Good man! Please pass on our regards from sunny Old England, please Ma'am and our thank you's for getting us all in and out of JFK safely for so long. Hope you are well and your father also. Would be nice if you could say a big thank you from all of us. I would think that he has/had one of the most stressful jobs there is - JFK airport is quite a place! Take care :)
I certainly agree, it's extremely emotional. Just listening to this radio communication makes a few tears in my eyes. I think how much better life was in the past.
Me too . She was the most beautiful lady to ever grace the skies . I always say they brought her out of retirement to fly Queen Elizabeth II home to Heaven ❤
Lovely moment is the very end. US ATC says 'cheerio' to Concorde (classic British English) and Concorde responds 'have a nice day' (classic American English.)
That`s actually nothing about performance. It`s a lost COM procedure. if your radios fail you can consider yourself cleared for your filed flight level 10min. after T/O
Watch the video when Brian Walpole tells how during testing he barrel rolled her. Or how the used her maneuverability to bank left and right to avoid the noise monitors at JFK. She really was just a really big fighter jet.
@@Turbomgzt pretty much all jet airliner can reach that altitude. It's a common thing for the controller to give additional info "expect cruise level at 10 minutes" while givimg clearance to aircraft in us.
Concorde speedbird 2 on Behalf of all us here in the USA it's been a privledge and an honor to have u here in the USA. Just wanna wish Captain Bannister good luck in the future and for the final time your clear for takeoff. God bless and God speed.Aaron Glick Lufkin Texas USA. Also best wishes to British Airways and T 2 for all their kind hospitality they have showed me and my family over the years there at London Heathrow International Airport. I look forward to seeing you all back at London Heathrow International Airport again next Year. From me and my entire family here in Lufkin Texas a very pleasant good morning. Local Lufkin Texas time is 12:05 am 6:05 local London UK time.
@Troy Challenger you sir, are what we call up in Scotland, a risible welt. Everyone else, just ignore the obvious troll and don't give him the attention his mother clearly didn't. 2/10. Must try harder
Great respect and courtesy shown between JFK ATC and British Airways Concorde crew here...very touching. Miss the fact and thought that this beautiful aircraft no longer flies---she was truly an apex achievement in international air travel and is sadly missed by many all over the world...
For many years every evening at around 6pm and 10pm the roar in the skies above west London announced the arrival of Concorde. Sometimes we'd run out onto our balcony and shout 'Concorde' as loud as we could as the plane flew overhead knowing that the neighbours couldn't hear us! We miss it!!
Can't believe that the Concord retired almost 20 years ago. Half a century ago mankind landed on the moon and had supersonic travel on earth, all within only 70 years since the wright brothers took of from the shores of NC. What a decline.
Americans and the British/French have been competitive as Hell Thru the years but Do Not Think there wasn’t Unbelieveable Respect by Americans when the Best took to the Skies. Tip of the Tam
Absolutely, it was magnificent! It flew brilliantly for all those years but unfortunately grounded forever due to a few acts of sloppiness by those who should have been more professional. 😢
I am so fortunate to have given that Captain some of his training in the late 80’s. What an absolute gentleman!We are still good friends today (2022) and we both fly for a “ purple” cargo carrier😊
"Speedbird 2 you can plan to follow the Express." "If he can keep up". As a pilot and dual UK/US citizen, I love how no one wanted it to end, planes asking to hold short....
Brings me to tears, what a shame THE most awesome piece of engineering to fly the skies 😥 You can feel the upset in the controllers voices saying goodbye to an old friend
If anyone is wondering, the Speedbird was the name of the stylish logo on the tail fins used by BA's predecessor airlines Imperial and BOAC and the present call sign was inherited from them.
This must have cost MILLIONS all the airliners holding short, I bet very few passengers complained about the delay they got to witness history, but when minuets cost millions, this little fairwell cost a pretty penny
This transcript leaves me sad.hearing controllers from many years ago, and pilots from other airoorts in Ny wishing the crew well as they leave Jfk.so long concorde.
