Concorde’s final years - and the jet set who loved it
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- Concorde Supersonic Celebrity. The Original full programme charting Concorde's final years as a magnet for jet-setting celebrities and members of the royal family.
Compulsive viewing for aircraft enthusiasts and celeb spotters.
is it just me or people were happier back than
I was a passenger, along with both of my elderly parents, when Guiliani returned to the USA aboard Concorde.
Absolutely AMAZING how a machine can whisk 100 passengers and crew smoothly at a speed of about 2,000 or so feet per second, which is considerably faster than a typical .22 rifle bullet!
Only wish BA/AF/Airbus had agreed to keep one Concorde airworthy for special exhibition flights, and a couple of Concordes on the side for spare parts.
I repainted the leading edges of Concrode's left and right mainplanes in 1987 as part of my RAF trade training in aircraft refinishing. I had a great look inside, however, when it was firmly on the ground! It was ana absoultely stunning sight to behold. I am confident that the demand for supersonic passanger flight will return but viaa smaller and more eccomical model. I did fly supersonic, very breifly, however, over the Southern Atlantic in a RAF Tornado F3 during a stint down the Falklands and that was very nice indeed!
Quite possibly the best thing I've seen on TH-cam !!
Unfortunately after the Air France crash Concorde lost its airworthiness certificate and the inspectors moved in . After a few safety modifications it had a brief return to its former glory until 2003 when Concorde was grounded for good... it amazing to think that such a fantastic airplane was taken out of service through no fault of its own..
The Concorde ("Harmony") -- what a gorgeous piece of machinery! I flew her in about 1974 or 5, from JFK (NY) to Orly (Paris). As a GA pilot and aviation enthusiast, I had been wanting to fly her for a while and received a trip as a Christmas present. I was a bit surprised at finding the cabin smaller than I had expected (narrower) but was seated just in back of the bulkhead so could see all the numbers, and spent quite a bit of time on the flight deck. I will never forget the experience, truly a thrilling one, especially the take-off, totally exhilarating! What a ride! To me, she was the most beautiful aircraft on earth and still is! I would like to fly the SS "Baby Boom" ( XB-1) when that aircraft flies the skies, maybe in 2019 or 20, IF I'm still here and get the chance! (AND, if the noise-complaining public ever allows it to fly.) But Branson's baby isn't nearly as beautiful as the Concorde, IMO, though it has more of a needle-nose and swept-back delta-type wings but the wings seem much smaller than the Concorde. We'll see what the end commercial product is like soon enough. The world is becoming more and more populated -- pretty soon, they'll have to build islands in the ocean just to accommodate airliners, and regional hoppers to get people to land, all because people won't tolerate a short bit of noise twice a day! (I'm sure a lot of people reading this will have a conniption about that opinion, but we don't care!)
M.J. Leger ~ Loved reading your comment.
Thanks! Those were the good old days of a gorgeous aircraft!
M.J. Leger ~ Indeed, sir!
M.J. Leger Well, I'm not so certain about your memory, it wouldn't have been 74 or 75.
Concorde didn't start flying until 1976 commercially.
Maybe you meant 76 yes?
Enjoying this video!! Very relaxing to watch😎
Having worked for British Airways and on duty for first flight out of JFK i loved the video!!
beautiful aircraft. british engineering at its best. shame it went out of service. down to high prices
and the engines are now today the most advanced in the world. incredible..
and the engines are now today the most advanced in the world. incredible..
Me too X 😘
Wow
That flagship should still be flying today
Thank you. I miss seeing the British Concorde ad well. And see ing the Air French Concorde was also nice.
Fantastic awesome
Seeing Brian Trubshaw too fantastic.
What a beauty, even Cliff Richards flying on Concorde, I'm an admirer of Concorde
Awesome. 😍
...and now back to the future..uhhrrrmmm...the stone age!
Note how they bring the nose back up into position once they're stopped -- it's because it's more cosmetically pleasing in that position and, EVERYONE is watching her come in! In the fly-over shown above, at 14:15, that center fighter jet must be higher or lower than the Concorde to escape its rear air vorticies, below, I would assume, since hot air rises, (though it appears lower). One of the amazing things about the Concorde, is how they can move the fuel around from tank to tank to balance the aircraft. Ingenious!
what to speak of mike Banister He's a legendary British airways Concorde chief Pilot Who flew Them from 1995- 2003 When the Concorde retired.
