I scrimped and saved in the mid-1990s (25 y/o) to pay the $7,598 ticket price fly Concord round trip from NY to London-Heathrow. I had the money for the trip and 10 days in England saved but decided wait a few years and spent the money on something else. By the time I was ready to go again the price was $11,000 and 9/11 had occurred (I was also in the Army and in Law School). So I figured after law school, I'll go. Well, in my second year of law school the last flight occurred. I have always deeply regretted not going when I had the opportunity. So, please, learn from mistake, if an opportunity to do something that you have always wanted to do comes along, take it, and don't let anyone try to talk you out of it. Just ask them, "would you want me to take away something you have always wanted or wanted to do?". In the end, we are each the only person who can keep you from realizing/achieving your goal or dream.
Wow, I'm so sorry, I was in high school at the time and was devastated when they retired her - it was one of my dreams since I was a kid too. I can only imagine how gutted you must have been to have actually had the opportunity, plans, and ability but never got to go.
I almost made the same mistake. I redeemed the Concorde award off Continental OnePass (200k mls award code PCAF) for STO-CDG-JFK EWR-SJO and return to FRA. However did not really have money for the actual trip, so kept postponing it. That award was valid 1y and you could reschedule and change dates for free. CO also stopped codesharing with AF just after I redeemed the award (2002), meaning it was my last chance to do so. I was just days away of the award expiring, meaning I could have the miles redeposited. They would be good for 5 such trips in economy. I didn't and instead booked and had the ticked issued. Very glad I did. I saved some money by eating in the lounges I had free access to and thought it's quite funny to fly on the Concorde but not have enough money for food.
My mom flew the Concorde once from NY to Paris in the 1980s for business; she said that not only did they weigh the luggage, they weighed the passengers as well. Not sure what they'd have done if someone was overweight! But apparently they fed you amazing food and gave you champagne the entire time you were in the air. I have a set of the Mid-Century Modern Raymond Loewy-designed-for-the-Concorde flatware they used, the handles were plastic cos of weight concerns. Very cool to eat with them. Saw one once before they grounded the line, I was sunning on the roof of my apartment building and saw this giant white plane gliding towards me; apparently the flight plans had been temporarily changed into JFK for some reason, and it flew directly and silently overhead about 500 feet off the ground. The coolest thing. They've got one now on the deck of the Intrepid aircraft carrier.
Not so much “overweight” as far as people go, exact weight just about calculating the takeoff parameters and perhaps weight distribution for center of gravity. On some very small planes they will weigh you and tell you where to sit as well.
@@cyberGEK Exactly. The Concorde was very sensitive to weight and CG. A factor in the Concorde crash in France was a CG past aft limits and being several thousand pounds over the max takeoff weight.
Flew on her in 1992 on a promo flight from Jeddah to London. An utterly incredible experience, one of the highlights in my life. I cannot begin to describe the takeoff - very noisy, rammed into your seat and incredible speed over the ground.
I flew it on the ground in 1980 😂. It was in a TWA hangar for unscheduled maintenance at JFK and my godfather who worked as an avionics technician at TWA took me. I was 11 years old. We met up with the BA rep and got a tour of the plane. I still have the suede portfolio that was in the seatback pockets with the postcards, headphones, and certificate showing that you flew on the Concorde. I always winder where that particular plane is today.
I grew up in New York near JFK. Seeing - and hearing this bird coming in for a landing was an incredible experience. When it would take off, well, everybody knew!
PeriscopeFilm has another one of these films that follows a Concorde on an around the world flight. Something that was offered in the first half of their service career.
Interesting and informative. I remember as a kid back in the 1970’s being excited of this being the future way airlines would fly back then. But the market determined otherwise. Now the cost would hardly offset the time it takes to load and unload then waiting your turn to takeoff then land.
I understand they were a computer input only and not directly connected, so it didn't matter how they were "thrown", hence the lack of delicacy in the way they were handled.
I flew LHR-JFK by Concorde in 1991, one of the most memorable, yet short, trips across the Atlantic. BA staff were simply superb in everything they did. I think the intentional decision to ground these magnificent birds was one of the worst business decisions that both BA and AF has ever made.
