Do we have a NEW SUPERSONIC Passenger Aircraft?!

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Last week Bombardier announced that their new flagship private jet, the Global 8000 had broken the sound barrier multiple times during certification. The Global 8000 had achieved the astonishing speed of Mach 1.015 but does that make it a supersonic jet?
In this episode I will discuss this feat but also look at the future of supersonic aircraft travel and what the challenges are.
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Chapters
Supersonic Test Flights/Intro 0:00
Bombardier Background 1:19
Pandemic Favours Bizjet Makers 03:00
Global 8000 03:30
Integration 04:17
Bombardier Tests 05:20
Subsonic and Transonic Speed 08:20
Going Transonic- Implications 10:35
Environmental Impact 10:57
Newer Ideas- NASA 12:20
Other challenges 13:30
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Sources:
Bombardier KZfaq channel
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Boom Supersonic
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NASA
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Russell Croman
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Articles
www.dw.com/en/a-new-supersoni...
www.aerotime.aero/articles/29...
www.aerotime.aero/articles/27...
www.russia-briefing.com/news/...
edition.cnn.com/travel/articl...
eurasiantimes.com/upcoming-ai...
simpleflying.com/exosonic-sup...
edition.cnn.com/travel/articl...
www.aerotime.aero/articles/25...
simpleflying.com/boeing-2707/
www.smithsonianmag.com/air-sp...

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@MentourNow 2 жыл бұрын

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@fredashay 2 жыл бұрын

I'm sure we'll see supersonic bizjets because there's always a few super rich dudes whom munny is no objection. But supersonic passenger planes just can't be cost effective. Sure, some companies are building them, but I doubt they'll be sold in large enough numbers to be profitable. And they won't be profitable for airlines to operate except for the publicity value.

@y_fam_goeglyd 2 жыл бұрын

Petter, have you considered adding your channels to Nebula? It comes with Curiosity Stream (as you undoubtedly know), and it allows you to add things to a video that KZfaq would demonetise you for. Look at Legal Eagle, he does the same videos but adds a Nebula bonus at the end. Your channels would be absolutely perfect for the platform. I much prefer to watch on that than on KZfaq. It's only got top quality channels on it, so like I said, you'd be terrific!

@brodycalvert1341 2 жыл бұрын

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperMach_SonicStar what do you think are the chances of the Hypermach SonicStar succeeding? This article might now be the most accurate.

@brodycalvert1341 2 жыл бұрын

if they actually try to make it a reality

@brodycalvert1341 2 жыл бұрын

the HyperMach SonicStar is a hypersonic corporate transport by the way

@aerofoca 2 жыл бұрын

As an engineer sometimes I fail to appreciate "economic feasibility" but as far as I'm concerned we took a step back in aviation when Concorde was retired in 2003 and 20 yrs later no comparable successor. Even the Boom overture will "only" cruise at M 1.7. Getting to Mach 2.0 and dashing for a few minutes is no big deal. Cruising for 3 hours comfortable, cooling the skin, stable turbine Temps for the duration is an amazing feat. Amazing to think Concorde was designed during an Era of sliderules and computers the size of rooms with less power than your average smart phone..lol

@MentourNow 2 жыл бұрын

Indeed! It was a feat of engineering but, like you pointed out, not economically feasible. I miss her though.

@chrisbentleywalkingandrambling 2 жыл бұрын

It was a beautiful Aircraft and I was sad and dumbfounded when it was retired. Retrograde step.

@LemonLadyRecords 2 жыл бұрын

Concorde was not accessible to regular people, though, so we just gazed upon her, never to fly her. It was a failure to make such an elite use aircraft, esp by a government company, and spoke to the crappy financial feasibility of needing $10,000/seat tickets, one way, I believe. Round trip, doesn't matter. In today's dollars (from 1980) would be $35,000 per seat!

@materliliorum 2 жыл бұрын

@@LemonLadyRecords my great-grand-aunt flew on the Concorde for her 100st birthday and I don't think that my family could afford $10000 🤔 I don't know how much it cost, however, and I couldn't fly on it myself, which I regret 😥

@Inkling777 2 жыл бұрын

@@LemonLadyRecords Not only that, the British and French governments spent billions subsidizing the Concorde, regarding it as a matter of national prestige. One reason Boeing abandoned its SST was that a U.S. president-I forget which-ended the development subsidies.

@JasonGillmanJr 2 жыл бұрын

Random video idea that's tangentially related: talk about mach tuck, coffin corner, or other things related to operating in the high speed / high altitude regimes.

@MentourNow 2 жыл бұрын

That can certainly be done!

@fallende 2 жыл бұрын

I’d watch this!!

@whawaii 2 жыл бұрын

I'd be interested in it.

@commerce-usa 2 жыл бұрын

The DC-8 was the first commercial jetliner to fly supersonic, though it was entirely unintentional. Even so, their marketers made some hay over it. 🤣 Glad to see you mentioned this 👍

@adrianpeters2413 2 жыл бұрын

if a dc8 went supersonic, it would fall apart , or/and be in a vertical dive ...I survived a 'flight' in one of these flying junk .. it only stayed in the air from pure thrust and nothing else ....

@eekee6034 Жыл бұрын

@@adrianpeters2413 I'm getting the impression it survived going supersonic in the same way it survived -its normal flight- staying in the air from pure thrust: it was built like a tank. ;)

@eleventy-seven Жыл бұрын

Maximus channel has a special on the DC 8 going slightly over mach 1 in a dive. It was done my McDonald Douglas test pilots on purpose. The plane was instrumented. The KZfaq on it explains why.

@Dr_Mario2007 11 ай бұрын

The reason they chucked the DC-8 into the supersonic gauntlet was that Douglas McDonnell wanted to prove that the DC-8 won't fall apart regardless of general abuses, yet supersonic test was quite hard on the subsonic airframe, so if it survived a supersonic dive, it of course would survive anything, along the lines of their thoughts back then. And yup, the test pilots mentioned that it was an exciting experience as flying the subsonic plane at supersonic speed is just different from the SST designed to fly that fast, making for a tricky flying.

@JohnJohn-hd1pc 2 жыл бұрын

I used to live on Exmoor, South West England. Pretty much every evening at a few minutes past 1800 hours (BST) I would hear the sonic boom of Concorde as it decelerated over the Bristol Channel. Interestingly, if i was walking out on the open moors, I would hear the startled calls of many pheasants just a few seconds before i heard the boom. I've always assumed they could detect the pressure wave before i could. Happy days - a truly majestic sight and testament to the engineers and pilots, two of whom presented me with my wings, many moons ago.

