Ever since i was a little boy i used to love airplanes.. i was a little plane spotter.. i grow up in the city of Eilat witch is in the south of Israel just across from Aqaba (Jordan). at that time i have never seen the concord in real life until this day. i remember the day i was looking outside my window to see airplanes departing from Eilat airport and seeing the Concord landing in Aqaba. i could't believe it.. i was so excited.. nobody believed me at that time that i saw the Concord landing in Aqaba. i saw this video by chance and it made me so happy to realize that this is the flight i actually saw landing (at the minute 49:39 in the video you can see the view of Eilat Israel during the landing in Aqaba .. ) Thank you for the good memories ...
Concorde was such a majestic aircraft which captured the hearts of people all over the world. She brought a smile to everyone who saw her fly and great pride by those who maintained her, she was just loved! The Concorde memory will live on!
I used to remember how many times I was in London and my favorite sighting tour was to Heatrow to see the Concorde arrives from NY around 6:30 pm from JFK, and to Rio to see the Air France from Paris, I had always been in London for vacation in July ‘s and always choose a hotel in Chelsea that has the view of the planes landing in Heatrow, even when I wasn’t looking at the windows ,her noise ,so special , made me believe it was a Bird calling for her attention to see her, thank you so much BA and AF that kept almost all the Concordes in airport displays,and museums ,the only thing I think AF should have one in Rio ,as the city became the first regular passenger flight togheter with BA to Singapore
Great video! I was on Speedbird G BOAD this past Oct 2018 in NYC at Intrepid Museum...so amazing the personal tour inside! What a beauty ....Can't wait to go back and see her again . Min 8:24 that takeoff that roar those afterburners....breathtakingly incredible!
Just over 2.5 million passengers it flew,that is an awesome reliability record,flew for close to 35 years. That fatal crash in France was the beginning of the end for this gracious bird,the swan of the skies,R.I.P. lady.
@@arkhsm Absolutely true. But it was used as an excuse; along with Air Frances wish to end their service, they wern't makinging money; unlike B.A. where 25 % net, of all their profits, came from Concorde. B.A should have carried on except, they and A/F had agreed years ago, that if one pulled out, so would the other.
AN APOLLO ASTRONAUT SAID ( I THINK IT WAS ED WHITE) CONCORDE WAS BY FAR, THE GREATEST TECHNICAL ACHIEVEDMENT, OF THE 20TH CENTURY, EVEN MORE THAN THE APOLLO SPACE PROGRAMME..
We Europeans will never forget the lack of fair play of the american authorities about allowing Concorde to land at New-York !! They should have been more carefull about Boeing's authorization to fly the B737 Max !!!
One Pilot on another Video said 'He only has 3 Ladies in His life' That is Concorde, His Wife and Daughter.. he can only control one of them.🤣 Awesome Aircraft.
He didn't first mention Concorde as you have done. Because that will now paint a wrong picture on him, as if he loved Concorde more than the wife and daughter, which is not true. He first mentioned his wife and daughter, then last Concorde. So am sure
Sorry! I placed wrong button. So am very sure he loves his wife so much and the daughter, that was just of expressing his great love for the air plane.
My only one regret in life...never flying on Concorde. An amazing technical marvel. I'm sure if they brought it out of retirement it would be more of a success than before.
better than concorde is coming soon...supersonic flight 1 hour from cal to ny..space flight is coming too ,1st spaceport is going to be built in Denver next to dia . www.cnbc.com/2017/06/20/supersonic-flight-2023-as-boom-announces-airline-orders.html
anpr1984 No one has the cash to build another Concorde. We’ll see if those who are currently attempting to raise money to build smaller versions enjoy any success. Keep in mind no one was willing to buy a Concorde, it was given to Air France and British Air. Many ask if you could simply build a new Concorde. The cost to upgrade the systems to be current to today’s technology would be extremely expensive, not to mention developing new engines. New tires, and new fuel tanks. Amazing that African governments were impossible to deal with, when developed countries were very pro the flight with a few restrictions. Hawaiian and Guam officials seemed to be easy to work with.
anpr1984 They cannot just bring the Concorde out of retirement, a new Concorde would need to be developed. It was that fact that caused the original project to end. The Concorde was well beyond its useful life, this was a 1970’s aircraft. The government’s of the UK and France paid the bills to develop the Concorde thus their national carriers received the aircraft that could not be sold. You would need the same cooperative governments today, count the UK and its austerity directed government out. I would love to see a new Concorde, where with the money come from?
