Concorde from Check-in, incredibly fast take-off! in-flight, and arrival-see sound barrier wave!!
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- Fly with me on Concorde between London Heathrow and New York JFK in 2002. experience the check-in, taxi, take off at 250 MPH, in-flight to supersonic speed,(faster than most bullets), the service on board, steep approach and landing, (Be sure to watch the landing at 35 knots faster than subsonic aircraft)! And finally a year later towed up the Hudson on a barge to the Intrepid Museum at retirement. Note at the 7 minute mark a shadow moves quickly thru the plane- it’s a reflection of the sound wave with the plane catching up. Record Concorde New York-London was 2 hours, 52 minutes, 59 seconds!
If you like travel memorabilia check out my blog at : traveladventure801.blogspot.com
This guy vlogging in 2002. He saw the future
videos of what? any up now?
elliot 7 I
I vlogged when thecworld just started
True
To be fair, vlogging has existed since cameras became mainstream.
My aunt got to fly the Concorde, just by chance. She volunteered to give up her seat for someone on her Air France flight (Paris to NYC) and was told she’d be put on the next flight out. When she got on the plane she thought it was a bit small, and didn’t realize she was on the Concorde till they announced they were supersonic. She made it to New York before her original flight landed.
BA would often overbook first/business class on subsonic flights then upgrade early check ins to Concorde who rarely turned it down arriving hours earlier even after taking off later
I love a tall story lol
The flight that crashed?
@@mega6076 tf is that comment?
@@HighwayDrive717 he just a tad bit curious
Seeing the 747s everywhere and the Concorde... this really was the golden age of commercial aviation.
Yep, the two best and most impressive passenger planes ever made … the currently made ones are all horribly boring in comparison
Now we have. A380...
Except for the crappy plastic cutlery!
Boring? Talk about fuel efficiency which is way more important than "entertainment". The A350 is the best aircraft evert designed in all aspects.@@cbatiau2528
In the big busy airports like JFK & DXB you’ll still see a bunch of 747s and A380s. Just no more Concorde.
It's crazy how every video from the 2000's now looks like it was filmed in the 80's
This footage felt like 4K at the time.
What's more amazing is that there is a no smoking light. Why not a sticker? Cus you can't switch a sticker off...implying that you can smoke on the plane when the light goes off. I was on an internal flight in Egypt, is a little plane. Dunno the model, just that it was an Embraer, and there was a weird thing on the back of the seat in front of me. I didn't click that it was an ashtray until the light went out and everyone lit cigarettes. If I'd seen it anywhere else, I would instantly have recognised it. I can't believe they used to let people smoke on planes pretty much everywhere.
I agree!
Well, the 2000s are now as far gone as the 80s were in the 2000s...
@@92kosta As an investigative reporter in '02, we had a 10mp DSLR with a floppy drive and thought that was cutting edge. Looking back at the photos it looks like I took them in 1987 haha
In the 90’s I used to travel with my father on business trips with him between New York and London and we flew on Concord 3 times in one year. I feel lucky that I was able to experience it.
Condome is beautiful airplane, Condome forever in the Sky
@@user-uh9vi8cv9w Concorde.
@@Thursdaym2 NO! Not CONCORDE. CONDOME
@@Thursdaym2 it's condome.
look at mr white rich boy here, stop bragging scott your family got all that money from the expense of others
The ultimate social media flex. Neither Sam Chui or Casey Nesistat can top this video. Thank you for sharing it with us.
Wow, thank you!
Sam Chui did fly on the Concorde during it's last year of service, but since it was before TH-cam, he never recorded it.
@@dirtyharry5320 eh, it was probably a fake story, like all his videos are, fake or staged lol
Sam Chui is now 17 years in TH-cam. He travel usually in business or 1st class seats. Some times and economy seats. We are in 2024. Why he still upload videos only in 1080p (full HD) ?
I don't think he has a problem to buy a smartphone or camera with 4K video capability or to find a place with fast internet to upload it.
Many other modern travelers do it.
His videos many times are not smooth when he move the smartphone or camera. Even a 1080p with 60 FPS video would make it smooth.
I asked him in youtube and facebook many times but no answer.