@y_fam_goeglyd 2 жыл бұрын

I thought I had mistaken my memories of hearing the boom in the morning on her way out, and just put it down to the engines having a distinct sound (I am going back 40 years so I am not putting much store into my memories!). I lived on the opposite side of the Channel, about ½ mile as the crow flies on the Welsh side. For some reason I only remember the morning flight out to the USA. Weird things, memories, aren't they?

@JohnJohn-hd1pc 2 жыл бұрын

@@y_fam_goeglyd Memories are wonderful Mandy! I've just recalled another time when i was sort of scurrying up a steep valley side and paused to catch my breath. As I looked up, panting, there SHE was (I know you are British because you called her "her", even though there was {I believe} 12 "hers" in total, six BA and six Air France) flying very low level. I later found out from a friend in Minehead that it was a special fly-past. Ps why do other nations insist on calling Concorde "the Concorde"? No soul😊

@Ergzay 2 жыл бұрын

Just to make sure you realize, but the sonic boom doesn't happen from decelerating past the sound barrier. (There is no sound produced at the moment of crossing the sound barrier.) It's continuously produced from any aircraft traveling above the speed of sound.

@JohnJohn-hd1pc 2 жыл бұрын

@@Ergzay yes, i do realise that. (Supersonics were part of my Commercial Pilot's License 😘). Perhaps i worded it badly. Concorde used to decelerate down the Bristol Channel heading into Heathrow. As they passed me, they were still supersonic. I'd be interested to know at precisely what point they became subsonic ( I'd guess maybe abeam Hinckley Point nuclear power station?)

@maryeckel9682 2 жыл бұрын

@@JohnJohn-hd1pc as an American, I call all aircraft, boats, ships, and even old houses "she."

@douggale5962 2 жыл бұрын

It would be fun to know how hard that DC-8 was buffeting. The beating that aircraft can withstand is amazing.

@bena.4422 2 жыл бұрын

Especially when you placed 2 and 3 into reverse while descending. 😂

@samueljayachandran2849 6 ай бұрын

There’s an article about it. The recovery from the dive was weird because the captain decided to push it further down and then let the lower altitude drag do the slowing down instead of over-stressing the elevators and horizontal stabilizer.

@LemonLadyRecords 2 жыл бұрын

In middle school, we lived right below the flight path of a fighter jet training base. T-38s. Some days it was only 5-10min between sonic booms directly overhead. Started at 8-9am and went into the afternoon. You couldn't sleep late on the weekends. We lived on the very edge of town, just farms past us, but I doubt they would have done that in the midst of the large town. They did it with the full knowledge that they were impacting our lives. We told them so during an open house they had lol. Luckily dad got transferred within 18mos. It was pure torture.

@VisibilityFoggy 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe they shouldn't have built a school in the flight path to an Air Force Base?

@johan.ohgren 2 жыл бұрын

@@VisibilityFoggy read again. It wasn't the school that was in the flight path.

@ethanstewart9970 2 жыл бұрын

@@VisibilityFoggy Knowing the US military, the school was there before the AFB.

@WhiteThunder121 2 жыл бұрын

@@ethanstewart9970 Knowing the US military, they can be happy they didn't scrap the school for the base.

@bertoray5497 2 жыл бұрын

As a kid growing up in the Los Angeles area, I remember the sonic booms, and they were not insignificant. The only subsequent ones I've heard were from the space shuttle.

@Inkling777 2 жыл бұрын

I once knew a guy whose dad worked for Boeing investigating crashes. He told me about a 707 where the pilots, behind schedule and trying to catch up, put it into risky high-altitude cruise configuration. Something happened that put the plane into a high-speed dive. The controls locked up, showing that they were supersonic. To get out of that dive, the pilots lowered the landing gear. Putting their feet on the console, they exerted every bit of their strength to bring it back to level flight. He said the only damage the plane had was to the landing gear doors. The 700+ knot airspeed slowed their opening enough that the landing gear contacted with those doors. No one knows how fast it went because the pilots erased the flight recorder data. The first voice on the voice recording, he said, was one pilot remarking something like, "Well, that takes care of that."

@subjekt5577 2 жыл бұрын

You can't erase flight recorder data to my knowledge

@toomanyhobbies2011 2 жыл бұрын

BS on the details... Get away from your computer and get a life. You'll be glad you did.

@oldmech619 2 жыл бұрын

@@subjekt5577 I worked on those old “flight recorders”. It was a stainless steel foil that scribes scored marks on the foil according to speed (pitot presser), altitude, heading, and maybe one thing else. It had to be replaced with fresh foil every few hours.

@eleventy-seven Жыл бұрын

@@subjekt5577 Wrong. The older ones were looped. If there was a incident there was a fuse to stop it after landing to keep it from overwriting itself. A pilot in flight could pull that before whatever stupid stunt and it would get left out.

@BogeyTheBear 2 жыл бұрын

As the Convair 880 and 990 proved to us, speed will not triumph over economic efficiency. When given the choice of a faster arrival time or a cheaper ticket price, people will more likely choose to sacrifice time in order to save money.

@mrxmry3264 2 жыл бұрын

And that's why I think that the companies trying to develop a new supersonic passenger jet are wasting money.

@mrbobgamingmemes9558 2 жыл бұрын

@@mrxmry3264 lets see , if this new generation of supersonic planes still have insane ticket prices, just wait and see the result,

@Roadglide911 2 жыл бұрын

In the early 80’s we were living in E. TN when a sonic boom happened and shook the house. My dad who was a marine (discharged) jumped up and ran outside. He came in and said, that damn Air Force and sat back down to finish eating. I later joined the AF I think in most part to irritate him.

@maryeckel9682 2 жыл бұрын

Epic!

@WhiskyCanuck 2 жыл бұрын

Bombardier sold their train business to Alstom at the same same as the other business unit sales. They basically mismanaged themselves towards bankruptcy and had to sell off almost everything as a result in order to neutralize the huge debt.

@MentourNow 2 жыл бұрын

Ahh, I missed that

@cedricpomerleau5586 2 жыл бұрын

@@MentourNow Yep and their Recreative line (Ski-Doo, Sea-Doo and ATV) actually slit apart years ago. Probably for the best considering how the rest of Bombardier went…

@Jet-Pack 2 жыл бұрын

Important note: The sonic boom is not created when the sound barrier is broken. It keeps occurring on the ground when ever a supersonic aircraft flies over a stationary observer on the ground. It's the shockwave that originates from the aircraft that is hitting the ground and that causes the sonic boom. It's not the act of first passing through Mach 1.0 and breaking the sound barrier.

