Concorde Flight-N.Y. to London with detailed Captain's commentary 2003 (Best video!)
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- Highlights, include Captain's commentary of the unique take-off, breaking the sound barrier and landing plus food & life onboard. Shows what it was like as a passenger on board the the aircraft at MACH2.0 and 57000"
Includes detailed Captain commentary, the "Jamaica Bay" departure, champagne, caviar & food!
She is surely missed!
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JUST THINK ABOUT THIS
You're sitting 57,000 feet up in the air inside a metal tube with sheet metal wings sticking out the sides that has four RollsRoyce engines bolted to it, that are propelling you across planet Earth faster than a rifle bullet....
And everyone just stays calm and has steak and wine....
Truly Amazing.
+John McMahon I think if people had a sense of their surroundings (like the roads and trees you see outside bullet trains) to compare how fast they were going, they would care less about the stability of their champagne glasses and would be jumping around like excited kindergarten kids.
Well, our planet spins at a speed of over 1200kmh, so there
your welcome
+John McMahon FOR DEMOCRACY!
Just unbelievable aye! a modern marvel😎😎😊
This travel vloggers was way ahead of his time
Time traveller
Hahahahaha
Is this the same Concorde that crashed in Paris killing more than 100 passengers crew members and some civilians on the ground?
@@unknownpasserby1431 no. and if you're interested in learning about what happened to that flight, there is an interview with john hutchinson, a concorde pilot for 15 years, explaining the terrible chain of bad decisions that caused that crash - it wasn't just a strip of metal on the runway, it was a series of really bad choices made by a large number of people.
that time, so called "Travel vloggers" were nerds wearing liverwurst-colored socks in sandals
My mind is still blown away by this, 1310mph and not a ripple in the glass of champagne, humans are incredible in what they have achieved.
Turbulence is a lot of the issue with modern planes, but they're not even close to designed to run in the upper atmosphere where the low pressure would eliminate that. Would be neat to see some sort of hybrid between a Concord and your average passenger jet, something that sits above 30k but doesn't have the frankly silly engines that the Concord did. Don't think any of the plane companies care at this point though
@@genderender exactly seems like nobody wants to go forward and make improvements I fucking hate that
@@Voltomessthere is literally a whole section on its wiki about negative environmental effects. Would you rather an increased chance of melanoma every time you walk outside for the rest of your life, or miss out on going on a really fast luxury ride? Use your brain
@@Voltomess We're nearly at the point where you can fly from any point on the earth to any other point without stopping.
@@doublesidedtape1000 yeah but not that fast and flying 18h in a plane is no fun
To whoever recorded this, thanks. In my late teens, I had a goal of one day flying on Concorde. As a meager peasant (ha) who grew up in a rural American farm town, I took it upon myself to create a “Concorde Fund” savings account, and diligently put any extra change I could into it for several years until I would be able to afford a flight on one.
In 2002, I left school, and started a fairly low-paying job, but it let me put away much more. Eventually, I had enough to purchase a ticket, but waited too long…
When they announced retirement in April of 2003, I rushed to get a seat, but all were taken.
Opportunity missed, but happy someone recorded and posted the experience.
Later on in life, I went to go see one in person. Amazing aircraft, and what a legacy.
Hopefully you get to fly on the next generation of supersonic passenger jets if a few years
Man that’s sad. 😔
I'm sorry 😢
At the Brooklands Museum, near London in the UK is both an actual Concorde and also the original British Airways Concorde simulator, which is operational and you can have a go in the sim, including 15 minutes at the controls for £300 booked in advance. Something to aim for?
@@hardyfamily396 I just looked. Very cool, and looks like they’ve upped the experience. 30 minutes with simulator, and about 6 hours of other experience. All simulator sessions are guided by an actual BA Concorde pilot. £700 for the entire experience that lasts for several hours.
Thanks for suggesting! Now it’s just a matter of booking a euro vacation. Haha
Crazy how we look back at 2003 in order to see the future. 😭 brutal.
Well, they say these jets are coming back so..
@@srirampatnaik9164 Concorde isnt coming back, but other supersonic ones may, if the environmental pricks dont demand they aren't.
@@sandersson2813 yuuup
The future is a vertical takeoff according to Elon Musk, Will be a-bit like being inside a missile
we are in the future, you can hop across the pond on 787 for less than $300 a seat. That is much more exciting than a meme jet that was a complete failure financialy
I flew Concorde in 1989 from LHR to JKF. I missed my TWA 747 flight, couldn't wait for the next day flight. One of the best decisions I've ever made. Expensive but no one in the history of my family has ever flown so fast or high as I. They may have been stronger, smarter or richer than I but this honour was mine. The walls of the plane are heated. You look out the window and see no wing while it is a delta form. The moon is round but not smooth due to crater impacts so it is spikey looking above the atmosphere. I never lost the sight of the sun. The best for last is that although Concorde took off 3 hours later than the TWA 747, I was sitting and drinking a beer in my apartment 2 hours before the flight I missed was due to land.
Absolutely wonderful story!👍✈
Would you be able to see the sun and moon at the same time? Could you see the curvature of the earth? I think it was a better experience for you on that airplane than paying a million plus to go up in Branson's bottle rocket.
@@Wa3ypx Couldn't see the sun and the moon at the same time. We were chasing the sun and as we were flying the sun was rising as the moon was sinking. Saw the curvature of the Earth!
