Concorde's First Flight: Supersonic Travel (1969) | British Pathé
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- Check out the 1969 maiden flight of the now defunct Concorde supersonic airliner from Toulouse, France. This amazing plane could travel from New York to London in 3.5 hours!
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THE THINGS THAT MOVE US - TRANSPORT MONTH ON BRITISH PATHÉ (JUNE 2015): Newsreel of the Week: Concorde's First Flight (1969).
In Toulouse, France, Concorde 001 enjoys a successful maiden flight.
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Music: "Hall of the Mountain King" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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One of the greatest creations of all time. Proof when two countries work together they can create something that can past the test of time. Marvelous even in the 21st century.
Yes and the Russian copy failed dramatically at the Paris airshow, whilst the American supersonic airliner never made it past the design stage. As such the US did everything they could to ban Concorde, claiming that the noise was too loud. In the end it was all sour grapes and Concorde flew to the USA regularly.
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Not Russian, Soviet.
The design is so timeless and elegant. Still looks like an aircraft for the future in 2021.
That is proper engineering. We will never have anything like it again. What a huge shame:(
@@Slothdeman I wouldn't say 'never' :)
@@1BassJohn I would. Nothing can compare.
Why does this look futuristic - even to this day?
No engineering has characteristics anymore.
If Boeing makes a 797, then this should be it.
Even in 2023
No Cad designers in those days, it was all done by calculations using slide rules and draftsmen in drawing offices. Every drawing would be checked and then signed off and approved before parts and assemblies were made by skilled engineers. A brilliant example of collaboration by British and French engineers. An amazing achievement.
I was 9 years old when this first flight took place. Over the following years my pals and I used to be so exited to see Concorde fly overhead during the many test flights.
It was such an exciting time, we had Concorde, Hovercrafts, and astronauts flying to the moon in powerful rockets. We saw the British V bombers and the fabulous English Electric Lighting interceptor flying, not to mention the Harrier jump jet. We saw the first mainstream computers and pocket calculators gradually appearing. Not forgetting colour TV (incidentally in our house we only had electricity installed in 1967, just 2 years before this film was made!).
In 1976 I began my engineering apprenticeship, still using drawings done by hand and in imperial measurements. If a metric drawing appeared we would convert it to imperial measurements -about 2 years later when metric drawings started to become the norm, we would do the reverse and convert imperial drawings to metric!
Such an amazing era, and so exciting.
and they didn’t have iphones 😂😂😂
One of the rare moments when we've taken a step back in technology evolution.
Step back? Don’t you mean it was a step forward?
@@iloveappleyoutube7198 means a step back as in this aircraft is no longer flying
@@jamesmurphy3807 I mean to be fair, there were very valid reasons why Concorde was abandoned. While it was, without a doubt, an Engineering masterpiece and a great piece of work, it was uneconomical. There wasn't enough demand for Concorde as it was expensive and burned huge amounts of fuel. That said, I would like to see her return today. With improvements to fuel efficiency, concorde could be viable again, maybe.
@@martinduran9523 - Amen. Its design basically allowed it to fly by brute force. Its first flight was three weeks *after* the Boeing 747 in 1969 however 54 years later, the 747 is still flying and the Concorde is retired 20 years.
The bottom line is that *speed eats fuel* since drag increases with the *square* of the velocity. The technology at the time for the engines (Olympus 593 turbojet) was primitive and the design goal was to simply get something working any way possible.
But being a pig on fuel meant that the cost per passenger was $7000 per flight. The 747 could be flown to many more destinations for 1/10 that cost.
@@jamesmurphy3807It was barely flying even back then. Only 20 were ever built.
55 years later here we are 😢😢😢😢😢
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Probably the most beautiful plane ever built. I used to love seeing it flying across a clear blue sky.
Miss you Concorde :-(
I was fortunate enough to fly on Concorde twice, the first time I was only in my teens. You can not imagine my excitement!
It was and remains not only a beautiful aeroplane but an incredible engineering achievement.
Perhaps out of place in today’s world many will say, but what a chapter in aviation history.
What a majestic aircraft.
