. How many 17-year-olds were authorized to sign off on such expensive products in 1962? And how many 24-year-olds were aeronautical engineering leads in 1969?

I'm not so sure about the nationalism--it was a joint British and French project.