Remember going to Gatwick airport for a holiday at the age of 13. I think we were going to Romania. I do remember waiting at the gate to board near the Windows when Concorde came to a stop at a nearby gate so that it's nose was facing the window where I stood, and then the nose moved. I don't remember much of the holiday clearly but I do recall thinking that that plane was one of the most beautiful things i had ever seen.
I really do miss seeing this fly over. It blew my mind when I was a kid and I couldn’t understand why it had to go back then. Obviously money and that once accident but still… It’s really kinda sad seeing such a magnificent bird as a museum piece.
I've seen the air and space Concorde in person and I was amazed by the sheer size, never got to see her fly in person but seeing her in person in a museum just made me appreciate the aircraft
As a young lad of 13 got to witness a Concorde takeoff from London close up, we just happened to be at the oversized luggage depot which is right alongside one of the runways. I ran up to the fence just in time to see her bank slightly to the right with engines roaring. She was very quick.
@arcadia449 I used to live in Reading in the early 00's so she was rattling my windows every now and then. Also was working in Rolls Royce where the pride for this project is embedded in the company DNA. It was a beautiful thing they made. Funnily my son (now 8) is discovered this aircraft from my books and is obsessed about it without me saying anything to him.
+Jake B Nope. All in unflyable storage. Then there's G-BOAB (Golf Bravo Oscar Alpha Bravo) dismembered behind a hangar at London Heathrow Airport (EGLL), which I find bloody sickening.
Its sad, something more advanced than what we fly on now is in a museum, it doesn't belong there. Like spaceflight, we have taken a giant step backwards to pre-1970s sluggish flight.
Back in the day, my colleagues were building the M11 motorway up to Cambridge. At the time Concorde had not yet arrived at Duxford. The other large aircraft were already there, I guess. My colleagues had instructions to hold on the (what is now) M11 going past Duxford because the clear approach, available length of runway, safety zones had to be maintained for Concorde's arrival. Concorde flew in and as soon as it had come to a stop the “machines” moved-in to build the M11.
FadilProXD GT How's it not real? Do they have holodecks over in the UK? Maybe they do. I love there so I'll have to ask my friend Bruce. Besides, the inside of a test aircraft is even cooler. Plus there's a quick shot of the flight deck.
It's always very difficult to film in the restricted environment of a display hall - but you've made a pretty damn good job of it. A little too much "pan" and "zoom" but I'm just as guilty of that myself. PLUS no crappy overdubbed musak (for which I applaud you and thank you most sincerely). Very interesting.
Yes. That was always my dream when I was a kid.. to look inside a Concorde. The cockpit is fantastic, even if it now seems a bit technologically old fashioned.
I was flying with my uncles brother in law who was a flight nut studying to be an air traffic controller in the late 90’s. He was filming planes in London (or ny I can’t remember) when a Concorde pulled in. When the nose cone dropped and he filmed by mistake we stood there speechless for seconds.
I thought this was video was about "noise lowering!" LOL! I experienced Concorde in two ways: 1/ I watched as one did touch and goes at Prestwick. It was incredibly noisy! Even for its time. I was never closer than a mile or so from it. Still it was "I need ear protection here!" loud. 2/ I live in Nova Scotia, Canada. For years, we South Shore residents heard rather mysterious booms. Not loud, not obnoxious by any means, but certainly noticeable. It was quite some time before the general public got an explanation for these curious "thumps." It was Concorde inbound to New York City.
I visited another museum in UK, they also have the Concorde , this airplane is smaller than i thought, when i saw it in movies, documentaries i thought it was a big plane, it isn't. Compared to a 747 this thing is small.
I remember the visor lowering a lot smoother then this.. and in demonstrations prior to this one. It lowered smoothly and slowly throughout the range. This time it has a nasty drop and hard stop at the beginning before slowly lowering. Hydraulics getting worn out from repeated demonstrations plus lack of maintenance?
When I was younger I used to work as a cashier in a grocery supermarket in NY. Once in a while this guy would come in and buy a bunch of kiwi's and raspberry's and I forget what else. Then he would comment that these are going to be served to the passengers on the Concorde. He's going to JFK straight from the store. Said he worked for the catering company that supplied the meals to the Concorde.
I wonder how they are powering it? I see thsoe two hoses, likely hydraulic lines. I wonder if they have just disconnected the pistons that control the heat shield and nose, and just connected to a standard hydraulic control manifold and they just pull a lever to move the piston....?
