Corncorde - Atlanta airport - Georgia - USA
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N 33° 38.438 W 084° 25.434
16S E 738925 N 3725288
Corncorde was commissioned for the International Concourse of the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in 1996, and installed just prior to the Olympic Games.
Waymark Code: WM17BT5
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 01/22/2023
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The 10 foot long "jet corn" with a 10 foot "shuckspan" was carved from tulip poplar and painted with oil paint. Corncorde can be seen at gate E-16. If you take the tram to Concourse E, go up the escalator and walk straight ahead past the long corridors on the right and left. Corncorde will be straight ahead on your left.
Giant Flying Corn Art Featured At Airport
Credits
The weekly photo goes to Atlanta airport for installing a huge corn airplane.
Here it is described by the Atlanta airport:
“At Gate E-16 is probably the largest flying ear of corn you will ever see. From Nutt’s “Flying Vegetable” series, the design was inspired by jetliners. With its wings swept back, leaping into flight the corn is propelling upward to cruising altitude. This humorous work was hand-carved by Nutt from wood and painted to capture the details of this indigenous American crop. To accompany the flying corn, Nutt created an air traffic control tower. Nothing is more appropriate to guide the “Corncorde” on its journey than a tower composed of a giant carrot and motorized spinning butter bean also made out of carved and painted wood. “