@IlluminatiBG 2 жыл бұрын

How much this effect depends on the pressure (wouldn't flying higher, i.e. in lower pressure environment reduce the effect)?

@user-do5zk6jh1k 2 жыл бұрын

@@IlluminatiBG Yes it would, but not enough to satisfy the public. Lower pressure and simple distance from the aircraft both help.

@Jet-Pack 2 жыл бұрын

@@IlluminatiBG As far as I know flying higher does reduce the perceived amplitude a bit but not enough. Many years ago I heard a sonic boom from a fighter jet and all I could see was a tiny fast thing way up there in the stratosphere, must have been about FL500 or so. It was quite a loud double explosion sound. Not enough to break windows but still loud enough to look around for a major explosion.

@EfficientRVer 2 жыл бұрын

Important counter-note: You sort of know what you're talking about, and you sort of don't. You're right in that a supersonic aircraft/object in the air continually creates an expanding shock wave, it's not just created at the moment of "breaking the sound barrier" or anything like that. But.......you're making it sound like a sonic boom is an object rather than an observation of a passing shock. A sonic boom is not an object which is created, it is a sound which is heard by an observer, caused by the arrival of a shock wave front. One moment, their eardrum is in air at a certain pressure, a proverbial millisecond later, it's feeling a different pressure. Boom. It's not cyclical pressure like a tone, just a sudden spike. The physical object created by the aircraft, is a shock wave which becomes a moving front (often shaped like a cone for an aircraft moving in a straight line, but for a momentary shock, more of a sphere, and there are a lot of nuances making a shock front a complex shape changing with time), where a high air pressure gradient (large rate of change, not necessarily a large total pressure difference) exists across a very small distance perpendicular to the expanding front. OF COURSE an observer on the ground doesn't hear it until the shock wave reaches the location of their ears, which happen to be on the ground. But if the supersonic aircraft at 60,000 feet altitude passes a balloonist 50 feet away, you'd better believe that the shock wave front doesn't have to reach the ground for the balloonist to hear the boom. They will hear it right where they are, as quickly as someone on the ground hears a gunshot fired from 50 feet away (assuming equal air temp, etc if you want to get picky.) Also, the observer on the ground doesn't need to be stationary, they can be moving at any speed themselves, from stationary to supersonic. As long as they don't outrun the expanding shock front, when the shock front reaches them, they hear the boom.

@donato286 2 жыл бұрын

My question is - would the entirely quiet aircraft engines cause less of a boom? To me, as a non-physicist and a total layperson, the boom itself sounds like it consists of the "accumulated spikes" of the sound wave produced by the aircraft engines that haven't been able to propagate as they usually do in sequence, but instead the spikes piled up one on top of another and amplified the original sound, which to me appears like it is that of the engines more than of anything else produced by the aircraft. In short, to me the loudest component of the sonic boom sounds like a tsunami of engine sound.

@Steve-gc5nt 2 жыл бұрын

I grew up seeing Concorde testing then would see, or hear, her pretty much every day once she was in service. Not many planes that I look up at every time but Concorde was the exception.

@minirock000 2 жыл бұрын

You are a lucky man to have seen Her. I have only seen Her through glass. I so always to have been aboard Her, but life is nothing but despair.

@willfungusman8666 2 жыл бұрын

Are you just assuming this airplane's gender?

@viklightfoot45 2 жыл бұрын

Me too. I was training at Heathrow and we always had a teabreak at 11 & 3 so we could watch her come in or leave. Beautiful sight! She was also the only aircraft I would hear from my house - being parallel to the runways aircraft noise was not a problem, and somehow I never minded her noisy departures at all 😃

@Steve-gc5nt Жыл бұрын

@@willfungusman8666 Grow up.

@sbinnala5769 2 жыл бұрын

One thing about Bombardier's train division - they got bought out by Alstom in 2021.

@BlueDinnie 2 жыл бұрын

I grew up in a part of Queens right near LaGuardia airport in the late seventies early '80s before the hush kits and high bypass engines all day and night the planes flying low and slow sometimes with parts falling off I can definitely live without a sonic boom in my life 😂

@MentourNow 2 жыл бұрын

I can imagine Donald. The booms are something else..

@LemonLadyRecords 2 жыл бұрын

Back then, you could hear planes even some miles away from the airport. I worked at a company under the main airport takeoff and it was hell. I'll never forget watching the lumbering DC-10s whining into the sky. I always thought something was wrong with the engines! 747s were a sight, too, but better at flying. I think they must have had 'some' noise abatement, even in the early 80s, as they were going SO scary slow, esp the DC-10s. Often it was even hard just to have a conversation or talk on the phone.

@BlueDinnie 2 жыл бұрын

@@LemonLadyRecords absolutely

@NicolaW72 2 жыл бұрын

I can imagine that, too.👍

@patheddles4004 2 жыл бұрын

@@LemonLadyRecords This speaks to why I'm such a fan of good noise-cancelling headphones - wish you'd have had those back in the 80s...

@Rachel_M_ 2 жыл бұрын

That got me thinking about legendary test pilot Chuck Yeager.... Maybe you could do a series of Pioneers of aviation 🤔

@Ztbmrc1 2 жыл бұрын

When I visited the Brooklands Museum south of London in 2018, I found out that Concorde had a windows cooling system. Otherwise the windows wood get so hot by the outside air friction at speeds above Mach 1, that passengers would burn their hands while touching the windows. The windows were very small, compared to normal aircraft windows.

@JohnJohn-hd1pc 2 жыл бұрын

Indeed, lots of small diameter tubing running around the fuselage that contained fuel, pumped from the tanks (there were lots which had to be constantly balanced during flight).

@Dirk-van-den-Berg 2 жыл бұрын

How is that possible? Are high speeds not just occurring in the higher air where the outside temperature is far below zero? So the friction causes/caused a temperature difference of hundreds of degrees?

@JohnJohn-hd1pc 2 жыл бұрын

@@Dirk-van-den-Berg yes, the piping is inside the fuselage but behind the plastic covering that passengers touch, creating a chilled cavity.