Looking very nice.
If we can be sincere, Concorde is far safer than a modern Boeing equiped with MCAS. For the record!
Mcas. Is a great idea.
A golden age
I hope that Mike banister will agree to fly from 2019 when the Concorde will fly again
I bet Elton john was humming rocket man when his Concorde took off
Such a shame he saw himself as SO important he & his boyfriend couldn’t be arsed to walk through the airport & jumped on a disabled transport.
Maybe humming something mate! Lol
@@bendingspring he's far too fat....
lol
What a shot at the end 57:57 !!
3:40 LEGENDARY DIANA....
Ross? The one that's always flicking that hair with open fingers? No!
legendary 🤔🤔🤔🙄🙄😂😂😂😂😂
It was loud but really cool like the sportscar of aircraft
Good day ..new concord AIR.PLANE...WELCOME TO BOGOTA DC COLOMBIA
Good times when I could get from London to N. Y. Within 4 hours. Now it is a drag to get anywhere….
My beloved Dame Elizabeth Taylor was a regular 💖
It was a great surprise to see Michael Owen, my favourite footballer, in this video.
I had a dream theres only 2 planes Ive ever wanted to fly in the Concorde and a Boeing 747 ...as I near the end of life I never achieved either Im glad there are videos like this so I can experience what I was like, sad to see such a beautiful plane retired and never to grace the skys again
you'll get a chance to fly one in 2019 theirs a group that's collected 140nillion gbp to fly one just google &see What I meen ok?
Wouldn't hold my breath waiting for Club Concorde getting one flying again. 2019 is 8 days away, as I type this, and still nothing.
Feb-2020 can confirm, nothing as of yet has come close to this beauty we once had, everything is still a working progress
Landing at 53:07sec mark on final day had a nice bounce to it..
Well , we weren't rich and famous and we still flew the New York London run once. Only wish they had done the Sydney to London run .
We can be thankful that Concorde was around for longer than the boy band 911.
56:36 Tony Benn. Such a class act 👏🏼
I had a Sales VP who needed to get back to the States from Europe so he hopped a flight on the Concorde. The one way ticket cost $5,000.
Overpriced asf
Didn't matter what it cost people who could afford it did use it
That’s on the cheaper side…I flew LHR-JFK in 2002 and it was just over £5000 one way (about $9000 on the exchange rate at the time)
Flew London to JFK in 3:27 and then it took me longer to get home to Long Island 50 miles away in rush hour traffic .
Flew it twice on AF. First thing you noticed was how crammed it is inside and how small the windows are. On takeoff you can hear the reheat being turned on, in pairs. Sounds like lighting a blowtorch, which it in essence is. Acceleration is much faster than normal and the rotation angle really steep.
When they turn them off 45 sec after takeoff the sensation of slowing down is quite strong. When off the coast and turning on reheat again, you also feel the instant acceleration, like you do it slowing down at M 1.70 when they are turned off.
The biggest surprise for me was the deceleration from M 2.0. The speed dropped to M 1.70 in what felt like 15 seconds. I had a glass of water on my table which continued at M 2.0 straight into my shoe. I wish there had been some kind of warning.
Concorde was the only commercial airplane to use reverse thrust inflight.
Fond memories. Paid USD 63 in taxes and 200.000mls off Continental OnePass program. Flew in March 2003, just 2 months before AF stopped. Crew told us to feel free to take "souvenirs" but did not reveal they already knew about the termination, which had by then not yet been made public.
What has been almost completely forgotten is that there were ready plans for an upgraded B version Concorde with significantly reduced noise footprint, but it never got off the drawing board.
Reverse thrust at Mach 2.5? Really?
@@oldmanc2 No. It did not fly at M 2.5, ever.
But reverse thrust at M 2, yes. Really.
Your ending statements have really made me happy & proud, & very expectant of seeing the upgraded beautiful bird that has ever been made in life back in the sky again in the near future. I just hope that what you have said is true..
@@samuelbanda1677 That was a long time ago and put in motion by the noise protests. They will not bring it back, but had the B version been built, there might well have been a successor for it today.