@@vaiosan775because sam doesnt care about his viewers only about the fat paycheck.
3 hours from London to New York just incredible
You arrived before you left !
It’s like 8 hours now!
Went from it taking up to 2 months by sail to just 3 hours in 200 years.
Wow! I really enjoyed watching this.
You are lucky to have experienced it and well done for producing this (extremely early) Vlog!
Glad you liked it! We are an aviation family - my father was a WW 2 bomber pilot then airline pilot from DC 3 to L 1011. He has many many great aviation stories . I worked in aviation management been on over 1,900 flights on 60 different airlines, but had always wanted to be a pilot but vision required kept me on the ground. Keep up the great videos! Kevin Brady
@@JKevinBrady801 yesterday when I was checking on flightradar24 I saw a DC 3 flying
Hello mentour pilot 👋
Fancy seeing you here, Petter!
Vlogs existed before 2002! 😄
56,000 feet 1250 mph! That must have been spectacular. I wish I could have experienced that just once.
Thank you, @fowvee, for these interesting details. I wish I had had the opportunity to fly with the Concorde only once.
United is making one so maybe you can.
I thought they got up to 1315 mph when the captain gave the debrief at the end of the flight, absolutely bonkers numbers for a commercial airliner!
Yes I here supersonic flight is coming back, hopefully this time @@ihatetheantichrist- but nothing can replace what concord did for aviation. To think it's first flight was in the 1960s!
Captain said 1350 moh and a height of 57k feet….you were close though
Hi there….absolutely fantastic coming across your video! I was the stewardess on her first Concorde flight in your video! I have lots of photos but not much video footage so this has brought back so many amazing memories of Concorde. Thank you for posting this …Kind regards, Anita.
Hi Anita, that’s great! Glad you found it
Hey Anita! I'm pretty curious about those photos! Is there a chance that you could share them somehow?
Now at 3.3 million views in over 150 countries! It keeps getting lots of views!
That’s too cool. I’m glad you found this photo that is an important part of your life. I’ll bet you thought, “Wow, look how young I was”
haha awesome... Anita's first Concorde flight! (but then they shut the programme down a year later? What did you do??)
I got goosebumps when he said we are breaking the sound barrier and flight attendant just walking like nothing. What a freaking beauty of an aircraft. They need to bring this plane back.
All airlines think is profit and this aircraft wasn't profitable for them whatsoever. Too much noise and fuel consumption. but it was a hell of bird
It's beautiful but it should stay in the past. It just has too many issues to run commercially
I did too.. i burst in to tears and can’t explain why..
yeah Britain needs some project of Greatness again.. it's so down in the dumps right now.
@@Alimahmoudi1992it was profitable but not as profitable as subsonic airliners
3.5 hours of flight time instead of 7 ! This was a beast and what we have today can't compare!
What we have today is affordable.
Well actually what we have today can compare in terms of long term sustainability and costs..Concorde was an extremely expensive aeroplane to keep in the air...Those costs would of multiplied over time.
@@doctorsocrates4413 and imagine what these costs would’ve been in 2008 crisis or during the pandemic. Concorde was always gonna go bankrupt
7 hours in a subsonic plane? Don't they top out around 550 mph?
@@marko7843remember that winds can effect flight time!
Just imagine Concorde taking off in St. Marteen, all the people in Maho beach will be blown out on the sea
That would be something!
HAH! First their bathing suits would shred off, then you'd see a bunch of naked people flying horizontally out to sea to be unceremoniously plopped.
Umer90o7 bahahahahahah
They would get burned haha
It's already crazy watching people almost fly away, I can't imagine it with this plane
Amazing insight into this futuristic aircraft which is now part of aviations past. That landing was a hard one that surprised me. On the takeoff roll I could not stop thinking of how DC10 metal debris on the runway from the most infamous aircraft destroyed the most iconic aircraft ever made. It really feels like international flying has gone backwards once Concorde was grounded forever.
I think that after the Concorde was grounded, aircraft manufacturers pivoted their objectives toward making airplanes more fuel efficient rather than faster or higher.
Aviation is pivoting towards fuel efficiency, comfort, luxury, and safety. Speed nowadays is an unnecessary thing to boast (which is good). I'm good with how it is right now.