@Ztbmrc1 2 жыл бұрын

@@Dirk-van-den-Berg Interesting question, but I have seen it in the museum, and was surprised too. But friction can heat up things. Like when you rub your hand over a cold table, you will notice the area of the table you rub over heats up. And also the surface of the rubbing hand also.

@nabman_ 2 жыл бұрын

Good to know Bombardier is making news again. They used to be the pride of Montreal. I live 15 minutes away from their St. Laurent facility and I once interviewed for a job there. 🇨🇦

@chrisbentleywalkingandrambling 2 жыл бұрын

I remember being in the Air Training Corps going for a ride in a Chipmunk at Filton when a Concorde was being tested. Beautiful Aircraft. As for Supersonic over land RAF Fighter Interception Aircraft have done this when QRA has been launched in an intercept of unknown Aircraft. It always appears in the Newspapers the next day with an explanation for breaking the sound barrier. They are either over land or just off land in The Wash. But yeah, I can't wait to see the age of Supersonic return. Sad that we lost it. It's like being able to drive a Porche then being given a Ford Model T as a Car.

@johnathansaegal3156 2 жыл бұрын

I was born and raised while living in on-base housing on naval air stations... back in the late 60s and early 70s, sonic booms all day long were common and for a little boy, they were quite exciting. BUT, may windows were broken all the time. Being on base, all we had to do was report the window and if there had been a supersonic flyover in the last couple days, they would replace the windows at no cost. This came in handy for my brother and I. We would practice hitting baseballs in our backyard. Every now and then, a ball would go through a back window, but if there'd have been a sonic boom, we make a call and some sailors would come over to fix the window. They weren't idiots and would look at us like we were full of it - a window broken from a baseball shatters differently from one shattered from a sonic boom... but since they were "complex windows", the sailors could spend the whole day replacing and inspecting all the other windows on the clock instead of having to do their daily duties. They would fix the windows with a wink, "Of course the boom broke this, no charge!"

@FinalLugiaGuardian 2 жыл бұрын

Cessna did the same sort of tests with their Citation 10 Business Jet. During testing, in order to certify it at a speed of Mach .9 3, Cessna had to take the jet supersonic for a brief period .

@JWpilot 2 жыл бұрын

The Cessna Citation X, Citation Ten, and the Gulfstream G650ER all have a MMO above M.92 and all went supersonic in testing in the same manner as this Global 8000 and for the same reasons. I believe the rule of thumb is to test ~10% above the desired certificated MMO.

@randyogburn2498 2 жыл бұрын

I remember living in Central Florida & hearing sonic booms when the Space Shuttle would return for landing. Maybe it was the shuttle's altitude or distance from me but the booms only sounded like thunder. Nothing destructive at all.

@toomanyhobbies2011 2 жыл бұрын

Exactly, great observation, even the double booms are little different than thunder.

@mattbartley2843 2 жыл бұрын

I was working outside right before one of the later space shuttle flights landed at Edwards AFB, ~75 miles north. It sounded like someone next door fired a shotgun twice.

@mpk6664 2 жыл бұрын

Fun fact: thunder is a sonic boom.

@midshiptrib4132 2 жыл бұрын

Bombardier has sold its rail industry division to Alstom, a while ago (end of January 2021) for 6 billions of Euros. I worked in both companies and now I'm working with a competitor.

@NicolaW72 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, indeed. The Global-Line of the Business Jets is pretty much everything what is left over from Bombardier. Otherwise they´ve disappeared totally from the market.

@dipling.pitzler7650 2 жыл бұрын

Possibly Siemens? If so, a good choice! Lol

@christopherbrown6391 2 жыл бұрын

When I grew up in Saskatchewan the jets would come up from Minot and break the sound barrier all the time. Supper cool to see them flying over.

@paulsharp3865 2 жыл бұрын

I remember reading or watching somewhere that Convair's 1960's airliners were pushing close to transonic, and that the extra costs this performance entailed weren't really offset by this performance. Modern airliners fly slower than the planes back then, but are a lot more efficient.

@muriwatch 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, those with the famous carrot like bulges over the wing

@billdurham8477 2 жыл бұрын

990, check out the vids

@Mrbfgray 2 жыл бұрын

Topic idea: Anyone remember the *727 that went way supersonic in a steep dive over the Great Lakes* (believe in 1970's)? They accidentally reached much higher cruise alt than 727 designed for and stalled just below mach 1, rolled over, pilot pulled positive Gs while inverted to keep passengers in their seats, instantly going well past mach 1 then fighting to reduce speed they trashed flaps and slats then copilot dropped the landing gear which did the trick, they leveled off around 5k alt and landed safely. Wound up scrapping the aircraft as beyond repair.

@Ficon 2 жыл бұрын

TWA 841? It didn't go supersonic and none of the things you described happened. Pilot deployed slats at cruise speed causing them to be damaged, then claimed innocence but also erased CVR after landing.

@Mrbfgray 2 жыл бұрын

@@Ficon You must be talking about a different situation. One I'm referring to went instantly supersonic. Parasitic drag on an airliner is tiny so as soon as lift induced drag is gone in a dive starting just below mach 1 there is no other possible result.

@Ficon 2 жыл бұрын

@@Mrbfgray That’s the only 727 dive over Great Lakes that I’m aware of. The captain made all sorts of wild claims in interviews about rolling and going inverted, nothing substantiated by FDR. Basically he screwed up, deleted the CVR and then spent decades arguing that FAA and Boeing were wrong.

@spacecadet35 2 жыл бұрын

The trouble is that an international passenger flight from London to New York in reality takes between 12-16 hours, or more. It is 8 hours for the the actual transatlantic flight. plus up to a couple of hours in a holding pattern at the far end. Then there is a couple of hours getting through security in London and a couple of hours getting through customs in the USA. And maybe an hour stuck on the taxiway waiting for take off. If the aircraft only saves thirty minutes of flight time on that trip, most people will not even notice. Concorde used to do the whole cycle from check in in London to catching a taxi in New York in about six hours, so well worth the effort.

@ianmcgee9945 2 жыл бұрын

As a Canadian, I was wondering if you would mention the DC-8! It was on a test flight during certification to approve the installation of Rolls-Royce Conway engines on the DC-8, which usually had Pratt & Whitney engines.

@steve-marsh 2 жыл бұрын

I loved Concorde, but she was of her time and I think now supersonic is just a gimmick. Comfortable, sustainable, quiet, efficient flying is the future, and supersonic is now little more than a number.

