Lots of memories here. While I never took the Concord, I did arrive in Dulles from Geneva back in 1975. What a change. Huge cars with Air conditioning! We never had that in Europe. Also, after 50 years, Dulles and the access highway are so Over built. Virginia is wall to wall businesses and houses now. To see what was is a treat. Yes, it was simpler back then. I am happy to have experienced air travel before we all became Sardines!
I do not care in the slightest if Concorde was a commercial failure, Concorde was a technical and engineering marvel and such an amazing and beautiful looking aircraft. It successfully proved that supersonic travel was indeed possible, even if it was costly. There will never be an aircraft like Concorde ever again, it truly was an aviation icon and a well loved aircraft.
Got a flight on the concorde as a gift. They came to Houston and did a flight into the gulf and back, just long enough to go supersonic. Glad I got to see it up close before they shut it down. It was quite a bit after this film was made.
My Dad worked for the Bristol aeroplane company in the 1950’s he was involved with early supersonic development which eventually led to Concorde. I remember hearing and seeing it flying high over the South Wales coast en route to the US…….impressive aircraft!
Perhaps the most spectacular part was casually strutting into the terminal, quickly and easily buying your ticket and checking in thanks to very pleasant and courteous staff, then walking straight to your gate. Even your friends and/or family could walk with you to your gate to see you off or meet you there upon your arrival. No ridiculous security checks and long queues to deal with including ridiculous restrictions on what you could carry on board. No one demanding that you take off your belt and shoes. WOW different world back then. My how the world has regressed.
Yeah, it was a different world back then - between 1968 and 1972 there were 130 hijackings of American airliners.There were terrorist bombings such as Pan Am 103 and of course the 9/11 attacks. When is the last time you heard of an airliner being hijacked? Do you really think the world has regressed when we have managed to make flying safer than ever?
Fab Infomercial! Thank you! The Intro of This Jet AND this entire Era was a fantastic exciting time to be alive & well! TODAY'S Airline Industry and INEPT TECH is a massive INSULT to the "Forward -Thinking AND Doing" of the proudly innovative PAST. Time Machine.... PLEASE!!!!!!!✈
We used to watch the Concorde take off from JFK and listen for the boom! They once came to a military base in NY and offered rides. I couldn't talk my parents into a flight, but I did get to go onboard and see the interior. Years later, my sister got to fly NY to London on the Concorde. It was terribly sad to see this beautiful bird go!
I always found the "Smoking" and "Non-Smoking" areas in airplanes kind of interesting. In most domestic flights, your seating either had ashtrays or didn't have ashtrays; we all breathed the same air... :-)
5:43 Instead of taking a tristar flight from Paris - London to take BA Concorde from London - Washington, Marie La Claire should've taken the Air France Concorde from Paris to Washington and save herself the hustle. Ah, those fashion girls...
Quite a lot of French people flew British Airways Concordes. In part because BA offered a more luxurious service and also they flew more frequently than Air France Concordes. (at that time British Airways had 5 Concordes, Air France only had 4 - ultimately BA would have 7 and AF 6)
@@pb6198 Yes they are. In the 1970s & 1980s, you'd average at least one major air crash in a month. Today they're so few and far in between, that when a major crash does occur, it became a worldwide scandal.
because that was a fluke, a pr move like "moon base by 1995"... passenger supersonic flight proved to be unaffordable and not in demand, when concorde was grounded it was like "oh, finally"... and exactly the same it was for soviets with TU-144 - everyone was glad to get rid of those pr-aircraft by dumping the remnants of both fleets to museums... M0.78-M0.82 at FL350 proved to be the most efficient flight mode for atmosphere of Earth
We will always have subsonic airliners, but now we are hopefully marching to an era where orbital and suborbital flights would be available thanks to the passenger SSTOs like SpaceX plan to do
Fabulous nostalgia blast, air pressure headsets, no tv screens and a bunch of galley equipment uncovered as the passengers were boarding, and to operate Concorde to any other destination than JFK became commercial suicide shortly after this.
Nothing like traveling on Concorde. Sure the aircraft is narrow and seat was comparable to main cabin but service was all first class with fine caviar and best champagne to make up for it.
I once bought a very cheap Air France flight from San Francisco to Hamburg via Paris. They messed it up and I took a United Red Eye to New York. Got on the Concord and made my Connection into Hamburg. Quite a Ride.
18:57 - on the departures board behind the United staff. The first flight is Flight 175, which is the same flight number of the first United aircraft hijacked during the September 11 tragedy.
