British Airways Concorde G-BOAC take off from Edinburgh in 1994 

Have just seen this video. I was the fortunate Captain that day; we were called at home to see how soon we could be at Heathrow and my crew assembled ready for a midday departure. It was St. Andrew's day and, in my opinion a clever commercial idea to substitute the Concorde. We flew London to Glasgow via the North Sea route to go supersonic reaching 60,000 easily (we were climbing like an express train at 59500' and felt slight negative g as we levelled off). We then flew from Glasgow to Edinburgh in poor weather with much low cloud which was unfortunate because we carried a special group of passengers, children all with some disability and all escorted by carers. We finally flew from Edinburgh back to London, again at Mach 2. My best memory of the day was meeting three passengers (all passengers visited the cockpit in those days if they wished) who worked together, were on our first leg to Glasgow and who were due to fly home from Glasgow on the Shuttle later that day. Hearing of our plans to fly back from Edinburgh, they hired a taxi and drove to Edinburgh, so we met them again on the flight back to Heathrow. Happy Days!!

Back when humankind had hope that a better future was yet to come!

This is just immense. Imagine the people who were on that service seeing Concorde when they arrived at their gate. Their jaws must have dropped

So Majestic to look at

*and a beauty of a 757 in British Airways 1990's colors*

You gotta feel sorry for the little prop plane knowing he's following the greatest plane down the runway.

I flew on that Concorde from Manchester Airport in 1990. The take off was amazing

Most beautiful plane ever 👍👍

Rolls-Royce/Snecma Olympus 593 Spitfire Merlin. The 2 greatest sounds ever .

Using the Concorde to cover a domestic flight by a 757 Aviation has changed so much....

It used to take off twice a day from Heathrow, 11amish & 7pmish. I miss the crackling roar as she would fly over my mum & Dads flat making the whole block rattle. Miss this plane so much, just beautiful

Queen of the skies a real thing of beauty untouchable never again sadly she’s surely missed the world took a step backwards the day we lost her 😩

What a glorious jet! Nothing looks or hits you in the feels than concord.♥️

I flew to New York on Concorde,it was simply amazing..I had to rough it on the way home on The QE2 to Southampton.

Nowadays we've got great technology in planes, and then there's the stuff dreams are made of.. Concorde was the later.

Just listen to the roar of those engines as it takes off!

Para mi este es el avion mas bello que ha habido/per me questo plane is the best

Oh this beauty..

When I was about 6 or 7, I flew in Concorde from Heathrow to the Air Tattoo airshow... It was only a 20 minute flight and we didn't go supersonic, but that doesn't matter I can remember little bits and pieces of it but at the time I didn't understand the importance and uniqueness of the plane. You are all probably not interested about that, but if you have flown in Concorde you just feel like you have to tell everyone about it - I can't help it. You'd think I was the bloody pilot.

What a marvellous beast

I was just a kid when Concorde was withdrawn, didn't really appreciate her at the time. Having since seen the other Olympus-powered delta quite a bit, it reinforces my respect for Concorde as a fabulous white elephant. The very concept of a delta-wing narrow-body reheated public transport airliner! Audacious, absurd, awesome.

What a plane!

It was a tremendous feat of aircraft engineering and far beyond its time, we are now in 2020 and no sign of supersonic air travel on the horizon. Aircraft designs are now extremely boring, adding to the overall experience of air travel of a frustrating exercise of trying to get to a domestic or international destination in a timely manner.

WONDERFUL AIRCRAFT

Used to see her every day grew up near LHR

A great experience, flew on it twice. A bit noisy and a bit cramped but fantastic nevertheless. Lord King, chairman of BA had a great answer when someone complained that it was noisy and cramped. 'Yes, but it's not for very long.'

Feel the afterburning rumble!

Thanks for uploading this and sharing with us.

They only generated a sonic boom once they passed the speed of sound, although the engines gave a nice roar on take off! If you've never heard a sonic boom before it's extremely loud, so they didn't usually go supersonic until they were out over the Atlantic. You're right, it was an absolutely beautiful plane and those who took the decision to ground it should be hanging their heads in shame, but sadly, I doubt they really care.

Go to 6:00 for actually takeoff

I miss Concorde so much :-( I have never seen any videos of those beautiful engines being run up on a test bed, that would be awesome.

what an amazing beautiful aircraft shamed it was put out of use

fantastic capture! bet you're glad you went out that day

@Doomsday2060 NEVER stop talking about Concorde! I was never lucky enough to fly on her but I did fly 4,000 miles to be at Heathrow for her last week. I will never stop talking about that day. She is a part of history we must never forget! and your story is certainly a very unique history! :)

Such a high angle of attack on take off ......so majestic

People in the small plane are like. I wish I was in the Concorde!

VERY GOOD VIDEO

one word... BEAST!

Beautiful!

I just wish I'd been on it at the time!!!!!

I would have loved to fly Concorde from EDI to LHR. I can only imagine the excitement from passengers that love aviation when they get to the gate and BA gives them a Concorde rather than the 757.

Yeah it was a great facility. You had excellent views from up there. Aaah, the good old days when airports were AIRPORTS and not just shopping centres with airbridges attached

She takes off like a skilled ballerina leaping into the air in Swan Lake.

Man! I’m glad they invented fast forwarding 10 seconds at the time touching the screen!

Thanks! Yeah, amazingly lucky people!!!