@frglee 2 жыл бұрын

I remember flying several times from the USA to London and arriving a lot earlier than we expected as the plane had flown inside a fast jet stream air current over the North Atlantic. But did the ground speed exceed Mach 1? Possibly. I read that in 2019, a 'Virgin Atlantic jet set a new speed record flying from LA to London in just over nine hours, after a powerful jet stream propelled it faster than the speed of sound. The 787 Dreamliner was clocked at 801mph over Pennsylvania as it rode the fastest jet stream on record, blowing east at 231mph'

@mrxmry3264 2 жыл бұрын

Ground speed may have an effect on arrival time but it makes no difference to the aerodynamics. It is possible to fly at 300 knots IAS but 600 knots GS.

@Dirk-van-den-Berg 2 жыл бұрын

I have been flying from Amsterdam to Washington DC about 10 times. Everytime it occurred to me: the westbound route took around 9 hours, the eastbound route had us back on the ground in 6,5 hours or even shorter. My guess is the same as yours, but these aircraft are not built to exceed Mach 1. Just my guess.

@EfficientRVer 2 жыл бұрын

When talking about a tail wind making an airplane's ground speed higher than air speed, it is improper to say that the ground speed has a Mach number associated with it. Mach number only has meaning regarding the fluid mechanics of an actual object passing through an actual fluid such as air. It is a ratio of the object's relative speed through the fluid, to the speed of sound, in that fluid at that moment/pressure/temperature/etc. Mach is NOT just another unit of measure for speed, where you can apply a conversion factor and use it to talk about the speed of other things (ground speed, speed of the plane's shadow movement on a sloped surface below, or whatever), like you can with conversions between miles/hour and meters/second for instance.

@mrxmry3264 2 жыл бұрын

@@Dirk-van-den-Berg 9 hours one way, 6 1/2 hours back? jetstream can be a bitch.

@featherstone5838 2 жыл бұрын

@@Dirk-van-den-Berg Centrifugal force would be another factor (the plane is a wee bit 'lighter' flying west to east). But if the difference is over 2 hours as you say, I'd say jet streams are the main reason.

@jjsmallpiece9234 2 жыл бұрын

A large part of the reason for the economic failure of Concorde was the American aviation industry and US Government putting commercial obstacles in the way of Concordes development. The US aviation market doing what it usually does freezing out market competition.

@jamesengland7461 2 жыл бұрын

? Are you ignoring the effects of sonic boom? Concorde was sort of successful; it was simply too expensive and inefficient for most passengers to afford. The law actually hurt American industry far more.

@jjsmallpiece9234 2 жыл бұрын

@@jamesengland7461 How come Airbus were also frozen out/rejected for the recent competition to replace the USAF KC135s air refuelling tankers to ensure the contract went to an American company.

@jamesengland7461 2 жыл бұрын

@@jjsmallpiece9234 so you are ignoring sonic boom. I'm not disputing other actions by industry and government, but how did those affect Concorde?

@TeddyBoy1940 2 жыл бұрын

As well as the DC8, the rumour that did the rounds in the 1960 was that the Vickers VC-10 also flew above Mach 1.

@patriciaionaduchessofargyl8214 Жыл бұрын

True as a BOAC BA RAF AND STILL THE FASTEST NON SUPERSONIC BUT FIRST SUUPERCRUISER JAN 12 1969. :)

@peterallen4605 2 жыл бұрын

I was in a 747 that was moving along around .99 Mach a good chunk of the way back to IAD from Tokyo. We left four hours behind schedule and the pilot made up a decent chunk of that in the air. Had a very eventful landing with a crosswind gust as well, but that's a tale for another time.

@alex_lamarche 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Peter, I’m curious about that landing story. Mind sharing it here?

@greatcanadianmoose3965 Жыл бұрын

Same what's that

@majbabovic5364 2 жыл бұрын

Could you do a video explaining changes in aerodynamics of an aircraft between subsonic and supersonic speeds? :D Always a pleasure watching your videos!

@pqrstsma2011 2 жыл бұрын

9:41 as a person who often gets really restless during long journeys, i always wanted to fly in a supersonic aircraft. now i understand why it's not that easy. thank you

@oilinki3 2 жыл бұрын

I simply want to say thanks for these highly educational videos Mentour produces. The why and the physics behind the why are the questions I'm looking for. It's always great to learn new, explained in profound way.

@jasperoostdam4635 2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting topic, I really love these kinds of videos! Would be cool to see an aircraft like the Concorde again, although I'm afraid these supersonic aircraft will be too small and expensive for "regular" airlines, and would be mostly used for business flights.

@MentourNow 2 жыл бұрын

Well, I think United have signed up for a few Boom jets.

@juliemanarin4127 2 жыл бұрын

@@MentourNow Awesome! I'm in Chicago and I think O'Hare might be a United hub!

@pqrstsma2011 2 жыл бұрын

@@juliemanarin4127 until the US removes the over-land flight restrictions for supersonic planes, i think it's unlikely that you'll see supersonic flights out of Chicago.... sorry about that... my guess is that the initial Boom/United flights will be from Newark to London and/or Paris

@jillengel4124 2 жыл бұрын

@@MentourNow They have. Ordered 15 in fact. They’ve got a very informative website and you can sign up to receive e-mail updates from them.

@pqrstsma2011 2 жыл бұрын

@PJ Train i know, but Julie 👆 seemed so hopeful to fly Boom/United outta Chicago....

@horseandcart5978 Жыл бұрын

In a way aviation has advanced very slowly in the last 50 years, compared with earlier expectations. On the 70's we had the concorde and the 747. Neil Armstrong landed on the moon. By 2000 we were supposed to have colonised the moon, and have hypersonic travel round the world. Instead, we are still travelling at subsonic speeds, still stuck in the atmosphere, and in aircraft with a maximum of about 800 seats. However, the electronics industry has really shot ahead beyond all our wildest dreams.

@DMac12flyers Жыл бұрын

We can thank the accountants for that

@dinoschachten Жыл бұрын

I feel like it's worth reminding ourselves that the speed of sound is really the speed at which our atmosphere naturally responds to kinetic energy, the speed at which it transmits pressure changes through the volume, which is what sound really is. That thought really helped me understand why there is such a huge difference in the dynamics between subsonic and supersonic operations, and why these potentially damaging pressure waves are such a frequent topic in transonic and supersonic dynamics.

@aalhard 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this well done video. Interestingly composed and edited.