Captain Bannister and concord speed bird 002 wishing ya a safe final flight as a local brit now out in the USA here in Houston Texas you will certainly be missed here in the USA but i will see y'all the next time i get to the UK and London Heathrow International Airport have a safe retirement flight all the very best and best wishes from all of us here in the USA and all of us here in Houston Texas local Houston Texas time is 10:09 am. solang and you will be missed.
used to love watching it take off from the Canarsie pier back in the 80's. Shame it had to be retired, but its time had come. Guzzled too much fuel, amongst other things. There is a Concorde on display at the Intrepid Air and Space Museum on the west side of Manhattan.
the english and the french could no longer afford the programme, concorde was always expensive, it was (I guess) in many ways a race between the anglo-french and the americans (who had their own SST programme) and that of a technical exercise and status of having the fastest passenger jet. "environmental" issues, sonic boom issues, small amount of passengers on each flight and an aging fleet killed it off. the freak accident and 911 (which I believe was used as an excuse) was the nail in the….
@@dinodinosaur3936great reduction of air travel, that combined with the rise in oil prices, and the major cost of maintaining a fleet of aircraft that never really were sold in enough numbers to compensate, meant Concorde was to face an end to its career afterwards.
lives lost in this flight? what the hell you talking about - no lives were lost, it was this gracious bird's last scheduled flight out of JFK (do you really think the captain is bidding farewell and predicting a crash, idiot?) And the camaradarie between pilots and ATC is a love affair and need not be mocked. Also i can tell you, when Concorde approached foreign lands (and at home even) she was welcomed with open arms like a long lost memebr of the family
I know this was 2 years ago, but at 4:56, it's Steve, you can tell in the way he says "do you need any assistance" the mics they used were much lower quality back then, and he also was quite a bit younger and probably not as comfortable with his job as he was towards the end of his career
People saying "bring the concorde back" it wont come back. There is no place for it in commercial aviation where it stands today. It is way to uneconomic for airlines.
+CarsonT01 She made BA an awful lot of money. They didn't need to retire her, but they refused to operate her alone without Air France. I don't know why. Richard Branson wanted to buy them from BA and operate them with Virgin but BA refused to do that to.
@@mgytitanic1912 The issue was Airbus, who inherited the responsibility to provide parts etc. for Concorde were unwilling to keep doing so, so they just began to make things way too expensive and essentially said that's that. It was uneconomic only because Airbus, with a strong French influence probably didn't want Britain to be the only operator of Concorde. I'm sure BA would have continued to fly her as long as possible because as you say, they were making money on it.
Have listened to this countless times now.... still crying every fucking time... At least I and other sim pilots can keep her alive in X-Plane :-) "Shanwick radio Speedbird 1 Position report. Past 20W expect 30W @1242 next will be 40W"
god bless ya concord I will see ya when I get back to London Heathrow international Airport thanks for all the memories god bless ya from all of us here in Houston Texas at George Bush Intercontinental Airport solang farewell happy retirement to captain bannster and all the concord crews solang your cleared for departure
ah okay got it . what about the clearance through 105 alpha direct? Is 105A a radial off a VOR or something? I couldn't find it on the sectional or any departure plates anywhere.
No! Concorde is one and only, anything new is not Concorde. Concorde is one and only, true legend who wrote supersonic aviation history. Some nice day, I hope I will visit Manchester airport for G-BOAC.
Just reading Mike Bannisters book "Concord" brought me here, what a lovely sendoff, many thanks for sharing it. Shame on the French for their part in the removal of this lovely aircraft
Maintenance and safety underwriting had devolved to Airbus over the years and their bean-counters were not prepared to continue to bear that expense. Also, after the total embarrassment of the Air France crash, the French wanted rid of the project; Concorde was making a VERY healthy profit for BA up until then.