@@prontsc Yep, Better than the recent space shot. That mental picture you just painted, begs the song by Pink Floyd "Time"
Great! Glad to read this.
Literally, one of the best captain announcements ever made. He is literally explaining each and every stuff at every moment of the flight and all the cool facts related to the Concorde whilst flying that amazing bird! Hats off to that great flight crew!
Can you use “literally” any more? Geez 🙄🙄
Yep, the captain was a great person, especially for a Concorde pilot!
Yeah literally.
It was really clear that he liked what he was doing is gets excited on each flight though he'd done it before
@@TheCab2345 so why are you complaining over a word? bozo.
Amazing how 20 years later these amazing aircraft still look very modern and somewhat futuristic.
And don't forget, that design is from nearly 50 years ago, not when it was discontinued, 20 years ago!
@@rongendron8705 That's a very good point, Ron!
They were built in the 70s actually.
@@westelaudio943 Thanks for that; yes - that makes it even more amazing!
@@voicetube
By the way, this particular one (G-BOAG) was built in 1977. The interior of the British fleet was modified starting in the early 1990s though, adding new seats and those dot-matrix displays, for instance.
My mum and dad once won a trip on concorde through a competition on the back of a box of Tesco corn flakes. Unbelievable.
HAHA YES!!!!!! *high fives from Cali*
Really.? If so that's awesome
Something most of us would do anything for these days
@@jmantravels yep totally!
I’d kill for that prize.
To this day Concorde is still an absolute marvel of engineering and a huge loss to the skies.
Not good for global warming
@@jerolehmuskoski5108 grow up, don’t care
@@Micotyt grow up and start caring then 🤦♂️
@@Fiilis1 why do you care?
Massive step backwards for aviation, I wonder how many more years til we have something similar in speed?
1310 Mph= 2100km/hr at 53,000 ft
that's just unimaginable!!! No words.
Those are the lucky ones who could have that unmatched lifetime experience. Insane Engineering!!! Masterpiece of Engineering
My flat was under the Concorde flight path into Heathrow and every day at 4.15 she would fly towards us an then bank to the left to continue its approach. Never failed to watch it without a smile on my face every single time. Amazing aircraft
The Captain’s commentary is an extremely welcoming and informational touch to the Concorde experience
Yep everything these days is just to maximize profit by any means necessary other wise its not worth it for anyone to move forward
Yeah because everyone was probably crapping themselves at the thought of flying supersonic on a commercial aircraft for the first time.
Yeah last time I hopped on a plane they were advertising the lottery😐😐
almost like a surgeon explaining exactly what's going to happen in the medical procedure - putting the other person at ease. amazing stuff.
Only three hours!
A plane of the future in the past 😭💔✈
Aidan Zuniga a plane of the past in the past, it was made with the tech of the 60s.
Actually, 50s.
Up,I’m,. Hey my knuckle jvugty
Mrs s zarrar is time time to get home from my birthday 🎂 next week next weekend
Maha zarrar 🤷🏽♀️😭
The past was the future of the past.
I lived miles and miles away from Heathrow airport, but every Sunday I would hear it's approach and run outside into the garden to look up and see this white swan of the skies glide over above. Just a sight to see and admire in awe.
I remember exactly the same but in Spain. Not sure if they where flying from Madrid or Toulouse.
And the huge Bum!!! sound up the sky..
We used to hear the sonic boom here on the island of Jersey as she went super sonic over the English Channel heading to the US.
I miss hearing that, lol
I lived in Mitcham and at 6 every evening I’d see it take off at a really steep angle
@@adrianatkins3128/ Que Gran recuerdo!!! Felicitaciones!!!🙏🙏🙏🙏🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽
20 years ago, today was the Concorde's final flight. A short trip from London to Filton (Aerospace Bristol Museum) where it remains on display, along with the 17 other remaining aircraft around the world. You truly don't comprehend how large and how beautiful it is until you see it up close, which I did at the Smithsonian Museum in Chantilly, VA. It was so large that the Smithsonian could only park it diagonally in the hangar, they literally had to re-arrange everything else around it to make it fit. What...a...monster.
I was lucky enough to fly on this incredible piece of engineering when I was 16. I think you had to be 15 years old to fly on it but my father worked for BOAC/BA for 25 years and he knew everyone and everyone knew him. I still have my menu from the flight that was autographed by the cockpit crew. God rest my father's soul, I will never forget this trip with him? RIP Dad 🙏🏴🇺🇲
There wasn't a specific age, my parents took me on it when I was just a baby :)
I’m a pilot and wish I could have flown this magnificent machine. 😢
@@73av8r5 what type rating do u have
@@realslimshaco8550 maybe it's something they added later on
That's awesome.
Amazing camera for 2003! I am thoroughly impressed!
Roman Val much cleaner than super 8 maybe, any film size higher blows video and all but the highest end digital cameras out of the water
well he *is* rich, since he's flying on a concord, so he'd better have a top notch cam!
Better quality than most videos uploaded on youtube today
Roman Val than* not then
what did you expect, if you can afford caviar on a concord, you don't need to film with a potato ;)
I recently talked to my grandmother who is a former flight attendant on Concorde. She told me she always felt being in the guts of a beast onboard because of the narrowness and such power.
Had to feel like a military plane, most people don’t get to feel hear and smell afterburners. What an exciting career she must have had.