The Concorde never really made money, and by all accounts, wasn't very well appointed. In the early 00's lots of airlines were introducing business class as we have known it the past 10-15 years. So that put the Concorde at a disadvantage, many prefer a quiet, comfortable environment over speed and noise. Not to mention it was too expensive to really work financially. The last nail in the coffin was really Airbus. They were the ones who had taken over for parts. They didn't want to do it anymore as it was too expensive.
@@TheStudentPilotsHandbook exactly. this is why we're seeing more mid-size or regional jets than big ol massive 4 engine double decker jumbo jets. like the a380, or 74, or even the a340, even tho that wasn't a double decker plane
Everyone seems to forget how fast modern jets fly.. most modern passenger jets are traveling only a fraction slower than this. Mach 0.85 is usually where most cruse at.
The relative costs involved to go just that little bit faster really isn’t worth it.
As a spouse of a British AIrways employee, I was offered a one-time opportunity to fly on the Concorde for only $300. I jumped at the chance. Great ride. I hope technology advances to the point where planes like that are viable again.
It did! United ordered 15 second gen supersonic commercial jets, starting delivery in 2029. They implemented technology that reduces the sonic boom, to fly over land as well!
lucky
Sadly, air travel is coming to an end for common people. - "You will own nothing and be happy" Klaus Schwab (World Economic Forum)
@@JohnSmith-fz1whbull. Go fly Southwest or Spirit. Hoards of commoners. 😂
Common people didn;t afford concorde. lol@@JohnSmith-fz1wh
I grew up in Surrey, England not far from London, so Concorde flying over wasn't unusual. But we always, always, stopped and looked. It was just one of those marvellous things.
It was very prescient of you to film all of this!
I lived in Surrey and Concorde quite often flew over as I got off the train from work. Nearly everyone would stop and watch it. A beautiful sight.
Also grew up in Surrey. I remember often seeing it fly over my garden and thought nothing of it, just thought it was the norm. Was unaware there were so few of them.
I hear you.
I lived in Woking before the Concorde was around.. We used to see the V Bombers fly over coming from Farnbough.. When we moved back to the States, my Dad flew the Concorde from JFK to Paris
I grew up in Kingston Upon Thames, you would always hear her before you saw her !
The most elegant and most graceful aircraft ever made. What a tragic end to an amazing era of aviation and an incredible aircraft.
Yes, she would have been taken out of service due to economical reasons anyway - so why had the story to be ended this way? //
No
Graceful and elegant don't exactly spring to mind. Its a British/french bruiser much like the Vulcan.
It’s was only fast nothing else about it was appealing
Bullshit. Elegant and graceful might describe the 747 better, but not Concorde. More like awesome, and powerful.
My Dad flew the Concorde from JFK to Paris every other month or so ..I still have the Concorde Blanket my Dad kept
Miss them both
I had Concorde slippers !!
This man deserves an award for this video. Thank you sir!
You're welcome! Glad you liked it, it was a great experience
@@JKevinBrady801 I'm sure it was! A rare experience only some lucky ones had!
I wish the concorde would still be around. Not only the most fascinating aircraft there is, but also the most beautiful
I was lucky enough to fly on this beautiful aircraft in 1994.
Cut crystal glasses, silver cutlery and trips to the flight deck!
And yes, you CAN see the curvature of the earth at cruising altitude!
The swan of the skies - still brings tears to my eyes watching her fly
Did you say the curvature of the earth?
Flat Earthers triggered!
At cruise speed you cover the distance of 17-18 football fields!
But...but the earth is flat ................NOT !!!
Lmao!!! Almost every Concorde video I watch there's always flat earthers that try to claim these videos are proof of flat earth lol it's hilarious
Must have been beautiful! How I envy! What marvelous feats are humans capable of!!!
look at that "slow lumbering subsonic plane down there" XD
Smileyheckster lol
Slow lumbering subsonic plane that were still stuck with 20 years later. Crazy lol.
@@micktaylor9332 Supersonic flight needs to come back
@@arloeikerson3009 it will
3 hours 25 mins! That’s impressive.