There is a B-727 on display in the Chicago Museum of Science & Industry that can still raise and lower its landing gear and move its flight controls. The interesting thing is that all the hydraulic systems have been modified so they work on compressed air instead of hydraulic fluid. This was done to prevent leaks from dripping fluid onto the floor of the museum. Perhaps this Concorde has been modified the same way.
I'm presuming that it operated faster when it was new? Obviously only one set of wipers are needed. I'm guessing it's operated by two switches (minimal/safeties), one for the screen and another for the nose with them placed at the engineering station (3rd seat)?
Watching its operation with the delay between the screen and nose moving down gave me that impression. Having it as one series of articulations requires several adjustments to prevent misalignment and jamming (ref: 57 Ford Skyliner). I'm sure there must be safeties for both to prevent them form moving at speed.
I also agree. The TSR-2 was way ahead of anything at the time. Again, the spineless government we had, didn't want to upset America or other countries who might have been 'slighted' by our advanced designs in aircraft engineering; and chose to scrap them all. They even wanted to pull the plug on Concorde until they realised it would cost millions to cancel!
No it wasn't, it was a ground-breaking aircraft design that would have had no match in the skies if the project hadn't been shafted by Harold Wilson's government - the government that allowed itself to be harassed by the U.S's bully boy tactics . The cancellation of the TSR2, the scrapping of the remaining airframes, and the criminal destruction of all the tooling that built it, sounded the death-knell of the British aircraft industry. It was a betrayal of the entire nation.
What is this for, really? Does this give some aerodynamic advantage? I can't imagine it's just for visibility. I'd think that visibility with the nose up is enough for taxiing, departing or landing?
@@arcadia449 Bullshit. Without it a birdstrike would "blind" at least half the "pilots" and could take our both "windscreens. The British Concordes were not compliant with FAA/EASA regulations for cockpit "glass" and the nose was a drag-adding clusterfuck attempt to "reduce drag" by adding surface area. It also "droops" to make the aircraft "fit" existing jetways/parking spots because the idiots tried to "save weight" by reducing "cabin doors" and ended up moving the "front" and "main" door so far back that the nose would hit the terminal building before the aircraft was close enough for the jetway. You can't see a damned thing with that shit "dropped" and the pilots' asses still in their seats you can't see with the them up. And who in the fuck flies or taxis looking "straight down" in front of the plane. The "droop snoot" also prevent tuga from "pushing back" on the NLG which is flimsy, lightweight shit on the British Concordes.
Fixed-wing aircraft use a much slower speed for takeoff and landing than they do for cruising. At slower speed the nose needs to be held higher. Concorde's supersonic delta wings needed a *lot* of angle (almost 15 degrees) to land at a reasonably slow speed. Actually, it wasn't exactly "reasonable" - the typical landing speed of 160 knots or more is faster than the "never exceed" speed of many small commercial aircraft. So it wasn't possible to see ahead while approaching a runway or descending at low speed. This is really bad in civilian aviation because "look where you're going" is a safety rule which pilots are expected to follow. Military aviation has different procedures for landing and often use different equipment - both on the aircraft and the ground - but to some extent supersonic military aircraft just live with the risks.
Duxford gets a realy high turnover of visitors each day, they wouldnt last very long at all. From what i remember from visiting, that concorde is a prototype, all the test equipment in there makes it real cramped, im 6ft and rather than sit down id rather go out to be able to stand up straight.
what is the small fillet located just aft of and below the cockpit's side windows? is it a vortex generator? seems like a vortex there would be particularly useful for energizing airflow over the wings during high angle of attack flight regimes.
Yep. The droop snoot. That's what it's called. It was a necessity because the nose was so long. The pilot could not see the taxiway when taxiing otherwise.
I am so sad since months, always it's in my head that this nice plane once flew in the sky and now they are all standing in a museum. In my country Germany, there is in Sinsheim a plane which hasn't got any engines more because they removed them. I am crying because why this plane isn't flying anymore it's doing it's job perfectly and let's young and old generations to smile :( . I hope Club Concorde can get the 2 planes, but I would like that the 2 are flying but the best is that all Concordes come back in the air. To sad :( . RIP Concorde ...
