I know it's exceptionaly but there actualy do exist descent interviewers in this world. Beside Mike Bannister is not just a pilot ! He's pretty well known
Listened to Mike many a time on ATC from my home in Devon (As a radio Ham) at the Accel/Deccel points in Bristol channel then waiting for the 'Boom' and my windows rattling ... Good times
Mike is such a clever engaging man. His book, Concorde is a must read. His knowledge and passion shine through. And he sounds just like a British Airways Captain ought to sound!
This reminded me of the time when a fairly newly appointed first officer arrived for work to find that his captain had called in sick with food poisoning. He prepared the aircraft, did the external checks and waited for a relief captain. After landing, he was joking about he dear old lady who let him do the check lists from memory to save time before letting him fly, then when he went to switch the autopilot on told him not to bother with that contraption. She then spent most of the flight doing her crossword. His laughter soon stopped, when one of the cabin crew mentioned that he had just flown with the airlines chief pilot. He nervously waited for his letter from HR, firing him for his relaxed attitude towards his boss. The letter arrived and when he nervously opened it he recognised the crossword, it was his first appraisal. he passed with flying colours and she described this as efficient and professional with a pleasant personality. About a year later on a simulator training day, she mentioned the memory checklist. She told him that it was her way of checking that pilots were not turning into parrots. Can you guess the airline. They have flown internationally for more than 55 years without a crash or incident involving injury.
Like many who would have loved to have flown in Concorde I never did but as an aviation enthusiast it was a great technical achievement coupled with real beauty and having attended Mike Bannister's talks at Brooklands he's an inspiration and a nice guy to boot. If you haven't been Brooklands is a great day for aviation guys and gals alike.
Mike Bannister, you are an absolutely brilliant pilot, airline captain, flight instructor, technical instructor and motivator for young people to "spark" and ignite their interest, curiosity, aspirations and pursue their dreams. This is a brilliant presentation. WOW. Greetings from Australia.
He speaks so eloquently without a hint of hesitation, waffle or 'fillers'! (Ums and Ers!) I almost jumped when he mentioned the seven-year old boy who wanted to be a pilot. When I was 7 I was taken by my parents to Heathrow and can still remember seeing a jet climb into the sunset and saying to them, 'I want to do that one day'! And I did - admittedly it was 'only' a Cessna 150/172 but I did it! It's still possible to visit a Concorde at Manchester Airport and it's well worth the visit. Thanks!
I used to sit in my garden in the evening in Bristol. I'd hear a dull Bump Bump then I'd look up and see a tiny silver date illuminated by the Sun - Concorde on its descent to Heathrow.
EVEN THOUGH SOME OF CONCORDS INTERNAL TECHNOLOGY WOULD BE OUT OF DATE TODAY, IT IS STILL THE MOST BEAUTIFUL DESIGN OF PLANE TO DATE. SUCH HEARTBREAKING NEWS WHEN IT WAS RETIRED, BUT WILL NOT BE FORGOTTEN.
What a wonderful interview! I always love hearing things like this. The Concorde was one of the most beautiful and exciting commercial airplanes to fly. I loved watching it take off and land. As an aside, back in the mid-1980's I was flying a Douglas DC-8-70 series freighter for one of the major cargo operators of the time. We flew into JFK regularly and I routinely watched the Concordes arriving and departing. I have photos I took from the cockpit. We used a local ground services provider at Kennedy by the name of "Servair". They provided all of the ground equipment required to handle large jets. Things from boarding stairs to electric and air power carts to loaders and forklifts. The Servair crews were comprised of rough and tumble hard working New Yorkers........they worked hard, but had little patience for problems. The DC-8-70 series with the new CFM-56 high bypass turbofan conversion was a wonderful airplane.....but the CFM-56 while only requiring 20-25 PSI of air pressure to start, needed a high volume of air that pneumatic start carts of the day were not configured to provide. To be fair, this was a problem we encountered at many airports when the CFM engine conversions were new. We would be trying to spool up the number 3 engine and their start carts barely pumped enough volume of air to get the engine to the minimum RPM to light it off. Sometimes they would connect 2 air start carts to the plane. We would complain to Servair about this and their response always was the same, and I quote, "We start the Concorde with these carts"............I always wondered if the Concorde guys had issues with the same air carts and I always guessed that they told British Airways and Air France that they started DC-8's with these carts.......
