Why was the Concorde named the Conorde?

Question

Why was the Concorde named the Conorde?

Answer 1

why ask why?  the num-nuts who made it were probably eating grapes at the time or smoking crack

Answer 2

It's just one of those funky French things.

Answer 3

"Flaming Lawn Dart" was already taken.

Answer 4

condor, Concorde ?

Answer 5

Because naming it "Fred" would just be silly.

Answer 6

"Concorde" means "agreement" in French.  The name was chosen by the coalition of designers and manufacturers that produced the airplane.

Answer 7

It became obvious at a Paris airshow in the mid 1950s that both English and French companies had very similar supersonic aircraft in pre-production. An agreement, or concord* was drawn up between the two nations to jointly develop the aircraft with a 50/50 stake in all costs. The agreement had a clause that stated if either party decided to cancel the program at any time, that party would be responsible for the cost of the entire program up to that time.

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It was obvious early on that the plane would not sell but neither party wanted to pull out of the agreement because a huge amount of money had already been spent.

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To the dismay of the English the French started spelling the name as Concorde, the french way. The English graciously went along with the French spelling.

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*http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/concord

Answer 8

When the Concorde was developed, Great Britain and France were not at the best of terms... France and Continental Europe was in the process of creating the European Common Market in the 1960s and 1970s (which became today's European Union). Great Britain wanted to join too but France kind of resisted letting GB join.

In any case, Britain and France finally realised that in order to develop a supersonic airliner they need to combine their resources and technologies, and named the jet the Concorde to commemorate the fact that they're cooperating after a period of economic hostility.