The Concorde was one of the marvels of aviation and way ahead of its time. Loved Captain Hutchinson’s description of all of the instruments on Concorde!
As a recreational Pilot, HIGHEST!! RESPECT to you John, you are one of only a few on this PLANET to have ever flown these REAL QUEENS of the skies and acquiring the pleasure to do so. Thank you so much for this Video, Its a real eye opener to how MUCH thought has gone into the design & production of these things. Cheers.
@@Lucarocks92 Except when (and it has happened) the screens go out... that's the reason to have ANALOG Back Ups. When a screen goes dark, you do not lose a single instrument, but MANY.
Being that I have not yet watched the full video, I thoroughly enjoyed watching this abridged version with this gentleman sharing his experience inside the cockpit of a true legend of civil aviation. As always, another great video.
I used to be in the Red Devils Freefall team. We had 2 Concorde pilots who used to fly our pokey old Islander for us to display out of. Mike Bannister and Roger Mills. great blokes, great pilots.
What a wonderful gentleman. So we’ll described and you hear the passion in which he exudes talking about this wonderful aircraft. So sad it’s not flying any longer. Beautiful aircraft.
What fascinates me is how fast we went from the Wright Brothers to mach 2. Fast enough that someone living an average lifespan could have witnessed all of it happen.
@@nathanboulton2066 not to get too weird, but I believe humans have advanced to a very high technological stage many times in our history, only to be wiped out and start all over again.
@@joeg5414 yep - Tartaria - all on maps they built all the cathedrals etx - check Jon Levi , Tartarian Truthers & Michelle Gibson on here - superb work
That was so interesting and I’m not a pilot, just someone who developed an interest in aviation. One or two of the instruments I didn’t know what they were, but it didn’t spoil the enjoyment of seeing the inside of Concorde. John looked disappointed the throttles wouldn’t move - I got the impression he would have loved to take it for a spin!
I have Bing watched/listened to every video with Mr. Hutchinson. He can tell some great stories. Shackleton, 707,747,VC10, and Concorde. Oh and let's not forget Spitfire. He has to be one of the best interviewees you have had. 🇬🇧
Wonderful stuff, this was the cockpit layout that today's planes rely on, love the analogue dials associated with this cockpit, true words at the start from John, a gentleman and accomplished pilot, thanks for a great upload really enjoyed the rationale behind the flight engineering on Concorde.
What a job, to fly that for a living. Given when John Hutchinson started flying, and that he concluded be flying concorde, there are only a few men on earth lived that golden era. Even in my lifetime, flying at all was a privilege early on. By the time concorde retired, flying was not the same. My father was lucky enough to go on one or two of the proving flights by Brian Trubshaw. My dad was a manager at BA, joined in 1954, and a very similar age to Capt Hutchinson, although I don't believe they ever met. We knew Captain Leney and Captain Butterly.
A "PROPPAH" FLIGHT DECK...love it..this bloke just DRIPS with "British-ness", LOL! He's right out of "central casting" for someone who should be briefing "007", on the technical aspects for his next mission, while "Q" is on Holiday, in the next Bond film!!
I had a 'Concorde flight deck' jigsaw puzzle when I was young (Late 60's early 70's I'm guessing). Wish I still had it, it seemed so hard at the time :)
Alleluia Mr Hutchinson! I can only endorse your opening sentiments regarding tube display instruments let alone side sticks.Air travel has gone to the dogs.