Better approach runway at landing. As the plane is so angled upward and the nose is so long, pilots couldn't see the runway without lowering the nose. And the visor you see going down inside the nose at the beginning is a heat shield. At Mach 2 (the Concorde's cruising speed), air resistance was so strong that its front windows needed a heat shield to not overheat.
Surprisingly small plane, really.Would have been nice to get a view from the cockpit when the nose was down, like the one you had with the nose up, if they had let you.
I flex in one in 1992 I think for a BA promo flight - Jeddah to London. Without a doubt a boyhood dream that came true. 3 hours or so supersonic across the Red Sea and Mediterranean - but by god it's small inside.
David Stuckey sheer fluke - I had a BA return ticket for the normal 767 that day and was offered one way upgrade for about 400 quid then. However someone I knew on the same flight got moved from normal standby to Concorde - how is that for luck??
It seems many of these aircraft in the museum have had their engines removed. I'm guessing it was to provide spare parts for still-operational aircraft?
They arnt all removed, but alot are, some are probably for weight reasons, (some aircraft are hanging) although others have their engines next to them on display, like the sr71 in the american section.
They have to lower the nose so that the pilots can see the runway when landing or take-off. The second windshield is to protect the main one during supersonic flight.
It would be so much easier to make an SST without having to have the overcomplicated lowering nose. HD cameras, 8k displays instead of windows, done and done.
+David Stuckey (Explorer) Exactly. Aviation took a step back by grounding concorde. Not long ago we could travel with the speed of sound. And now? Boeing, airbus? They do not equal to concorde.
Most of the planes here have had their engines removed for spare parts for aircraft the were still in service. During the Falklands War they had to scavenge parts from Vulcan Bombers in museums, etc., for the Vulcan raid on Port Stanley.
Well at least they got the most out of them.. here in the states it’s the same thing for b29 bombers and p51 mustangs n whatnot. Here in san diego they are building huge radial engines out of scavenged parts for an old dc3 they are restoring..
The Conncorde, The Vulcan and the Lightning.....3 of the best aircraft in the world. Only one plane could catch Concorde....the lightning.....only one plane had the same engines as Concorde...the mighty Vulcan.
Because of the shape of the wings, they have to come in at a steeper angle when landing which prevented the pilots from seeing the runway so they devised this method
The snoot drooped.
its a snoot. and it droops.
When Concorde lands *droop snoot*
Fuck you!
someone forgot to droop the snoop.
yep. a snoot that droops
5:13 *Takes off sunglasses*
Now your making me think of CSI
concorde: looks like this 8:44 -CON-cludes the re-CORDE-ing
YEAHHHHHHHHHHH!!
@@abk2k3aaronkauflin83 p u n s
8:44 *Incognito mode activated*
Remember going to Gatwick airport for a holiday at the age of 13. I think we were going to Romania. I do remember waiting at the gate to board near the Windows when Concorde came to a stop at a nearby gate so that it's nose was facing the window where I stood, and then the nose moved. I don't remember much of the holiday clearly but I do recall thinking that that plane was one of the most beautiful things i had ever seen.
I really do miss seeing this fly over. It blew my mind when I was a kid and I couldn’t understand why it had to go back then. Obviously money and that once accident but still…
It’s really kinda sad seeing such a magnificent bird as a museum piece.
I feel we're going backwards? I agree entirely.
I've seen the air and space Concorde in person and I was amazed by the sheer size, never got to see her fly in person but seeing her in person in a museum just made me appreciate the aircraft
This Concorde is 001, first prototype. It's full of instrumentation which was used to monitor her test flights.
I remember being a kid on Brighton Beach, and one of those took off from JFK. The noise it made was immense. I’ll never forget how beautiful that was.
As a young lad of 13 got to witness a Concorde takeoff from London close up, we just happened to be at the oversized luggage depot which is right alongside one of the runways. I ran up to the fence just in time to see her bank slightly to the right with engines roaring. She was very quick.
Proud volunteer youre so Nice
KaiserShep so you were in Brighton, Sussex and you heard it take off in KJFK.
My right ear thoroughly enjoyed this.
Icicle Fledglings calm it
That’s what I’m saying
Only right side? Lol
Mohamad Zacky Aimar he is saying he is wearing headphones and the audio in his left speaker doesn’t work
Sfs Aviation yeah it’s the video not the earphones just putting it out there
That moment when he looked out the window was like..
