Concorde with Concorde beating other British design icons such as the Mini, mini skirt, Jaguar E-Type, Tube map, the World Wide Web, K2 telephone box and the Supermarine Spitfire. The heads of France and the United Kingdom flew Concorde many times. Presidents Georges Pompidou, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and François Mitterrand regularly used Concorde as French flagman aircraft in foreign visits. Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Ministers Edward Heath, Jim Callaghan, Margaret Thatcher, John Major and Tony Blair took Concorde in some charter flights such as the Queen's trips to Barbados on her Silver Jubilee in 1977, in 1987 and in 2003,
HMS Concorde (1783) 9 September she captured four privateers, the 8-gun "Buonaparte", 10-gun "Amazone", 4-gun "Sauveur" and 2-gun "Fortune". "Concorde"s success against privateers continued with the capture of the 18-gun "Prudente" on 14 February 1799 and the 6-gun "San Josef" off Oporto in December 1800 and the 1-gun "San Miguel el Volante" on 1 December 1800. "Concorde" had a narrow escape from a French squadron under Rear-Admiral Honoré Joseph Antoine Ganteaume, which had sailed from Brest on 23 January 1801. The French sighted "Concorde" off Cape Finisterre on 27 January, and the 40-gun "Bravoure" was sent to chase her down. "Concorde" cast off