The pilot said it'll be in service for 19-20 years...little did he know 4 years later Concorde would be a grounded for good.
I think 2018 was the maximum it would fly for although it was extended from the 2010 date especially for BA
what music was used with this documentary?
They were really advocating for climate and saving the earth back then. Well done!!
31:35 he made Concorde a success with Brian Walpole. The Concorde division within BA did great. Shame they lost the battle in the end :(
I agree with a sentiment below . The ordinary taxpayer folks in U.K. and France paid for it but most could not afford to travel on it.
How much were the charter flights?
I also wonder if my favorite musician Pat Metheny and his group got to fly aboard this amazing machine?
I’m so sad about what happened to Princess Diana.
What's about Prince Charles ?
Mike Bannister was the biggest celebrity of all!
2:46 the most ridiculous string of words ever crafted by man.
That's what I thought! Guess she had to appear promptly to do her Weight Watchers commercials.
20:15 Michael Jackson's "limousine" turns out to be a Ford Sierra Estate. Live the dream Michael!
lebroy It was a Granada Scorpio estate lol pretty crap limo lol
Paha the 80’s were tough;-)
I cant help but think that any one of those flights could have burst into flames!
It was a very safe plane. The one that caught fire and crashed only did so because a US DC10 was repaired improperly and had left a jagged piece of metal on the runway.
It was one of the safest aircrafts. They didn't just burst into flames. It was a chain on events that really had nothing to do with concorde itself. Educate yourself!
The background music in this video is beyond appaling.
+flyvid ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh leave it alone and just watch
Somewhat touched in the head, are we? Yes? Grand.
Appalling music?? Hadn't noticed. But, Gee? Some of those people ("celebrities" that we don't recognize) prove that MONEY CANNOT BUY BEAUTY! Even disguised in blond wig, normally beautiful Elizabeth Taylor, my favorite movie actress, looks TERRIBLE! And a couple of others look revolting! Oh well! You can't say it was a long flight that caused that!
A lot of Aviation videos use this kind of elevator music in the background. Train videos too etc. There are a lot of quiet moments so it just pushes the action forward a bit..
I agree the music is crap! Ruins it.
Jets worldwide.
Concorde cruises at nearly 2,000 feet per second. That's faster than many bullets! Have to give it to Anglo-French aerospace engineering.
The Concorde was actually an expensive fairground attraction that was mainly funded by the people for the benefit of government leaders and royals.
It looks like a fighter jet next to the massive 747.
16:00 that's me , in the blue shirt
I wonder if Karen Carpenter took a ride before her departure. She was a Class Act and was way too good for brother and mother.
not sure if i ever got a chance to fly in one. maybe. but anyway great looking plane. might be the tesla truck of planes
Concord make's all them other legends look tiney
OOOOHHHHYES
Concordes final years
Concorde… when you needed to get there really quick.
it's sad to know that no matter how much money one may have, they'll never get to fly in this thing.
@ 09:36 one of the Prime Minister's people has a bag full of duty free shopping :D
Although the Air France so-called accident was not planned the French I understand wanted to retire the Concorde for years. British on the other hand would have just as soon continue. They found a way to make it profitable by just jacking up the prices. It turned out that no one riding on it cared what the price was.
It was rentable for the companies like airfrance and British Airways because they did not pay the plane
I sincerely hope that relatively soon we'll have a affordable supersonic transport plane that'll be able to fly everywhere without the pesky sonic boom with all it's disruptive effects
@03:20. That looks like Air Namibia in the background.
Yeah, so what 🤔🙄😂🙄
What happened to Air France was a completely freak event. An absolute tragedy.
Nah.. They could have made the fuel tanks more sturdy in the first place, and did better maintenance to the wheel and that stupid DC 10 that lost a piece of metal. Although with small design changes this could never happen again, as they did. That crash was absolutely no reason to retire the plane.
@@RoderikvanReekum no, it was just an excuse really. It is a damn shame. But the Air France accident really was just a chain of unlucky coincidences, initiated by the departing aircraft losing something on take off, ground crew not performing a sweep of the runway, and the trajectory of the metal and chain of events, that individually would not have resulted in the plane crashing..nobody can safeguard anything 100% from freak accidents like that.