While I never flew on the Concorde, I did see it take off many times from JFK. Also got to see it up close when the Concorde did a "Trip to Nowhere" tour. My sister did fly from NY to London for business on the Concorde!
5:25 Would you prefer smoking or non smoking !!!!!!!!!! >>>> Never got the chance to fly Concorde, but did see it many times whilst i was living in London. Surely the most beautiful passenger aircraft ever :)
Yep! That's him. Not sure when in the 70's this was but this was either when he was working as VP of the space division at GTS (a nasa/government contractor) or one of the co-founders and executives of SBH, a space and defense consulting company. He was a great man. Cool to see him pop up unexpectedly here. Just passed away recently I believe. RIP.
A beautiful plane! Sad the Concord seemed justifiable only to the wealthy or corporate traveler. I didn’t realize how few passengers the Concord carried. But, as I did when I flew to Paris in an A380, I would have enjoyed the Concord immensely.
I think the year is 1980 given the Saturday December 6th date mentioned and the cars shown at JFK. This would be about 3 years after the start of LHR-JFK service.
Surprised he had to pay $15 for the limo! Back in the 80s I used to fly BCAL Biz Class into ATL. The fare included a stretched limo transfer to the Peachtree Plaza, always a female driver as well.... #goodolddays
Flew twice (R/T) on AF in March 2003. Paid US$ 68 Plus 200.000mls off Continental OnePass. For once the trip was far more important than the destination.
Hahahahah!! "...best seen on the left-hand side of the aircraft today.... a slight curve to the horizon..." @09:08 because for some reason, the right side didn't stretch itself quite properly this morning, and isn't as bendy as the left side is!? o.0 That or perhaps the "curve" decided to show-off to the people on the left of the airplane and not so much on the right... or straight ahead. lol. Just one side of the airplane and not all three. Hmmm! Besides, according to that Neil Degrassy Tyson(sp?) character/persona, this is still WAAAY too low to see any type of "curve". Or at least he emphatically states, it's too low. Emphatically!!! IDK. Still woulda been cool to fly that fast, in a commercial airplane. : ) Lucky folks! : )
I know you don't actually care to learn or better understand reality but in case anyone else is genuinely curious, it's a function of sun angle and weather. It's much easier for the human eye to perceive a gentle curve when the limb is sharp and well defined, with a clear boundary free of clouds or haze. Depending on the weather out the left vs the right, conditions will typically make it easier to view from one side compared to the other. From the height of Concorde, the perceptible horizon curve is about 4 degrees per 90 degree FOV, which is very slight but absolutely perceptible, however the small windows mean it's highly dependent on optimal viewing conditions.
@@GlutenEruption Wait! Did they mentions sun angle and weather?? Not sure WHERE that came into this equation... Either way, they are flying WAY above ANY kind of "weather". The "viewing conditions" would be the same, 360 around the plane. Visible from all three sides. They are flying E-W or vice-versa. Depending on direction, the "LEFT" is either looking N or S. Fairly simple to deduce. Not a lot to "differentiate" the sky with, however. Also, the human eye IS a "globular" shape to begin with. The lens in which we see, is curved itself. So naturally, that effects anything looked at. Especially an "infinite" horizon line. You are also exempting the fact, that they are simply not high enough to even begin to perceive any apparent "curve". So, not sure WHAT y'all are trying to say... It would seem that you are attempting to stretch this into a conceptual pretzel. When there simply is no need. I STILL think these cats truly BELIEVED what they were saying (as do you) and obviously NOT "seeing". It's interesting what the mind decides to "see", once it's been programmed and conditioned to expect. Hope that makes sense. Thanks for the RE and yes, am totally into learning new things. As long as it piques my interests, curiosities and understandings. Just please, do not inundate with lies and deception. That just makes learning something a drag. Cheers!!
@@ethericbliss23A wide AND clear view of the horizon is all that's required to see the curvature of the Earth. This is readily apparent if you visit one of several massive dry lake beds found in the western United States. Altitude is irrelevant. If the aircraft is above a solid cloud deck, then the horizon will be obscured. During the flight in this video, that was obviously the case looking out the right side windows.
