When the concorde stops at the end in the ` parking lot ` its such a sad and historical moment isnt it ? Truly the end of an era! Nothing like it had ever flown before it and nothing has flown after it since it was retired. As a 40 year old man i truly hope we get to see another supersonic airliner take to the skies oncest again as i for one will sure be one of the first passengers to fly on it , even if its a return flight on the same day just to experience what i can only imagine is an ultimate mindblowing experience for a human being !
It's really hard to imagine that Concorde was developed in the 1960s when even to this day, it looks like it came out from the future. Imagine what it must have been like to see it in 1969. It truly was ahead of it's time.
I've got this on DVD, I remember watching it first when I was around 3 years old, I found it the other day and watched it again, its a great documentary on a truly magnificent airliner.
I was lucky enough years ago @ JFK airport on the taxi way waiting for take off . Our Captan pointed out if you are on the Left side you can see the CONCORD take off ! Well that was me , at the end of runway I watched and it was something I will never Forget WOW ! ✈️😱✈️✈️✈️
I got to see her take off and land so many times that I became blasé about it. Now I wish that I had cherished every moment. Especially when we worked late in winter when she took off around 6.30pm. Watching those after burners go over with the sound was amazing.
I was quite fortunate to fly on her from IAD and also a charter from LHR-DTW in 1985 We did a fly over of metro’s runway- with 10k ppl watching - all the news stations turned out Was quite thrilling. Flew her (3) different occasions- always so worth it :) the gifts given at the end of the flights , i still have ....
No reason at all other than economics. And it's economics that drive what is built, more or less. It's not whether it can be built, but whether it can be built without losing money. If too few people will pay 4 times the price to do a journey twice as quickly, there's no point in building a vehicle to travel that quickly. Sad but true.
because money goes for wars and destruction the response is quite simple billiosn spent from 2003 to these days in supporting destruction , with all this money it will probably fly the concorde for a century
Just think over 30 yrs of service and only 1 fatal crash caused by an American DC10, a plane that had so many crashes and design flaws. A country that didn't want concorde over there I suspect sour grapes as they couldn't get one in the air. Typical knee jerk reaction. But over the years Concorde melted their hearts and proved their fears unfounded. A sad day for aviation when she retired. The white elephant that turned into a swan. We will never see the likes of concorde again. Typically one step forward and ten back. R.I.P. Concorde.
Funny they portrayed the 747 as a rival to Concorde, I'd heard the whole reason the 747 had the "hump" added to it's design was so it could be easily converted to a cargo jet, since the people at Boeing had simply assumed that SST's would take over the passenger market within a few decades. I still think we'll see SST's in the future though, there's a lot of research going into it right now. It'll probably start with small business jets though.
Yes, the original Boeing Company rationale for the B.747 was as an interim passenger jet to provide services, whilst the B.2707 SST was being developed. When that effort was proven to be uneconomic, the B.747 design team was charged with quickly turning it into a passenger aircraft, of unprecedented size and payload. [Aussie in BC]
It was a series of events that started with the debris falling onto the runway from the dc-10 then a following series of events with pilot error, too much fuel and too much cargo.
@@Sirdiggar ya rising fuel costs, downturn in passenger numbers, meaning on some Concorde flights there was only as many as 5 or 6 passengers in it's 100 seats plus airbus who helped keep the Concorde fleets in the air withdrew their support to keep the plane flying..
@@RB747domme the TU-144 was crap, it's no wonder so many crashed, but that's because the TU-144 was rushed thanks to a small team of spies stealing blueprints from Bac and Aerospatiale for the Soviet Union...
It's an Anglo-French Aircraft. It was jointly developed and built by both. The British have as much credit and role in Concorde as the French did. Both were also developing their own SSTs prior to joining forces to develop Concorde. What a dumb comment.
I agree!! The music didn't match this awesome video& I turned the sound off right away, whiich meant I didn't learn anything abt this awesome aircraft from the narorrator since I muted the sound bc of the overpowering, horrible background music! 😣
@MsJinkerson that's one stupid comment. One that takes formidable ignorance. Concorde pushed the envelope of flight 30 years forward. So far ahead in fact that nothing came to replace her. Your darn Boeings use technology introduced by Concorde... lift your intellectual game, or refrain from spreading your ignorance. I'll also have you known that Airbus never had a global grounding of any of its type. Boeing is on its second ! Airbus have taken over. Suck this up.
When the concorde stops at the end in the ` parking lot ` its such a sad and historical moment isnt it ? Truly the end of an era! Nothing like it had ever flown before it and nothing has flown after it since it was retired. As a 40 year old man i truly hope we get to see another supersonic airliner take to the skies oncest again as i for one will sure be one of the first passengers to fly on it , even if its a return flight on the same day just to experience what i can only imagine is an ultimate mindblowing experience for a human being !
I've never felt so emotional about a piece of machinery
It's really hard to imagine that Concorde was developed in the 1960s when even to this day, it looks like it came out from the future. Imagine what it must have been like to see it in 1969. It truly was ahead of it's time.
I've got this on DVD, I remember watching it first when I was around 3 years old, I found it the other day and watched it again, its a great documentary on a truly magnificent airliner.
Omg same!!!
Please upload it for us in HD. Thanks!
Loved watching this fly over Birmingham as a kid.