It could do that faster if it could keep on the continuous after burner, it had to fly without over land area and wait until open sea
Concorde and 747 were the peak of aviation! I'm so sad I didn't get the chance to see Concorde and travel by it in person. She will be forever my fav aircraft.
Great video, here it's 2020 and I can't believe the world does not have service like this anymore
Unfortunately they weren't cost effective and were pretty bad for the environment, but luckily there are companies trying to bring back super sonic air travel at a much cheaper price with fuel that is much better for the environment! I genuinely believe super sonic travel will be back by 2030.
They always say bad for the environment
Thanks to Boom, it will again!
@@Calikid331 There were only 14 production Concorde's (not including the test airframes), and not all of them were in the air at the same time (some would be in maintenance or on standby). Compared to the thousands of Boeing, Airbus, Lockheed and McDonnel Douglas aircraft, the 14 Concorde's of BA and AF probably had the least impact on the environment.
Uhh no one’s gonna mention the fatalities?
2023 and I still get goosebumps during that take off.
No takeoff today can compare to that -im absolutely shocked at how fast it is-was it always that quick
WOW that takeoff. Really puts into perspective just how much faster Concorde needed to go to takeoff compared to subsonic jets. I was only a newborn when you were on this flight, but my mum told me stories of how she worked near London Heathrow, and would always hear Concorde land at 6 pm. Sometimes it took an alternative flight path and would fly over her apartment at 6 am. Thank you for sharing this footage!
also its demise air france had to try to take off as not enough runway left to stop
Mad to think that we actually went backwards when we had such a marvellous piece of engineering
Yeah but the cost of fuel now, probably isn’t viable with such a low number of passengers. But a shame it’s gone for sure.
@oo0Spyder0oo we could have come up with a solution for that it is a shame that its now piece of history it just really does baffle me that In the 90s you could get too new York In like 5 hours now we've gone back in time for those people who did go aboard the concorde and now fly 747 or a380 must think wow what happened why did we go backwards
A great video! No narration, added music, or anything unnecessary. I wish more videos were like this.
If this was a modern youtuber, the video would have been started like _"Hello my friends! this is Jack and today ... bla bla bla"_ and showing his own face for half the video
The YT car channels are all like this lol
_"this is me! yeah the cars ok but... look at me now, am i not amazing?"_ _"OMG! i just did something illegal!"_
Particularly the lack of annoying music is what makes this great.
No narration? Lol the guy was narrating the whole time.
@@maskedfantometteDon't forget annoying tumbnail with arms wide open and super fake smile.
This is what home videos (not a vlogs as some have called it) used to be like.
This is a historically significant video and is so appreciated. I think it shows a more accurate representation of take-off speed than any other Concorde video I've seen. Also the funny thing I noticed most was the broadsheet newspapers, it really dates the video beautifully :)
@BoomSonic is working on next generation of supersonic flight within ten years
So well said- truly
Couldn't help but notice how futuristic the plane looked from the inside. Did you see all the legroom?! Wish planes were that cool today
And at the same time there's the url ending with .html on the bottom of the info pages 🤣 good juxtaposition of the past and the future, like early 2000s were.
If you like it do me a favor and pass my video on! That would be great - I’ll give you some super thanks
The video that is been taken is the golden age of aviation❤❤❤❤
calling 2002 the golden age of aviation is bold
Newspapers, few mobile devices, laptops. Just living life as it presents itself.
What an amazing flight. My cousin flew in Concorde and he always told me stories. Nice to see it from a video perspective.
Thanks!
Not ground fog on takeoff, but low pressure condensation from the wings producing lift.
Was about to say the same!
icculus yea me too
Ok thanks for the update - I didn’t know that
The low pressure causes the temperature to drop (remember pressure is related to temperature), low temp causes moist air to condense.
As aircraft picks up speed, the wings start to produce lift due to low pressure crated above them. When the pressure drops, so does the temperature. If there is enough moisture in the air and the dew point (termperature at which the air becomes saturated) is close, fog/ mist is formed over the wings. You can also see that sometimes right in front of the engines, where low pressure is also created. Just a little more in depth on how it works. :) Beautiful video by the way. I had a chance to fly on the Concorde for $500 when I worked for Delta. I so regret not doing it.