What an exclusive club and we are not in it.
The rudder panels fell off several times.
My family lives in New York underneath the approach to JFK.
All these star's but the one biggest star is the plane it's self
@ 11:10, Guiliani speaks of "this terrible attack", but with a smile on his face.
I think he he knows a lot more than we do.
His tone of voice is like he's talking about the fantastic lunch he had at the Four Seasons Restaurant yesterday.
Self-serving person, probably with mafioso background!
Great airplane, though.
911 band on concorde, went down, a bit like the twin towers in new york
LOL!! (True.)
super3
Looks like a city bus on the in side....
Sorry, but I'm still a bit confused as to why BA discontinued flights with Concord?
Could she not have been updated with more modern, fuel economic engines, etc?
3:18 Looks like the Concorde is smoking a cigar.
U total absolute MORON. Its a light not a cigar 🙄😂🙄. Planes r not human, they cannot smoke cigars. IDIOT 😂😂😂
I think its cute that the British were so proud of the Concorde. Seems quaint to Americans.
Concorde was slim, beautiful and sophisticated with class. 🇬🇧
The 747 was fat, ugly, bombastic and crass. 🇺🇸
Imagine if the Concorde had used today's technology...it wouldn't be a plane but almost a UFO.
Idiot.
If it comes back it will only be for politicians and royals.
Boom Overture is coming!!
wow, if there were smartphones then....
I wonder if anyone ever took a dump on this plane. 🤔
that's the only disadvantage. it was built to transport snobby rich people. too bad ordinary people couldn't travel. I believe it is a great experience to fly through time
Not exactly, it was built in the 60's, when tickets where cheap and fuel was plentiful, however it entered service in the 70's, the market had changed. BA managed to make a profit by increasing the ticket price, but by also increasing the service quality, Air France on the other hand, never made profit with it
@@doabarrellroll69 thanks for the info :)
I love the 1970s sound track it was pure porn style in them days!
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TIME TO GET ONE AIRBORNE
AGAIN ....
GODSPEED .....
Why did Lady Di need “handlers” to get her on board ?
Because she's a Lady..
Does that comment have a hidden meaning to it? 🤔
Там сплошные "звезды" и "крутьки" на "Конкорде" летали!! После катастрофы "Конкорда" авиакомпании Air France- руководство обеих авиакомпаний-эксплуатантов "Конкорда" - (Air France, British Airways) - ИСПУГАЛОСЬ!! - Представляете, "плюхнулся" "Конкорд", а там - одни миллионеры и еще какая-нибудь Мадонна, Стинг или Пол МакКартни летели!!
All these celebrities and yet most if not all kept quite when they announced Concorde retirement they could of campaign to save the jet.
"Could've" as in "could have" you illiterate not "could of." Give back your G.E.D.
Hmm, think the celebrities were wise not to campaign, because, the costs would be just totally prohibitive.
background music is a disgrace.spoils the video
What about Madonna???
R u talking about...Jesus mother???
Unbelievable 😱😱😱
Music too loud !! Drowns out what celebrities are saying 🤷♀️
They're not saying anything important. Probably complaining that their million-dollar steak didn't come fast enough or that the janitor was too ugly to stand within 50 ft of the plane.
shitty background music spoils an otherwise decent documentary,
tu-144.je bio komotniji od konkorda.
We'll I gess it's all PLANE sailing from here
vanitas vanitatum....
It makes a lot of noise to carry so few people. These are the same people telling us we should walk, of course !
Oh, before I go - the last thing one should be in the custody of British Police is frightened. You`re in the safest place in the world notwithstanding Cousins.
Whats with the elevator music.I thought the British had impeccable taste?
ขBilly Leroy
You don’t need to be a celebrity to fly the Concorde !!
Lovely to see the “proper celebrities” here … Diana Ross, Elton , Rod and Mike Tyson……. As opposed to imbeciles like Rylan or “strictly / bake-off types that get thrust onto our screens in 2021.
The captain looking asleep as the PM and political persons arriving!
Does anyone give a damn about the Spice Girls anymore? Come on! It's the biggest girl group in the world flying on the fastest airliner in the world. The Spice Girls flying on Concorde fits perfectly.