Interesting fact. John Hutchinson was a very young acting flight officer on BOAC Flight 712. Although that flight resulted in the loss of five lives and a Posthumous George Cross, the crew performed very well indeed, successfully bringing a burning 707 with a raging wing fire and minus an engine back to earth. It burned up on the ground, causing the fatalities. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOAC_Flight_712#/media/File:G-ARWE-1.jpg
I knew Johnnie Walker, Concorde Test Pilot and Alan Heywood, Flight Test Engineer in the early 70's and often toured around 'Old Smokey' prototype at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire airfield with Alan, including sitting in the cockpit, seeing the then gigantic onboard computers inside the fuselage, the wing inspection panels open and dripping Avgas into 45 gallon drums previously filled Swarfega hand cleaner. It is said Alan once took his yellow labrador Ben onboard at Mach 2 setting an unofficial World record for the fastest dog! A one off incident occurred after a Concorde prototype tail was extended to prevent a serious shudder at Mach 1+. The new tail section, fabricated at Filton, near Bristol, was fitted inside the usual RAF Fairford, hangar. A subsequent test flight saw the tug connected to the nose gear and the driver, who had performed this action many times, just drove ahead without thinking about the extended tail section and promptly sheared it off on the upper vertical hangar wall section. "Millions of £'s" worth of damage occurred. Needless to say the hangar section was rapidly cut away by way of a slot to accommodate the higher tail section. The tug driver was never heard of again or even seen in 'The Bull' public house nearby where he was a regular. The incident was never reported in the Press as one can imagine the then Minister for Aerospace Michael Heseltine would have had a very red face in Parliament with awkward questions from the Labour bench opposite! Alan commented in those early days that the fuel tanks were vunerable from being punctured by debris but it went passed the boffins as nobody wanted to add anymore weight...... something in years to come, would result in the Paris crash and sadly contribute to bringing an end to a fabulous chapter of supersonic passenger aircraft designed and built in the UK and France, against all technical and financial barriers. Johnnie Walker, as his name implied a certain brand of amber liquid in a square bottle, was routinely teased as being a paid promoter of the brand just because he had the same signature embroidered on his dressing gown. Johnnie always took it in his relaxed and gentlemanly stride. Both men were regulars at 'The Mill' public house at Withington, Gloucestershire and resided in the village. Unfortunately these pioneers along with chief test pilot, Brian Trubshaw and many others who worked on the oroject are no more. All were legends and courageous in their own right, as is still, ex-BA Concorde Captain John Hutchinson, for his wonderful TH-cam videos and classic narrations, such as "3-2-1 NOW" as full engine throttles were applied on Concorde take off rolls. A long and happy retirement to Captain Hutchinson.
Lovely man , flew with him on 188 & 189 in 1993 IAD- LHR and rtn - had a nice chit chat and got a few pics at 60K - loved the crews and the bird A Great revisit to R cockpit prior to 9/11 Thanks Captain John !!!
“Glass cockpits” give you exactly the same information but present in a conscience way and draw you attention to parameters that are out of normal. They reduce workloads massively. I sure he was pretty tired after one flight in Concorde. She’s a beautiful aircraft but a bit ahead of her time. Hideously expensive to operate. As much as we all look in awe at these old flight decks, but the fatigue on the crews to monitor so many parameters must have been massive.
"proper flight deck, needles and dials" ... what an arrogant statement. Yes, those are needles, but it was fly-by-wire, the engines were computer controlled and many parameters were handled by an Air Data Computer. So, I don't know what his problem is with glass cockpit. It is basically the same, except that it saves weight and wiring complexity, and it can also show more stuff than the standard gauges.
Not a failed engineering project. It showed supersonic transport flight was possible and it remained in service for 27 years. It might not have sold to many airlines (only 2) but Concorde was an engineering and technological success.
“These are proper instruments “ sorry but glass cockpits have enabled the pilot not to rely on the flight engineer which the Concorde did to its retirement day. As complicated as the Concorde was, even the A380 doesn’t need a flight engineer mostly due to modern age avionics, fly by wire etc
Oh yes!, but many accidents have been due to two-only cockpit being overwhelmed or lack of a THIRD opinion... And the safest aviation computer architecture uses THREE redundant ones in a TWO out of THREE voting. Your "modernity" is more about cost cutting than safety.
Come on, he flew with analogue cockpits back in the day, he's entitled to have his opinion. Also I'm pretty sure he was just trying to be funny. PS. Concorde had fly-by-wire, the first airliner in the world to have it.
I've watched many videos of John Hutchinson recalling his memories.
They're so interesting, I'll never tire of watching them.....
That intro, " proper flight deck, needles and dials " 😂😂, thank you Capt John Hutchinson ..
It’s brilliant isn’t it!
@@Aircrewinterview perfect 👌, couldn't be better..
How British 😂
Back when British males were men.
Such a brilliant person with the unique british humour.
