“..the view of the curvature of the earth..” , hold your horses my friend. Not even Felix Baumgartner from 120.000 feet hasn’t seen it.

lucky me had 4 trips, one landing at JFK strapped into jumpseat on flightdeck! yes it WAS the curvature of the Earth, your other respondent quite wrong. THE most extraordinary experience of my life. Treasured forever.

@@goldenmiddledistanceraces5929 You missed the point here, my friend. If you declare that the grass is blue, doesn’t mean that it is.

Far faster than any Ferrari.

@goldenmiddledistanceraces5929 Do your research. Stop believing everything that someone tells you and start using your brain. It's called critical thinking. You will discover a new world. Wake up.

Did it ever seem like a job ?

@@vkhken1966 Hi Ken. In truth, NEVER. It was the Peter Pan syndrome. I never had to grow up. It was a truly magical life for 46 years as an aviator.

@Tony Yule. How many pilots were trained to fly the Concorde?

@@Immenreiner 72 Captains. 62 Senior First Officers and 57 Senior Flight Engieers.

He prob dead now

And they got to say that epic callsign `SpeedBird Concorde' :-)

Absolutely.

The crew are total bosses.

I was one of the last passenger and its the best £8,450 i've ever spent

Lol

It doesn’t have the range to fly transatlantic subsonic unless the winds are helping.

We flew subsonic some route in a semi circle so we were always near enough to land to land if we had to. It was 1984.

@@frankdeluca2791 Ouch that’s slower than a typical airliner crossing the Atlantic despite the small speed advantage.

Cool!!

jumboJetPilot WOW!!

@Karl that, he is.

Hello, im an ex US Naval aviator, i used to fly Vought corsairs A-7E 2s off CVN-65 Enterprise Carrier.

jumboJetPilot Has

@@nicobrauer2989 Really

Can you imagine how much better it would’ve been with modern electronics and turbines. Modern turbines are more fuel efficient and produce more thrust.

The noise coming into Heathrow was not the most attractive.

salimtufail no that is me captain al the ghost labonte shift command. L7 square d

9 car Cottrell...bullshit.

I was going to ask if the captain was Roland Beaumont!

1,2,3,4 where engine feeders 5,6,7,8 where holding tanks 9,10,11 where trim transfer tanks and 5A and 7A where wing tip tanks.

Well, 60 000 ft is not 60 000 m.

@@nabzduterrier2736 Eh? Your point being?

Sophisticated and complex... but distinctly analogue. It’s like a Vulcan bomber in there! I can only imagine what a modern remake of ‘Son-of-Concorde’ with a glass cockpit would look like.

I use to look at airplane cockpits and just get dizzy till i started flying video game simulators about 20 years ago, i realize they are not real training BUT they do make you realize everything has its use and its basically instruments telling you what the airplane airframe is doing and the engines etc,nothing to it@@gdutfulkbhh7537

Oh most definitely! Can you imagine having the Concorde cockpit as your office?? I doubt that they had much of a problem with people calling in sick.

Evidently more guys have flown in space as pilots than flew Concorde. A very priviledge few. In the film it is stated by all how much they loved it. The Captain whose name escapes me said that nothing could cross the Atlantic as quick as it .The SR-71 had to refuel a couple of times. The record was New York to London in about 2 hrs 56 minutes. Wonderful aircraft.

Beagle76 are you sure about the sr-71?

cesare vissani no I will dig out the video but these guys NY to LDN were Supersonic from (traffic permitting ) a few minutes out of New York all the way to the Bristol Channel nearly all the way at Mach 2 . The SR would have to refuel at least once in fact they used to refuel after take off and that would take some time. I will get the video out because the Captain of this flight said it and he was The Manager for Concorde at the time. The sad thing is that both planes no longer fly.I know that the SR71 went across the US in an incredible time, it began with 1 hour but I forgot how many minute, and it took the width of California to do a normal 180 turn.I saw a SR 71 at Duxford and it was amazing, they had not cleaned it and you can see where the fuel leaked out of their tanks, but it is a dam shame it does not fly still.According to an ex wing Commander ( I saw on a video on KZfaq) the problem in flying it now is getting all the special oils and fuel etc that allowed it to fly at Mach 3.Both remarkable aircraft. On the Ldn-NY sector of this video the plane got up to 58000 ft. That is quite remarkable considering it was carrying passengers. The co pilot here Les Brodie flew on one of Concorde's last flights as a Captain and then retired. There is another remarkable video on KZfaq showing a BA Concorde doing touch and goes at Seville in Spain got quite a crowd until he finally left in the evening with his afterburners glowing in the darkness at take off. I love both these aircraft and it would appear that politicians and money men are too involved these days and such projects as these 2 when they began no longer happen. Nothing known that the skunk works has produced since comes near the SR71, and no civil aircraft is close to the performance of Concorde. Could you imagine a mark 2 version with upgraded engines and double the size. The people and the engineering is their but politicians seemed to have stopped this type of project. What was a simple answer has turned into me having a huge gripe, sorry about that.