I saw it in a museum and you were able to get into the entrance and take a a look. It looked cramped as hell, no way current obese people would be able to board the Concorde, they might not even fit through the corridor ( i am obese and there's no way i would have had a comfortable flight in there).
Still an amazing piece of engineering.
@@FPAlpha was this the bristol aerospace museum? i've seen concorde there also
@@queenofcamp832 No, it is in Germany in the Technics Musem Sinsheim. You can see it from the highway when you drive to the museum, gorgeous sight.
how many captains she fucked?
Whoever filmed this - THANK YOU !
I wish all pilots were as cool as this guy. Ive never heard a pilot talk so casually to their passengers like this before
I've heard BA pilots talking like that recently - Giving a tour of London as we flew up the Thames. I wish they all did it.
This is the best captain's commentary I've heard. We can make out from his speech the passion he had for his job.
I have another "very british" captain's announcement:
We are about to commence our flight to xxx ...
Was the high water mark for a pilot. If say more so that air force 1
It was his daily routine and it was one of his last flights with the plane. He knew he is never again flying supersonic.
Its going back to regular, boring subsonic jets which never required any special skill to fly them.
What I believe, hit every one of concorde pilots, is feeling of being demoted. Like being one of few 4 star generals and you are demoted to brigadier for the rest of your career.
I flew it 4 times, once JFK-LHR, twice LHR-JFK and once CDG-JFK. Of all the "marvels" -- the high-end service, the absolute speed, getting to NY "before you left Europe" and the windows hot from friction when it was -50 degrees outside -- the one that made the greatest impression on me was flying high enough to perceive the curvature of the earth out at the horizon because that was an unmistakable confirmation of something that of course I knew was correct but could not have verified personally.
The closing remarks from one of the pilots is wonderful. He really enjoys flying this bird and appreciates the privilege of giving the experience of super sonic flight to passengers.
The coolest thing about the Concorde was when flying east to west like London to NYC, you were pretty much flying back in time. You would arrive in NYC before you left London, due to crossing 6 time zones in 3 hours.
That will happen with any flight if you change time zones and not just with concorde LOL
Patrick94GSR u stupid or what?
bruhhhh
You don´t need a plane to do that, just walk from Spain to Portugal and you´ll travel one hour back in time with just a few steps.
@Pan Wrebski Can you give the logic behind your statement??
"We switch the afterburners on in pairs, so as not to upset your champagne glasses". The just epitomizes Concorde travel, in my opinion.
The class in that era was phenomenal
@@patrickk6331 _The class_ is such a Mercedes: it was best, back in the 60's, but everyone remembers the 90's, because those had better toys aboard..
Its been 20 years, and this is still a classic. The video and the plane
It’s kind of terrifying that all those wires and parts that make this Concorde fly has to work every second. How was this machine even achieved?! I can’t even describe in words what I’m trying to explain. This aircraft has to be perfect and nothing fail for many flights and with 90 miles of wiring, this is mind blowing to think about how much of a adrenaline rush it would be to be brave enough to ride on this bullet!!🤯🥵
It's an amazing feat of engineering, but towards the end of its life the Concorde fleet suffered quite a few technical failures. None of these incidents were fatal* - some were minor, and for others the skill of the pilots pulled the plane through without major concern.
That was part of the reason Concorde was withdrawn from service.
*The Air France Concorde crash of 2000 was caused by the aircraft running over debris on the runway, not unforced technical failures.
I was lucky to fly Concorde London to New York in 1979 at age 26. 3 hrs 23 mins. Left London at 11 am. Arrived New York at 9.30 - beating the rotation of the earth.
There is a saying that flying Concorde if you left London after sunset, you could experience sunrise in the West!!.
Total seating was 110 with 4 to a row. The cabin was fairly narrow.
Our earlier Concorde only had a little blue digital Mach meter high on the bulkhead. Fastest speed we saw was Mach 2.02. Highest height was 60,000 feet.
You could see the deep indigo of space and the curvature of the earth. It was much cheaper when I flew.
In 1982 they doubled the price of Concorde tickets and it finally started to make a profit. Gee I was so lucky. My company paid half the fare and I paid the other half.
My car by contrast was a rather slow Citroen 2CV6. 2 cylinders and a max speed of 115 kph. For the new cost of the 2CV in 1979 I could have Concorde 4 times.
In 1982 London to New York return (2 flights) would have consumed the cost of my car... Yikes.
Sure was a privilege. Hope it is a reality again for others by 2023 - two decades after the last Concorde.
Viajabas hacia el pasado 😂, salias a las 11 y llegabas antes de las 11, curioso, esto es un avión del futuro que lo vemos ya en el pasado. 😐
What an experience that must have been.
Actually I am going through comments to check for personal experiences. Thanks a lot for the reminiscence. Once in a lifetime experience.
@@Rockinsoul1214 many would never want to have such a horrifying experience to beging with!
@@dreamthedream8929 There's always a dumb comment with poor spelling🙄
I used to live under the flight path of those concorde flights in England. They were an awesome sight.
And very noisy!
+KiloByte69 loved it
I think supersonic flight would be great except for the people outside on the ground who hear the BOOM noise as the plane screams overhead!!!
DesignJunkie58
IKR that would stink.
"Oh yeah, Concorde broke my windows again, that sucks."