Breath-taking, powerful, beautiful ! Thank you British Pathe - you were an important part of my childhood where we used to watch your news in the cinemas of the time.
im certainly impressed by the quality of this video
most of the videos from the 1970s were black and white
Tengo entendido que los 4 hombres que aparecen en el minuto 1.43 son los genios creadores de esta obra maestra de la aeronáutica; fabulosa máquina, de una ingeniería con décadas de adelanto. Impactante cómo cambia el sonido en el min 2.30 con la máxima aceleración. Maravilloso avión.
What an' amazing and fantastic airplane.
What a beauty
This and the Spitfire: the most beautiful aeroplanes ever built
Needed
What makes this scene scary is that the test pilots actually risked their lives to fly the plane.
Back then it was do or die literally if Concorde could fly because this was obviously the first time a supersonic airliner was going to fly along with the Russian TU 144.
While Concorde wasn't rushed, in those days building these kind of planes was dangerous work including testing via wind tunnels as there wasn't safety equipment we have now.
Obviously people feared Concorde wouldn't fly and instead crash or it would take to the air but again come down and crash.
But Concorde defied all the odds and proved she was indeed airworthy which made Concorde even more famous.
its a shame that we live in 2015 and we don't have superconic commercial airplane,,, I mean come on!
d1rkn They're too expensive to maintain and run. The Concorde only did 14 MPG. Fuel efficiency and noise level is their main concern at this point, I believe.
William J. Taylor Incorrect, Concorde was a huge, huge money maker for British Airways. Air France was the problem along with Airbus, they were not using them efficiently and started the stupid procedure to ground the fleet.
That's true, BA did a great job.
d1rkn Soon, Boom will make their own SST plane, estimated to fly in the 2020s
Does anyone know of the 1980s Concorde documentary? I'm guessing early 80s. I watched it with my dad as a kid and loved it. The background music was all synthesizers. I'd love to see it again.
Great achievement !!
Simplesmente, uma obra prima.
Foi mesmo
Really needs to come back in a heritage capacity
Can I still make a suggestion for next month's theme?
What about myths and mysteries, like the Loch Ness Monster, UFO sightings,...?
one of my favourite aircraft
Concord is a air craft design with a narrow fuselage an ogival Delta wing and a droop nose.
Stunning
That engine sound
The name is suitable for the design
impresionante avion siento una gran admiracion por este avion ojala lo modifiquen es una obra de arte
Droop snoot…The snoot droops
If we could do this in 1969, we can do better today. Please return Concorde
Notice how everything was superior 1/2 century ago? Faster planes, trips to the Moon, better music, and better movies.
Politics poisoned it all. They pinned murders on music and games, Brits went 'anti technology' under Labour as a ruse to send their engineers to the USA for 'safety' so they don't fall into Russian hands.
If comprehensive RandD had been activated to explore the flight dynamics of Concorde - it could still be flying to this day..Imagine the application of these technologies ML(machine learning) and AI(artificial intelligence) to this wonderful plane.Think there is still room to manouvre..😀😀
if the aircraft going out before the fatal air France one, had not lost a part from it onto the runway , there would have not been this accident ? My opinion.
It was uneconomic to run and spare parts were not available in the latter years. You are right about this incident not happening, but still the Concorde would have been shelved. The Airbus and Boeing 777 , well they are profitable and more comfortable to fly on.
Pity, beautiful aircraft.
If only they brought it back
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Folks, I want the Concorde in our skies again but I want it to take us the South Pole, please!!!
Barsaath🎉
They flow much faster then that...look up pan am concord test flight and tell me there maximum speed....great times..
Concorde Earrape
wll its very nice to know tht vry concord history... thnks
Meself Irish &California I love the The Concord high-class bird of modern technology,key word of the two thousand thousand years of 2000 meself a 1980 sailor of the afs5 Concord frigit warship of ,flightdeck H46s helicopters
27 minutes of flight? That's ironic.
milnusthegnome a normal Diblin to Stansed (if Ryanair had one) would take less than 10 minutes if it were for the Concorde
How can you fly ironically ?
why did he keep the landing gear up?
+Jude The landing gear on new aircraft are usually kept open in flight; they obviously haven't yet been tested in flight so they didn't want to run the risk of having failed landing gear which means the only prototype would have to force a landing.