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+Keerthivasan Nambiraju I missed the bit where he said anything remotely close to Concorde being supersonic within the US, did I miss something?

Keerthivasan Nambiraju The b-1s never landed or took off from McCarron when Nellis was only a few miles away. My husband knows aircraft designs like the back of his hand. That concorde took off and headed in the west, turned over the mountain range, and eventually went out of sight. Dan Hughes- i don't know what type of flight it was, but i do know the difference between a b1b and the concorde. It wasn't Russian and no other aircraft flying has the nose and distinctive hood covering so indicative to the concorde. The closest possible American design for the hood could have been the XB70 Valkyrie, which is vastly bigger overall. Besides that, I'll have to look and see if i still have the pictures. At that time in '93-'97, you could take pictures all you wanted; no questions asked. Incidentally, i gave you a time frame if you would like to research mccarron and/or the FAA for Las Vegas, NV during that period to see whether or not a Concorde arrived and left. Honestly, i love aircraft in general, but this day has stayed with me because it was so unusual and i had never seen one as close as i was before.

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@@ashontahuddleston6663 On March 4, 1987, an Air France Concorde landed at McCarran Airport. This was the only time as it was in a "world tour" at the time

@@keerthivasannambiraju955 concorde has flown supersonic over certain areas of the US. it just required special clearance and the route needed to be planned carefully to avoid populated areas. it's also flown supersonic over canada a number of times.

I remember Concorde being a regular at Prestwick, back in the day. Used to either go to the airport and watch or sit up at the old castle in my hometown Ardrossan.

They did base training for new pilots converting onto it.

They had to have spectacular acceleration in order to leave the ground before reaching the end of the runway. Delta wings are superb for sustained high speed cruising but generating lift at lower speeds is compromised.

@@paulanderson7796 check a Vulcan bomber takeoff. The lift on concord was via vortex so different

i was at the end of the runway for a Concorde takeoff from YVR.,,I'm pretty sure they were using reheat, the rate of climb was amazing, and the aircraft left holes in the clouds...additionally, the noise level, with Concorde about 200 feet overhead, was about the same as being on the starting grid of a motorcycle race, ooops, with no hearing protection! Not a "sound" as such, more like your whole ear is rattling!

Like top fuel at a dragstrip! I am confident an announcement will be coming out soon about a new plane. The routes are too long for todays aircraft premium class.

Thank you! The pilots are great, too!

Enya Cristina Lind they should recreate the concorde like concorde neo

waste not waist.

Maybe the most exciting, but also the least commercially successful and the biggest waste of taxpayers money for R&D

Would you consider Branson and Bezos going up as an "epoch of discovery?"

​@@Cyba_ITonly as an extension of the Apollo moon landing in 1969. Otherwise, nothing really new.

Agreed, but the Concorde program's crystal ball didn't foresee the fuel crisis but the US (Boeing) SST concept was perhaps fortunate enough to be 'behind' Concorde, so it had the benefit of being able to pull out before the whole supersonic airliner thing became non-viable. I worked in the airline industry during the Supersonic conceptual phase and the amount of behind the scenes planning for this 'new era' was formidable. Then, serendipity prevailed upon the yanks and Boeing, which always had superior long range market forecasting, was gifted an advantage with the fuel cost factor, so the jumbo jet era emerged and dominated for decades.

Now, the worlds resources are directed away from technology and fuelling Africa/Asia's single net export ........... useless eaters.

and today we go woke 😂

A lot of the pilots retired when Concorde was grounded including the First Officer here Les Brodie who had become a Captain. This was taken in 1995, Concorde was taken out of service in 2003 ( from memory).

You’d never not want to go to work.

+Gary Vale I It looks like a mess but its actually quite organized once you learn the flows it would be great to see it come back

+Gary Vale Imagine and remember what they did with the Apollo spacecrafts in the sixties :D

+Gary Vale I agree new lightweight materials new power AwEsOmEEEE!!!!

+Carmen Seeger How about the Buran shuttle? I know it was 2 decades after the Apollo missions, but still. Made an autonomous rocket launch, 2 orbits, autonomous landing in 61 kph crosswind and only landed 3 meters off course after a go-around that the shuttle initiated by itself.

EnderWiggin35 Gliders don't go around unless you have thrust to do so lol

I guess not, and It was certainly the most beautiful Day of my life ever to fly in It!