Flew on the Concord once maybe it was Captain Mike in the cockpit. The Captain was very nice and told me watch the engineer he’s the one really flying the Concord.
Thank you for also creating the "Take Off Proceudre" as a separate part. Yes, his description is so good it makes you feel like you are flying a Concorde. Cpt. Bannister also has a great gift for teaching.
@@barracuda7018 Probably you think about the two German aerodynamicists Johanna Weber and Dietrich Küchemann, working for the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE), who invented and worked out the slender delta wing planform for a SST, as they proposed it to the Supersonic Transport Aircraft Committee (STAC) in 1956. The aerodynamicist I meant is Dudley Collard (a British aeronautical engineer), he started to work for Aérospatiale in Toulouse in October 1962. E.g. he refined and optimized the aerodynamic design of Concorde to the serial standard - especially by redesigning following parts: - Wing leading edge - Wing tips (outboard wings) - Tail cone (which was generally under the design and production responsibility of BAC) in proposing an elongation (finally by +3,73m) with an increased trim tank for better trim capabilities, especially at high cruising speeds - drag improvements on the vertical stabilizer, rudder and elevons - Engine air-intakes by proposing a drag improved design His contribution was a mayor key factor in the Concorde program - especially to successfully fulfill Concordes North Atlantic mission.
Why can't all interviews be like this (fascinating topic, terrific guest, no interruptions from the interviewer etc.)? Like many others posting on this thread, I've recently read Mike's book - "Concorde" - and, unusually for me when reading non-fiction, I couldn't put it down. As well as his obvious talent and skill as a pilot, he writes brilliantly. As a teacher, I particularly appreciated how he managed to express with such ease all the complex issues around Concorde - the technical, physical, political, econnomic, geographic and, of course, the personal - to a layman like me. Great book, great interview, great man.
Mike brought back memories from an experience flight nearly 40 years ago. The take off was exhilarating, you really were pushed into the seat. And you knew when they rotated, not a gentle drift off the ground, the world tilted.
I’m amazed about Concord, and I have met the person responsible for the design and construction of the Pitot tubes. He is now nearly ninety and most unassuming and amusing as a person. They were complicated and needed specialised construction, to avoid icing up, and needed to be replaced with new ones after a relatively short period of time. My parents had a flight back from Barbados, but sadly not myself.
Living In SW London Concorde often flew overhead and I can say that very time it did myself and just about everyone else would look up to watch her. I never grew tired of that. I was lucky enough to fly on Concorde just once. New York to London. We boarded on time but were then delayed due to what the crew described as a missing bit of paper. I wonder if Mike was up front that day??
In the early 2000's I lived about 1/4 mile from Kew Gardens and I can confirm how loud Concorde was! When it was coming in to land we could hear it about 2 minutes before it came over us. Also, I worked at the public records office in Kew once and a guy came in doing some kind of project and requested copies of some records. He handed me his credit card and I noticed it said "Captain". Casually I said "Oh, you're a pilot"? He agreed and I asked him what kind of planes he flew and he said Concorde! My jaw dropped and I was suddenly starstruck. It was like meeting an astronaut!
An intelligent, articulated person. Conveying in a concise manner details ranging from the sound barrier physical phenomenons, to the opperation of the plane. Not neglecting alluding to all the people that make possible flying that futuristic machine -- taken to the Air in 1968. Flying from about 3 decades, accident free. The Crash in Paris in the late 90s was due to detached sections of an American Airlines Boeing or DC 10 falling onto the tarmac. Due to Poor maintenance service performed by that American Company. Some of the debris, were projected against Concorde's wings, puncturing a fuel tank. As a Jurist, in my view the respknsability falls on the shoulders of American Airlines' CEO and Board of Directors. Cutting corners, maintenance-wise, is usually a source of future major problems. Unfortunately, the blame normally falls on some poor souls devoided of any real decision Power A great video ! Thank you.
@@aerotube7291 DC 10 or Boeing is not relevant. The issue, the Smoking Gun is extremely Poor Maintenance ! An Airplane flying for a Main Airline is not supposed to drop parts of its fuselage on the run-away.