Such a gem that someone actually recorded this during that period before we even had smartphones. It gives a unique perspective when you actually see what people do and eat and the ones that actually paid this massive cash for these flights.
they saved me the expense. Happy days!
I had the extreme privilege of flying one way, from JFK to LHR once on this magnificent lady, when visiting my family here in the UK. Took me a while to save up but I wanted to do it just once. It was an unforgettable experience and one that will always remain with me. It’s a pity she’s grounded, as with all the innovations and improvements now, I’m sure people would still be queuing up in today’s age to fly on her.
My boss at the time back in the late 80s, treated 4 of us a return flight back to the U.K. from NY ,after 4 nights in New York we thought we was flying back on a similar plane we went on until we went through the departure lounge and it said Concorde ,
It seemed a very short flight back to what we was used to and the service was just amazing.
I was fortunate to fly on Concorde in 1995. Yep, the take-off was quick and the landing just as fast! Thank you for the video. Brought back great memories!
So lucky!
it looked as if the take off was slow not quick at all, it took a long time to get airborne
I have to ask, if you dont mind, how much was the ticket?
dtiydr This was in 1995 and was called a "Champaign Flight to Nowhere" from YYZ to YYZ. The price then was about $1500.00 CDN.
Thanks for the information. I would have paid that any day of the week to at least have been on this plane once.
As someone who was born in the early 80's and lived in the south east of England in the 90's and early 00's I always remember when it went overhead on its way to land at Heathrow, sometimes circling in a holding pattern. We would stop playing football in the street to look up and watch it. You knew it was coming because of the noise it made was unlike anything else and we'd see who could be the first to spot it. After it left we'd go back to playing football. Once I was with my dad on the m25 early one morning, a cold, Crisp, clear day and concorde came right over the top with it's after burners glowing. I'll never forget it, I can't believe we just took it for granted. Happy times
Your story is exactly like mine! The era you are born in, the playing of football in the park, the noise of the concord overhead. Everything..my I was in SW London. 🙏🏼
We did think it was the future of aviation, holding no regard for running costs, something which insidiously sealed Concorde’s fate in 2003.
Very rarely if at all was Concorde HELD in the holding pattern, it had priority and always landed BANG on TIME.
@@DrStrange1000 It's CONCORDE never THE CONCORDE drop the "THE"
@@markylon Gotcha 👌🏼
I flew on the Concorde once shortly after the service started. I flew in December 1977 from London to NYC. I had a return ticket on British Airways and on a whim, I called to see if I could be upgraded to the Concorde and - voila!! It was a wonderful flight and I’m so glad I did it. I loved every minute of it.
Great historical record. So sad that they stopped even if it was out of reach for most people they were amazing to see and hear in the sky. As a kid they would turn in a massive loop over south London where we grew up, they were like ten times louder and we’d all run outside as kids shouting “ concord, concord !” This was my whole childhood this went on. We sae my sister off to Australia from Heathrow in 1993 and whilst waiting for her flight to leave from the viewing platform three concords took off in a row! A minute apart max. It must have been a rare occurrence, I’d never seen more than one in the sky before.
@@KainsAddictionfreak accident.
This for me is where commercial aviation truly peaked. Thanks for sharing such an amazing experience with us :)
Glad you enjoyed it!
In 1986 I was aboard one of several monthly Air Jamaica Charters to Montego Bay (2 hours from New York). Only 900 dollars including first class return on 747 first class (upper level). I will never forget the swooping between clouds at high speed over Jamaica. Passengers were invited to visit the cockpit mid-flight. The air port was jammed with hundreds of people there to greet and see the plane. We debarked via stairs and I got a picture under the nose of the plane with the crowded observation deck to the side. That and watching the WTC towers fall with my own eyes might be the two most memorable moments of my life.
I have family from jamaica
I was under the south tower and watched United 175 slam into the building and had to high tail it out of there with metal, debris and fire falling. Got on the ferry to New Jersey
😂 me llegó la hora 1986🔫💀
trainluvr- What? Only $900 for that? How or why was it so inexpensive? A first class return on 747 service alone costs almost twice that?
trainluvr o
I remember playing golf at Doral back in the 90's some time, and a Concorde was on approach to Miami International and everyone on the course stopped to watch it. It was a beautiful sight.