@@pb6198 Stop talking nonsense my party wanted to or many Tories wanted an end to it. This executive from Pan-American gave a master class on why it would fail. Look it up on TH-cam. The R and D costs were never recovered. The units were sold for peppercorn. Come and help me study for my cost accounting exams and stop talking rubbish. Or better yet pay my ACCA exam fees.
@@peterbradshaw8018 you are talking ballocks, it did recover it's costs, in 1997 it gained back all of it, operations after that date where fully profitable
@@pb6198 Who is, and these are your words not mine a "business accounted." Oh Richard Branson an accomplished business man admitted to not knowing the difference between net and gross. But he unlike you admitted to being ignorant of a particular fact which makes him infinitely smarter than you an established "business accounted." I have been getting grades in the nineties thus far the lowest being 92%.
It just goes to show that the future does not always bring advances. here now in 2023 we are way behind our capacity for high speed passenger flights which was available in the 160's till the early 2000's
Did anyone notice a connection to New York via Washington, this film was from before the Concorde flew to JFK. Taking the 747 might not be quicker than the Concorde to Washington and a shuttle to LGA but its not much slower. Amusing film.
You can see why it was vital BA and Air France got clearance to operate into JFK to make Concorde pay. Washington at least gave it a transatlantic route but all those limousine transfers to the national airport didn’t really seem that efficient or cost effective!
Free limo service was offered at JFK too. Flew in on AF Concorde and connected with Continental from EWR. Was met at the gate and escorted all the way to curbside to the limo. Well, a rather old Town Car with a fat bloke lacking in grooming and playing some Arabic music all the way at annoyingly loud level.
Apparently when British Airways was a nationalised airline, Concorde fares were expensive, but not outrageously so (ie multiple times the cost of a subsonic first class ticket). That all changed when British Airways was privatised. Basically the tax payer subsidised the super-rich.
Supersonic and atomic its the only way to go the faster you go in air the safer you are since you are putting yourself in the air less of time and airspace isnt really crowded well it is but you are all far apart imagine going on the freeway and seeing about 2 cars pass the opposite lane thats why its safer less congestion so unlike car travel where its safer to travel slower for a better reaction time its opposite in air you have to haul ass Mach 10 baby
@@RobertGeordieGibb My reply to the other poster was in regards to the imaginary prospect of spending 12 hours in flight instead of 24. But in any case, Concorde's primary market was transatlantic, not Pacific - so there was no comparison in range performance with the 747.
Thanks! More Concorde films please!🙂
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Lots of memories here. While I never took the Concord, I did arrive in Dulles from Geneva back in 1975. What a change. Huge cars with Air conditioning! We never had that in Europe. Also, after 50 years, Dulles and the access highway are so Over built. Virginia is wall to wall businesses and houses now. To see what was is a treat. Yes, it was simpler back then. I am happy to have experienced air travel before we all became Sardines!
I do not care in the slightest if Concorde was a commercial failure, Concorde was a technical and engineering marvel and such an amazing and beautiful looking aircraft. It successfully proved that supersonic travel was indeed possible, even if it was costly. There will never be an aircraft like Concorde ever again, it truly was an aviation icon and a well loved aircraft.
2:35 8:36 9:19 13:41 14:54 The Concorde was so majestic right here
So 70s! Such airplane! Much romance!
WOW!
Got a flight on the concorde as a gift. They came to Houston and did a flight into the gulf and back, just long enough to go supersonic. Glad I got to see it up close before they shut it down. It was quite a bit after this film was made.
My Dad worked for the Bristol aeroplane company in the 1950’s he was involved with early supersonic development which eventually led to Concorde. I remember hearing and seeing it flying high over the South Wales coast en route to the US…….impressive aircraft!
8:14 15:37 the interior and the cockpit was something else
Perhaps the most spectacular part was casually strutting into the terminal, quickly and easily buying your ticket and checking in thanks to very pleasant and courteous staff, then walking straight to your gate. Even your friends and/or family could walk with you to your gate to see you off or meet you there upon your arrival. No ridiculous security checks and long queues to deal with including ridiculous restrictions on what you could carry on board. No one demanding that you take off your belt and shoes. WOW different world back then. My how the world has regressed.
Yeah, it was a different world back then - between 1968 and 1972 there were 130 hijackings of American airliners.There were terrorist bombings such as Pan Am 103 and of course the 9/11 attacks. When is the last time you heard of an airliner being hijacked? Do you really think the world has regressed when we have managed to make flying safer than ever?
@@lisalu910 Yes, I do.
08:20 Ah, yes, " and the two abreast seating". Indeed.
That dude from "Hooston" sure is getting drunk as hell.