@@stargazer5784 o.0 Seriously!?! C'moon now. Y'all are just gonna write ANYthing on here now... Yeesh! Shoot a bit higher, would ya?!? Cat's obvi trolling here. These are the "people" who think that "reality" is subjective and fluid... Derp!!! JIC it's taken down. This is just SOME of what they said: @stargazer5784 1 hour ago @ethericbliss23 A wide AND clear view of the horizon is all that's required to see the curvature of the Earth. This is really apparent..."
I scrimped and saved in the mid-1990s (25 y/o) to pay the $7,598 ticket price fly Concord round trip from NY to London-Heathrow. I had the money for the trip and 10 days in England saved but decided wait a few years and spent the money on something else. By the time I was ready to go again the price was $11,000 and 9/11 had occurred (I was also in the Army and in Law School). So I figured after law school, I'll go. Well, in my second year of law school the last flight occurred. I have always deeply regretted not going when I had the opportunity. So, please, learn from mistake, if an opportunity to do something that you have always wanted to do comes along, take it, and don't let anyone try to talk you out of it. Just ask them, "would you want me to take away something you have always wanted or wanted to do?". In the end, we are each the only person who can keep you from realizing/achieving your goal or dream.
Wow, I'm so sorry, I was in high school at the time and was devastated when they retired her - it was one of my dreams since I was a kid too. I can only imagine how gutted you must have been to have actually had the opportunity, plans, and ability but never got to go.
You became a lawyer with an above average salary. Not a bad trade-off. Look at the positive!
I almost made the same mistake. I redeemed the Concorde award off Continental OnePass (200k mls award code PCAF) for STO-CDG-JFK EWR-SJO and return to FRA. However did not really have money for the actual trip, so kept postponing it. That award was valid 1y and you could reschedule and change dates for free. CO also stopped codesharing with AF just after I redeemed the award (2002), meaning it was my last chance to do so.
I was just days away of the award expiring, meaning I could have the miles redeposited. They would be good for 5 such trips in economy.
I didn't and instead booked and had the ticked issued. Very glad I did. I saved some money by eating in the lounges I had free access to and thought it's quite funny to fly on the Concorde but not have enough money for food.
It’s better to regret something you have done than regret something you haven’t. Lesson learned
The end of this plane was a step back in international aviation.
I think a company is working on a new one don't know the name but that type of flight may be coming back.
Not really. Today's planes fly further, more economically & makes more money doing so. They have done far more for humanity than Concorde did.
I flew on her NYC to LHR ... utterly magical. An experience I will never forget!
Crossing the Atlantic in just 3 1/2 hours. What an amazing feeling this must have been!
I flew on Concorde twice, returning back from New York on both occasions. Absolutely awesome.
My mom flew the Concorde once from NY to Paris in the 1980s for business; she said that not only did they weigh the luggage, they weighed the passengers as well. Not sure what they'd have done if someone was overweight! But apparently they fed you amazing food and gave you champagne the entire time you were in the air. I have a set of the Mid-Century Modern Raymond Loewy-designed-for-the-Concorde flatware they used, the handles were plastic cos of weight concerns. Very cool to eat with them. Saw one once before they grounded the line, I was sunning on the roof of my apartment building and saw this giant white plane gliding towards me; apparently the flight plans had been temporarily changed into JFK for some reason, and it flew directly and silently overhead about 500 feet off the ground. The coolest thing. They've got one now on the deck of the Intrepid aircraft carrier.
Not so much “overweight” as far as people go, exact weight just about calculating the takeoff parameters and perhaps weight distribution for center of gravity. On some very small planes they will weigh you and tell you where to sit as well.
@@cyberGEK Exactly. The Concorde was very sensitive to weight and CG. A factor in the Concorde crash in France was a CG past aft limits and being several thousand pounds over the max takeoff weight.
@@GlutenEruption Full marks the wrong weight distribution is generally forgotten about with the Air France crash.
1:19 1:26 1:52 1:59 2:03 2:06 3:56 4:00 8:56 9:10 15:46 17:34 17:58 18:05 18:19 18:22 Amazing view of the Concorde especially its interior
Flew on her in 1992 on a promo flight from Jeddah to London. An utterly incredible experience, one of the highlights in my life. I cannot begin to describe the takeoff - very noisy, rammed into your seat and incredible speed over the ground.