I loved Doral - too bad politics ruined a great golf course - did you play the blue monster?
Aviation took a major step back when it got rid of the Concorde. Not everyone wants to sit on a transatlantic flight for 6-8 hours.
Thank you so much for this. As a child my holiday was the plane flight. I never got the chance to fly on Concorde but I used to monitor it's approach over London on radio as she came in to land along the Thames. Dad and I used to sit on top of the Queens building at Heathrow with a sandwich or two and be amazed. Love you Dad.
❤🎉
This guy was ahead of the whole travel vlog wave by about 10 years haha😂great that this is captured
People were doing that since the early 90s with camcorders.
@shrimpflea well i wasnt alive in the early 90s😂 but ive only ever seen footage/people recording back in the day in a more "home movie" style fashion just to capture memories of their kids and family mostly rather than a travel vlog or trip report
@@PortuguesePirate99 There's footage on TH-cam of people vlogging their lives in New York City on trains in the 80s. Plus, some awesome footage of street life too. Check it out 😊
Very civilized flight, no screaming ,no fights, and of course caviar with wine, nice.
I remember landing at Birmingham airport on Concorde, there were many people lined up just to watch her land. Very special. A privilege to have experienced it.
I didn’t realise Concorde flew to Birmingham
I remember hearing this plane at 7 am everyday taking off from jfk as a kid the noise it made was one of a kind it was just so nostalgic
Fantastic video. You're a lucky man. :) The closest I got was seeing it land at Farnborough airshow back in 1998. :)
I am it was truly a great experience
Thanks for sharing! I went once in 2000, Mach 2 and 58000 feet, totally amazing
This must be one of the first video flight reviews! Fascinating to see the stewardess nonchalantly wandering down the aisle serving drinks as the aircraft pushes through the sound barrier!
I flew Concorde with my mother on a trip to Paris in 97. I'll never forget the interior and how small I thought it was. I'll also never forget the exquisite food and beverage served on the flight with impeccable service. The next time I was reunited with one of them was on a trip to Seattle where she sat at the Boeing Air Museum. She could have kept flying, but I know all good things must end. There will be another!
Boom supersonique
Unlikely since any useful travel with them is banned overland.
Oh my, that brought back memories. I flew on this beautiful bird with BA in May of ‘90 JFK/Heathrow and then back 10 days later. The experience was mesmerizing and I still have the complementary travel gifts. Also the spread at JFK pre flight was over the top. I feel lucky to have been on these incredible planes back then and will never forget the experience.🎉 Thanks for the video and a trip down memory lane!
I used to live not far from Heathrow as a boy, the Concorde would fly over us on its way back from the US. I always wanted to fly in it, this is as close as i'll get - thank you
Would it have flown over Hampton, Middlesex? Early 80's, I have memories of when I lived there when i was very young.
Think it might've been Concorde
@@russyJ20 maybe, i know it was flying west to east and directly over Reading berks.
To be able to witness breaking the sound barrier and hitting twice the speed of it in such comfort would be unreal.
My grandpa used to fly the Concorde regularly, back in his glory Business days. He would fly the Mex to CDG via Washington route. He flew so much that on many occasions he would be the only passenger onboard the service.
Thank you for this video, my mother flew on Concorde, she was so thrilled! She has long since passed, but you have helped me relive one of her memories! Thank you again!
You are so welcome!
damn....that newspaper at the beginning dated this perfectly lol
now it would be people on their phones lol
I wish I had flown Concorde at least once.
I was a Nurse at Kingston on Thames hospital which was under Heathrow flight path, working on the 2nd floor. Use to see Concorde fly over at least once a week depending on shifts. If I heard Concorde and was giving a bedbath I would hurriedly cover my patient, excuse myself & rush to the windows to see her fly over. Wonderful sight.
Another time flew in from Africa and saw 3 Concordes lined up @ Heathrow, sadly never got to fly in her but happy memories.