Roughly 3500 miles between NYC & London traveled at Mach 2, 1310mph means you could do the flight in 3ish hours including slowdown for takeoff and landing - that is absolutely insane.
Insane for the time... And again, in the next future
What an experience. Made me teary watching this. My beloved mum and dad have since passed but I could imagine them sitting there together as they loved flying on the Concord; especially when their dear friend captain John one of the then captains of this amazing aircraft was flying. Praying they made it to heaven ❤
Love how the pilots seem just as excited as the passengers. Let's remember that even for them this is a one of a kind experience lol
Considering there were only 23 Concorde pilots, yes, this would be extremely exciting for the pilots, and an experience that many extremely experienced pilots could only dream of.
Google out the cockpit view on landing and take off. Yeah exiting for the flight crew
Every plane should have these Mach no. And alt. Numbers for the passengers. Even in the boring old 737 cruise can still be fun flying on the edge of performance, catching a jetstream and giving her some gas!!
I think the Concorde was not only a piece of engineering marvel but was also a beautiful art masterpiece too. It had such an elegant shape....
make your words my words
I roger that. sad to see it go because of american envious lobbyists. now we will never get to fly in one ever.
hdidane00 It died not because of american lobbyists, it wasn't financially feasible.
it looks like a mosquito, but it is something quite amazing!
i remeber sitting infront of the tv watching the documentary crying because i knew it would never fly again.. such a super creation!
What an experience, wild but with such grace.
Thank you for sharing this documentary
Flew it in 1982 JFK to London. A wedding gift from my father. Amazed how small the cabin was and how short a flight to London was. Fanciest meal I’ve ever had on a plane.
I used to work near Heathrow and never got tired of seeing and hearing Concorde.
What did it sound like !? Incredible I'd say
+Kyle Duffy It was like seeing it for the first time over and over again. And it was incredibly loud!
I was posted near to Heathrow in 2002 and Concorde frequently flew straight over us and despite the amount of times you saw it, everything and everyone stopped to stare at it. The noise was unbelievable and if you were outdoors you couldn't have a proper conversation without shouting. Also the buildings would shake, especially the windows. When it flew in on its approach to land it was as quiet as any other aircraft. A sorely missed aircraft that always filled me with pride.
Absolutely agree Ian, it was an aircraft that brought everyone to a standstill no matter how often they saw it.
So loud
The pilot's speech in the end brings tears to my eyes, you can tell that he had a passion for flying this aircraft and was sad and maybe a little mad that it was going to be retired.
Indeed nice speech .I never understood why this airplane was put aside.
@@falamimire There are some short YT vids on the subject that are a good watch.
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Really solid I agree - These guys are good guys and do a great job. I pray these pilots might get back in on the new COncord project coming!
@@falamimire Because it was expensive as shit to fly on.
I took a flight from LAX to CDG back in the early 90s on a United DC-10. After disembarking the plane and entering the concourse, I felt the building start to shake. It felt like an earthquake and then I heard a very loud roar. I ran over to the nearest window and sure enough, I saw a Concorde taking off. Unreal.
"Sobering thought next time you see it will be in a museum" I'm 58 years old and just missed having the resources to experience this amazing machine. Now we are going backwards fast. As a kid I really believed between Concorde and space flight we would be travelling at least to the outer reaches of our solar system during my lifetime. Instead we are to busy fighting and destroying our planet. My parents truly lived through the golden years and our children have little to look forward to.
They are loud, inefficient and dangerous. As fascinating as they are I am not suprised they don’t flight anymore.
@@cowboytanaka6675 Not true concorde had the best safety record of any plane until that fateful flight.
If only all these self proclaimed environmentalists would realize immigrations destructive environmental impact
@@cowboytanaka6675 the 'efficient' and 'quieter' 737 Max 8 wants a word..
@@cowboytanaka6675 lol shaddup
Every captain should be like this captain. It's wonderful to hear him and in many ways, it helps ease the more nervous passengers slightly I'm sure. Beautiful aircraft. Thank you for this look back.
James Knowles although I personally like the flight crew announcements I have to disagree with you there. Most travellers would be annoyed with the captain on the PA this much as in today's planes he'd be interrupting their IFE.
+Fimi K You are completely wrong. I would enjoy hearing the captain talk about the details of the flight. I found it very interesting.
pretty sure that was the second officer talking the whole time, there is no chance the captain nor the first officer would have time for so much chatting
indeed this captain is my kind of captain
We need to thank Ryanair for the crap service that we have these days
Flew on it in 1992. Takeoff is phenomenal and supersonic transition is a big push in the back. One of the most incredible experiences in my life.
can you feel the speed??
@@bigboymatthew7471 you can feel the acceleration
What happened to it and why?
@@bigboymatthew7471 You really get thrown back against your seat during takeoff. Feel much more acceleration than normal flight.
@@jlasf like if you were in a mustang or a muscle car??
The British are sadly not patriotic anymore but watching this video makes me a very proud Englishman and I'm sure French people feel the same way. This was a huge achievment for both of our countries.
I like the Captain‘s announcement. British Airways always has such nice announcements. I checked it out here on TH-cam and also heard them in real life. Real pleasure
BA is the best all rounder airline IMO
Wish this beautiful old bird could still fly! :'( Maybe one day...