Last time I flew from LA to Hawaii, the flight time was 6 hours 45m. Concorde flew from Vancouver to Hawaii in 2-hours 54m. They lopped 4 HOURS off a west coast to Hawaii trip. Jesus. H.
In 1973 Concorde often used to fly low and slow along a stretch of the Upper Thames, probably coming in for a landing at Brize Norton as part of its testing. I was a student at a college in Buckland, on a ridge of high ground south of the river, and this glorious vision of the future of aviation just used to float past in front of us, not much higher than we were. It was a beautiful aircraft, sleek and powerful, a joy to behold. Bloody noisy though, that close.
I had the great experience of a tour of this very concord at the intrepid museum in New York in 2018 fab time wonderful experience too bad not to have had an actual flight on her. Hopefully we will have a new supersonic airplane flying again very soon fairwell concord wonderful memories and very professional BA. And Air France air crews flying these concords big 🙏 to you all❤️regards j
Really interesting video. Thank you. There was one inaccuracy. It was not correct to state that Concorde was the only aircraft to be able to experience the sunrise from the West, as stated on the sector from Guam to Bangkok. The phenomenon depends the rate of crossing the Meridians and will occur at much lower speeds than supersonic as one nears the Poles. For example the Boeing 747 used to fly at around Mach 0.8 and one could experience a sunset, a reverse twilight followed by a sunrise on such flights. This happened on afternoon departures for example London to Los Angeles in winter when the flight went higher than about 70 North.
Such as shame Concorde not flying, rather being on the ground stuck in some museum or as a restaurant. Should build new Concorde's or just dig out the old one's. At least they could do flybys and let everyone listen to those engines. Bring back Concorde, and make Briton proud again.
they cant. basically airbus kept them going from a parts bin that was created expecting 70 orders. over 30 years they all got used up and airbus was not going to retool, develop a aircraft series of only a few aircraft. i think they even took bits off a test machine.
the problem of concorde was expense ... each ticket was easily 10K and up and when 9/11 happen, the majority of the base who expended money to fly concorde, dried up ... hence, ending the program
Easily the most amazing' human built' thing Iwill ever see.. aliens will come one day to say "we have travelled 43 billion light years, just to come to see Concorde-and It's not the most technological thing you will do-but easily the most beautiful
I hope that finally a genuine supersonic transport plane will soon be available flying everywhere and people free of fears caused by sonic booms ruining peoples
Seeing the world in the most beautiful airliner ever to grace the skies. Does it get any better than that? From the accounts of BA crews that I've read, each Concorde airframe handled somewhat differently. G-BOAD was not only one of the nicer ones to fly in terms of 'feel', but she was also more economic on fuel for whatever reason, and so she was often the go-to Concorde for round the world charters like this.
50 ..50 jears on! Keep its design go digital instruments improved RR engines killer interior and so on! But go go go again please! The outside looks got to stay tho!
@@bobbypaluga4346 I know and i understand. That isn’t going to keep me from my dreams. Every now and then after looking at uploads like this she is up in the sky’s flexing. And like myself is still fresh and young. Waking up as a pensioner is a little bit disappointing then. BUT THE DREAM WAS ALL MINE. 💪
Wow, at 9:00 they are serving the West Australian Capel Vale wine on the Concorde...This surprised me, I thought it would have been carrying French wines.
So if B.A are going to use "average" wines on a Concorde flight? makes you wonder what they serve on their Boeing's & Airbus' First and Business Cabins ...I see you still haven't named any "fine" British wines that are being used..Me thinks you have fallen asleep on your comfortable armchair again! 🤣
@@MrDaiseymay still cant name any British Wines aftwr all this time?... Saya a lot about you and your general knowledge on wine. You just speak empty words mate.
looking at recreating these flights in FSLabs concorde on FSX, anyone know if there is a copy of the flight plan map that was used showing the exact route flown? i can see it at: 24:07
i'm familiar with that website, i have put together all ins flightplans for that trip now (if anyone is interested). but i was referring to the physical map in the chaps hands at 24:07
The map for each leg is there plus the actual concorde IFR flight plan plus flight plans to download for FS Navigator or FSX which you can plug into CPS to get all the fuel/takeoff data etc.