Fab Infomercial! Thank you! The Intro of This Jet AND this entire Era was a fantastic exciting time to be alive & well!
TODAY'S Airline Industry and INEPT TECH is a massive INSULT to the "Forward -Thinking AND Doing" of the proudly innovative PAST.
Time Machine.... PLEASE!!!!!!!✈
That is real food compared to the slop that they serve today. Aside from the speed, Concorde had one of the best in-flight services.
Was it Maxim's Paris?
We used to watch the Concorde take off from JFK and listen for the boom! They once came to a military base in NY and offered rides. I couldn't talk my parents into a flight, but I did get to go onboard and see the interior. Years later, my sister got to fly NY to London on the Concorde. It was terribly sad to see this beautiful bird go!
I always found the "Smoking" and "Non-Smoking" areas in airplanes kind of interesting. In most domestic flights, your seating either had ashtrays or didn't have ashtrays; we all breathed the same air... :-)
I half expected Bob to shout "More powerrrr!" or say something like "I'm riding on the fastest airliner... in the worrlld."
5:43 Instead of taking a tristar flight from Paris - London to take BA Concorde from London - Washington, Marie La Claire should've taken the Air France Concorde from Paris to Washington and save herself the hustle. Ah, those fashion girls...
Quite a lot of French people flew British Airways Concordes. In part because BA offered a more luxurious service and also they flew more frequently than Air France Concordes. (at that time British Airways had 5 Concordes, Air France only had 4 - ultimately BA would have 7 and AF 6)
That bus at Dulles is hilarious... 1970s...
Apparently they're still using it, at least in 2016 when I arrived at Dulles.
Stupendous cool.
we are in 21st century and yet we still have subsonic airliners
@William Poundstone no they arent
@@pb6198 Yes they are.
In the 1970s & 1980s, you'd average at least one major air crash in a month. Today they're so few and far in between, that when a major crash does occur, it became a worldwide scandal.
You could say that about a lot of things. We also have the technology to completely eradicate hunger and homelessness, yet we choose not to.
because that was a fluke, a pr move like "moon base by 1995"... passenger supersonic flight proved to be unaffordable and not in demand, when concorde was grounded it was like "oh, finally"... and exactly the same it was for soviets with TU-144 - everyone was glad to get rid of those pr-aircraft by dumping the remnants of both fleets to museums... M0.78-M0.82 at FL350 proved to be the most efficient flight mode for atmosphere of Earth
We will always have subsonic airliners, but now we are hopefully marching to an era where orbital and suborbital flights would be available thanks to the passenger SSTOs like SpaceX plan to do
a total gem !!! some of the concorde footage was used in the Ruggero Deodato movie 'Concorde Affair'
I'm feeling Supersonic 🎵🎵🎵
Fabulous nostalgia blast, air pressure headsets, no tv screens and a bunch of galley equipment uncovered as the passengers were boarding, and to operate Concorde to any other destination than JFK became commercial suicide shortly after this.
Nothing like traveling on Concorde. Sure the aircraft is narrow and seat was comparable to main cabin but service was all first class with fine caviar and best champagne to make up for it.
They were very lucky in the past to be able to experience supersonic flight compared to us in this advanced age who still have subsonic flight 😅
I once bought a very cheap Air France flight from San Francisco to Hamburg via Paris.
They messed it up and I took a United Red Eye to New York.
Got on the Concord and made my Connection into Hamburg.
Quite a Ride.
It made money for British Airways and if it was still flying it would still be making money. More now then ever bring Concorde back
The Concorde did a tour of some airports in the USA,( non super sonic) I saw it in Memphis
It's hard for me to believe that we're not utilizing this type of technology.
@Michael Bigdongovic - Too risky? Only one Concorde ever crashed, and that was caused by debris on the runway.
Love it
18:57 - on the departures board behind the United staff. The first flight is Flight 175, which is the same flight number of the first United aircraft hijacked during the September 11 tragedy.
Grief porn much?
Back when flying was still fun and they cared about the customers
Pretty sad that we’re decades on yet with a far lousier airline experience these days. Cancelling Concorde was a dreadful decision.
Could you afford to sustain it from your pocket?
@2:54, I assume the safety wheel always deploys with the landing gear. In drag racing it would be called a "Wheelie bar." :-)
An accountant's worst nightmare and an aviation enthusiast's wet dream
It actually made money, despite what the leftists will tell anyone
@@pb6198 Stop talking nonsense my party wanted to or many Tories wanted an end to it. This executive from Pan-American gave a master class on why it would fail. Look it up on TH-cam. The R and D costs were never recovered. The units were sold for peppercorn. Come and help me study for my cost accounting exams and stop talking rubbish. Or better yet pay my ACCA exam fees.