@AFloridaSon 2 жыл бұрын

Very informative, as always.

@MentourNow 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! It was a fun episode to make.

@00muinamir 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah... as someone who lives next to several airports I'm not too keen on the idea of multiple sonic booms a day, even if they can get them to be less noisy. The coolness factor's gonna wear off pretty fast there.

@paul756uk2 2 жыл бұрын

They're only allowed to fly supersonic over the sea (as stated in the video). Also you're unlikely to get a supersonic aircraft coming into land travelling at supersonic speeds.

@migupl 2 жыл бұрын

@@paul756uk2 Yeah! Over 600kt at MSL might be a *little* bit higher than max tire or max brake energy speeds. And the G forces from decelerating from 600kt to 0 on a distance of 3-4km could also be noticeable ;)

@seymourpro6097 2 жыл бұрын

Faster jets always seem to need longer runways and with higher rotate speeds need more fantasticaly expensive tyres, and get fewer landings from a set of tyres. Look at the SR71! Ten landings from a set of fabulously expensive tyres.

@gcorriveau6864 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this, Mentour Pilot! I was not aware of this news. I worked for Bombardier for a couple of years during the initial development of the RJ program and I was always impressed with the quality of their engineering department.

@TricksterJ97 2 жыл бұрын

FYI: Mach 1.0 at sea level is 761 mph, and at 50,000 feet, it’s 660 mph.

@mrxmry3264 2 жыл бұрын

Because it is so much colder at FL500.

@TricksterJ97 2 жыл бұрын

It is much colder, but more importantly, the air is much less dense

@AmbientMorality 2 жыл бұрын

@@TricksterJ97 density does not affect the speed of sound in a gas

@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935 2 жыл бұрын

FYI at sea level it is temperature dependent and you are assuming a perfect standard atmosphere at altitude.

@mattbartley2843 2 жыл бұрын

@@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935 Speed of sound is a function of temperature and of gas composition. (ratio of specific heats, specifically) Assuming the air remains 99% diatomic oxygen and nitrogen (and humidity at high altitudes is usually nearly zero remember), only temperature affects it significantly.

@seanmcerlean 2 жыл бұрын

Technically interesting Petter. I see you released already. Class complete.

@MentourNow 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Sean! Yes, I had to release since this episode was 3 days late already.

@seanmcerlean 2 жыл бұрын

@@MentourNow No worries. I added a comment on Patreon Petter.😀

@0bscura 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you mentioned the DC-8. It was the first thing I thought of when I saw this video.

@maniacal_engineer 2 жыл бұрын

I have tried to point out that line to people before and they always look at me like I am a lunatic. My Aero instructor in college (Dr. J Polve, Col USAF Ret.)told us about standing normal shocks on the upper surface of wings at cruise. He also told us how the center of pressure shifts aft at supersonic speeds and so you need to make sure your fuel load is right when you drop to subsonic.

@christopherg2347 2 жыл бұрын

I think supersonic aircraft were a bad idea. Even in the military, the trends has been towards slower aircraft (albeit still supersonic capable). Your costs per flight hour shoot way up. When halfway decent planning makes any savings of a few hours pointless.

@shrimpflea Жыл бұрын

The F-117, B-2 and B-21 are all subsonic.

@dingodango1 2 жыл бұрын

I would make a wager that instead of M.85 most operators will be cruising the aircraft between M.88 and M.91. I typically fly M.85 in an airplane that has MMO of M.90 so the Gulfstreams and Globals should be cruising at M.90 minimum.

@magnuskongskov3532 2 жыл бұрын

I think so too. Most of the customers are rich people, who value time over fuel efficiency.

@featherstone5838 2 жыл бұрын

Considering that Concorde burned about 5 times the fuel per seat mile compared to a subsonic airliner, I wouldn't like supersonic travel to come back. Sustainable fuels are nice and fine, but their amount will be limited, so we better use them for the most energy efficient aircraft only. Air drag increases with the square of the speed, so there is no easy way around increased fuel consumption. Apart from flying much higher - I don't know if this is possible.

@sailaab 2 жыл бұрын

We lived about 14-15 kilometers away from the Lohegaon Airport, Poona (in India)... during the 1990s. Indian airforce had a few of those Sukhoi aircrafts inducted already and Pune/Poona was one of the bases. (Poona only had one airport. It was not a civilian airport. The defence establishment got first priority to use it. And it was normal, acceptable for the port to be closed to civilian traffic whenever the Indian airforce had to perform sorties or similar stuff). We routinely looked up further ahead in the skies, from where our ears heard the Sukhois... for our eyes to spot them. Though fairly high above the town, many a times the planes would still be climbing... and the boom.. did make us all (on ground) aware that the boys were practising.

@bearcubdaycare 2 жыл бұрын

Fun explanation. I do wonder whether these myriad supersonic startups have a chance, or it's just a venture capital fad.

@MentourNow 2 жыл бұрын

We shall soon see!

@ves5624 2 жыл бұрын

Venture capital invests under the assumption that only 1 in 10 investments will end up making the investors a lot of money and that several will break even. If a startup develops a supersonic business jet, then another company may buy the company for their technology or that company might go it alone and try to become a viable jet manufacturer. Both of those might be profitable for the investors. At the same time, the startup may fail and the investors lose their investment. But, that’s why venture capital is diversified and the expectation is that most companies will fail. Venture funds invest around $2 billion spread over around 20 companies.

@MrNicoJac 2 жыл бұрын

Both ;)

@LemonLadyRecords 2 жыл бұрын

Yes ;)

@jhonbus 2 жыл бұрын

I suspect at least a couple of them will be successful. The problem with concorde was that people who were willing to pay such a high price would rather take a couple of hours longer to arrive at their destination if it meant they could have plenty of space and other luxuries, rather than being cramped into the tiny cabin that Concorde had. There wasn't enough time saving on the London - NY route to make it worthwhile and options like first class on subsonic aircraft, or even better - private aircraft - were far superior. The convenience of a private aircraft almost can't be overstated, especially if flying from smaller airfields that avoid all the time spent getting through the airport. Being able to combine that with supersonic travel (even if it's much less quick than Concorde was) is a winner, I think.

@zapfanzapfan 2 жыл бұрын

I hope to see civilian supersonic flights again even if it has to be only over water and low population areas.

@cancelanime1507 2 жыл бұрын

It's not happening

@NicolaW72 2 жыл бұрын

@@cancelanime1507 And rightfully.