The Concorde was one of the marvels of aviation and way ahead of its time. Loved Captain Hutchinson’s description of all of the instruments on Concorde!
What a great tour by a real gentleman. You can really feel his passion for this great plane. Great job!
It goes without saying, I would give damn near anything to meet this man. Absolute legend.
He really is. Had the pleasure to work with him a couple of times.
As a recreational Pilot, HIGHEST!! RESPECT to you John, you are one of only a few on this PLANET to have ever flown these REAL QUEENS of the skies and acquiring the pleasure to do so. Thank you so much for this Video, Its a real eye opener to how MUCH thought has gone into the design & production of these things. Cheers.
What a lovely clear description of a complex subject. Forever the voice of Concorde
This is a proper cockpit! No poncy rubbish here!
Certainly one of the best lines I have heard in an interview!
Come on that's just rose tinted glasses from him
Glass blows analog out of the water
@@Lucarocks92 Except when (and it has happened) the screens go out... that's the reason to have ANALOG Back Ups. When a screen goes dark, you do not lose a single instrument, but MANY.
@@Lucarocks92 You should pay more respect... Guess how many thousand hour experience HE has over yours!
so freaking true
Love your channel! John Hutchinson seems like such a gentleman. Absolute legend.
"These are proper instruments" I love it!
Always a pleasure to listen to JH
The concorde was just an amazing aircraft. Absolutely fantastic, and to have an ex concorde pilot take us through the cockpit makes it even better.
Fantastic veteran pilot of this unique machine. Thanks for the tour Cptn John!!
A great man and a proper gentleman who's kind enough to share his stories. Thanks John and all the best.
Being that I have not yet watched the full video, I thoroughly enjoyed watching this abridged version with this gentleman sharing his experience inside the cockpit of a true legend of civil aviation. As always, another great video.
Met John a few years ago. Fantastic chap
I used to be in the Red Devils Freefall team. We had 2 Concorde pilots who used to fly our pokey old Islander for us to display out of. Mike Bannister and Roger Mills. great blokes, great pilots.
What a wonderful gentleman. So we’ll described and you hear the passion in which he exudes talking about this wonderful aircraft. So sad it’s not flying any longer. Beautiful aircraft.
This man has to be the Goat of Concorde pilots with intro and his passion for the Beauty.
I love listening to this man speak, what a knowledgeable, professional pilot of the most iconic plane ever to take the skies.
Always pleasure to listen the former Captain of the British Airways of Concorde John Hutchinson.
What fascinates me is how fast we went from the Wright Brothers to mach 2. Fast enough that someone living an average lifespan could have witnessed all of it happen.
ive often wondered. if you look at how far humans have advanced in the last 150 years alone. how has it it taken us this long!!!
@@nathanboulton2066 not to get too weird, but I believe humans have advanced to a very high technological stage many times in our history, only to be wiped out and start all over again.
Reverse alien technology- look up Phil Schneider & what happened to him
@@joeg5414 yep - Tartaria - all on maps they built all the cathedrals etx - check Jon Levi , Tartarian Truthers & Michelle Gibson on here - superb work
That was so interesting and I’m not a pilot, just someone who developed an interest in aviation. One or two of the instruments I didn’t know what they were, but it didn’t spoil the enjoyment of seeing the inside of Concorde. John looked disappointed the throttles wouldn’t move - I got the impression he would have loved to take it for a spin!
I have Bing watched/listened to every video with Mr. Hutchinson. He can tell some great stories. Shackleton, 707,747,VC10, and Concorde. Oh and let's not forget Spitfire. He has to be one of the best interviewees you have had. 🇬🇧
Thanks very much.
MOST DEFINATELY.
Wonderful stuff, this was the cockpit layout that today's planes rely on, love the analogue dials associated with this cockpit, true words at the start from John, a gentleman and accomplished pilot, thanks for a great upload really enjoyed the rationale behind the flight engineering on Concorde.
“ proper cockpit no poncy glass screens “
Legend we salute you sir !
I wish he did narration, I could listen to him all day
Great captain john Hutchinson, i have a Big Big respect for all this greats captains and air crow❤❤ ❤❤ thanks from portugal
Glad you enjoyed it
Phenomenal!!.