I also remember in 1969 driving from Methyr Tydfil to Leicester in my Ford Anglia. On the radio was a running commentary describing Concorde's first take off. Earlier, I had been for a job interview as a final year engineering student at Bristol Aircraft and was shown some of Concorde's electronics. It used flatpack ceramic packages for the integrated circuits. I asked if its control systems were analogue or digital. The manager escorting me said that digital control systems will come but during my career, not his.
Thank you very much for your beautiful description of how to fly this beautiful plane conceived and realized by the best British and French engineers of the time.
Hi, I had the opportunity to ride this beast sub-sonic in the 80's via Braniff / Dulles-Dallas. As he said, it pushes you back in the seat better than any powerful car could. As a frequent flyer on other jets, the Concorde is smoother in cloudy weather as it's not as efficient in slower speeds. Entire cabin is First Class Leather with an amazing cabin crew. I'll never forget that once in lifetime ride. I'm sorry it had to leave. Maybe there will be another.
The lack of APU surprises me. Now I need to go off and learn how specialized (or not) ground support equipment might be. Being able to land on any runway a 747 can is fantastic for diversions, but if equipment needs to be shipped to that airport to continue on your way, a bit less fantastic. Well, I'll go learn that after binge watching a few more videos here as I just subscribed -- something I seldom do based on one video. Great job! For once TH-cam made a good recommendation in pointing me here. EDIT: Oh my. Looks like this is just a small portion of an hour long interview!
Wonderful and always amazing. I was lucky enough to meet Les Evan’s another pilot from Concord recently. An amazing feat of engineering Thank you for sharing Peace, Love & Reality x
I worked on it back in the day and flew on it a few times using staff travel. Mike is right about the sense family aspect. No other fleet in the airline had that. Concorde pilots would often come into the hangar after a flight and debrief us. I remember we had a lady passenger who was one of their most frequent fliers and she would use it weekly to go shopping. She had a leg injury so we made her a foot rest to slot into the bulkhead and it had to be CAA tested and approved. It was in the grey leather to match the cabin and had to be on board every time she flew. It cost us an absolute fortune to do but that was the level of service the passengers were entitled to. It is such a shame that my own children will never get to see it in the air and feel the crackle from the reheats.
Yeah .... when i landed a Heathrow 1982 I was surprised just how small it was compared to other aircraft on the hard standing ... working on the Coastal Footpath east of Pendine Sands hearing the Boom was amazing ...😮
Wonderful interview with great explanations and detail. I thought, and still think it is there most beautiful aircraft made. I remember the mach meter and visiting the cockpit during the flight, and I have a painting of the Concord by one of the pilots.
I think of Supersonic Transport the same way i think about Nuclear Bombs: Just because we can doesn't mean that we should. The Sonic Booms PERSIST under the aircraft for the duration of the time above the speed of sound. THAT is why the flights were only over the ocean. Nobody seemed to care about the harm it was doing to Whales and other sea life.
I can’t think of anything else that used to exist but no longer does - usually things get better. We used to fly commercially at 1350mph but not anymore 🤔
As a child I knew Brian Trubshaw, the test pilot who was first to fly the Concorde, he was great friends with our neighbours. He was a lovely, funny man, looked like a typical farmer - except the day he went out to turn the hay and forgot to attach the tedder properly to the tractor which caused no end of chaos. Did we let him forget it? Never!
Back in the 1970s the Air France Concorde used to bang over Guernsey (where I was) on its way to New York. We never knew if it was the Noon Gun or the Concorde ...
All I wanted to be was a concorde pilot, followed by a 747 captain. Alas, my DOB meant they weren't recruiting when I was of age, so I did something else, and always lament it. I got some great pictures in the final weeks of concordes operations.
I wonder if he remembers Morella Sanderson? A good friend of mine, long since gone unfortunately (z''l), but she was a hostie on the Bullet Bird with BA from it's launch
I just looked one thing up, and I believe I got the math right. MACH2 (=twice the speed of sound) is fast. MACH11.5 is quite a bit faster. BUT IF you could get up to MACH11.5 you wouldn't any longer need wings (for lift) on your plane, :) since your fall towards the earth would follow the earth's curvature. (Like a satellite.) (And you would do London - New York in less than 15 minutes. :) )
I still find it incredulous that the Captain and First Officer took all the glory of flying Concorde when it was the Flight Engineer who did most of the work.