@@peterbradshaw8018 you are talking ballocks, it did recover it's costs, in 1997 it gained back all of it, operations after that date where fully profitable
@@peterbradshaw8018 you are talking to an already established business accounted and multiple business owner, so nice one.
Go fail those exams buddy 😂
@@pb6198 Who is, and these are your words not mine a "business accounted." Oh Richard Branson an accomplished business man admitted to not knowing the difference between net and gross. But he unlike you admitted to being ignorant of a particular fact which makes him infinitely smarter than you an established "business accounted." I have been getting grades in the nineties thus far the lowest being 92%.
It just goes to show that the future does not always bring advances. here now in 2023 we are way behind our capacity for high speed passenger flights which was available in the 160's till the early 2000's
I hope you can find and upload a similar film about the Concorde made for Air France soon.
17:42 Nice rug!
Thanks for the good laugh!
Did anyone notice a connection to New York via Washington, this film was from before the Concorde flew to JFK. Taking the 747 might not be quicker than the Concorde to Washington and a shuttle to LGA but its not much slower. Amusing film.
Around 8 minutes, you can hear an instrumental version of “Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head.”
I always wanted to fly on it DC ince early 80's. Never happened, never will. 😭
Nice video, but where’s Hoooston?!
Awesome
Did y’all see the connecting flight map? How did Kansas get so far south?😂
It's 2020. We fly subsonic....
You can see why it was vital BA and Air France got clearance to operate into JFK to make Concorde pay. Washington at least gave it a transatlantic route but all those limousine transfers to the national airport didn’t really seem that efficient or cost effective!
Free limo service was offered at JFK too. Flew in on AF Concorde and connected with Continental from EWR. Was met at the gate and escorted all the way to curbside to the limo. Well, a rather old Town Car with a fat bloke lacking in grooming and playing some Arabic music all the way at annoyingly loud level.
@@jackdoe3889that bloke was my dad.
i wanna see stuff how it flew to rio de janeiro ... that route and stuff...
Why doesn't Marie La Claire just fly Air France Concorde out of Paris?
Ahhhahh!! Yes she's clueless
Service better on British Airways, perhaps 😉, or 14 minute connection time at Heathrow?
12:43 it looks like hes holding an iphone with imessage open wtf
Yo vi que era una calculadora.
Well, at least I got to ride in the "mobile lounge" anyway ..
Imagine spending $10k in 1970 money and fly faster than a rifle bullet for thousands of miles to have Dulles lose your luggage
And now, almost fifty years later, we are back to boring, uncomfortable six hours Atlantic crossings ...
6 if you’re very lucky.
It's Bob "I'll have a P Bob, Holness" narrating.
I noticed that too
Good old Bob
urgent cable :D
Hmm,is that '70's porno music in the background?
Great film. However, forgotten in the journey time is the 2 hour queue to get through customs and immigration in the US!
Not at the Concorde lounge
what happened to the Future?
It's stuck in the past. 😥
Transition from subsonic to supersonic
Smoking, non smoking. 😂
$10,000 ticket (?)
I wonder if they actually flew the actors on Concorde to shoot this video?
How quaint
Apparently when British Airways was a nationalised airline, Concorde fares were expensive, but not outrageously so (ie multiple times the cost of a subsonic first class ticket). That all changed when British Airways was privatised. Basically the tax payer subsidised the super-rich.
13:00
Stethoscope
Supersonic and atomic its the only way to go
the faster you go in air the safer you are since you are putting yourself in the air less of time and airspace isnt really crowded well it is but you are all far apart imagine going on the freeway and seeing about 2 cars pass the opposite lane thats why its safer less congestion so unlike car travel where its safer to travel slower for a better reaction time its opposite in air you have to haul ass
Mach 10 baby
BA in its monopoly days staff where proud to serve in all areas I know I worked their now look in the year 2020 what next with BA
All these transit bags look empty...lol
I prefer the B747.
Anthony Wilfred Wong - If you needed to make a trip from Sydney to London, and it took you 12 hours instead of 24 you wouldn't.
@@RobertGeordieGibb My reply to the other poster was in regards to the imaginary prospect of spending 12 hours in flight instead of 24.
But in any case, Concorde's primary market was transatlantic, not Pacific - so there was no comparison in range performance with the 747.
Oh cmon what's wrong with subsonic airliners.
Anthony Wilfred Wong - Nothing at all....but in 2022 - 60 years after Concorde was conceived, we should all have access to Supersonic travel by now!!!