I couldn't imagine sitting in Concorde reading a newspaper. The entertainment is the plane
You are sure right - they tried to look cool like it was no big deal - it was a big deal to me ! The two FA’s in the video saw it on you tube and thanked me for posting it
Only flew on it once, was trembling with excitement for the entire trip. Quite unforgettable!
u guys litterally makes me cry..........
u guys are travelling in mach 2,
faster than the rotation of earth,
n in a spacecraft stuff,
can see the curvature of earth,
travelling through ozone layer,
can reach the time before u departed,
travelling in the engineering wonder before 50 yrs from now .....big salute to those engineers...
Flat earthers will call you an indoctrinated sheep for saying that.
@@The-Cat Yeah exactly, they'll say it's because of the window making it look curved, but it only happens at high altitudes lol - I'm pretty sure it's just a long-running joke.
Thank you , Kevin .
Every time I see it , I get deeply moved to tears !
I am an aviation expert , but that experience was too extraordinary !
Gio Brighi - I once got to see the cockpit in flight - there was a 3 inch gap between a bulkhead and the FE’s instrument panel that is touching on the round - the plane stretches 3 feet overall in flight!
Glad you liked it - it was truly amazing
As a kid I looked in awe at the futuristic aircraft portrayed in the TV Show "The Thunderbirds", ruling out the possibility those amazing machines could exist for real.... I'd say the Concorde got pretty damn close 😉 This video is an amazing tribute to one of the most fascinating chapters in aviation history. Sadly I can vividly remember the news images on the day a Concorde perished over France and it all came to a grinding halt. Luckily the legend still lives on in memories like this. Thank you
I remember doing work experience at Heathrow Airport T4, back in 1995 and seeing a Concorde on the runway, waiting at the gate for passengers. Looked just like the start of this video! Amazing piece of engineering, way ahead of its time!
What an absolutely gorgeous video 😃 attentive to details and letting us "born-too-late" fly with this stunning plane once again.
Thank you SO much for this! This video is now such a huge piece of history! Many of us dont film things because we assume it will be like this forever.. Or it will not be special.. Then things happen which make things you thought were not too important become VERY important .
Yes, I never had any idea that this would have 2.7 million worldwide views by 2023! I have a few other flight videos but very few views by comparison
Just awesome!!!@@JKevinBrady801
Thank you for sharing this with us all. I dearly loved this beautiful piece of engineering and social history. It brought the world closer together.
The thing about this aircraft is, that so many people, even if they never had the good fortune to fly her (like myself) always have a story or two to share about an experience with her.
I had a dear friend, now sadly no longer with us who worked for British Airways for most of his life. He was part of the ground crew for Concorde, he had one of those old Nokia 3310 style phones for absolutely years with this tyreprint case and sellotape over the screen.
When everyone started to get modern phones and he stuck with his old Nokia we asked him why and it was because he accidentally dropped it as Concorde was being pushed and started and the landing gear had run the phone over.
Being a Nokia, it still worked but the screen cracked and he aerosol lacquered over the tyre print to preserve it 😅
Who else remembers "sonic booms" as a kid? They happened more often than you might think. Enough to where that you just shrugged your shoulders, didn't pay much attention to it, and acted like it was routine, like watching a vapor trail of a jet overhead.
In the 1980's my parents and I did the one way on the Concorde and return by Cunard's QE2.....it was incredible.
Damn I knew Concorde was fast, But London to New York in 16mins is INSANE!
Brilliant.
16min lol, what are you smoking?
@@TurboGSR96 Ermm I think the joke flew over your head!
@@airspeed_alive kind of hard to detect sarcasm through text, in a place full of idiots.
Funny 😂😂😂😂
Fantastic video documenting what most (me included) will never experience. So interesting to watch something that takes you back in time a whole generation, and then you hear “3 hours and 25 minutes” and it kicks in that this flight wallops anything we can (afford to) mange in this day and age. Found it fascinating.
Thanks for uploading this wonderful historic footage. It's not often you find such detail of the experience.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Not only is she incredibly fast but an object of beauty, on a par with any work of art. A beauty pure of function as well as form. There will never be another, she's one of a kind.
Thanks for posting. Just flew Concorde while having a bath.
Me too!
That was the future, now that future is in our past. A beautiful plane.
