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Concorde Flight Paris CDG to New York JFK - Inside the Supersonic Plane July 1999 - Air France AF002
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 มี.ค. 2020
- Original footage made by my father in 1999. Concord Supersonic Flight from Paris CDG to New York JFK, AF002 July 28th 1999. In this video you can also enjoy some views of New York City in that year with the World Trade Center. I've never been to that city but I think it was in advance in terms of modernity and speed of life at that time !
Video : Antonio Martino
Editing : Matteo Martino
From CNN Travel :
Half a century ago, the legendary supersonic passenger airliner Concorde made its first test flight, on March 2, 1969. The Concorde 001 prototype took off from Toulouse, piloted by André Turcat, and first went supersonic on October 1.
In 1976 -- over 40 years ago -- elite passengers were crossing the Atlantic in under three and a half hours, flying at twice the speed of sound in the Anglo-French Concorde.
Only 20 of the sleek, delta-winged SSTs were built, and just 14 were delivered to two airlines -- seven each to Air France and British Airways.
With superlative service and cuisine, exclusive airport lounges and stratospherically high airfares, Concorde passengers flew far above other flights, and cruised faster than fighter jets to their destinations.
"The flight attendants loved being on it; the passengers loved being on it," says CNN's Richard Quest, who flew Concorde five times. "You were aware of being part of a very small group of people that were privileged enough to be on Concorde.
"Concorde was extremely small, only about 100 seats. It had more like office chairs, bucket seats, and very small windows. It was noisy, extremely noisy, but I challenge anybody not to have a smile from ear to ear when they got on it."
With an interior fuselage width of about eight and a half feet (2.63 meters), Concorde's cabin was just wider than that of today's Bombardier Regional Jet. The SST had a single aisle, with a two-two seating configuration.
"The actual layout of the plane was in two sections. There was a front section, then a middle lavatory, and then a rear section," explains Quest.
"The two sections were identical -- not like one was First Class and one was Business. But there was always a status symbol to being in the front section."
While Concorde had its regulars, including international businessman Fred Finn -- who flew a record-setting 718 times -- any number of novice passengers could be on board for their one-and-only supersonic experience.
Like Su Marshall, a globe-trotting Canadian who was treated to an Air France flight from New York to Paris by her then-boyfriend, "who had more money than Midas."
In the Concorde lounge at JFK, where the "Air France staff oozed élan," Marshall chatted with an elegant French woman, and admitted that it was her first flight on the SST.
"She was a Concorde regular, and whispered candidly to me, 'You better go to the washroom now. It is impossible to pee once in the air. Too small,'" said Su.
"For a girl used to flying steerage, once through the doors of the sleek, tiny, cigar tube into the body of Concorde, I knew I had entered into the rarified air of gods and kings. But dang, things were small and cramped. Leather, polish and flutes of never-ending Champagne, but really squished.
"But hey, three and a half hours to Paris? I sucked it up," chuckles Marshall.
"Concorde was vastly different from subsonic aircraft at the time. It had no flaps or slats (high-lift devices on the wing) and always used full power with reheat for takeoff," explains former British Airways Concorde captain John Tye.
"Each takeoff was a phenomenal experience, the performance such that we had to warn the passengers in advance what to expect. The roar of the Rolls-Royce Olympus engines, combined with being pushed back into your seat, was like no other civilian aeroplane."
Reheat was also used to push the plane from subsonic to supersonic speeds.
Cruising at Mach 2 -- or 1,350 mph -- at 60,000 feet, Concorde flew five miles above and 800 mph faster than the subsonic 747s plodding across the Atlantic.
The radio chatter between aircraft could get interesting, according to Tye. "We would often warn these slower aircraft we were coming past in case the sonic boom alarmed them, as we shot past faster than a rifle bullet."
By 1976, social pressure over concerns with the plane's noise and sonic boom led to the cancellation of virtually all orders for Concorde, leaving British Airways and Air France as the only airlines to fly the SST.
The plane suffered its only accident in July 2000 when an Air France Concorde crashed just after takeoff from Paris, killing all 109 people on board and four on the ground.
Concorde returned to service in November 2001, but age, and increasing operating and overhaul costs, caught up with the planes after almost 30 years in the air.