“You don’t do that while flying a supersonic aircraft, do you?”
I don't think his head would stay on if he did.
I love the tenderness with which people talk about this aircraft.
I've seen it fly a few times and it was awesome.
@arcadia449 I used to live in Reading in the early 00's so she was rattling my windows every now and then. Also was working in Rolls Royce where the pride for this project is embedded in the company DNA. It was a beautiful thing they made.
Funnily my son (now 8) is discovered this aircraft from my books and is obsessed about it without me saying anything to him.
@@GiorgosPlanar Perhaps you could take him to Duxford and let him walk through it?
@arcadia449 no longer living in the UK but next time we come it is on the list :)
Yet its older and much smaller brother the Fairy Delta never gets a mention, that was a damned pretty little aircraft also with the droop nose.
I am proud to have worked on the design of the mechanism which lowered and raised the nose and visor. Also pleased that it still works.
wow! that is so cool!
how long did it take to design?
My hat is off to you. ;-) Fine engineering!
Calli Arcale yes indeed
Peter Valentine you would have to be about 89 now
That bird came to life for a few minutes!!!, hope they keep waking her up once in a while!!
They do this once a month.
Next, get them lovely orange glowing Re-heats going.
David Stuckey Are there any that are still capable of flight?
Quite an interesting demonstration.
+Jake B Nope. All in unflyable storage. Then there's G-BOAB (Golf Bravo Oscar Alpha Bravo) dismembered behind a hangar at London Heathrow Airport (EGLL), which I find bloody sickening.
Its sad, something more advanced than what we fly on now is in a museum, it doesn't belong there. Like spaceflight, we have taken a giant step backwards to pre-1970s sluggish flight.
I agree. We're going backwards.
I see it as slower flights gives you more time to admire the beauty of aviation
But hey that's just me...
Nothing against the Concorde though
That's a good point, as long as you've got a comfortable seat though.
Lol Definetly!
Cee Jay I want Concorde back
Back in the day, my colleagues were building the M11 motorway up to Cambridge.
At the time Concorde had not yet arrived at Duxford. The other large aircraft were already there, I guess.
My colleagues had instructions to hold on the (what is now) M11 going past Duxford because the clear approach, available length of runway, safety zones had to be maintained for Concorde's arrival.
Concorde flew in and as soon as it had come to a stop the “machines” moved-in to build the M11.
That must've been quite a sight?
Pleased you enjoyed my little story. I am unsure as to whether the M11 actually shortened the runway. I was not there myself. Regards
Yes it did. The runway is several hundred yards shorter now.
There you go . Makes the story a bit better
Regards
well my right side sure learned alot
Moto_Nerd Right?😆
Yea? 😂 was that hard to understand.
Or lol wait. Did you mean right as you agree with me or a question? 😂
W is the reason why we lost the concorde. Everything went to shit after W was elected. We lost a lot when W was president. And he didn't give a damn.
ryan 1981 what the hell are you on about 😂
I went to Duxford whenever I lived in england, I went inside of the Concord and had a look at the tanks quite an amazing experience
It is an amazing day out.
5:05 thank me later
Ryan 738 ur a god
Yeah, but at 2:55 you get to see the inside.
HighFlyer but not the real inside
FadilProXD GT How's it not real? Do they have holodecks over in the UK? Maybe they do. I love there so I'll have to ask my friend Bruce. Besides, the inside of a test aircraft is even cooler. Plus there's a quick shot of the flight deck.
What i mean like no chair or something in there whatever
It's always very difficult to film in the restricted environment of a display hall - but you've made a pretty damn good job of it. A little too much "pan" and "zoom" but I'm just as guilty of that myself. PLUS no crappy overdubbed musak (for which I applaud you and thank you most sincerely). Very interesting.
Thank you.
the fact you are allowed to get inside it is awesome man thats cool
Yes. That was always my dream when I was a kid.. to look inside a Concorde. The cockpit is fantastic, even if it now seems a bit technologically old fashioned.
I was flying with my uncles brother in law who was a flight nut studying to be an air traffic controller in the late 90’s. He was filming planes in London (or ny I can’t remember) when a Concorde pulled in. When the nose cone dropped and he filmed by mistake we stood there speechless for seconds.
I have a cracking photo of Concorde skimming along the runway at Hatfield Aerodrome with its nose down. Took it during an open day in 1987.