What a job, to fly that for a living. Given when John Hutchinson started flying, and that he concluded be flying concorde, there are only a few men on earth lived that golden era. Even in my lifetime, flying at all was a privilege early on. By the time concorde retired, flying was not the same. My father was lucky enough to go on one or two of the proving flights by Brian Trubshaw. My dad was a manager at BA, joined in 1954, and a very similar age to Capt Hutchinson, although I don't believe they ever met. We knew Captain Leney and Captain Butterly.
A "PROPPAH" FLIGHT DECK...love it..this bloke just DRIPS with "British-ness", LOL! He's right out of "central casting" for someone who should be briefing "007", on the technical aspects for his next mission, while "Q" is on Holiday, in the next Bond film!!
Great interview Hutch, enjoyed it !
I had a 'Concorde flight deck' jigsaw puzzle when I was young (Late 60's early 70's I'm guessing). Wish I still had it, it seemed so hard at the time :)
Yeah, I had one too.
Alleluia Mr Hutchinson! I can only endorse your opening sentiments regarding tube display instruments let alone side sticks.Air travel has gone to the dogs.
«And there we have the Mach-meter….» 😂😂😂 Like it was fuel indicator….😅
Interesting fact. John Hutchinson was a very young acting flight officer on BOAC Flight 712. Although that flight resulted in the loss of five lives and a Posthumous George Cross, the crew performed very well indeed, successfully bringing a burning 707 with a raging wing fire and minus an engine back to earth. It burned up on the ground, causing the fatalities. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOAC_Flight_712#/media/File:G-ARWE-1.jpg
I knew Johnnie Walker, Concorde Test Pilot and Alan Heywood, Flight Test Engineer in the early 70's and often toured around 'Old Smokey' prototype at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire airfield with Alan, including sitting in the cockpit, seeing the then gigantic onboard computers inside the fuselage, the wing inspection panels open and dripping Avgas into 45 gallon drums previously filled Swarfega hand cleaner.
It is said Alan once took his yellow labrador Ben onboard at Mach 2 setting an unofficial World record for the fastest dog!
A one off incident occurred after a Concorde prototype tail was extended to prevent a serious shudder at Mach 1+. The new tail section, fabricated at Filton, near Bristol, was fitted inside the usual RAF Fairford, hangar.
A subsequent test flight saw the tug connected to the nose gear and the driver, who had performed this action many times, just drove ahead without thinking about the extended tail section and promptly sheared it off on the upper vertical hangar wall section.
"Millions of £'s" worth of damage occurred. Needless to say the hangar section was rapidly cut away by way of a slot to accommodate the higher tail section.
The tug driver was never heard of again or even seen in 'The Bull' public house nearby where he was a regular.
The incident was never reported in the Press as one can imagine the then Minister for Aerospace Michael Heseltine would have had a very red face in Parliament with awkward questions from the Labour bench opposite!
Alan commented in those early days that the fuel tanks were vunerable from being punctured by debris but it went passed the boffins as nobody wanted to add anymore weight...... something in years to come, would result in the Paris crash and sadly contribute to bringing an end to a fabulous chapter of supersonic passenger aircraft designed and built in the UK and France, against all technical and financial barriers.
Johnnie Walker, as his name implied a certain brand of amber liquid in a square bottle, was routinely teased as being a paid promoter of the brand just because he had the same signature embroidered on his dressing gown. Johnnie always took it in his relaxed and gentlemanly stride.
Both men were regulars at 'The Mill' public house at Withington, Gloucestershire and resided in the village.
Unfortunately these pioneers along with chief test pilot, Brian Trubshaw and many others who worked on the oroject are no more.
All were legends and courageous in their own right, as is still, ex-BA Concorde Captain John Hutchinson, for his wonderful TH-cam videos and classic narrations, such as "3-2-1 NOW" as full engine throttles were applied on Concorde take off rolls.
A long and happy retirement to Captain Hutchinson.
Which Concorde was this, because I thought they had a TCAS digital screen on the main panel?
G-AXDN, prototype 101, at Duxford Imperial War Museum. Different cockpit layout from the production varient.
