London Olympics 2012: Gold Plane Set To Deliver The Torch To The UK Unveiled

We've Already Got Olympic Gold! Plane To Transport Torch Unveiled

The striking gold and yellow plane that will bring the Olympic Flame from Athens to the UK later this week has been unveiled.

Images of the British Airways A319 aircraft that will land in Cornwall on Friday have been released by the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG).

The aircraft - named The Firefly - will bring the flame into RNAS Culdrose ahead of its 70 day journey around the UK.

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The Firefly name was decided on following an appeal for suggestions from pupils at schools and colleges in the London 2012 Get Set network.

More than 1,000 entries were received and pupils from three different schools suggested The Firefly.

The paint job took nine days to complete

The winners are Sana Hussain, 13, from New Horizon Community School, in Leeds; Jessica Spencer-Ades, 10, from Woolhampton Primary School, in Reading, and Konika Verma, nine, from Lower Fields Primary School, in Bradford.

Locog said the flame-coloured livery on The Firefly took engineers nine days to complete and used 250 litres of gold, white and four shades of yellow paint.

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