The Rise & Fall Of Concorde
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- Concorde, for 27 years, was arguably the pinnacle of commercial aviation. The jet traveled at over 1350mph and changed the perception of travel forever.
The plane was able to fly from London to New York in around 3 hours, on a flight today this would take 8 hours. The plane was ultimately an incredible achievement, which unfortunately suffered many setbacks which eventually led to its slow death.
This video looks back at the development, operations, and retirement of this iconic aircraft.
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Without a doubt, Concorde was the most beautiful aircraft ever designed and I'm not sure that there will be another aircraft that could come even close to her looks. 🇬🇧🇬🇧✌✌
All though I have never flown on Concorde (because I am 15) Its my favorite airplane! I really hope Boom Supersonic build the Overture and I hope that one day I will fly on it!
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last time I was this early Liverpool were title contenders😂
Last time I was this early, Manchester United were still PL champions
Last time I was this early, I had a dad
Last Time I was this early, England won the Worldcup
Last time I was this early, the TU144 crashed during the Paris airshow
last time I was this early Heysel happened
I've watched dozens of videos about Concorde but this is the first time I've heard of any non-New York routes. I had no idea they flew to so many places over the years!
Another well done and explained video!
She was beautiful! I will never forget the sight of seeing her fly over, land and take-off. They used to fly Concorde into Toronto (YYZ) in the summer twice a week and I saw her many times.
Oh and you forgot to mention that she had to have her name spelled the French was of Concorde (with the E) at the insistence of the French Government, or they would not be involved in the project.
Typical French reaction with the E, the French were instrumental in permanent grounding by Airbus withdrawing the Certificate of Airworthness, Air France poor management and maintenance also contributed to the crash. BA could of kept Flying Concorde for at least another 10 years, but the French Didn't
Wow, I got Goosebumps. Concorde will be remembered forever
Concordes crash was not it's fault something had fallen off another aircraft taking off before that caused the disaster.
Concorde was the pinnacle of beauty and romance. The get a ride on her, passing the Mach 2 target was the wish of so many people across the world, and achieved by few.
The modern attempts, by comparison are nowhere near as beautiful, much smaller, and aimed at the elite. Considering most of the hard work was done 50+ years ago, there's not much bragging to be done. Far less of an achievement today with technologies 50 years more advanced, there's little excitement in it. With what the modern aims are, I seem little more than a military fast jet with civilian paint schemes.
However, if money wasn't everyone's first consideration, and more people willing to take the risks without fear, we could see the likes of a revamped SR-71 adjusted for civilian life, and expanded for larger gross take off weight. Or maybe, Concorde itself brought up to 21st century standards. Not too hard to imagine, but too hard to fund.
Let we believe that we can another Concorde in the sky soon.
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Technology has caught up with challenges that imposed the Concorde era. There is no better time to get another supersonic transporter.
😎 Concorde was one of the world's finest planes ever made by man and supersonic travel is coming back with the company BOOM .its a shame concorde was a bit expensive back then but until they stopped it from flying in 2003 😊supersonic travel is so fun that u get 2 your destination in no time and your back home even be4 you say hello to your neighbours u left behind, for sure it will not be cheap.
I really miss Concorde her 😢
The most beautiful airplane ever to fly! 😎👍
The true Queen of the skies
I am currently in Barbados, and beside the airport is the concorde exibit which is sadly closed at the moment. There is also talk about sinking a concorde here and making it a dive site!
I hope they only want to sink a replica (?)
@@spongebubatz they want to sink a real one
@@niklasdanchenko3893 I hope they don’t get a permission for that
Oooh, been waiting for this one!
What a legendary feat of engineering!!!
The lucky people who’ve flown on it 🤩
3:39 The order from the old United Airlines is interesting. Old United was primarily a domestic airline until sometime in the 80s.
Although the Concorde had just one severe crash the problems with the tires couldn’t be solved. Delta wings are very efficient at high speeds but don’t create a lot of uplift. That’s why the Concorde needed a huge pitch angle to be able to start. Due to that there was always a lot of pressure on tires and fuselage. There are some other cases of Concorde tires exploding, but the pilots always managed to land safely afterwards. In July 2000 a Concorde crashed because of a metal strip from a DC-10 lying on the runway. It ripped apart the tire and the tire fragments caused the fuel tanks behind it to explode. After this incident engineers thought about strengthening the fuselage and the tires, but dismissed this idea due to the high weight increases they would’ve meant.