@@mariannehoutzager9093 Ahh! You lucky person! 🍀 😁👍🏽

No

Me too and so miss

I well up every vid I watch. flew in her. the most astonishing pride and awe still with me. we'll never see the likes of her beauty again and its heartwarming she is still so treasured 20 years later

And the emphasis from Airlines is promoting the standard of class with which you fly.. it still, as you say takes the same amount of time whichever class you fly.

BOOM is never happening I'm afraid

@@carmadme Well, they’re building the factory for it off I-73 in Greensboro. Right next to runway 23R. The place is going to be huge.

@@Lex5576 I wasn't aware of that.... But knowing what went into just making the engine for Concorde (an engine that was already in production and 'only' had to be modified) I simply can't see it happening boom are now saying they'll make theirs themselves and from what I gather from scratch (a-bit using modern core design) but just that is no mean feat modern core design is so advanced the Chinese have yet to be able to copy commercial engines let alone military engine design I wish them luck but I simply do not think it's possible

I was standing on its roof today :-) @@Lex5576

Did it in 1992 on a promo flight from Jeddah to London. All the hangers etc had hordes of people outside watching us taxi and them hammer off down the runway. And yes incredibly smooth at Mach 2 absolutely no sense of movement. I was surprised though at how small it was on the ground and inside - narrower than a 737

Why? Just increases costs of the ticket

Every since my godfather was a captain with over 800 flights, I dreamt of being a flight engineer. Bring it back!!

To fly a B 777 one can be checked out in 20 days. It took 6 months to be ready to fly the concorde.

Unlikely. Besides, supersonic flight, especially for a civil carrier is expensive, fuel inefficient, noisy (try living in the suburbs close to Heathrow...) and high CO2 emissions. . Though she was a remarkable feat of aviation engineering (I've been on the flight-deck of Concorde...), we'll never see another like her. And rightly so, given the current global warming scenario.

Interesting enough Concorde was the First airliner with FADEC controlled engines, so when the throttles were slammed like that It was just a signal to the FADEC to spool the engines up as quickly but symmetrically as possible.

Pilot Benjamin No kidding? I didn't know that. Just another reason why that was such an awesome airplane. Learn something new about it all the time. Thanks and Semper Fi!

My question is, why the dramatic countdown '3-2-1-now'? Why not simply 'Brakes released, lets go'? I don't see how the world was going to end if he didn't throttle up at that EXACT millisecond.

twit

not on 4590...

To anyone who was in one too!

now there are only two, the rest is managed by computer

They have extended checklists.

V2 is 220knots

Right? 🤔

This is a clip from a five hour double DVD documentary by ITVV, I believe it may now be available for digital download

I love buttons

+Blockbusters1000 vlogs and More yeah, right

+xoXAnnahXox You will make a great pilot

MacBook

Funny thing is, those are only half of the buttons. The Concorde is flown by 3 pilots, instead of just 2. :D

European aircraft

@@jameswellings9944 Thanks James, I corrected my post! God bless, 💛🙏🏼

@Modest Well that was petty... while the manufacture of the aircraft was evenly split, the aircrafts design as a whole was only possible due to the availability of the Rolls Royce Olympus engines, France was intending on building a medium range aircraft and the UK was intending on a long range aircraft with a delta wing design using those engines, making the eventual product more British than French.

@Modest Everything that I said is a fact not an opinion, facts cannot be biased, you should know that...

@Modest "Cautious" with facts... no... www.heritageconcorde.com/who-built-concorde "France showed real interest, mainly because the British were the only nation that had the possible engine, the Olympus 593. It would of taken the French years and cost millions to to develop a engine of their own."

@Modest French had to ruin it tho so only right they go after

all go from v1 to v2 in only seconds

the gap is quite lengthy on Concorde, on all others and in most conditions V1 is almost equal to VR

@@kikofaria0051 takes about 12 seconds on most 737s

@@pb6198 yep, seconds

Well, it's not literally a fighter jet with passengers

google boom aero

But can it bomb the fuck outta u doeeeeee?!

I agree it was a beautiful plane. The French and the British were so proud of Concorde. I know as a Brit I was.

By all measures the concorde was a failure. It was built by governments on taxpayer dime. The program never broke even. There are currently several new aircraft in development right now that ARE viable including faster than concorde aircraft (both airliner and private jet) and another that will do M 1.4 over land thanks to research by NASA and Lockheed.

louder than concorde but not quite as pretty. B1 is gorgeous as well.

@Firsthgyhgyhuy Lastujhujhuj So how many passengers drinking champagne could the SR-71 carry? ..... Oh wait ......