By 2019 hopefully if the consortium is successful
alan jackson I'll start saving now! :)
+Lord Sandwich Ha ha yes I know. I read in the news that they plan to do airshows, charity work and the odd paying flight. I'd sell my own body parts to go supersonic in that beast
Jason Hitchcock
I think you're taking the expression a little too literally...
+Lord Sandwich The days are coming closer... If you see the effort put in the new planes from Airbus and Boeing, It's not going to take long until we can fly on Mach 2 again...
A marvel of British and French engineering. With those Rolls Royce Olympus jets, just superb.
It could actually fly even faster and higher if not for those engines. The air was simply too thin. Scramble is too expensive, so I think Electric turbofans is the way to go. We just need better batteries, or more efficient fuel cells.
British
@@alberttanner408 China if not North Korea
@@mjk8019 "Electric is the way to go" ahaha you clearly have absolutely no knowledge of batteries then 🤣🤣🤣
@@ccva780 Presumably a warp drive and a 2 Farad flux capacitor will displace the afterburners?
I was lucky enough to fly the NY London route on Concorde on four occasions. This video of the inside of the cabin is incredibly evocative of those flights which were amazing. The afterburner moment always made me a little nervous! I remember really well the crew and how well you were looked after and the quality of the food and wine. Amazing aircraft and very sad that option is no longer available.
I still believe the Concorde will come back eventually. And even more amazing than it was before.
It is never coming back any more than the world's fastest Ocean liner, the SS United States, is coming back. Both of those machines consumed a MASSIVE amount of fuel to achieve their respective speed records for crossing the Atlantic and are not economical to operate with today's fuel costs.
Breakfast in NYC. Lunch in London.
Lunch in London, breakfast in NYC.
Dinner back in NYC
@Ga Fin av u ever heard of 5/6hour time difference
779nkp breakfast in London. Breakfast in London
Not exactly. I believe it used to leave nyc around 9 a.m. With a 3 1/2 hour flight to London + time difference - it would have arrived approx 5:30 p.m. London time.
"Anyway, we hope to fly you again soon, even if it's on a jumbo..."
Pretty crazy that this thing makes jumbos seem boring lol
I waited for over an hour with a bunch of other people to watch the Concorde take off from our airport. It was amazing and very fast, like a rocket. Then an ordinary plane took off after it, and everyone laughed - it looked like a lumbering elephant by comparison. It climbed so slowly, it seemed to be straining to stay aloft.
And now BA is even getting rid of their jumbo's
And now the 747 is retiring.
And now the 747 has been retired
thank goodness, probably some ceo"kids" screaming, we need new modern chips in our 747! doesnt matter it has 80% failure! we get 8 to compensate!
As a 12 year old, in 1961, I flew on the new 707 passenger liner and at that time it was very loud in the passenger cabin. Today, it is much quieter but it is more like taking a bus...
I've been on the one at the Intrepid Museum in Manhattan, the G-BOAD. The G-BOAD is special in that it was not only the one that was temporarily painted in Singapore Airlines livery, but it was ALSO the one that had the record of the fastest Concorde crossing at 2 hours 52 minutes and 59 seconds on February 7, 1996 (making G-BOAD the single world's fastest passenger jet) AND the Concorde that spent the most time in the air at 23,397 hours.
We were the only ones on the Concorde tour at the time slot we selected, so it was great to both have the jet to ourselves and actually sit as if we were Concorde passengers. I even got to sit in the cockpit. Safe to say, it made me fall in love with the Concorde and to see it in action in this footage makes me appreciate it even more. And an example of countries working together for the future, how it should be.
Hi Avery. I see you everywhere. I wonder if you see me everywhere too.
Cheers.
The joint flight, British Airways with Singapore Airlines was marred by the fact that the aircraft had to stop and re-fuel in Bahrain. It was only painted with SIA livery on one side so when it landed at Changi it had to show the SIA side towards the Terminal. I was lucky enough to fly Concorde to New York in 1995 (return sub-sonic!) for £500.
This is one of those videos that make me bless TH-cam for existing. Priceless.
I can explain the windows getting hot, friction! When Concorde flew supersonic, the skin of the aircraft got very hot. So even though the outside air temperature was in the -50's, the skin was anywhere around 110 - 125C (that's plus!). If you could walk out onto the wing you could easily fry an egg or cook some bacon on the wing.
This heating also caused the aircraft to expand in length by almost a foot. You could see this expansion on the flight deck near the Flight Engineer's panel.
Concorde could not exceed a temperature of 127C and this in turn limited it's supersonic speed to Mach 2.02.
The heating was also the reason why Concorde was white in colour. The special paint helped to reduce the temperature.
nice explanation
I always found the expansion due to the heat fascinating. Apparently on one of the last Concorde flight the pilots put their caps in the gap between the panel and the bulkhead, so when the flight landed the caps were permanently wedged against the flight engineer's panel.
Tuneman1984 Yeah that's true. A lot of the pilots did that on their last supersonic flights. If you visit Concorde G-BOAC at Manchester I think you can see a cap still stuck in the gap. G-BOAG went to Seattle and there was also a stuck cap there until a sightseer stole it.
Concorde was way ahead of it's time and it's sad seeing them rot away in museums.