One of the few planes that my Husky Achilles was able to walk thru at the uss intrepid air museum
I wonder if it wasn't the accident that hurt it's reputation but that perfectly timed picture. Hearing a plane go down and seeing it are two different things.
The greatest aircraft ever created. In history, we are sometimes lucky enough to witness greatest acts beyond anything.
Mohammed Ali, the McLaren F1, Ayrton Senna, Usain Bolt, the Saturn V, Abraham Lincoln, the Flying Scotsman, Julius Caesar, the SS Great Britain, Winston Churchill, and here, Concorde. The greatest of all time.
Last video of long haul by simple flying :(
No, NOT the last video! They've brought it back!
@@aviationchannel6204 yep
It’s wasn’t just the price of the ticket but for how big it was it didn’t carry a lot of people. It has almost the same capacity as the Boeing 737
Concorde is my Favorit plane i have been in a concorde before By the way
It seems to me, that Concorde must be on every aviation channel....
If you mention her, you should tell how the french deliberately killed the Concorde program...
The fact that a DC-10 caused the crash of the Concorde and people think it’s Concorde’s fault makes my blood boil
The idiot captain (no better words for his action: take off with tail wind while overweight and cog is way behind operational limits) and Air France ( missing spacer)
It was still way to fragile and most aircraft would’ve been able to sustain running over a piece of metal
@@EvanAviator Concorde has survived a similar incident in the USA!
The boneheaded captain doomed that right when he overfilled the tanks, put on extra luggages (cog), took off with tail wind and did not burn enough taxi fuel! The role of the missing spacer is a bit controversial.
Each and every planes crashes when it it stretches beyond physical limits. And Marty stretched it....
the concorde is absolutely not a safe aircraft
Most confusing route ever - Dallas and Dulles, also so happy that Dulles was mentioned in this video!
We will see a plane like this again but it just won’t be the same. I would like to see a colab between the U.K. and France to try this again it can’t be that hard or even a Concorde replica with all Electronic Cockpit
It’s crazy to think Concorde first flew the same year Neil Armstrong first landed on the moon as well as the airplane being nearly only 66 years old at the time.
Imagine if someone was born in 1869 and they lived during when Concorde first flew.
Can you do the Rise and Fall of the 757 and 767?
7:50 Given that the crash of the Tu-144 (both, in fact) had nothing to do with supersonic travel, I very much doubt that airlines would be thinking as is suggested here. Public perception, however, is another thing. Also, it was 9/11 that did for Concorde.
Yes, it is possible. Using regular quiet jet engine for take-off and landing, then using the turbo jet engine while cruising.
And where do you hide the regular engines during Mach 2 cruise?
In other words, carrying around dead weight used for just a small portion of the flight.
Wasn’t the crash due to a previous planes part on the runway being runover by the Concorde
Yes. A metal wear strip from an engine. Concorde ran over it, tire exploded and debris hit bottom of the wing. That caused the wing tank to rupture and leak fuel. Landing gear was also hit and retracting the gear was impossible, slowing plane down. Fire started with sparks from damaged landing gear wires. Eventually the fire damaged the wing causing it to lose lift and plane rolled and hit the ground. Wing tanks were also more full than usual, causing the rupture to be larger than ever thought possible. Many things went wrong that day, and even one of those things happening, they would have been able to land safely at Le Bourget Airport.
@@RoyalMela that’s why it’s so frustrating that this was such a major reason why it died
I wouldn't say the crash had much to do with it. Look at the Boeing Max 2 Crash, Boeing Dreamliner caught fire well parked and A factory full of people who wont fly on it, Airbus A320 Crash During An Airshow, The md-80 crashes but all these planes were able to continue to fly. They didn't have the notice problems or the super high full price
The last airline cancelled its orders in 1980. That is 20 years before the only crash of a Concorde. So how can the crash have been a reason for cancellation??
Also the concorde crashed becoz of a stupid dc-10.....the dc-10 had left debri on the runway and becoz of that the concorde's tire blew creating a fire.....so becoz of some dumb dc-10 the most amazing plane got shutdown
@@priyamageshvaran2503 okay for like the 725th time i told someone that, it was NOT the fault of the DC-10. Blame Continental Airlines for not maintaining their aircraft properly.
@@ateltoni OK yes it was the Airlines fault too.....but the dc-10 even when u took care of it some problem would have happened....coz back in those days planes were not that advanced and strong to withstand today's world
@@priyamageshvaran2503 DC-10 was completely fine to operate even in the year 2000. Biman Bangladesh even operated it until 2014 without any problems. Oh and FedEx also still flies these around and there haven’t been any issues, so i really want to know, what your point is.