@misguidance__ 2 жыл бұрын

Another wonderful video! Thank you for all the work you do over your two channels

@mapleext 2 жыл бұрын

Petter, it’s so interesting to hear you explain some of the extreme aerodynamic changes that occur when you reach supersonic speed. Probably unrealistic to expect to fly that fast, but I do remember how much we loved all the power, noise and even some booms we experienced living three miles from a navy base in the sixties - as someone else commented on. Like I always feel after watching your videos, what amazing machines!!

@WayneM1961 2 жыл бұрын

Captain Petter at what flight level would this aircraft be certified to? When Concorde was retired, it was a giant step backward in the aviation industry in my humble opinion. There are always people who want to "get there faster" even at the expense of the environment. So surely the biggest question here is, not can a plane be made to travel faster than sound, but can it also be made to keep "greenpeace" happy, and in this day and age, how about affordability? Or just like the concorde, will it only be available to the super rich? I hope you can keep an eye on the situation Captain, and keep us informed on any more developments.

@vrtsgme Жыл бұрын

Grew up in South Wales in the UK when Concord would take off from Heathrow in the cold winter months. At 9pm’ish you could go outside and wait for the window rattling sonic booms that did break glass in the earlier years, before they forced concord to not go supersonic until further out to sea beyond Lundy Island. The boom would hit you in the chest, was pretty cool as it was so far away.

@od1452 Жыл бұрын

As a kid of the 50s living in Nevada , I heard sonic booms often. I remember they rattled windows and even i could feel a vibration for want of a word. I heard stories of windows breaking but never saw or knew of anyone having that happen to them. Of course those days are gone now. But most people I knew just accepted it. The controversy really started years later.

@oscartango2348 2 жыл бұрын

Designing passenger aircraft to fly super-sonic just seems like such a waste of resources. I'm not sure there is a major need to get to a destination an hour faster, when the downsides of doing that are so enormously high.

@hallhowarth4584 Жыл бұрын

Pffff boring! We want bigger, we want faster, we want more powerful and we want it now!

@swiper1818 2 жыл бұрын

The aircraft in the picture is most certainly not supersonic - unless in a dive

@MentourNow 2 жыл бұрын

It flew at Mach 1.015 so technically.. it is

@swiper1818 2 жыл бұрын

@@MentourNow not sustainably in level flight..this video is basically clickbait with the current title

@MentourNow 2 жыл бұрын

@@swiper1818 if you look closely you will see that it’s asking a question. It’s not clickbait because it goes into great length to explain why it is NOT and that’s after major publication claimed it was.

@marty0063 2 жыл бұрын

That’s really neat. Thanks for the very informative video. Miss the Concorde even though I would never have flown on it. I remember when we were kids and our house got hit by sonic booms once, twice, or a few times. I don’t really remember how many times. We lived out in the country. We thought it was so cool. The windows were rattling. None got broken, so all was okay.

@hasanabdulrahim73 2 жыл бұрын

Great job explaining this in such a simple way so everyone can understand. Thanks a lot. 👍🏽

@quicktastic 2 жыл бұрын

Humans are currently going through a phase where we make a huge deal of accomplishing things that we've already accomplished and pretending like it is groundbreaking. Putting a person on the moon, supersonic passenger travel etc.. I am not implying that Mentour is doing that here as he is actually explaining that it is not as big a deal as the media makes out. Personally, I'm waiting for the first commercial aircraft to break the speed of light.

@stereoroid 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, because we’re past the “do it because we can” phase, in to a “do it efficiently & sustainably,” phase. Maybe some day we’ll enter the “we don’t need to do this at all” phase.

@naughtiusmaximus830 2 жыл бұрын

We have “new management” and they are more concerned with breeding us into docile slaves than going to Mars. Culling independent minded citizens with food rationing/refusal seems to be the next stage. Also a disturbing amount of military biolabs in very strange places suggests other nastiness. Did any of us slaves have a vote is creating aerosolized rabies? Would anyone that isn’t pure evil approve this?

@riaanlouw1874 2 жыл бұрын

WARP speed, Mr. Scottie

@mediocreman2 2 жыл бұрын

We don't push the boundaries of what is physically possible anymore. There are way too many accountants and regulators these days to actually make progress. But playing it safe will only mean someone else will do it sooner, and with stolen technological secrets from us.

@anamoyeee 2 жыл бұрын

Why not just climb to let's say 30000 ft and then accelerate past the sound barrier so it doesn't have that high impact on buildings and people on the ground

@mediocreman2 2 жыл бұрын

Wherever it passes, it can be heard.

@rayoflight62 2 жыл бұрын

The supersonic aircraft of the future will have the edges of the wings and the tip replaced with some high strength polymer interspersed with layers of piezostrictive ceramics. In this way the edge of the wing can operate an acoustic cancellation using a pressure wave in phase opposition. Thank you for the great video Mentour Pilot, it is always a pleasure to watch your videos. Regards, Anthony

@karlmiller7188 Жыл бұрын

Wonderful analysis of the situation

@C.Fecteau-AU-MJ13 2 жыл бұрын

I'm hanging out for Musk to deliver on the Starchip Earth to Earth passenger service.

@MentourNow 2 жыл бұрын

THAT would be cool

@unitrader403 2 жыл бұрын

Only downside is that you probably wont be hand-flying these Babies... especially not the Landing

@aaronaustrie 2 жыл бұрын

Great explanation. Great vid!

@rashkavar 2 жыл бұрын

As always, an impressively clear explanation of the aerodynamic issues around the sound barrier. I remember watching a documentary on the first supersonic flights, and while it did a good job of explaining just how much of a literal barrier the sound barrier is, it really didn't give much insight as to what was causing those issues. The full details, of course, are more than you went into, but this documentary that was literally about that issue and the efforts to overcome it was like "you get lots of turbulence" and that's it. Which seems....inadequate.

@greatcanadianmoose3965 Жыл бұрын

Real Engineering did a video explaining this... I think it's called "Why Airplane Wings are Swept Backwards"

@kenpestell437 2 жыл бұрын

My last flight as P.1 was in May 1979 - but it is still in my blood. Thank you for stirring happy memories !

@fbello18 2 жыл бұрын

You forgot to mention the Convair 990A - Coronado - witch was projected to fly closer to sound speed. My father flew this plane - Varig airlines - in early 60’s. He said that once - in some particular circunstances - the plane got faster than normal - it starts “shaking”, he had to reduce the speed. Of course it wasn’t projected to do it. The idea of this plane was to do NY-London (or Paris) in 50 min less than Boeing 707 and DC8. And she did it - but the problem was it’s range - much smaller than rivals. It was useles to Varig, cause was unable to do a direct non-scale Rio-Ny or Rio-Lisbon. Witch the rivals did with no problem.