I was lucky enough years ago @ JFK airport on the taxi way waiting for take off . Our Captan pointed out if you are on the Left side you can see the CONCORD take off ! Well that was me , at the end of runway I watched and it was something I will never Forget WOW ! ✈️😱✈️✈️✈️
I got to see her take off and land so many times that I became blasé about it. Now I wish that I had cherished every moment. Especially when we worked late in winter when she took off around 6.30pm. Watching those after burners go over with the sound was amazing.
I "Love" watching video's of my FAVORITE Airliner....The Concorde SST.
I was quite fortunate to fly on her from IAD and also a charter from LHR-DTW in 1985
We did a fly over of metro’s runway- with 10k ppl watching - all the news stations turned out
Was quite thrilling. Flew her (3) different occasions- always so worth it :) the gifts given at the end of the flights , i still have ....
She was beautiful during her time she will be missed
I'm miss Concord 😭😭😭😭
I have her on flight simulator 2020
It’s the music at the end that just makes it sad to see Concorde go
it's an icon!
that's what it is
Hope that efforts to bring it back or to have someone make another one
work out
Bhakti Vishrambha Madhava Swami Dude you're nuts with all your asinine comments.
Thank you so much.
Anyone know what the song is towards the end with the drums banging?
Cool!!👍👍
If we could build Concorde in the 60's why can't we do it now with modern technology? Seriously, why?
No reason at all other than economics. And it's economics that drive what is built, more or less. It's not whether it can be built, but whether it can be built without losing money. If too few people will pay 4 times the price to do a journey twice as quickly, there's no point in building a vehicle to travel that quickly.
Sad but true.
They're working on it look up Boom
because money goes for wars and destruction the response is quite simple billiosn spent from 2003 to these days in supporting destruction , with all this money it will probably fly the concorde for a century
Just think over 30 yrs of service and only 1 fatal crash caused by an American DC10, a plane that had so many crashes and design flaws. A country that didn't want concorde over there I suspect sour grapes as they couldn't get one in the air. Typical knee jerk reaction. But over the years Concorde melted their hearts and proved their fears unfounded. A sad day for aviation when she retired. The white elephant that turned into a swan. We will never see the likes of concorde again. Typically one step forward and ten back. R.I.P. Concorde.
tears at the end of this documentary how science goes down in profit of war
Funny they portrayed the 747 as a rival to Concorde, I'd heard the whole reason the 747 had the "hump" added to it's design was so it could be easily converted to a cargo jet, since the people at Boeing had simply assumed that SST's would take over the passenger market within a few decades. I still think we'll see SST's in the future though, there's a lot of research going into it right now. It'll probably start with small business jets though.
Yes, the original Boeing Company rationale for the B.747 was as an interim passenger jet to provide services, whilst the B.2707 SST was being developed. When that effort was proven to be uneconomic, the B.747 design team was charged with quickly turning it into a passenger aircraft, of unprecedented size and payload. [Aussie in BC]
& that it will be allowed to fly everywhere without the fear it'll make a sonic boom
& hat it will fly everywhere
20 years ago today she retired :(
maybe the uk gov should sue OPEC for lost sales
Actually the airport RUNWAY LED TO THE RETERMENT OF THE CONCORDE SO ITS THE AIRPORTS SAFTY AND GROUND WORKERS FAULT THEY DID NOT CLEANED THE RUNWAY
It was a series of events that started with the debris falling onto the runway from the dc-10 then a following series of events with pilot error, too much fuel and too much cargo.
@@Sirdiggar it was an unscheduled event. no airplane has never scheduled this sort of events.
@@Sirdiggar ya rising fuel costs, downturn in passenger numbers, meaning on some Concorde flights there was only as many as 5 or 6 passengers in it's 100 seats plus airbus who helped keep the Concorde fleets in the air withdrew their support to keep the plane flying..
The Tu 144D flys longer then concorde
Rubbish !!! The Tu144 was barely able to function as a commercial aircraft, and it was quietly dumped from service. [Aussie in BC]
Mr Mudskipper Af the tu-144 could barely fly 1820 miles. Concorde could fly 3800 miles.
Please check your facts before spouting nonsense.
@@RB747domme the TU-144 was crap, it's no wonder so many crashed, but that's because the TU-144 was rushed thanks to a small team of spies stealing blueprints from Bac and Aerospatiale for the Soviet Union...
What are the British so excited about, they just did what the French did a few days earlier. Really.
It's an Anglo-French Aircraft. It was jointly developed and built by both. The British have as much credit and role in Concorde as the French did. Both were also developing their own SSTs prior to joining forces to develop Concorde.
What a dumb comment.
This is an enjoyable video, of course. But I disliked the annoying and persistently bad musical interferences. [aerospace engineer]
30 seconds was enuf 4 me
I agree!! The music didn't match this awesome video& I turned the sound off right away, whiich meant I didn't learn anything abt this awesome aircraft from the narorrator since I muted the sound bc of the overpowering, horrible background music! 😣
Money and bloody hippies.
Which "hippies" were those ? [Aussie in BC]
@@bruceblake9942 the so-called American "environmentalists"
the 747 still flys and still the king of the skies so who had the better aircraft not Airbus or Concorde
@MsJinkerson that's one stupid comment. One that takes formidable ignorance. Concorde pushed the envelope of flight 30 years forward. So far ahead in fact that nothing came to replace her. Your darn Boeings use technology introduced by Concorde... lift your intellectual game, or refrain from spreading your ignorance.
I'll also have you known that Airbus never had a global grounding of any of its type. Boeing is on its second !
Airbus have taken over. Suck this up.
was you born stupid or did you after practice?