Concorde was remarkable
I flew it on the ground in 1980 😂. It was in a TWA hangar for unscheduled maintenance at JFK and my godfather who worked as an avionics technician at TWA took me. I was 11 years old. We met up with the BA rep and got a tour of the plane. I still have the suede portfolio that was in the seatback pockets with the postcards, headphones, and certificate showing that you flew on the Concorde. I always winder where that particular plane is today.
I grew up in New York near JFK. Seeing - and hearing this bird coming in for a landing was an incredible experience. When it would take off, well, everybody knew!
PeriscopeFilm has another one of these films that follows a Concorde on an around the world flight. Something that was offered in the first half of their service career.
Proof the human species is devolving.
aside from technology, people dressed up nicely to the airport back then.... yepp, planet of the apes is emerging...
Since we have largely bypassed natural selection this is bound to happen.
Interesting and informative. I remember as a kid back in the 1970’s being excited of this being the future way airlines would fly back then. But the market determined otherwise. Now the cost would hardly offset the time it takes to load and unload then waiting your turn to takeoff then land.
A fine tribute to a very remarkable aircraft.
Fantastic film, thank you for uploading.
Wow the PIC really manhandled those throttles!
I understand they were a computer input only and not directly connected, so it didn't matter how they were "thrown", hence the lack of delicacy in the way they were handled.
I flew LHR-JFK by Concorde in 1991, one of the most memorable, yet short, trips across the Atlantic. BA staff were simply superb in everything they did. I think the intentional decision to ground these magnificent birds was one of the worst business decisions that both BA and AF has ever made.
10:48 15:40 Incredible landing and takeoff
While I never flew on the Concorde, I did see it take off many times from JFK. Also got to see it up close when the Concorde did a "Trip to Nowhere" tour. My sister did fly from NY to London for business on the Concorde!
5:25 Would you prefer smoking or non smoking !!!!!!!!!! >>>> Never got the chance to fly Concorde, but did see it many times whilst i was living in London. Surely the most beautiful passenger aircraft ever :)
Thanks!
All these people sadly assuming that supersonic airline travel would continue.
Hey ,the Thompson Twins!!
0:12 0:19 amazing looking 747 and 1011
"When this baby hits Mach 2, you're gonna see some serious shit."
Iconic.
14:30 Home Alone 2 moment!
18:40 it’s kinda awesome how this dude was an astronaut from NASA
18:32 As in Apollo 10 Commander and later, Lt. Gen. Thomas Patten Stafford?
Yep! That's him. Not sure when in the 70's this was but this was either when he was working as VP of the space division at GTS (a nasa/government contractor) or one of the co-founders and executives of SBH, a space and defense consulting company. He was a great man. Cool to see him pop up unexpectedly here. Just passed away recently I believe. RIP.
Well, it's certainly not John Young or Gene Cernan, that's for sure.
A beautiful plane! Sad the Concord seemed justifiable only to the wealthy or corporate traveler. I didn’t realize how few passengers the Concord carried. But, as I did when I flew to Paris in an A380, I would have enjoyed the Concord immensely.
Miss you Concorde 😢
You can tour the Concord at The Museum of Flight in Seattle
$15 for a Limo from JFK to central manhattan 😂😂. How times have changed. Lmao.
Captain Walpole flying Concorde without a tie on, you'd think BA would want him to look presentable in an official BA video.
10:24 - note the subtle ad for BP!
Late 70's.
They should consider his return to the skies of the World obviously revisited in a modern key.!!
I am so jealous
These supersonic planes will fly again in new forms, but nothing will ever match the elegance and style of Concorde
15:01 I love the lady with the Soviet FED-4 camera in the heart of world capitalism
I think the year is 1980 given the Saturday December 6th date mentioned and the cars shown at JFK. This would be about 3 years after the start of LHR-JFK service.
Surprised he had to pay $15 for the limo! Back in the 80s I used to fly BCAL Biz Class into ATL. The fare included a stretched limo transfer to the Peachtree Plaza, always a female driver as well.... #goodolddays
I think Tom Clancy used "Speed Bird" as a chapter title in one of his books where Jack Ryan is on a flight.