"Yeah, the snoot went droop."
5:13 when you take off your sunglasses amd you're sad
I thought this was video was about "noise lowering!" LOL!
I experienced Concorde in two ways:
1/ I watched as one did touch and goes at Prestwick. It was incredibly noisy! Even for its time. I was never closer than a mile or so from it. Still it was "I need ear protection here!" loud.
2/ I live in Nova Scotia, Canada. For years, we South Shore residents heard rather mysterious booms. Not loud, not obnoxious by any means, but certainly noticeable. It was quite some time before the general public got an explanation for these curious "thumps." It was Concorde inbound to New York City.
Miss seeing Concorde at Prestwick, even after all these years.
Thank you for the tour of the king of the skies love the Concorde 😍💓✈
I enjoyed it too. Thank you.
Oh wow. Was there March 2020. Glad I found this video as my Iphone memory was filled and I could only take a few pictures.
"they call it a droop snoot because the snoot would droop"
-some weird meme
i believe that clip is in vox’s video on the concorde if you ever need it
I never knew the front windows of the cockpit would drop as well! o.O
2:41 -- Does anyone know the purpose of those numbered markings on the leading edge of the wing?
I'll have to try and find out?
Superb, unique, voilà, sleek design beautiful
I visited another museum in UK, they also have the Concorde , this airplane is smaller than i thought, when i saw it in movies, documentaries i thought it was a big plane, it isn't. Compared to a 747 this thing is small.
It also surprised me how small it was inside.
It’s is the same length. M.
@@rovercoupe7104 747 - 76m, Concorde 62m = 14m difference
No aircraft will ever be like this master piece!!!
I'd love to see footage from inside the cockpit so that the change in the amplitude of the view from the front window can be understood better.
I wanted to film that also but I couldn't be in two places at once....lol.
@@arcadia449 you couldnt? lame
The Most Gorgeous Airplane ever constructed.
The experience is absolutely amazing being there! Such spectacular Engineering! Its a shame that its out of service..
It's awesome being able to walk around the planes.
David Stuckey It really is! It helps put things into perspective how big and wonderful they are!
She is now my favorite aircraft
So, what was the point of this function anyway?
The nose had to be lowered as the Concorde took off so that the pilots could see the runway ahead. It was raised again once the plane was in the air.
I remember the visor lowering a lot smoother then this.. and in demonstrations prior to this one. It lowered smoothly and slowly throughout the range. This time it has a nasty drop and hard stop at the beginning before slowly lowering. Hydraulics getting worn out from repeated demonstrations plus lack of maintenance?
Well spotted.
When I was younger I used to work as a cashier in a grocery supermarket in NY. Once in a while this guy would come in and buy a bunch of kiwi's and raspberry's and I forget what else. Then he would comment that these are going to be served to the passengers on the Concorde. He's going to JFK straight from the store. Said he worked for the catering company that supplied the meals to the Concorde.
Fascinating story. Thank you.
damn, its alive...I am waiting for the return of this sweet lady soon
I saw her fly into Hatfield Aerodrome back in the 1980's and got a terrific shot of her skimming along the runway.
YOU DO? GREAT, WHEN WOULD YOU UPLOAD THOSE SHOTS BUDDY
Upload to where? I can only do Facebook.
MAY YOU PLEASE SEND ANY ONE SHOT OF 1980, MY EMAIL IS "tak2malay24@gmail.com" or sir , via facebook
It's an old black and white print. I'll look for it this weekend and send you a copy.
Great video and thanks for posting 👍🏻
Thank you. Sorry about the audio going mono. I don't know what happened there?
I wonder how they are powering it? I see thsoe two hoses, likely hydraulic lines. I wonder if they have just disconnected the pistons that control the heat shield and nose, and just connected to a standard hydraulic control manifold and they just pull a lever to move the piston....?
I'm hoping that they actually powered up the electrical system, I think they did.
Autogolazzo well it would be hydraulic so would need engine or APU running. Would be nice to see the cockpit light up though
They have a generator wired up to the plane and power it that way.
There is a B-727 on display in the Chicago Museum of Science & Industry that can still raise and lower its landing gear and move its flight controls. The interesting thing is that all the hydraulic systems have been modified so they work on compressed air instead of hydraulic fluid. This was done to prevent leaks from dripping fluid onto the floor of the museum. Perhaps this Concorde has been modified the same way.