I think you mean down.
Snoop droop
Many say that Brits make little,
I think they're wrong...
Really who says that?
The British make lots of things. Thank the Brits if you ever have need of an MRI Scan.
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She was beautiful and very fast, but in speed no jet powered craft could outrun the USA's Mighty SR-71 Blackbird.
TAstronomy Then again, the mighty Blackbird was military exclusive. This was the worlds first taste of military-like speed in a consumer airplane. I mean, going from New York to London in 4 hours is a pretty big feat for a consumer airplane
TAstronomy the SR-71 can easily get beaten by the F-22 Raptor
TAstronomy how fast was sr71?
Thankyou for sharing, we watched this live on the anniversary of this flight
For something that was made almost 48 years ago, this STILL look as if it could have been yesterday. The thinking behind this was insanely ahead of its time.
They desperately need to bring Concorde back into service, nothing like it before or since. Way ahead of anything else.👍👍👍
@@BruceLee-zd9bw no its too noisy, its only good for over sea flights
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@@girlsdrinkfeck it's still so fast
@@girlsdrinkfeck tough cookies for those below, I have a meeting in London in 4 hours and I have to be there! 😂
My one flight on Concorde was a dream come true. I later became a fighter jet pilot, all based on Concorde.
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This was a test plane. I wonder if it was the one I had the privilege of going for just a taxi ride. I never got around to going overseas on a commercial flight. One my worst decisions. I thought at the time it would be around forever.
...then you woke up sweating
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Apparently, it's #FlyFriday and one way we're not able to fly this Friday is by Concorde. Relive the experience: th-cam.com/video/lsqPsX8k5FE/w-d-xo.html
***** old airframe, high maintenance, and high fuel costs. The plane was not that safe either. it could have been saved, but the cost was so high.
***** The syndicate that runs the planet - that's why. Look up who owns the media, hotels, airlines.. banks.. yeah. Very old syndicate. Only care about $$$.
I have never seen a nicer looking aircraft than the Concorde. I'd love to
fly in this majestic marvel of aeronautical engineering.
Our Newsreel of the Week - Concorde's maiden flight takes place in Toulouse, 1969. Plus 13 vintage Concorde newsreels from 1962-2000.
Flying faster in the last century than in the current one. RIP Concorde
Miles Y Despite Concorde and Tupolov 144 being fast and beastly planes they had many issues and were quite unreliable.
Concorde's owners were a corporation and money was their goal, USSR had just entered perestroika reforms which would end up destroying the economy because well... Capitalism
The Tupolov Tu-144 was eventually abandoned as well as they never fixed it mainly duo to the introduction of market elements increasing corruption and state selling off big business started spending money in things that were not beneficial to anyone but the elite class that sprung up thus Tupolov was left to fend for themselves but refused to fix anything with the Tupolov.
In the end both the planes were killed off because the big boys who made them, refused to further the research and make improved designs simply because it was too costly Tupolov was privatised in the 90s and they had fuck all resources to barely keep their production plants working.
The Brits and French was loosing money with the Concorde, not making any.
We might have had them had USSR not collapsed and perestroika not happened then Tupolov would have been forced to make an improved design and the west would have feelt compelled to throw money at the Concorde design to improve it and we would enjoy some super sonic airliners.
There might be future designs you never know but currently its just cheaper to fly old and wobbly jet airliners.
Well without Gorbachev's reforms the USSR's economy was going to collapse, and supersonic airliners were simply too young. Fluctuating fuel prices and efficiency killed it early, if the Concorde happened today, it would be a better story.
British Pathé ..
The irony (perhaps intentional) of a Citroen (I think) DS driving past at the start of the video, two iconic designs to come (partly) out of France
In 1971 this 001 ,with the same pilot made a flight from Buenos Aires to Rio de Janeiro in 95 minutes !, in a demonstration looking for air companies that buy it.By the same time ,the Boeing 747 appeared,the biggest competitor...,and we know the rest of the story.Anyway ,Concorde was the most beautiful and swift airplane that ever existed in civil aeronautics.
Who's filming in the sky?