@@jimgemmell2831 Also, it was too early for TCAS...that was introduced later.
@Jimmy I asked this 2 years ago, so I think I might have discovered.
I'm sure johns blood type is Concorde+
great vid.
Would like to know how the aircraft stretched without breaching the bulk head.
My question is who manufactured the Concorde simulators and how good were they when compared to actually flying the aircraft?
GANG BAR. LOVE IT!
Wait, didn't we already see this?
Yes. A fair few people have been asking for a separate video of the flight-deck tour so I decided to put it out.
Thanks for this clip. @ Black Warrior - the clip you are referring to related to the FE panel only.
I like this guy, "These are proper instruments: needles and dials."
Yup, and quite happy to watch it all again ! Could listen to this man all day !
Has he written a book jet?
And also, these are proper opening remarks.
Amazing aircraft. 😳
LONG LIVE BRITISH AIRWAYS & LONG LIVE CAPT. J.HUTCHINSON.
How do the pilots realease the brakes before take off?
They are foot-brakes. They simply remove pressure from the rudder pedals located at the pilots' feet by lifting their toes.
One wonders how many G&Ts accompanied the pre-interview lunch....
I’d have loved it if this fascinating chap let out a “Melchet Baaaeeee” at around 0:28
SR71 does the same with fuel balance
JHON HUTCHINSON IN CONCORDE
Lovely man , flew with him on 188 & 189 in 1993 IAD- LHR and rtn - had a nice chit chat and got a few pics at 60K - loved the crews and the bird
A Great revisit to R cockpit prior to 9/11
Thanks Captain John !!!
I knew this Captain, he flew the Concord as a captain British Airways, the video is on youtube
It's an Air France Concorde here
This is G-AXDN based at Duxford which is the British and French pre-production aircraft.
@@Aircrewinterview
Only “people” with no brain would dislike this
😊 what if concorde cockpit color as russia cockpit paint
🇬🇧
Had there not been Slavery in the past, would there have been concorde technology today?
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“Glass cockpits” give you exactly the same information but present in a conscience way and draw you attention to parameters that are out of normal. They reduce workloads massively. I sure he was pretty tired after one flight in Concorde. She’s a beautiful aircraft but a bit ahead of her time. Hideously expensive to operate. As much as we all look in awe at these old flight decks, but the fatigue on the crews to monitor so many parameters must have been massive.
We dont think so!😂
"proper flight deck, needles and dials" ... what an arrogant statement. Yes, those are needles, but it was fly-by-wire, the engines were computer controlled and many parameters were handled by an Air Data Computer. So, I don't know what his problem is with glass cockpit. It is basically the same, except that it saves weight and wiring complexity, and it can also show more stuff than the standard gauges.
I’m guessing people like you don’t like people like him. Isn’t it funny how people can just ‘get that feeling’.
This man is arrogant. Loves the sound of his own voice. It's cool.
How is he arrogant?
Failed engineering project. Made complicated
Not a failed engineering project. It showed supersonic transport flight was possible and it remained in service for 27 years.
It might not have sold to many airlines (only 2) but Concorde was an engineering and technological success.
“These are proper instruments “ sorry but glass cockpits have enabled the pilot not to rely on the flight engineer which the Concorde did to its retirement day. As complicated as the Concorde was, even the A380 doesn’t need a flight engineer mostly due to modern age avionics, fly by wire etc
Yeah.. Smart planes make pilots stupid.. Airmanship is long forgotten..
@@torrarosa7064 The Concorde had fly-by-wire.
Oh yes!, but many accidents have been due to two-only cockpit being overwhelmed or lack of a THIRD opinion... And the safest aviation computer architecture uses THREE redundant ones in a TWO out of THREE voting. Your "modernity" is more about cost cutting than safety.
Some people just really don't have a sense of humour...
Come on, he flew with analogue cockpits back in the day, he's entitled to have his opinion.
Also I'm pretty sure he was just trying to be funny.
PS. Concorde had fly-by-wire, the first airliner in the world to have it.
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OK HITLER NAZI FAN!
YOU KNOW GERMANY IS SHIT RIGHT?