Fernando Aires Teixeira Cheers mate
+DarkLight753 I hope they go ahead with plans to make a Concorde two it was ahead of its time but unfortunately it lacked the fuel efficiency 😞 and i don't know what it was like for safety either honestly
I love how they used to give the flight briefing explaining exactly what's going to happen. Any flight where the pilot has to tell you "we'll be using the afterburners" or "we'll be going twice the speed of sound" - you know it's going to be one heck of a flight and a trip to remember - wish i was lucky enough to ride this before they scrapped the program 😞
I lived near Leeds/Bradford Airport and whenever Concorde came we would drive to the hills behind the airport and watch the plane come in to land. It was so exciting. Later my mum went on a short flight on Concorde as someone's guest. I still have the video of it taking off. Fabulous.
Isn't it amazing that this is EARLY 1960's technology and yet we've never developed anything technologically or commerically similar since?
It shows how ahead of the curve mainly British and French engineers were at that time :)
We already have.. technologically but not commercially.
+Cano Manuel “Gonzrule” Gonzaga
The Space Plane for instance..
+George Rellas It was too ineficient, wasting 3 times the amount of fuel than a B-777 when the triple seven carries 3 times more pople and 4 to 6 times more cargo
+sirlordwhitman Like mansions with lots of slaves a luxury of other time. Lets began to concerne ourselves about enviromental issues
I had the privilege of flying Concorde on Monday, July 29, 1996 on Air France from Paris to New York.
11:00am departure, 8:45am arrival.
It was a top 10 life experience. I still vividly remember every second of that incredible day.
I still have the ticket, boarding pass, and certificate signed by the captain.
I even got to go in the cockpit inflight!
What a difference 25 years makes.....
was the cabin loud? i can't tell from this video. mach 2 to mach .95 seems like a huge difference but it's from a 2003 piece of technology recording
@@skraminc it was relatively quiet, except for the whooshing sound of flying 2x the speed of sound.
If you had 11 am in paris in NY was 5 am ...are you saying that this rhing flew from paris to ny in 3h 45 min?
@@Voltomess Yep! Exactly.
If you remember every detail, what terminals did you use at CDG and JFK?
Very lucky to have flown on Concorde 13 times. On one flight Margaret Thatcher and Eric Clapton were on board.
Made a return flight on Air France Concorde, they made no fuss about the trip whereas BA made the whole experience wonderful, I wish this wonderful aircraft was still flying.
Stuck on an aircraft with Margaret Thatcher? My condolences
I don't know why, but this makes me quite emotional. Amazing engineering.
This is kind of the life i would dream for. It's late 90s, the world has very little care, people are happy and life is good. You're flying London to New York for a business meeting. You depart London at 10am, arriving in New York at 8am local time because you have beaten the time zones. You arrive at JFK looking out the window at the Manhattan skyline seeing the twin towers in all their glory. You make very important business decisions while making good money. Concorde returns you home that day in time to sit down for dinner with your wife and children back in London conversing your wonderful day travelling a combined 8000 miles and seeing the other side of the world.
But now we have diversity! XD
Why am I getting nostalgic for something I never got to experience :(
*early 2000s
You seem to have a very unrealistic, myopic, movie-like view of what things were like "back then."
Then, social media made people so unbearably self absorbed and unhealthily obsessed with celebs.
They used to say that the only disappointing thing about the concord flight was that it was all over so quickly. Magical.
The hourt spent before take-off and after landing.
This is surely one of the best videos on TH-cam, made a couple of years before the platform even existed!
Massive thanks to whoever filmed this flight 👌👍. What an amazing aircraft, it’s so sad we’ll never see it take to the skies again 😢
sometimes really unbelievable what they built 50(!) years ago..
People of the future will say was alien tech
You can blame the cold war for this stuff
@@wololo10 I think so
The SR-71 did 2,200 MPH and at a height of 120,00 feet built in 1966.
That is almost twice as fast and 3 times as high.
@@skeletonjam No, this was purely civilian and the cold warriors did not know how to catch it with any of their military toys....
I am extremely depressed that i missed the opportunity to fly on one of these planes.
Had British Airways sold them to Virgin as requested, you would still be able to. It's such a shame that the petty feud between the two airlines lead to them rotting in hangars.
There was still the issue of safety of the planes, most planes can fly for 20-30 years of service as life is based on time flown and miles, not years. The SST leaked like sloppy mess on the ground and required constant maintenance. Only once the plane was airborne and cruising at M1 would the seals stop leaking. Virgin Airways is working on a replacement but it's still years away.
SecurityPro2704
SST?
That's by design.
What's an SST?
Thanks for the great footage! It's 2022 now and it's sad yet fantastic that I'm still looking back in complete awe of this magnificent machine. WOW
She had her own altitude and airspace and was truly queen of the skies..RIP concorde.
Thank you for this video, I was on this flight and the aircraft is now in the Boeing Museum in Seattle, close to where I live. You were seated just a few seats behind me, I am the tall guy seated on the left window in front of the screen.
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Rudy Agudelo how come it's at a boeing museum? Wasn't it built by airbus ?
Emilioh888 Built by a French and British company that would eventually merge (along with other companies) to become Airbus, so Airbus supported it. No idea why it is in the Boeing museum.
So you were the arsehole kicking the back of me seat that whole flight!
I got to see it in Seattle!! Absolutely incredible
Awwww man. That pilot at 8:30. Such pain in his voice having to say that.
So true, it was the politest ' Wtf ' you ever heard.
"We look forward to flying you again, even if it's on a jumbo."
No doubt. And that pilot sounds like he really loves flying.
wow, that was upsetting.