Your mother😂
That by 1969 British aeronautical engineer's and a couple of French blokes (I'm joking x) could have come up with a passenger aircraft that can fly faster than most bullets should - in
blow our minds.
It's now late 2023 and 54 years have past.
About time the human race pulled it's socks up! Rather than navel gazing at the latest hand held fancy tech.
All that early pioneering spirit, reduced to queues outside a department store.
It's sad.
52 years ago today she took to the air for her maiden flight......so hard to believe and now just over 17 years since her retirement, with the final flight of any Concorde, G-BOAF, on 26th November 2003 to her new home at Filton.
Our Newsreel of the Week was the first flight of the legendary Concorde.
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Incroyable tu as beaucoup d’abonnés
Beautiful and beautiful and beautiful... love the Concorde...
who narrates these films? His voice seems to be in many movies
Francoberry It's not always the same person. It's just that the sound technology back then made all male and female voices sound kinda similar.
Yeah, most stereotypical British film narrators sound alike due to the recording equipment.
Francoberry more in a boxing ring.
Francoberry No other than Bruce Buffer.
Bob Danvers Walker
The takeoff sounds were hilarious - straight out of Thunderbirds.
RIP Andre Turcat 1921-2016 :'(
R.I.P Andre Tucat 🙏
Three women flew Concorde only 2 were regular Pilots.
R.I.P Jacqueline Auriol
The 1st Woman Test Pilot of Concorde 🙏
R.I.P Barbara Harmer
The 1st qualified woman to Captain Concorde my Grandad's Brother's daughter 🙏
Bèatrice Vialle
The Air France 1st officer. Still alive today 😉
I remember watching it take off from a school friends garden in Redland. There was a big cheer from some workmen nearby. It was impressive & a magical experience.
...Must have been one hell of a long garden....!
@@dezzadiggler3693 damn, you made the joke before I could!
The Thunderbirds Theme actually played for the rollout of Concorde, because it reminds the people of Fireflash.
52 years ago, they traveled 2 times the speed of sound, and we still travel at 800 km/hr in 2021 😭
1969 first Concorde flight, same year we land people on the moon. In 55 year we went backwards ?
🗣 Concorde, my *favorite* type of plane. Due to the short runway, this plane could not land at our airport in Belgrade .
in a few decades, humanity will take a HUGE step back on technology
While Concorde was ahead of it's time, it wasn't cost effective.
Just to taxi to the runway, Concorde used about the same amount of fuel that would keep a car going for 6 months.
Plus, the Sonic booms it'd produce would shatter windows of houses/businesses around 3 miles away. People hated the constant sound, which also had a hand in putting Concorde out of service.
But what ultimately sealed the deal (in my opinion) was when an Air France Concorde crashed into an airport hotel just short of takeoff. It was found that a piece of metal from a flight before it was sitting on the runway, and when Concorde ran over it the piece flew up and struck the fuel tanks underneath the wings, igniting a massive fireball as it took flight.
But, she was a marvelous piece of human engineering, which made cross Atlantic flights possible in just mere hours. A shame she had to go.
2 tons for taxi....... a lot
Ultimately the Boeing 747 and 9/II did for it.
why quibble about some fuel and a "BOOM"😂 nice piece of History
Has anyone heard of the Skylon project, I'm betting that'll be e next concord except with a break in British tradition it is on budget.
Thomas Edgerley Their lapcat project looks promising. Belgium to Australia in 4 hours!
+Thomas Edgerley lol is it a joke?
PilotVBall It’s for military purposes. Of course we probably won’t need to use it often unless trouble brews up
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We should have just brought back the old Concorde with better engines which were effecient
That upgrade was allready there but never put into practice
@@hoedemakerbart It puzzles me on how the DC-10 managed to stay in service but something as revolutionary as concorde was disbanded solely due to one piece of rubber and a metal rod which belonged to another aircraft causing a catastrophic failure . They should have upgraded the engine to consume way less fuel with extra safety measures .Instead they disbanded it and took a step back in aviation.
In 2007, I was able to see and actually enter a Concorde plane in Barbados in the museum they hold one of the planes in. I don’t know if they still do that, but it was amazing to hear so much about history when I was just 8 years old. It was an amazing moment in my life
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Just 66 years between the Wright brothers first flight and Concorde!