Extremely interesting & informative, ultimately a national prestige "vanity" indulgence project whose commercial potential was unlikely to amount to much, when the undesirability of sonic boom effects over land came to matter. "Just because you can" is not always the ideal driver. Maybe it was a smaller variant of the Apollo moonshot, to the governments & aerospace establishments of the day. And then they found it became "too big to fail" (or be cancelled) until technical safety/design shortcomings intervened
How far offshore did you have to get before going supersonic? How far away can you hear the sonic boom? It would have to be farther than just crossing the beach.
Prior to supersonic, they’ll still be crossing the ‘beach’ at 900-1000ft/second, so it’s already a mile offshore 5 seconds after crossing your beach… at this point it can start going through the sound barrier. The boom carries roughly 1 mile for every 1000ft of altitude.
This is the type of guy you want as your aircraft Captain. Calm, unruffled and with a sense of humour. Now some airlines are going for the DEI pick. Oh dear.
Breaking the sound barrier increases air resistance dramatically. The same high air resistance should then continue throughout the entire flight, right? The plane keeps compressing New air molecules along the entire flight and keeps breaking the sound barrier again and again, right? Wrong?
Is not, for instance, an IRA bomb explosion as experienced by a person's ear at a "safe" distance, just a sudden peak overpressure in the same way as a supersonic plane boom ?
An interviewer who doesn't interrupt his guest? 😮 Did not know that was a thing! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Dumbfounded, and wouldn’t dare interrupt 🫡
what I thought! the anti-Howard Stern
I know it's exceptionaly but there actualy do exist descent interviewers in this world.
Beside Mike Bannister is not just a pilot ! He's pretty well known
Listened to Mike many a time on ATC from my home in Devon (As a radio Ham) at the Accel/Deccel points in Bristol channel then waiting for the 'Boom' and my windows rattling ... Good times
Mike is such a clever engaging man. His book, Concorde is a must read. His knowledge and passion shine through. And he sounds just like a British Airways Captain ought to sound!
A proper 'BA Nigel'.
This reminded me of the time when a fairly newly appointed first officer arrived for work to find that his captain had called in sick with food poisoning. He prepared the aircraft, did the external checks and waited for a relief captain.
After landing, he was joking about he dear old lady who let him do the check lists from memory to save time before letting him fly, then when he went to switch the autopilot on told him not to bother with that contraption. She then spent most of the flight doing her crossword.
His laughter soon stopped, when one of the cabin crew mentioned that he had just flown with the airlines chief pilot.
He nervously waited for his letter from HR, firing him for his relaxed attitude towards his boss. The letter arrived and when he nervously opened it he recognised the crossword, it was his first appraisal. he passed with flying colours and she described this as efficient and professional with a pleasant personality.
About a year later on a simulator training day, she mentioned the memory checklist. She told him that it was her way of checking that pilots were not turning into parrots.
Can you guess the airline. They have flown internationally for more than 55 years without a crash or incident involving injury.
Like many who would have loved to have flown in Concorde I never did but as an aviation enthusiast it was a great technical achievement coupled with real beauty and having attended Mike Bannister's talks at Brooklands he's an inspiration and a nice guy to boot. If you haven't been Brooklands is a great day for aviation guys and gals alike.
Thanks for that, I'll have to check it out at the library.
Mike Bannister, you are an absolutely brilliant pilot, airline captain, flight instructor, technical instructor and motivator for young people to "spark" and ignite their interest, curiosity, aspirations and pursue their dreams. This is a brilliant presentation. WOW.
Greetings from Australia.
G’day, mate. Thanks for your lovely comment 🫡
He speaks so eloquently without a hint of hesitation, waffle or 'fillers'! (Ums and Ers!) I almost jumped when he mentioned the seven-year old boy who wanted to be a pilot. When I was 7 I was taken by my parents to Heathrow and can still remember seeing a jet climb into the sunset and saying to them, 'I want to do that one day'! And I did - admittedly it was 'only' a Cessna 150/172 but I did it! It's still possible to visit a Concorde at Manchester Airport and it's well worth the visit. Thanks!
Excellent talk.... Very intelligent pilot, a gift
Such an eloquent description of the procedure. And kudos for the interviewer for letting the captain go without peppering him with questions.
I used to sit in my garden in the evening in Bristol. I'd hear a dull Bump Bump then I'd look up and see a tiny silver date illuminated by the Sun - Concorde on its descent to Heathrow.