Richard Quest flew on the final, celebrity-studded British Airways Concorde flight in October 2003.
Of that flight, Quest says: "It didn't matter how famous you were, the star was the plane."
When one could visit the cockpit in mid flight. What a wonderful and insane era.
Islam was not discovered yet :-)
@@mmmm-gs4mc 9/11 was an inside job and not the work of 19 hijackers and Bin Laden. They couldn't even fly a small plane let alone an airliner.
Problem with good old days is that you don’t know you are living them
Ahh, 1999. We still had the Concorde flying and the World Trade Center was still standing tall. Now both are gone.
richard schindler crazy times...
Possibly my favorite TH-cam comment ever
Wow, what a time capsule. So much has changed. There's only one stewardess, and she was more like a waiter. Also, it's interesting to see what Manhattan looked like in 1999. Great upload!
That's the way it looked the last time I was there. As a teenager in the late 90s. I was in high school 99. Haven't been back to New York since the towers fell.😢
3:01 that was the observation deck of 2WTC, another icon no longer with us😢
Imagine taking a Concorde flight and just casually sitting next to a Hollywood star... it happened every day
Walking through the aisle in concord at mach 2 is an experience
I am in awe when I look at this. This is amazing. My dream is to fly the same way if supersonic aircraft are euspuated again.
Google Boom Overture. Should be here in 8 years time 🤞🏼. I can’t wait to fly transatlantic at supersonic speeds.
imagine u do a one day trip to new york. u enter the plane at 6am and arrive at 10am, now u do the sightseeing and other tourist stuff till u fly back at 6pm and arrive at 10pm in paris
Lol
This wasn't possible on Air France as there was only one flight a day westbound and the next flight eastbound was the next morning.
On British Airways it was possible and a way to beat jet lag. Fly west in the morning, hold business meetings, fly back and go to sleep in your own bed without suffering the time difference.
a very expensive day trip!!
Actually if you had set off at 6am you would arrive roughly 4:30 - 5am so you would have even longer
@@sotyfan73 true
Quel bonheur ça devait être de piloter une telle machine 👌
Mais oui et je suis d'accord avec toi-Les assiestes du Concorde etais un peu petits,mais tres confortables-Vraiement?
beautiful video
oh great video
Just watching a Concorde video in 2020... still miss this plane today. I may be born in 2005, but fuck it doesn’t matter!
Wow, that's great. (People used to say "fly Concorde " no preposition. Truly an amazing plane
SAME except 2006
The Concorde is an icon. The experience was unlike any other, or so I hear. Anyone who was anyone flew on it.
@@p.g.j6323 but the preposition in their comment is for the word "video," as in "watching a Concorde video"... you could rearrange to say "watching a video of Concorde"
same used to watch and ready many thinks abt Concorde 3 yrs ago, miss the plane to and rn just came back to it. I‘m also a 05 kid lol
The Twin Towers. A little over 2 years later they would be gone. What a wonderful video this is.
I envy people who were very lucky and fortunate to experience flying on Concorde, it was said to be the plane for rich and famous people since their tickets were very pricey
Yep. I worked with BA reservations and tickets on the Concorde in the early 2000s were aprox 10K from JFK to LHR.
@@Nattaferg I saw an ad in a newspaper a few days ago from the late 90s giving Concorde flights from Liverpool, and the cost was surprisingly quite cheap, can't remember exactly but was under £1,000. Maybe these were charter flights not international flights. Didn't think travelling on Concorde was that expensive. 10k for sitting in a tiny seat with a window the size of your hand and a meal which wouldn't fill a cat up lol, no thanks lol.
@@Embracing01 Charters are usually done at significantly reduced ticket prices. And from time to time, the airline would sell some of the seats off dirt cheap especially if it was not a peak season flight. Like I said, I used to work in Reservations for British Airways so I speak facts. A full Frist Class ticket would be another few thousands.
@@Nattaferg Thanks for that, I'm sure you're right there. When you're talking 10k for fly on Concorde it just shows how poor most people are Most people I know have never seen 10k in their working lives.