C&S Aviation that is amazing
first flight of human history goes much more back than the wright brothers tho..
Is that good or bad ?
A glide is a flight
Impressive !
Is that really 1969? The video quality is amazing tho
ov3rdos3d they colored and cleaned it
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Original was shot on real Film - digital video is all about cheap cost & convenience ; like the Jets of today.
Now, NASA's improving on this idea... We may have supersonic commercial aircraft again very soon!
Millitrix Cheesemuffin been hearing that for decades 😀
0:31 Concorde a Citroen DS of the skies and a Citroen DS the Concorde of the roads.
callum hardy Citroen DS isnt that fast....
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something I never noticed (or maybe I just didn't pay attention before) but the wheels were kept down in flight?? why??
jmarylastone This was only a test flight
jmarylastone This is common on test and maiden flights, in case of hydraulic failure.
I love the good-and-old Concored, It has the luxurious atmosphere of a comfortable flight in a Supersonic aircraft, However flying one single concorde isn't cheap, only Rich people could afford a flight, also influencers had 10% cheaper price ticket.
The concored is basicly a example of how supersonic planes in the future will look like, the concored Succesfully flew through the skies like a bird in 1969 In france at 2:56p.m.
1969 I just one year old
You still type like one.
Perhaps this was the high water mark of the petroleum age?
The most beautiful machine ever to grace the air?
I was fortunate enough to see one fly at the Abbotsford Airshow in Canada, and still treasure the memory. Seeing Concorde in real life is light years more impressive that watching a video. But video is all future generations will have.
Us government be like, nah. We control the skys. This plane is unsafe. We will confiscate the technology and you continue to drink tea.
Incredible to think that aviation was more advanced 50 years ago! That's not how technological progress is supposed to work!
3:32 why is there a ww2 plane fly by?
The architecture and engineering behind this was was supper B
It's strange as it had extremely powerful engines and the plane was small, but just looked like it struggled to take off lol
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THAT'S WHAT I BELIEVE IN, FLYING L9NG FLIGHTS ARE TIERING , FASTER THE BETTER, I HATE LONG FLIGHTS,, BRING THE CONCORD BACK, FOR FASTER TRAVEL, OK 👍
The only reason Concorde isn't in service anymore is because airlines care more about squeezing as many people onto planes and then overcharging them for everything, than they do convenience. I'd LOVE to fly from NY to London in 3.5 hours. But no. The airlines have seen fit that everyone fly 16-hour overnight flights, arriving at their destination exhausted and drained.
This is why we need not only Concorde back, but ocean liners, too. And before you ask, there's a very fine line between ocean liners and cruise ships. Ocean liners are used for actual transportation, while cruise ships are just big floating hotels that go to various ports-of-call before going back to where the cruise started. Only relocation cruises could be considered actual transportation.
That's part of the reason, but honestly Concorde no longer met modern safety or emissions standards and retrofitting was impractical.
Well at 1 time mono.rails were going to be standard transport too..but not feasible.
If it means more people can afford to travelabroad..not just the extremely wealthy..then i see no issue.
“I’d LOVE to fly from NY to London in 3.5 hours...airlines have seen fit that everyone fly 16-hour overnight flights”
You do know that it doesn’t take 16 hours to fly from New York to London, and that there are flights other than red-eyes, right?
Then came the oil shock, boom.
Hilarious to see vintage support vehicles next to such a futuristic flying machine...
3:33 that’s a gloster meteor
What is not to like about the Concorde.
Fire?
To think many of those guys went old and died.. This is 46 years ago.
Rip
Simon Alexander Tolhurst-Simms Ⓥ Not all of them. Besides, at least they died experiencing one of the fastest airplanes ever
You could say that about all old bits of film.
I was 8 and I saw the first flight of the concorde in Sky Of France souvenir
Oversize avro arrow... which today if the arrow was around would kick the crap out of anything put up against her
Great video, very historic event, a beautiful aircraft
😮 Concorde G-BSST ❤ in memoriam ; Lego Concorde 10318🙂