It will be at least 50 years before we see supersonic aircraft in passenger service. Aviation has and still is suffering from the pandemic, so many planes have either been retired, stored or are flying empty. It's going to be a looooong time before we can even seriously talk about the supersonic aircraft.
anyone had the luck to see a Concorde? if so then please share ur experience :)
The last BA Concorde flight flew overhead as it was descending for its final landing when I was 5 and I just remember this huge rumble that shook your entire body
@@giacdesiderio1230 ahh awesome! U r lucky :)
I saw one at the seattle museum of flight if that counts
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@@aviation7479 you should check out the AirFrance Concorde at the Technik Museum Sinsheim.. theres a Tupolev TU-144 and you can go in them and its awesome
I like to see Concorde fly again with the boom plane so it can show its size against the little boom jet.
The last good long haul video. Rest in peace. You was not as majestic as Concorde, but you were good.
The fuel crisis of 1973/74 was the biggest killer, effective stopped the project dead in it’s tracks.
Concorde trivia -- Does anyone know the only time (as far as I know) TWO Concordes landed simultaneously at the same airport? Late '80's, I believe. Only time I ever saw one...no TWO, on their approach to the landing. If anyone knows where this was, reply...will check back in a day or two with the answer.
Easy answer: Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport during its grand opening in 1973. I know because i lived in Dallas for twenty years and had watched Concorde landing and taking off there from 1978 to 1980. Interesting tidbit: DFW was only airport in the United States that allowed the Concorde to take off at full power until it reached the cruising altitude (IAD, MIA, and JFK didn't allow) because the airport was surrounded by empty land in the 1970s. I never forget to this day how deafening the Concorde take-off was and how beautiful the afterburner flame cones out of the engines!
@@InTeCredo Great! I stand corrected as I did not know of the DFW landing. It wasn't the only one, however; the one I know of was at Orlando (Fl.) International, in the '80's. Don't know what the occasion was.
@@Pilski This was in October 1982 and was to commemorate the opening of the French and British Pavilions at Epcot World Showcase.
Grrr, I just saw this…I’m going w JFK, I think they were on their way to US museums…I’m guessing one at Udvar-Hazy and the other on the Intrepid’s deck. I saw the one in Chantilly, so beautiful. I wish the museum could have shown it to more of an aesthetic advantage akin to the Blackbird there.
Edit, hmm, didn’t know about DFW. I could swear I saw a photo of two about to land prior to their final resting places…maybe they were European museums.
@@ronjon7942 On the final day of commercial flights, there were three Concordes that landed at London Heathrow, one after the other, on 24th Oct 2003. That could be the ones you're thinking of in your edit part of your comment?
No, not as large but it was a beautiful plane👏🏽👏🏽
The aircraft retired 1 year before I was born. Wow
This video made me cry😭.
Boeing lobbied the US congress aggressively after the cancellation of it's own project and overplayed Sonic Boom in order to stop cross country services.
She’s a pretty thing. Easy on the eyes.
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Concorde was the best looking passenger aircraft of all time, I was at LHR on that final day of service when the 3 Concorde landed one after another, after the final touchdown aviation stepped back 30 years and the flying time to JFK doubled if not tripled in some cases. Unfortunately the French played a huge part in getting this magnificent aircraft grounded for good British Airways operations were far more successful than Air Chance and I am sure BA would off continued services if the French had allowed it, why in all your graphics is Concorde shown with the nose dropped ?
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people think that aircrafts like 747-8 and a380s are useless aircrafts and consider then to be a burden on their pockets ,will they accept these really troublesome , noisy and fuel inefficient aircrafts in their fleets. according to current situation i don't think they ever will .even if they buy them they will soon land in storages or in hangers as these aircrafts need high precision maintenance or it may lead to a catastrophe. there is also a possibility that the airlines may go bankrupt .
747-8i and A380 aren't exactly troublesome, noisy, and fuel inefficient as you claimed. They serve purpose of ferrying a larger number of passengers to the airports with limited slots like London Heathrow. They are much more fuel efficient and much quieter than the older four-engined planes.
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Who in their right mind would operate Concorde ONLY subsonically? That is highly uneconomical
Ya but not big as Concorde very sad
So in the 20th century we had the Space Shuttle, Concorde & faster subsonic aircraft. In the 21st century, we have, em..., er..., the 737-Max & P&W engines that fall from the sky...
@Arthur Humphreys I did mean them both as separate entities; Boeing forcing a square block into a round hole. And P&W’s recent 4 issues.