@@Nattaferg Hi, I just came across a Concorde flight ad in a Liverpool Echo newspaper from Dec 1990 which mentions a subsonic flight cost £199 with a 1hr 40 min supersonic flight costing £499. Now I would say that was nowhere near 10 grand even in 1990.
1:50 the guy is flipping us off lol
Belle vidéo qui rend un peu compte de l’ambiance à bord des vols AF...
Je crois qu’à un moment de la vidéo (2mn50s) on reconnaît l’ex femme du milliardaire Wildenstein ...
Bonjour Clément. Bien vu ! Je viens de lui demander et en effet il s'agit de son ex-femme : "elle était assise derrière nous, le visage relifté et elle avait un paquet de cartes de visite."
Je l'ai rencontrée vers 2004 à la suite d'un concert; personne ne me croit quand je dis-le mais elle était très belle en personne.
To fly on the concord meant cha ching
Un privilegio Paris - New York en el Concorde.
i feel like im watching a video from 1979 instead 1999
It’s surprising to realise just how recently the world ended. We were all still flying high, right up to the year 2000, then everything turned to sh*t..seems that the Y2K bug was real, it just manifested in a way that we didn’t expect.
Ikr 😮
The British airways interiors were way. Nicer
At this time British Airways still had their old interior, not the sleek navy blue leatherette they like to show off in pictures
OK at 2min and 50 sec is that Jocelyn Wildenstein, I think it might be. Look forward to the responses.
Sure looks like her
yep using all that alimony to fly Concorde
2:50 Is that Jocelyn Wildenstein?
Yes it is
now she's a broken forgotten old bag
I want to know who the guy on the other side of the aisle with that hair is lol
@@AlonsoRules you seem nice...
@@passengershamingparody Would appear to be boyfriend Ken Godt
Shame Air France never really warmed up to her on the same level British Airways did. She looks so dated here
A chaque fois que je vois New York pendant les années 90 ça me rappelle le film le gendarme à New York 👍.🤣
Ah je ne le connais pas celui-là 😅
Does anyone know the local time of departure and landing? Thank you!
Departure from Paris at 11:00 am local time, landing at JFK at 8:25 am local time. Back in time !
7.30am departure from London..
Interestingly the Air France plane then stayed overnight in New York before flying back at 8am New York time the next day.
Was it all first class?
Yes official term: Concorde Class
The Food looks like at least Train Bleu niveau
At 2:51, female passenger is notorious NYC socialite Jocelyn Wildenstein. LOL
The bride of Widenstein at 2:51
thought it was more luxurious, looks like regular coach seating
When u realise that the cabin crew on this flight could’ve been on the plane that crashed 2 years later
👍
One day humans will break the light barrier to visit relatives on the Martian Colony...
Just another stupid comment...
F-BT.. ?
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Quelle chance pour ces voyageurs d'avoir volé en Concorde Air France !!!
BA R class , was much nicer - conally leather seats
And full digital read out , even DTG ( distance to go)
AF interiors look like a shitty old bus :/
Catering looked similar to BA however ...
the french interior was made by Andree Putman.. also an iconic designer as Conally. About the food, Alain Ducasse (3 stars in Michelin Guide) was the chief. So don't worry about the comfort in french Concorde
BA only had that interior from 2001 onwards
Couldn't disagree more. The AF interior look beat the one of the BA competition by lengths, I feel. Don't know what "shitty buses" you travel on, but the cabin, to me, is inspired by 1950's air travel brought to the supersonic age, with a little French finesse thrown in. The BA seats looked like sports car seating in comparison. I'd have chosen the AF version any day, with the superior meals thrown in as a very welcome extra.
You didn't need an tacky digital read out in the cabin on Air France Concorde, the discrete Mach meter was all that required to remind you of something very special. The Captain would give regular updates on speed, altitude, outside air temperature, and why France would never privatise such a national icon, it was part of the onboard service.
Always found it amusing Nigel spent millions designing some cheap looking plastic/leather seats that will spend most of their existence as a museum exhibits.
Listen me people CONCORDE s-mandiachill englichanin gagaus, understandili. CONCORDE IS ROMANIAN INVITESH SELEBRASHN BY DRAKULA. New york eat popcorn. HA HA ha😂😂😂
What if 9/11 was done with a concorde lol going like mach jesus