Oh how I miss Concorde

what did it take 10 min to fly to London and 20 to get to the gate?The people in that small play must have been holy crap are we going to get blown over.any video of the concorde is gem.

What a co-incidence! It was great to see it that day! Did you get some good pictures? Hard to believe it's ten years already since she was retired. 

I was on that flight

So sad that this beautiful machine is no longer in the sky.

fly again concorde

Sadly we will probably never see Concorde fly again,it would be nice for the London Olympics but sadly very unlikely. It's almost 20 years since I flew on her and what a real treat.No other aircraft had such a following or made such an impact.

That thing is like a passenger fighter jet

Brilliant

I must have been standing right beside you! I've got a photo from the same angle!

I've been on this concorde.. OK yeah was in a hanger in Manchester but hay its still the same plane haha..

GO ON SON MAKE IT HAVE IT !!

It was an incredibly graceful plane - she was a real classy bird! You were very fortunate to have flown on her before her premature demise. I was lucky enough to see her fly in to Manchester on her last ever flight. The new hangar is looking good. Nice to see the Trident there too, another classic plane.

@flyingboats21 this is getting added to my favourites :)

I bet the passengers expecting a 757 were pleasantly over the moon when they got to ride on tis beauty! I will always regret not getting to fly on her. Maybe one day they'll get one flying again, from what I hear this is a real possibility. Dave

Si lo ponen de nuevo en funcionamiento ya tengo el pasaje ida y vuelta desde New York.

WOW

@AndrewUK1987 Did that happen before or after 9/11?

It's like watching "Fireflash" from Thunderbirds. This WAS the future. What a shame!

Edinburgh to Heathrow? How long did that take, about 5 minutes???

Her passengers were indeed lucky. Her flight crew were blessed.

Wonderul

Definitely the goat,the undisputed champion, has all the belts.

It was quite rare for Concorde to visit Edinburgh as it mostly flew from London/Paris to New York due to the sonic boom. But even though passengers in this clip were lucky enough to fly this plane they would not be flying faster than the speed of sound. Simply because the plane was only going as far as London and it only takes an hour and a half to get there so if it flew at super sonic speed it would take 45 minutes roughly to get there which is a waste of fuel.

They replaced a 757 with Concorde on a domestic shuttle route? Sounds very unlikely; the revenue from the fares wouldn't even pay for the extra fuel consumption.

There she goes

I live in Slough,used to watch Concorde come in most nights from New york,09L or 09R,was the only aircraft who told ATC which way it was going to approach and land,I really miss seeing it,and when you think it still had years of flying left in it,but BA did not want it to go to Richard Branson.

When I was little my mother gave me one of those for the 3 kings day I don't know what happened to it but ,40 years later I'm looking for one amd I can't find it

Exotic!

Its a rocket, not a plane!

;(( Concorde....sad its not in the blue yonder anymore.

Of course: sorry. wonderful

It should be in the air, not a museum

@Doomsday2060 One of my biggest regrets in not having a flight in Concorde, it was a beautiful aircraft. There's not many planes that caught the public imagination in the same way that Concorde did. Hopefully somebody will get one back to flying condition and get it back in the sky where it belongs.

Esse avião precisa ser reconstruído, É motivo de orgulho dos EUA da América

High fuel prices perhaps? I guess it is just too expensive. The ticketprice would be skyhigh...

Even though flying at mach 2 is expensive, flying at Mach 1 or even 1.5 would be better than nothing

Man made wonder Aircraft The chindrella of the air or the white Bird

Where was the sonic boom? I read that they had sonic booms when they took off. Regardless, what a beautiful plane. I wonder why faster than sound travel isn't a thing these days. If we could do it in the 90s you would imagine we could do it even better today.

@flyingboats21 I bet you that you will fly on Concorde someday. It will get to the point when the plane is so historic and legendary that it will only take a couple of billionaires to invest in a restoration scheme... I heard some are kept in near airworthy condition, whereas others have been cut up and filled with concrete? So you never know.

Like a phantom , here then swiftly gone .....

6:03 Save yourself some time

Which museum is this Concorde at??

Je suis en train de faire

Sounds like the Concorde pilot is getting a bit impatient to be off at 2:54 lol

If this video was taken in 1994 how did you upload it to RU-vid?

1997 british airways change logo , logo is uk flag scarf

UK frankenstein design

@Doomsday2060 You heard wrong on both cases. The only Concorde left with fluid-transfer capability is F-BTSD, and even then she's badly suffering from internal tanking corrosion. As far as the concrete thing goes, some was put in the engine casing of one to act as a weight balance, but none was put within the actual ships themselves. Also, the only reason any were "cut up" is for transport to their final places, all were reassembled, though some superficially. G-BOAD now has a "fake" nose.

*It's lift off not take off...*

@Doomsday2060 I never reply to 1 year old posts, but since you made a bet that someone should restore a Concorde a year ago, you will maybe see this watch?v=13vS64zBI9s Now it's only to see if they ever will be allowed to let it fly.

A plane for the rich only , i certainly wasn’t sad to see it go . A plane that was ahead of its time the VC 10 , pure British engineering at its best !!

There’s 7 minutes of my life I can never get back. Phew, O.K. Concorde taking off with almost zero sound. DUH.

1994 was two years before 1996.

be easy he real travel at 2.2 mach but in tiime he become senseless why? people can afford and second too much noise for nothing....let see I,m in Paris from NY same day and loose hours ...logically go to sleep some you can do in 747.....but in almost really ttime and with sleep ...so?