@Arthur Humphreys Mmm... The 737-Max was grounded for 18 months and the pilots were found not to be at fault, since they followed ‘Boeing training & procedures’, where Boeing didn’t mention MCAS.
As for the P&W engines: In light of the problem, these aircraft were grounded, since the cause was metal fatigue in the fan blades, which was not raised by P&W previously. Therefore, it wouldn’t be fair to blame each airlines maintenance.
In both cases; it’s really a case of, if it’s not in the manual/guidelines , you don’t know it’s there, which is why the manufacturer’s have been held accountable.
In the 20th century, "we" didn't really have those things. Very few people flew on a Concorde. There's a recurring sense of nostalgia about what it was like flying 20+ years ago, where the comfort enjoyed by a lucky few 1st class passengers are assumed to have been typical for passengers as a whole. I know better, I've been a passenger since the 1970's and remember how uncomfortable, time consuming and exhausting an experience it was, tolerated because it beat the alternative. Today, it's cleaner, safer and more available. We didn't have the 737 MAX story...because tolerance for aviation dangers were much higher. A 737 MAX story wouldn't have gotten the same attention back then.
As for the Space Shuttle, we didn't really have that either. As initially described, STS was supposed to be a low-cost alternative to expendable launchers, with orbiters capable of 100 flights. In fact, between development and launch costs, it cost $450 million to launch a shuttle on the average. As for a 100-flight life cycle, there were only about 135 flights for the entire fleet, with Discovery leading the fleet by flying only 39 missions. The shuttle was itself a step-down in expectations from the Apollo era, with missions to Mars and a permanent presence on the moon.
21st century technology is both far more sophisticated and accessible than that of the 20th century.
No mention of the ever increasing maintenance costs? And what about the 60+ cases of tires exploding on takeoff?
So? That's dumbest argument I've ever heard!
The maintenance cost always increases as the airplane ages, not only for Concorde but for EVERY airplane from Airbus, Boeing, McDonnell Douglas, Lockheed, Embraer, Bombardier, etc. That's why the airways try to keep the average of fleet age under 10 years old or so. Virtually, 100% of Concorde parts comes from the same material that other airplanes have. Nothing exotic or unobtanium.
The tyre disintegration event is common for many airplanes, not just Concorde, anyway. Let's do the math: 60 over 27 years of operations worked out about 2.2 blowouts per year, which is way below the average for other airplanes. Ok, fun factor: how many times have Concorde engine exploded like ones on Boeing 737, Boeing 777 (recently), and Airbus A380? None.
There may be have just this one crash it is history .. 20 years after the last orders had been cancelled. This is just Plaine wrong.
A gorgeous airfame but one that consisted of Mid 1960 technology. The Concorde never evolved
Air France aircraft that crashed was over loaded over fuelled in poor condition and the pilots made big mistakes. The aircraft design itself was not really at fault.
I don't think so. It was a rogue piece of metal left on the runway by another airliner that punctured the fuel tank.
@@dahorn100011 That’s what the French investigators concluded, but they’re not exactly unbiased since at the time Air France was government owned and operated. I don’t buy into most conspiracy theories, but there is lots of evidence that Air France was solely to blame for the crash. The firefighters on the airport reported seeing flames far sooner during the takeoff than the Continental debris was found. The British investigators were restricted from viewing much of the wreckage, even though they were supposed to be equal partners in the whole program. However, one British investigator noted that a bushing from the left landing gear was missing from the wreckage. The absence of that bushing would have misaligned the wheels, contributing to increased drag and premature tire wear. The flight crew opted to depart overweight, with a tailwind, from a runway in poor condition, and forced the plane into the air far slower than normal. The flight engineer shut down an engine while the plane was still too slow, without consulting the captain.
@@nickcarey4566 Thanks for your post. I’ve never heard most of the things you mentioned with regard to the Concord crash. Do you have any sources.
@@skyserf I saw a documentary on TV a few years back. I'll try to find a title or link if it's still available.
@@nickcarey4566 Thx
Do you know what is Concorde V2 for 21st century? A380.
Technological marvel but commercial disaster, typical Europe.
New SST may have to find away of going Electric to avoid the noise, but this may well be 30 or 40 years from now, to get the battery design for the range. Sadly, I doubt I will be here to see this. The Delta Wings will just be huge batteries in the sky.
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Wierd. I saw this on the Simple Flying Channel...
To fly at Mach 2 would always cause excess pollution
Flown a concorde with my parents back in the 90s and i thought that was a waste of money for the tickets.
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