What an aircraft, a legend forever. The river scene felt quite poignant. My favourite aircraft forever ❤❤❤
Have never flew on Concord but fortunated to fly on Soviet supersonic Tu-144 in late 70th. It was amazing experience
Being only just 13 when Concorde was retired from service, videos like this give an amazing insight to what she was like and what she was capable of! Its crazy to me that Concorde is now considered 'old technology', yet here we are in 2023, with nothing that comes even remotely close. Such a shame.
Thanks, this brought back great memories of our flight to New York on Concord in May 1992 🥰
Glad you enjoyed it
I'm sorry I'll never get to fly the Concorde, but I'm thankful that somebody captured it on video.
11am every day at school in the 90s I'd hear this beautiful plane take off from Heathrow, heading to JFK. It was very strange when they stopped.
This was a real gem of a video. I’ve not seen another like this so far so thanks! Like many others I truly wish I could have experienced this myself.
That was one fast flight. I didnt know the planes were THAT fast. Im glad he put this video wasnt sped up during the take off or i wouldnt have believed it
I'm crying, what an experience that you lived
I am very grateful - flew on 6 Concorde flights and got take my WW2 pilot father
That sound when the thrust reversers kick in!! Love it!!
What a dream, unfortunately we’ll never seen a thing like this again
Precious piece of aviation history! Glad you’ve filmed it!
did you see my video of the first non-stop over the North Pole? pretty neat as well
3 hours 25 minutes from London to New York. The nineties and early 2000’s were such an awesome time to be alive
Thank you Kevin for this wonderful video of the Concord. The best aircraft ever! Hope we can see it on the air again....
The Concorde came to Reno only once. A crowd of people gathered outside the airport fences to get a glimpse when it landed. In the morning another crowd gathered to watch Air France take off. I was amazed at how little runway it used before it was in the air. The most unusual aircraft I saw in Reno skies was a Stealth Fighter. I saw Thrust SSC on it's trailer in Reno right after it set the World Land Speed Record.
I was there...May 1993. Video and photographs of arrival then departure the next morning.
aeromoe nice!
I'm not intending to be rude but your lastname is a little bit weird
I live in Fernley, close to Fallon (Northern Nevada, close to Reno for everyone that doesn’t know the area) where the Top Gun school is, I was woken up one morning by a fighter jet and I was all mad thinking what is this jackass student hot dogging around at 9am on a Saturday in his F/A-18, I get up and look out my window and well guess what? Not a boring F/A-18, it was a friggen F-14 Tomcat!! This was 8 years ago and the Tomcat had been retired but I think some instructor was taking the ole gal out for a spin before she went to the boneyard. Tell ya what, a F-14 Tomcat can wake me up ANYTIME!
I was born in the first month of 2002. It’s awesome to see how airlines and planes have evolved so much in such a short period of time.
Kevin-
What a beautiful body of work, and one of the most wonderful things about TH-cam- the richness of content that is finding it’s way to the world. On a side note- I was the AP photographer assigned to shoot the story the day that airframe came to the Intrepid-
Was a fascinating sight. 3 years later I was also on the Hudson when Sully landed 1549. Thank you for sharing your experiences- they are appreciated with the utmost sincerity
This made me nostalgic for an era I was never apart of. I'm 18, and my dad always told me stories from when he was a kid about this plane. He told me it used to fly right over the field in Queens, New York (when it departed from JFK) where he played baseball as a kid. He said it was so fast that it threw up tornadoes of dust and sand from the field, and that it deafened everyone as it flew overhead. I would have loved to fly on it.
When i was in my early 20's I used to go to a scrap yard about 5 miles away from London Heathrow int was on the flight path to the USA and to see and hear it fly over was something to remember for the rest of my life .
My great grand mother lived in Inwood and i used to sit on her roof and watch planes land on 31 left. I loved seeing and feeling the Concorde. Miss my great grandmother and i miss JFK. 😢 now i live in Alabama wtf lol
I went inside that airplane just after it was parked next to the intrepid. I was 12 years old ; my grandfather took me there as a Christmas gift in December of 2004.
Afortunado en haber viajado en ese avión épico. Gracias por compartir y dejarnos ver y sentir como era esta maravilla en todo su esplendor.
what a amazing memory to keep and to share, unique in its kind !
an end of remarkable era in aviation