Yes they did power-up the electrical system. All the cockpit control panels came to life. It was very impressive.
I'm presuming that it operated faster when it was new? Obviously only one set of wipers are needed.
I'm guessing it's operated by two switches (minimal/safeties), one for the screen and another for the nose with them placed at the engineering station (3rd seat)?
Interesting thought?
Watching its operation with the delay between the screen and nose moving down gave me that impression.
Having it as one series of articulations requires several adjustments to prevent misalignment and jamming (ref: 57 Ford Skyliner).
I'm sure there must be safeties for both to prevent them form moving at speed.
Quite possible?
This aircraft was way ahead of it's,time,it seems so as if it is designed for the current generation!
This is probably going to be a stupid question but why were the engines removed on all the Concordes that went to museums?
Used for spare parts in operational Concordes.
On a related note - damn, the TSR2 was a beautiful plane.
I agree. Curses to Harold Wilson for cancelling that project.
I also agree. The TSR-2 was way ahead of anything at the time. Again, the spineless government we had, didn't want to upset America or other countries who might have been 'slighted' by our advanced designs in aircraft engineering; and chose to scrap them all. They even wanted to pull the plug on Concorde until they realised it would cost millions to cancel!
are you kidding?...that thing was a horrible mess.
No it wasn't, it was a ground-breaking aircraft design that would have had no match in the skies if the project hadn't been shafted by Harold Wilson's government - the government that allowed itself to be harassed by the U.S's bully boy tactics . The cancellation of the TSR2, the scrapping of the remaining airframes, and the criminal destruction of all the tooling that built it, sounded the death-knell of the British aircraft industry. It was a betrayal of the entire nation.
6:27 add the Star Wars soundtrack (when Darth Vader arrives) here.
The interior looks kinda cramped. I wonder how regularly people banged their heads on the overhead bins.
It is surprisingly cramped inside there. I was amazed?
Excellent video. Thank you!
Many thanks.
What is this for, really? Does this give some aerodynamic advantage? I can't imagine it's just for visibility. I'd think that visibility with the nose up is enough for taxiing, departing or landing?
Yes, the nose drooping is so that the pilots can see the runway on take-off and landing.
Duxford is a must for all aviation fans
They holding a 75th Anniversary parachute jump on commemoration of Operation Overlord on June 6th. Over 30 Dakota aircraft taking off from Duxford.
Thanks I am overdue for Duxford.
I saw lots of Daks in formation at Coventry Airport many years ago but not as many as 30.
My right ear enjoyed this video.
why the plane needs to lower the front?
So the pilot can see the runway when he takes off or lands.
Thanks, I had the same question.
@@arcadia449 Bullshit. Without it a birdstrike would "blind" at least half the "pilots" and could take our both "windscreens. The British Concordes were not compliant with FAA/EASA regulations for cockpit "glass" and the nose was a drag-adding clusterfuck attempt to "reduce drag" by adding surface area. It also "droops" to make the aircraft "fit" existing jetways/parking spots because the idiots tried to "save weight" by reducing "cabin doors" and ended up moving the "front" and "main" door so far back that the nose would hit the terminal building before the aircraft was close enough for the jetway. You can't see a damned thing with that shit "dropped" and the pilots' asses still in their seats you can't see with the them up. And who in the fuck flies or taxis looking "straight down" in front of the plane. The "droop snoot" also prevent tuga from "pushing back" on the NLG which is flimsy, lightweight shit on the British Concordes.
Fixed-wing aircraft use a much slower speed for takeoff and landing than they do for cruising. At slower speed the nose needs to be held higher. Concorde's supersonic delta wings needed a *lot* of angle (almost 15 degrees) to land at a reasonably slow speed. Actually, it wasn't exactly "reasonable" - the typical landing speed of 160 knots or more is faster than the "never exceed" speed of many small commercial aircraft.
So it wasn't possible to see ahead while approaching a runway or descending at low speed. This is really bad in civilian aviation because "look where you're going" is a safety rule which pilots are expected to follow. Military aviation has different procedures for landing and often use different equipment - both on the aircraft and the ground - but to some extent supersonic military aircraft just live with the risks.
i read "noise lowering" and got excited
That's pretty miserable not being able to sit on the seats.
Ashley McCallum Agreed... they should've left at least one seat unblocked.
Duxford gets a realy high turnover of visitors each day, they wouldnt last very long at all.