EVERY Pilot really loves flying!
Visited the Seattle Museum of Flight today with my kids and explored their Concorde. Back home tonight I find this amazing video of the very same aircraft, G-BOAG! Unreal to time travel like this in a few hours. They’re taking excellent care of her. Thanks for recording and sharing this experience.
I was shocked how tiny and narrow the cabin was.
I remember being a young kid in the late 70s and early 1980s and living in South ozone Park queens nyc. Jfk airport was literally in my backyard. We would see and hear the Concord take off and land all the time! It was so loud like the sky being torn open. What a sight! With its swoopy winds and pointy nose. It was especially cool when viewed from Rocaway Beach in Queens. It would just switch on the afterburner out over the water and leave a huge plume of white smoke in its wake. It was so futuristic! Even with living by and airport, and seeing the big Jumbo Jets take off and land close up "at night ylI could see the passengers and pilots through the window on landings I lived that close to the airport!" the Concord was always something special!!
I used to live in Twickenham, ten miles from London Heathrow, in the 1980's. We never had 747's on take off routed over us but an exception was made for the daily Concorde flight to New York. All conversation and most road traffic would stop for it - the sound was deafening! Every window in my house would violently shake but miraculously none actually broke. Yet somehow we never minded - Concorde was so special.
Stephen Burnage I remember as a kid pulling into the car park at Heathrow and seeing it (and feeling it!) take off over head and setting off all the car alarms. I’m glad I grew up in an era where seeing Concorde regularly was the norm
I lived in Stanwell. Every time the winds were such that it flew a few hundred feet over the house, we would all be outside watching. Miss it!
I live in Twickenham now haha
Wait so it would pass supersonic over populated land? Just 10 miles from the Airport?
That's insane, and yes I think i would put up with it too! Heck, I'd enjoy it!
I always thought Concorde was only permitted to fly supersonic over water.
@@SpenserRoger You are correct, supersonic over water only. But Concorde had unbelievably noisy engines, even when flying sub-sonic.
Height in feet
Temperature in Celsius
Speed in MPH
interesting choices
True aha
@@MatthewJonAmison because it's using both Metric and Imperial measurements. Using Kilometers & Celsius and/or Feet & Fahrenheit makes sense but combining them just seems odd
Metric is not used in aviation
Ayymo by mixing the metric system with the imperial system.
Ayymo correct
I never knew they had displays in the cabin where passengers could see the speed and altitude of the plane. thats so cool!
Shoutout to the captain for making the video much more interesting
Damn, it hit hard when he said next time they'll see it will be in a museum, sad to see such a marvel of aviation being retired like that even though it made such a big impact on the industry, it was inevitable though and I understand it was extremely costly and hard to operate, but still it was an amazing project made by two countries and it'll forever leave it's mark in the general culture of the world population, R.I.P Concorde, I really mean it
It were the selfish British Airways bosses that did not want concorde to fly anymore. Richard Branson Virgin Airlines offered to buy concorde and keep it flying but they refused to sell it 😡
This Concorde is in Seattle I was just on it a few weeks ago
simply the finest airliner man has ever devised, i don't see anyone bettering it in modern times. 11 mins and paying passengers supersonic simply another time . We are currently going backwards
I remember always going fishing with my dad near Heathrow Airport on a Sunday evening. I wasn't really interested in fishing I just loved to see and hear concorde approach and fly over to land at 6pm, every car alarm sounded in the area it was utterly brilliant.
Thank you so much for sharing this film, it is wonderful and I only discovered it today! My Dad was part of the team at Bristol Siddeley (later Rolls Royce) who built the Olympus engines for Concorde. As a child I remember clearly going into work with him one day when they were testing the engines for Concorde in the early days c1966, very memorable. Despite his work with the engines my Dad never flew on Concorde. Loving the memories of those who did though. Thank you x
Glad you enjoyed it!
So glad to find a good Concorde video that's not full of music (which never was part of the experience).
'We hope to fly you again soon, even if it's on a Jumbo' And now thanks to the pandemic, even the Jumbo is going. so sad. I grew up near Heathrow, and I still miss standing in the street watching Concorde roar over head, leaving a trail of car alarms in her wake!
@@hoedemakerbart Nope......it’s a real pandemic. And the earth ain’t flat bud.
You are lucky to ever have experienced this! Last week, I went to Düsseldorf airport by bicycle and I was quite happy to have a plain normal A320 fly over (Turkish Airways it was).
the pilots basically jinxed the jumbo, i hope they still keep their Airbus Jumbo
Jumbos have been on the way out for awhile, but the pandemic expedited it.
@@p1xlb522 A380 isn't in production, Airbus discontinued it after delivering unfilled orders this year.
My grandma and grandpa were the only members of my family who were ever afforded the opportunity to fly a Concorde flight, and I understand that was because of a very wealthy and generous friend of theirs. My grandma told my mom about how odd it was to feel the heat from the walls and windows, and how shockingly short the flight was compared to a regular transatlantic trip.
This was very special to see because the Concord used to fly over my little hometown when I was growing up it was quite an amazing sight and sound back then.
Thank you for sharing!