EVEN THOUGH SOME OF CONCORDS INTERNAL TECHNOLOGY WOULD BE OUT OF DATE TODAY, IT IS STILL THE MOST BEAUTIFUL DESIGN OF PLANE TO DATE.
SUCH HEARTBREAKING NEWS WHEN IT WAS RETIRED, BUT WILL NOT BE FORGOTTEN.
What a wonderful interview! I always love hearing things like this. The Concorde was one of the most beautiful and exciting commercial airplanes to fly. I loved watching it take off and land.
As an aside, back in the mid-1980's I was flying a Douglas DC-8-70 series freighter for one of the major cargo operators of the time. We flew into JFK regularly and I routinely watched the Concordes arriving and departing. I have photos I took from the cockpit.
We used a local ground services provider at Kennedy by the name of "Servair". They provided all of the ground equipment required to handle large jets. Things from boarding stairs to electric and air power carts to loaders and forklifts.
The Servair crews were comprised of rough and tumble hard working New Yorkers........they worked hard, but had little patience for problems.
The DC-8-70 series with the new CFM-56 high bypass turbofan conversion was a wonderful airplane.....but the CFM-56 while only requiring 20-25 PSI of air pressure to start, needed a high volume of air that pneumatic start carts of the day were not configured to provide. To be fair, this was a problem we encountered at many airports when the CFM engine conversions were new. We would be trying to spool up the number 3 engine and their start carts barely pumped enough volume of air to get the engine to the minimum RPM to light it off. Sometimes they would connect 2 air start carts to the plane.
We would complain to Servair about this and their response always was the same, and I quote, "We start the Concorde with these carts"............I always wondered if the Concorde guys had issues with the same air carts and I always guessed that they told British Airways and Air France that they started DC-8's with these carts.......
Could listen to this guy all day (and night). Great content.
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Flew on the Concord once maybe it was Captain Mike in the cockpit. The Captain was very nice and told me watch the engineer he’s the one really flying the Concord.
Thank you for also creating the "Take Off Proceudre" as a separate part.
Yes, his description is so good it makes you feel like you are flying a Concorde.
Cpt. Bannister also has a great gift for teaching.
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@@AirchatswithAirmacs Would you also like to do an interview with one of Concorde's key designers who worked for Aérospatiale?
@@karlskrivanek5687 thank you for the suggestion. For now, our schedule is full of exciting and diverse Airchats which will be coming soon 💪🏽
@@karlskrivanek5687 Key designers were Germans working for British Aeronautical Establishment at Farnborough...
@@barracuda7018 Probably you think about the two German aerodynamicists Johanna Weber and Dietrich Küchemann, working for the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE), who invented and worked out the slender delta wing planform for a SST, as they proposed it to the Supersonic Transport Aircraft Committee (STAC) in 1956.
The aerodynamicist I meant is Dudley Collard (a British aeronautical engineer), he started to work for Aérospatiale in Toulouse in October 1962.
E.g. he refined and optimized the aerodynamic design of Concorde to the serial standard - especially by redesigning following parts:
- Wing leading edge
- Wing tips (outboard wings)
- Tail cone (which was generally under the design and production responsibility of BAC) in proposing an elongation (finally by +3,73m) with an increased trim tank for better trim capabilities, especially at high cruising speeds
- drag improvements on the vertical stabilizer, rudder and elevons
- Engine air-intakes by proposing a drag improved design
His contribution was a mayor key factor in the Concorde program - especially to successfully fulfill Concordes North Atlantic mission.
What a fantastic 13 minutes. Thanks guys
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still super stoked like it was only yesterday ..Memories ..
Super cruise. Absolutely amazing. Very few military aircraft were able to do that, but The Concord did it routinely. Bravo 👏 8:45
Even stood still in the hangar at Manchester Airport, its still a awe inspiring thing.
I never got to fly on Concorde, but I did watch it take off and land several times. As a pilot myself it was fantastic just to watch it take off.
Why can't all interviews be like this (fascinating topic, terrific guest, no interruptions from the interviewer etc.)? Like many others posting on this thread, I've recently read Mike's book - "Concorde" - and, unusually for me when reading non-fiction, I couldn't put it down. As well as his obvious talent and skill as a pilot, he writes brilliantly. As a teacher, I particularly appreciated how he managed to express with such ease all the complex issues around Concorde - the technical, physical, political, econnomic, geographic and, of course, the personal - to a layman like me. Great book, great interview, great man.