From what i remember from visiting, that concorde is a prototype, all the test equipment in there makes it real cramped, im 6ft and rather than sit down id rather go out to be able to stand up straight.
@@mrme2483 So it's not just me...
I thought the Concord was a lot more spacious and luxurious!
Wonder whether the original hydraulic systems are powered for this to be achieved or it's bypassed via some external systems...
Good question?
what is the small fillet located just aft of and below the cockpit's side windows? is it a vortex generator? seems like a vortex there would be particularly useful for energizing airflow over the wings during high angle of attack flight regimes.
Good question. You could be right about that?
Wait is that the avro Vulcan? At the intro? Min:0:01
Yes it is.
fantastic aircraft ,nice video 😊
Thank you.
The droop snoop :D
The snoot would droop
Yep. The droop snoot. That's what it's called. It was a necessity because the nose was so long. The pilot could not see the taxiway when taxiing otherwise.
@@MrSupercar55 Yikes
I am so sad since months, always it's in my head that this nice plane once flew in the sky and now they are all standing in a museum. In my country Germany, there is in Sinsheim a plane which hasn't got any engines more because they removed them. I am crying because why this plane isn't flying anymore it's doing it's job perfectly and let's young and old generations to smile :( . I hope Club Concorde can get the 2 planes, but I would like that the 2 are flying but the best is that all Concordes come back in the air. To sad :( . RIP Concorde ...
I saw it flying a few times. It was awesome.
is club concorde still active? i will like to know when they re gonna get one to fly
Is the nose mechanism hydraulic or electric?
I'm guessing it's hydraulic?
what's the reason behind the lowering of the nose?
Better approach runway at landing. As the plane is so angled upward and the nose is so long, pilots couldn't see the runway without lowering the nose.
And the visor you see going down inside the nose at the beginning is a heat shield. At Mach 2 (the Concorde's cruising speed), air resistance was so strong that its front windows needed a heat shield to not overheat.
@@CreMoi man, thank you very much! Super clear explanation!
@@andreagiudici926 You're welcome :)
5:18
People : Cool 😎
Concorde : *Hola*
Interesting how fito tubes are actually mounted on the moving part.
MY RIGHT EAR ENJOYED THIS VIDEO
Surprisingly small plane, really.Would have been nice to get a view from the cockpit when the nose was down, like the one you had with the nose up, if they had let you.
I did go inside the cockpit but I couldn't be in two places at once...lol. The cockpit is amazing!
The pinnacle of the analog era.
Many people talk about how concorde should be in the air, but i think we should make a new plane that learns from the mistakes from concorde
Roses are red
Concorde is alive!
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Is 5:05
So.. does it crawl back up...?? once it takes off and gets ready to achieve the super speed??
Yes it raises back up level when the aircraft is in the air.
I just took a 14 hour flight over the indian ocean from Dubai to Australia. Please bring the concorde back!!
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I flex in one in 1992 I think for a BA promo flight - Jeddah to London. Without a doubt a boyhood dream that came true. 3 hours or so supersonic across the Red Sea and Mediterranean - but by god it's small inside.
You were so lucky.
David Stuckey sheer fluke - I had a BA return ticket for the normal 767 that day and was offered one way upgrade for about 400 quid then. However someone I knew on the same flight got moved from normal standby to Concorde - how is that for luck??
Boy, that was lucky.
5:05 is when the nose lowering starts. What is that plane on the Concorde's right side?
For some reason, I always thought the Concorde was much larger. Then again, it was never considered a 'jumbo' jet. Cool jet though.
I was surprised how small it was inside too.
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Video actually starts at 0:00 your welcome
Jay Stevens I was going to say that
So the engine is removed.....sad @2:15
It seems many of these aircraft in the museum have had their engines removed. I'm guessing it was to provide spare parts for still-operational aircraft?
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I really doubt if there is any operational concorde.
Not just the Concorde. Every type of aircraft here has had its engines removed.
Would you want to risk some one stealing a potentially still operational plane?
They arnt all removed, but alot are, some are probably for weight reasons, (some aircraft are hanging) although others have their engines next to them on display, like the sr71 in the american section.
When your parents get you socks for Christmas 6:25
5:10 is when it starts
I can understand the second windshield but why lowering the nose ?
And still, why a second windshield ?!