5:45 the windows are hot because of the air compressability and friction during those speeds. The skin heated up to about 120+C (248+ F) and the limit temp for the structure was 127+ C. When flying in warmer climate the autopilot controlled speed by the aircraft skin temp and not by the mach number! Also, beacause of the heat concorde actually stretched about 23cm (9inch) during the flight so joints had to be installed throughout aircrafts structure. The cabin floor was sitting on rollers so the airframe around it could expand but not the cabin itself!
the good thing u dont need anti ice xD
Maybe technology helped in those days
Let's suppose the pressure inside the cabin was same as outside, you had oxygen mask and somehow the low pressure didn't affect. Then what would happen if the windows were opened xD
Bring Back the concord!!!
Colin Wolf It would be sweet, but in this age, it would never be cost effective. Book the 3 room apartment on Etihad and I think you could get over it....It will take longer but you'll be so spoiled by your butler and so comfy you wouldn't notice...
Purrplehaze surely with the technology and materials that we have today we can design a more economical supersonic aircraft for the masses. Concorde was 50/60s technology.
alan jackson True that BUT "they" don't care about the masses.... :(
The reason they discontinued the Concorde because it uses supersonic jet engines, which is not economical, heck, it probably goes 1 mile to the gallon, plus, the engines were WAY too loud, and last, it requires high maintenance.
Fuel consumption is 1.5 gallons per second..
A magnificent piece of engineering. I never got the chance to fly on it, being born in 1999, not even as a baby. But I did have the chance to get inside the Concorde at Paris Le Bourget Airport. It was a magical experience. I was shocked when I saw how narrow the cabin was: truly claustrophobic! It’s the most beautiful plane ever made.
@@phillipbanes5484 the Blackbird is definitely very close. I don't like the frontal profile of the XB-70, though. Concorde was much more elegant
he mentioned the windows was hot to the touch. At the speed the plane was travelling the outside of the hull was around 127°C! Concorde used to expand by around 9 inches during a flight. Interesting fact, so that the plane livery would look as good as on take off as it did when landing, British Airways invented "expanding paint" so they during a flight it would expand with the plane. Quite amazing really.
Man it must of been awesome being a Concorde flight attendant. Imagine being able to ride in a supersonic jet several times a week and getting paid for it.
@this altitude it flys very smooth less turbulence
Or the pilot, perhaps?
Fr fr you know what I ment...but yeah the pilot
WIGGY it takes a lot more effort to become a Concorde pilot but less effort to became a flight attendant.
LMAO....."Effort" has nothing to do with becoming a pilot, IQ, intellect and devotion to aviation will make you a pilot,
Stunning video! What an achievement the Concord was! Now we have $25,000 1st class suites that still lumber along at 500mph.
Agreed. If I have to pay a premium for something resembling legroom and be stuck at low speeds I'd rather be on a zeppelin!
You'd rather pay $20,000 for an economy experience on a Concorde?
@@Shaun81000 $13000 in today's money, and hell yes. Taking off in France at 12 and getting to NY at 10, decent legroom, champagne meal and seeing the curvature of the earth and craters on the moon vs sitting in a pod, bored to death, passing time watching movies for 7 hours. Hell yes.
@@samsara3694 if it was 20k then now it would be 25k not 13k
@@drew388 Not sure if you are talking about dollars or pounds. If we take an example from 1997, the cost was $7,996 for a return ticket, at a time when the $/£ rate was about $1.70 to £1, so it cost around £4,700, which in 2020 would have been around £8,750, or around $12, 250 at today's ER.
Wow 2023 and we still have those memories!!
I didn't realize it could Mach 2.0, that is pretty dang fast. Very impressive, too bad I never had the opportunity to fly on one. Hopefully in the future they will make another super-sonic plane
It could do more than Mach 2.0,just an economical cruising speed.
it appears that we, as a civilisation, have forgotten how to dream.
That is sadly true
We put our energy and aspirations elsewhere- budget travel. Get the whole world to travel, not enhance the experience for the ones that already can.
You are 100% accurate.
It’s actually the opposite, because we continued to dream and create and innovate, things like the World Wide Web were globalized and video chat across continents became reality. After that the Concorde became obsolete....
We learned that , we can't push too much like lunatic .
The Doom is real .
Aww, the pilot sounded genuinely sad to see his plane go!
IsItModern Yes you could totally hear that at the end. Sad
I would have loved to see this back in the 90's when I was a kid. I was obsessed with the Concord and wondered (back then, anyways) what it was like onboard when it broke the sound barrier. But I know now that you feel absolutely nothing. There are crazy forces acting on the aircraft during the transition, but if it's built right, you won't feel a thing. If it's not, you'll explode.
This is a treasure! Thanks for sharing
How depressed was the pilot at the end? "We hope to fly you again... even if it's on a jumbo"
Damien Gaze it's the invisible ninjas cutting onions
Damn, when u realise even the jumbos are gone now😢
Arjun Padmakumar They killed the bleeding 747? That’s a crying shame. I miss the Concorde as much as the next man who could afford luxurious flights at Mach 2, but killing off the world’s greatest jumbo jet is real disappointing.
@@theobserver4214 The bastards retired them due to COVID.
Great video! I love it when the captains give extra technical details.
5:09
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Cowboy Bob Titties.
I love that too!
Never thought id see you here
What a privileged an honor it must have been to fly on this Concord jet, truly it was brilliant and a well thought out piece of machinery, the best precision ever made flying over Mach 1 at 58,000 feet while people are drinking wine and eating caviar, and the table barely moves what an honor! Cheers to that!