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Such an intelligence man and privilege to have flown such an amazing aircraft. Great book on Concorde also.
Mike brought back memories from an experience flight nearly 40 years ago. The take off was exhilarating, you really were pushed into the seat. And you knew when they rotated, not a gentle drift off the ground, the world tilted.
Great interview and for viewers who want to know more, I recommend cpt. Bannister’s book on the Concorde. Amazing and very detailed read. Serwus!
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a wonderful gentleman pilot... very acccomplished. thank you for sharing
I’m amazed about Concord, and I have met the person responsible for the design and construction of the Pitot tubes.
He is now nearly ninety and most unassuming and amusing as a person.
They were complicated and needed specialised construction, to avoid icing up, and needed to be replaced with new ones after a relatively short period of time.
My parents had a flight back from Barbados, but sadly not myself.
Priceless interview!, wow! Thanks! Keep them coming!
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First class interview.
Thank you 🫡
Yeah, there's no Economy Class interviews on Concorde.
Perfect , that made me laugh .
Thanks for that .@@thedolphin5428
Amazing. What a buzz
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Living In SW London Concorde often flew overhead and I can say that very time it did myself and just about everyone else would look up to watch her. I never grew tired of that.
I was lucky enough to fly on Concorde just once. New York to London. We boarded on time but were then delayed due to what the crew described as a missing bit of paper. I wonder if Mike was up front that day??
Superb, I miss them very much. Will be a long time before anything gets close to becoming a rival even though they are trying.
Absolutely amazing!
Fantastic interview, thanks for sharing. I never knew the Concorde didn't have an APU, and here I was thinking I knew a lot about this plane 😊
In the early 2000's I lived about 1/4 mile from Kew Gardens and I can confirm how loud Concorde was! When it was coming in to land we could hear it about 2 minutes before it came over us.
Also, I worked at the public records office in Kew once and a guy came in doing some kind of project and requested copies of some records. He handed me his credit card and I noticed it said "Captain". Casually I said "Oh, you're a pilot"? He agreed and I asked him what kind of planes he flew and he said Concorde! My jaw dropped and I was suddenly starstruck. It was like meeting an astronaut!
An intelligent, articulated person.
Conveying in a concise manner details ranging from the sound barrier physical phenomenons, to the opperation of the plane.
Not neglecting alluding to all the people that make possible flying that futuristic machine -- taken to the Air in 1968.
Flying from about 3 decades, accident free.
The Crash in Paris in the late 90s was due to detached sections of an American Airlines Boeing or DC 10 falling onto the tarmac.
Due to Poor maintenance service performed by that American Company.
Some of the debris, were projected against Concorde's wings, puncturing a fuel tank.
As a Jurist, in my view the respknsability falls on the shoulders of American Airlines' CEO and Board of Directors.
Cutting corners, maintenance-wise, is usually a source of future major problems.
Unfortunately, the blame normally falls on some poor souls devoided of any real decision Power
A great video ! Thank you.
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@@albertseabra9226 Boeing? It was a DC10
@@aerotube7291 DC 10 or Boeing is not relevant.
The issue, the Smoking Gun is extremely Poor Maintenance !
An Airplane flying for a Main Airline is not supposed to drop parts of its fuselage on the run-away.
@@albertseabra9226 dead right. I had noticed on many threads there is a trend to bag Boeing for others issues. So I mentioned it
@@albertseabra9226 sorry man, wasn't trolling you so to speak.. Great vid and good points in your comment....
Very clever man ,I use to watch concord take off from Heathrow on Sundays as he said very noisy 😊
I also remember in 1969 driving from Methyr Tydfil to Leicester in my Ford Anglia. On the radio was a running commentary describing Concorde's first take off.
Earlier, I had been for a job interview as a final year engineering student at Bristol Aircraft and was shown some of Concorde's electronics. It used flatpack ceramic packages for the integrated circuits. I asked if its control systems were analogue or digital. The manager escorting me said that digital control systems will come but during my career, not his.
Thank you very much for your beautiful description of how to fly this beautiful plane conceived and realized by the
best British and French engineers of the time.