They have to lower the nose so that the pilots can see the runway when landing or take-off. The second windshield is to protect the main one during supersonic flight.
Thank you very much !
Can't belive they needed to engineer a nose that that lowers like that.
It was so that the pilots could see the runway when they took off and landed.
@@arcadia449 I know, but in a world of IFR, and back up cameras on subarus I'm suprised they couldn't find a better solution.
@@guntherultraboltnovacrunch5248 Concorde was designed in the 1960's, before that technology existed.
@@arcadia449 I'm pretty sure closed circuit tv existed in the 60's. They filmed the moon landing.
Why was concorde abandoned
Too expensive to run.
@@arcadia449 is this concorde damaged? I mean the one displayed at Bristol?
@@ridwanhusainishraq No it's not damaged. This was at Duxford was one of the first made. It could still fly.
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mind if i ask, do they have one somewhere in london?
No they don't. This is the old RAF station at Duxford near Cambridge.
The Concorde kinda looks sad when the nose is down or is it just me?
WHy is it painted in the old Colors? Is ihr repainted Or is it one of the First models and has eben retired before 2003? Thanks it's a Great Movie
This was one of the prototypes and never saw passenger service.
Thanks a lot. I‘ve seen the Concorde a couple of Times in Sinsheim and between the Runways at hethrow and everytime im total impressed
What's the point for the moving nose? Looks like it would be dangerous to fly, couldn't the wind rip it off if not pointed correctly? ?
It only lowers during take-off and landing so that the pilots can see the runway. It raises up again when in flight.
It would be so much easier to make an SST without having to have the overcomplicated lowering nose. HD cameras, 8k displays instead of windows, done and done.
Good idea for modern planes but that technology didn't exist when they designed these aircraft.
I never understood why Concorde service never flew over the Pacific LA to Hong Kong in 6 hours would be very attractive.
Maybe it didn't have the fuel capacity?
I hope they will bring it back one time... I miss that plane, so wonderful. :)
Yes I agree. I feel as if we've gone backwards?
+David Stuckey (Explorer) Exactly. Aviation took a step back by grounding concorde. Not long ago we could travel with the speed of sound. And now? Boeing, airbus? They do not equal to concorde.
that is a museum? the way it is assembled it likes like a junkyard, not because of the planes
It's arranged that way due to limits of space.
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Yeah, I'm ok thank you.
are they oleodinamic or mechanic systems? (i mean nose and viewer)
I don't know for sure but I guess they're hydraulic?
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Electrical motors driving hydraulic pumps. Hydraulically activated mechanical systems.
Kind of sad to say so many iconic and beautiful aircraft crammed into a box like that
Better than a scrapyard I suppose?
The plane is probably still flight ready if it’s kept in this good condition
Most of the planes here have had their engines removed for spare parts for aircraft the were still in service. During the Falklands War they had to scavenge parts from Vulcan Bombers in museums, etc., for the Vulcan raid on Port Stanley.
Well at least they got the most out of them.. here in the states it’s the same thing for b29 bombers and p51 mustangs n whatnot. Here in san diego they are building huge radial engines out of scavenged parts for an old dc3 they are restoring..
Seems to takes forever to get the nose down and up again. Pilots must have hated that unnecessary delay.
It worked faster when it was powered by the aircraft's own onboard systems. As the plane took off it remain parallel with the runway.
The Conncorde, The Vulcan and the Lightning.....3 of the best aircraft in the world. Only one plane could catch Concorde....the lightning.....only one plane had the same engines as Concorde...the mighty Vulcan.
I remember Lightnings flying when I was a kid, Great aircraft.
The nose lowering starts at 6:25
What's the point in lowering the nose?
So that the pilots could see the runway on take-off and landing.
Because of the shape of the wings, they have to come in at a steeper angle when landing which prevented the pilots from seeing the runway so they devised this method
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The jet outlet cone looks like a fighter's exhaust.
Yes it does.
cool, I just made a vid about the Seattle Concorde
Post the link here. I'd like to watch it.
sure, th-cam.com/video/eiabDhVpAyc/w-d-xo.html
Cool. Different interior to our one. Our one is full of scientific equipment.
oh cool! I need to go and see it next time I visit Britain!😀
Man-look at that control panel! Analog instrumentation all-now the displays would be all digital.
Yeah, I remember a photo of the control panel being made into a poster back in the 1970's.