@horseandcart5978 Жыл бұрын

Love your channel. Thank you!! Now that they have flights from Australia to London, how likely do you think it will be in the future, that they will have flights to the antipodes from where they took off, for example from Auckland NZ, to Seville France. You simply can't travel further than that.

@philstuf 2 жыл бұрын

As always, another excellent video. I knew the 8000 would not be "allowed" to go supersonic outside of testing, but the fact it did during testing is still impressive. And on SAF. It's cruise speed and range is also quite impressive, so, Bombardier looks to have a winner on their hands here... Gulfstream's going to have to up their game...

@senzelian 2 жыл бұрын

Just 50km away from where I live there's a museum where they have a Concorde and a TU-144 on top of a roof. Everytime I'm visiting and I see them I wish I had the chance to fly with one of them.

@simobonev4511 Жыл бұрын

Very informative and easy to understand explanation of transsonic flying.

@johnandrews3568 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting that Bombardier is Canadian and that supersonic DC8 was from Canadian Pacific. As a side note, the RCAF when they had the Sabre F86 on strength had a supersonic club. If you were a Sabre pilot and was able (and brave enough) to go supersonic in a vertical dive, you were welcomed into the club with a certificate and some fanfare. A buddy's father is a member.

@andrewpinner3181 2 жыл бұрын

As always, thank you Mentour !

@ericjbowman1708 2 жыл бұрын

Yay DC-8! I loved being a passenger on those, a few times, as a kid. 707 slow-rolled the entire runway before begrudgingly lifting off. DC-8 just launched.

@juliemanarin4127 2 жыл бұрын

I hope to be able to fly in a super sonic airplane some day. I remember as a young person in Chicago hearing sonic booms. Probably were military craft.

@TheOnlyTaps 2 жыл бұрын

Great watch 👌🏿🔥

@infidelmat Жыл бұрын

It's not just about the plane, it's the VIP interior which is a huge part of the production, especially in Montreal. Which also means huge government incentives that subsidize the workforce and infrastructure.

@hubbahdabut 2 жыл бұрын

Imma save up for a used 7500 and overclock it, probably add water cooling tubing all over the trim and maybe some blacklight and neon fluid so it can go supersonic in style.........

@sonnyburnett8725 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for mentioning the DC-8 supersonic flight.

@djwolffe_OG 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Mentour! I recently asked you to do a video about SAA flight 295 if you’re keen. Here’s another suggestion: the rise and fall of South African Airways, from it’s first flight to being ‘captured’ and fall from grace. It gets political, but it would be interesting to get your views on it, especially from a leadership perspective. Or something like that

@wickedcabinboy 2 жыл бұрын

I know your focus is on fixed wing aircraft but it's interesting to note that parts of many rotor wing aircraft exceed MACH 1 routinely. I'm referring specifically to the tips of the rotors and much research has been conducted on the physics of that problem. This has resulted in significant changes to the geometry of rotor wing tips and to much quieter helicopters.

@toomanyhobbies2011 2 жыл бұрын

And shorter blades...

@wickedcabinboy 2 жыл бұрын

@@toomanyhobbies2011 - and more of them.

@horseandcart5978 Жыл бұрын

I think concorde was like the ship called the "Great Eastern", designed by Brunnell in that it was way ahead of its time. Definitely a backward step dismantling Concorde, and now another backward step discontinuing the A380. But then again, it's like pruning a tree. You cut out the main upper trunk, and lots more big, interesting branches grow.

@shrimpflea Жыл бұрын

The A380 was obsolete the moment it was created.

@aileronhelicopters 2 жыл бұрын

It'll be interesting if you make us a video of what a new aircraft passes through before joining the market

@bazza945 2 жыл бұрын

I remember a rather sobering factoid about Concorde. An expert calculated that if a Concorde broke up at cruising altitude the debris would be scattered over 65,000 square miles. (It could have been square kilometers.)

@timothy4664 2 жыл бұрын

I loved the Mcdonnell Douglass planes. Despite all of the problems, the DC10 was a beautiful plane. My favorite will always be the VC10

@shrimpflea Жыл бұрын

The L-1011 was a much better plane but the DC-10 was cheaper so more airlines bought it.

@chrispetty6871 Жыл бұрын

I used to experience sonic booms almost daily. I have no lingering issues from it. Except missing it.

@amazinginformation2024 2 жыл бұрын

BOOM Supersonic is based in my hometown of Greensboro, NC. Cool to see so much aviation happening around there.

@joeottsoulbikes415 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting you posted this subject. I was going to ask you today to make a video about Concorde Flight 4590. The crash where a small engine flashing had fallen off of an earlier plane on the runway due to poor maintenance. That metal punctured the Concorde tire. The shredded tire hit the bottom of Concorde and busted a giant hole in the fuel tank that then ignited and flamed out left engines. The jet maintained angle of attack but did not gain speed or altitude. Take off thrust of full afterburners on right engines only rolled the craft and then drove it nose down into the ground. Sadly no one survived.

@brettpatching 2 жыл бұрын

@Joe Ott Soulbikes Petter has already made a video about the Concorde tragedy on his main channel Mentour Pilot.

@petshopgirl39 2 жыл бұрын

Superb content as always. I've also just used your link to subscribe to Curiosity Stream - I love content that teaches me something new!

@ecomandurban7183 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks that was most interesting and informative

@fredtedstedman 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing , thank you for posting this ! Wales UK.

@fs2000 7 ай бұрын

11:55 Never would I have expected to see a screenshot from the game besiege in a Mentour video lol

@ralfkruse7565 2 жыл бұрын

In my youth in the 60ies German Luftwaffe had F104 Starfighter, and phantom F4. Both supersonic. And we lived in an area where they trained low flying. The clock tower from the church was 59m high(180ft) sometimes we had the impression they were lower. Supersonic flight was only on high altitude(then you could hear the boom much further) and I heard a lot of them. Everyday with good weather!! 😎

@russellholm742 2 жыл бұрын

I used to work for Air Canada . Back in 1978 a coworker told me that the aircraft we were standing beside was the one that had gone supersonic. I don't remember the fin # but it was a short 8 with conway engines.