Hi, I had the opportunity to ride this beast sub-sonic in the 80's via Braniff / Dulles-Dallas. As he said, it pushes you back in the seat better than any powerful car could. As a frequent flyer on other jets, the Concorde is smoother in cloudy weather as it's not as efficient in slower speeds. Entire cabin is First Class Leather with an amazing cabin crew. I'll never forget that once in lifetime ride. I'm sorry it had to leave. Maybe there will be another.
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treat to listen to him .. thumbs up
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The lack of APU surprises me. Now I need to go off and learn how specialized (or not) ground support equipment might be. Being able to land on any runway a 747 can is fantastic for diversions, but if equipment needs to be shipped to that airport to continue on your way, a bit less fantastic.
Well, I'll go learn that after binge watching a few more videos here as I just subscribed -- something I seldom do based on one video. Great job! For once TH-cam made a good recommendation in pointing me here.
EDIT: Oh my. Looks like this is just a small portion of an hour long interview!
Full Episode available here; th-cam.com/video/cdRmorU7LdI/w-d-xo.html
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Wonderful and always amazing.
I was lucky enough to meet Les Evan’s another pilot from Concord recently.
An amazing feat of engineering
Thank you for sharing
Peace, Love & Reality x
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I worked on it back in the day and flew on it a few times using staff travel. Mike is right about the sense family aspect. No other fleet in the airline had that. Concorde pilots would often come into the hangar after a flight and debrief us. I remember we had a lady passenger who was one of their most frequent fliers and she would use it weekly to go shopping. She had a leg injury so we made her a foot rest to slot into the bulkhead and it had to be CAA tested and approved. It was in the grey leather to match the cabin and had to be on board every time she flew. It cost us an absolute fortune to do but that was the level of service the passengers were entitled to. It is such a shame that my own children will never get to see it in the air and feel the crackle from the reheats.
That was an amazing detailed talk through of flying the worlds greatest passenger aircraft ❤️
Thank you. What a fascinating watch
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A complete delight to listen to-thank you-Concorde remains sublime :-)
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Great video and brings back memories of flying on a subsonic flight on Concorde 👍🏻 amazing plane.
Fascinating. And so good to hear him call it an aeroplane, not a plane. If you've read Douglas Bader's story in Reach for the Sky, you'll know...
Miss you Concorde 😢
Yeah .... when i landed a Heathrow 1982 I was surprised just how small it was compared to other aircraft on the hard standing ... working on the Coastal Footpath east of Pendine Sands hearing the Boom was amazing ...😮
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Wonderful interview with great explanations and detail. I thought, and still think it is there most beautiful aircraft made. I remember the mach meter and visiting the cockpit during the flight, and I have a painting of the Concord by one of the pilots.
Awesome interview. Awesome person. Well handled by both. Thanks for posting!
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WOW Cool, thx a lot for doing this, it is so great to hear this from one of the masters of flying himself, love it 😍
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6:25 Talk about muscle memory, pulling back on his "air yoke" at exactly the right grip position. Great video, thanks.
An amazing insight. Thank you Mike.
Concorde is the most beautiful thing mankind has built.
I'm going with the cathedral at Chartres.
That was great. Describing that with such perfect flow, that's the product of a very organised mind!
Most interesting as to the design & capabilities of the Concorde…obviously had very capable exceptional pilots 🙂
That was VERY interesting. Great chat. (It simply popped up on TH-cam. Thought I'd give it a chance. Glad I did.)
Thanks for taking the time to comment. Glad you enjoyed it Eric 🫡
Imagine what a concord mark2 would have been.
Excellent ! The audio book Concorde is amazing ! mark.
it always made me laugh when the pilot used to say CHEERS NOW too ATC BEFORE TAKE OFF BRILLIANT best aircraft ever. what a gentleman Mike is
That was fun to watch.
Very interesting. Thanks.
Greetings from France
I've walked through Concorde 002 at Yeovilton. I'm only 5'4" tall and even I have to duck at the cockpit end
Wonderful. I loved reading his book too.
I think of Supersonic Transport the same way i think about Nuclear Bombs: Just because we can doesn't mean that we should. The Sonic Booms PERSIST under the aircraft for the duration of the time above the speed of sound. THAT is why the flights were only over the ocean. Nobody seemed to care about the harm it was doing to Whales and other sea life.