It was in the book Patriot Games, and how Ryan was upgraded to Concorde for his flight home courtesy of the Prince of Wales.
Is that Richard Simmons at 7:03 ?
Flew twice (R/T) on AF in March 2003. Paid US$ 68 Plus 200.000mls off Continental OnePass. For once the trip was far more important than the destination.
SO SAD!!!!!!
✌️😎
The twin towers @13:20
The were an eyesore.
@TinLeadHammer And full of asbestos, hence the reason for the demolition.
Great film! Thanks! 🙏
So fast evthe future couldn't keep up! One of,no THE most beautiful aircraft ever to slip the surley bbonds of gravity
Wouldn't a Concorde produce less emissions because its in the sky less ? It seems more logical to use super sonic jets.
Wrong.... as for your logic. Wrong.
It was never intended to be clean or efficient, just fast.
Hahahahah!! "...best seen on the left-hand side of the aircraft today.... a slight curve to the horizon..." @09:08 because for some reason, the right side didn't stretch itself quite properly this morning, and isn't as bendy as the left side is!? o.0
That or perhaps the "curve" decided to show-off to the people on the left of the airplane and not so much on the right... or straight ahead. lol. Just one side of the airplane and not all three. Hmmm! Besides, according to that Neil Degrassy Tyson(sp?) character/persona, this is still WAAAY too low to see any type of "curve". Or at least he emphatically states, it's too low. Emphatically!!!
IDK. Still woulda been cool to fly that fast, in a commercial airplane. : ) Lucky folks! : )
I know you don't actually care to learn or better understand reality but in case anyone else is genuinely curious, it's a function of sun angle and weather. It's much easier for the human eye to perceive a gentle curve when the limb is sharp and well defined, with a clear boundary free of clouds or haze. Depending on the weather out the left vs the right, conditions will typically make it easier to view from one side compared to the other. From the height of Concorde, the perceptible horizon curve is about 4 degrees per 90 degree FOV, which is very slight but absolutely perceptible, however the small windows mean it's highly dependent on optimal viewing conditions.
@@GlutenEruption Wait! Did they mentions sun angle and weather?? Not sure WHERE that came into this equation... Either way, they are flying WAY above ANY kind of "weather". The "viewing conditions" would be the same, 360 around the plane. Visible from all three sides. They are flying E-W or vice-versa. Depending on direction, the "LEFT" is either looking N or S. Fairly simple to deduce. Not a lot to "differentiate" the sky with, however.
Also, the human eye IS a "globular" shape to begin with. The lens in which we see, is curved itself. So naturally, that effects anything looked at. Especially an "infinite" horizon line.
You are also exempting the fact, that they are simply not high enough to even begin to perceive any apparent "curve".
So, not sure WHAT y'all are trying to say...
It would seem that you are attempting to stretch this into a conceptual pretzel. When there simply is no need.
I STILL think these cats truly BELIEVED what they were saying (as do you) and obviously NOT "seeing". It's interesting what the mind decides to "see", once it's been programmed and conditioned to expect. Hope that makes sense.
Thanks for the RE and yes, am totally into learning new things. As long as it piques my interests, curiosities and understandings. Just please, do not inundate with lies and deception. That just makes learning something a drag.
Cheers!!
@@ethericbliss23A wide AND clear view of the horizon is all that's required to see the curvature of the Earth. This is readily apparent if you visit one of several massive dry lake beds found in the western United States. Altitude is irrelevant. If the aircraft is above a solid cloud deck, then the horizon will be obscured. During the flight in this video, that was obviously the case looking out the right side windows.
@@stargazer5784 o.0 Seriously!?! C'moon now. Y'all are just gonna write ANYthing on here now... Yeesh! Shoot a bit higher, would ya?!? Cat's obvi trolling here.
These are the "people" who think that "reality" is subjective and fluid... Derp!!!
JIC it's taken down. This is just SOME of what they said:
@stargazer5784
1 hour ago
@ethericbliss23 A wide AND clear view of the horizon is all that's required to see the curvature of the Earth. This is really apparent..."