Does Mike Bannister have a website or contact info ? Would like to make an inquiry? Tjanks so much
Brilliant interview! 👍👍👍👍👍
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I can’t think of anything else that used to exist but no longer does - usually things get better. We used to fly commercially at 1350mph but not anymore 🤔
Used to listen on shortwave as Concorde crossed the Atlantic Sierra Mike 20 west FL540 Mach 2.00 Happy days
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Thank you. This was nice to hear... :-)
As a child I knew Brian Trubshaw, the test pilot who was first to fly the Concorde, he was great friends with our neighbours. He was a lovely, funny man, looked like a typical farmer - except the day he went out to turn the hay and forgot to attach the tedder properly to the tractor which caused no end of chaos. Did we let him forget it? Never!
I'm so inspired
What a top guy
Back in the 1970s the Air France Concorde used to bang over Guernsey (where I was) on its way to New York. We never knew if it was the Noon Gun or the Concorde ...
All I wanted to be was a concorde pilot, followed by a 747 captain. Alas, my DOB meant they weren't recruiting when I was of age, so I did something else, and always lament it. I got some great pictures in the final weeks of concordes operations.
Very informative interview.
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brilliant info .. so simple to understand .
8:12 Of course it's a bang. Bangs are nothing more than high pressure areas concentrated in a very small volume.
Fascinating
a small unit in a massive organisation, that generated a quarter of the revenue! wow!
Still can't wrap my head around the 'boom' is from inside your ear.
very interesting
Saw it many times flying out and landing at jfk airport
Brilliant
I wonder if he remembers Morella Sanderson? A good friend of mine, long since gone unfortunately (z''l), but she was a hostie on the Bullet Bird with BA from it's launch
Just imagine the issues involved in a ditching.....nose droop, pitch angle, flaps. Was there ever QRH procedure recommended ?.
Yes but how much more fuel did it use?
I just looked one thing up, and I believe I got the math right.
MACH2 (=twice the speed of sound) is fast.
MACH11.5 is quite a bit faster.
BUT IF you could get up to MACH11.5 you wouldn't any longer need wings (for lift) on your plane, :)
since your fall towards the earth would follow the earth's curvature. (Like a satellite.)
(And you would do London - New York in less than 15 minutes. :) )
I still find it incredulous that the Captain and First Officer took all the glory of flying Concorde when it was the Flight Engineer who did most of the work.
Extremely interesting & informative, ultimately a national prestige "vanity" indulgence project whose commercial potential was unlikely to amount to much, when the undesirability of sonic boom effects over land came to matter. "Just because you can" is not always the ideal driver. Maybe it was a smaller variant of the Apollo moonshot, to the governments & aerospace establishments of the day. And then they found it became "too big to fail" (or be cancelled) until technical safety/design shortcomings intervened
How far offshore did you have to get before going supersonic? How far away can you hear the sonic boom? It would have to be farther than just crossing the beach.
Prior to supersonic, they’ll still be crossing the ‘beach’ at 900-1000ft/second, so it’s already a mile offshore 5 seconds after crossing your beach… at this point it can start going through the sound barrier. The boom carries roughly 1 mile for every 1000ft of altitude.
@@AirchatswithAirmacs Great, thanks for the explanation.
Cool! Successful airplane except from the prospective of the accounting department! Unfortunately, it was not engineered for transpacific range.
This is the type of guy you want as your aircraft Captain. Calm, unruffled and with a sense of humour.
Now some airlines are going for the DEI pick. Oh dear.
Must have been a really small, narrow cockpit.
So fricken cool
Breaking the sound barrier increases air resistance dramatically. The same high air resistance should then continue throughout the entire flight, right?
The plane keeps compressing New air molecules along the entire flight and keeps breaking the sound barrier again and again, right? Wrong?
Bang on 🫡 it’s continuous
@@AirchatswithAirmacs But why is there only one sonic boom and not countless ones along the entire flight path?
I subsidised Concorde. But I couldn't afford to fly on it. Only rich folk could. The Con in Concorde lol
Very interesting! The Americans/ Boeing hated it and tried to make life difficult for Concorde....
Is not, for instance, an IRA bomb explosion as experienced by a person's ear at a "safe" distance, just a sudden peak overpressure in the same way as a supersonic plane boom ?
Why has this man not been knighted yet?
I think this guy is lying....Before taking off you MUST, look left, look right and after the BA777 crash...for facks-sake look UP....LOLOL