thanks for the info, but its still not what i asked in my original question, im looking for a physical copy of the color map with the red flight plans shown in the hands of the man on the concorde in 1999 video. if there is a copy of that exact map on concordefpl.co.uk/ , then please copy a link to it here. Thanks.
mcbige1 The map shown in the video is not the actual IFR routing. It would not be useful for flight planning. I thought you said in the op that you were looking to recreate the flight using Fslabs Concorde X.
thanks, yes I've recreated the flightplans already for the Concorde x since my first post. I was just looking for a JPEG or similar of the colour map for reference only, not for exact flightplaning. thanks anyway
NO comparison at all. It was a military design, that did it's job well. with two crew? wearing space suites, helmets , and oxygen masks----Concorde , 100 PASSENGER'S PLUS CREW, IN LUXURY, WEARING THEIR QUALITY CLOTHES, IN COMFORT, EATING AND DRINKING THE BEST FOOD AND WINES. ARRIVING IN HALF THE TIME OF OTHER AIRLINERS. NO COMPARISON, ''THE GREATEST TECHNICAL ACHEIVEMENT OF THE 20TH CENTURY'' APPOLLO ASTRONAUT, GORDON COOPER.
Full component of passengers? It has 100 seats, could they have removed 5 rows? Maybe ancillary employees filled the 20 seats? They did mention 80 wealthy Americans were invited.
Of course, Yemelyanovo Russia to UKBB Kiev, would be a shorter route. I see you wanted to see Fiji, and that's all well and good. You could make a quick trip from Fiji to Sydney, then to Hong Kong, or Incheon. From either/or, to your mid point in the world, Yemelyanovo, UNKL. From then on, to UKBB in the Ukrane. Of course, you make your call from there to Heathrow or de Gaulle, your choice.
Maybe aircraft is under tow , but the impression is that it is taxying in (at Sydney ) at 19.34, & looks like 2 service hatches left open, Shurely not ! !
400KIAS at FL280 or 290 was the most efficient subsonic speed but that would get you less range than one acceleration and the majority of the route at mach 2.
Of course, as any airliner of that era, Concorde had a rudimentary but effective autopilot, it had a 3-axis autopilot to control speed, altitude, and heading. For the navigation it had 3 units of INS (no GPS) called the CIVA/Carousel where you could enter up to 9 coordinates at a time in sequence so the autopilot would follow those coordinates in sequence until you arrive at the end of the route.
Thank you for this fascinating video. I was lucky enough to fly on Concorde 31 times on BA and 3 times on AF. BA cancelled Concorde because of the cost, apparently. But I say that they should have continued to operate it but charged any losses to BA's advertising budget. There has never been an aircraft that has attracted so much favorable attention wherever it went!
Up to half the seats on each flight were filled by people traveling with frequent flier awards, hence no revenue. BA had some great quarters partially due to expensive Concorde flight but it was for a short time in the whole time of operation. AF never made a dime from Concorde ops. Keeping in mind the two carriers didn’t pay one cent to buy the Concorde
Amen, it was built for the London to New York flight which begs the question Why did the Soviets built the Concordski or TU-144? The answer, to show that Communism was as advanced, even superior, to Capitalism. The TU-144 even flew earlier than the Concorde, it just didn’t fly very well because it lacked the navigation, flight management systems, range, seating and the engines of its British-French masterpiece. There were not city pairs that were similar to Concorde’s London or Paris tp New York, where can you go from Moscow that is *half the range of the Concorde, yet having to same high demand for seats? *the 144 could only fly 1500 miles with its rather primitive low bypass jet engines. As small as the Concorde seats are and the lack of leg, head and shoulder room, who would not love to take this trip? Can anyone guess the price paid by Air France and British Air for the Conorde’s they flies? Zero, not one Franc or Pence.
the tu144 kinda flew 1st but was found to be so riddled with flaws, they pretty much redesigned it for the "production" model. the short range was due to the fact tu144 needed reheat all the way to stay supersonic. the tu144 made a total of 23 flights in service. 2 crashes pretty much sealed the fate.
What if these trips all around the World were delivering more than just an exhibition of this flying technology? What if people made love, unprotected consensual sex, leaving all sorts of surprises, for genealogists & geneticists to never understand how we are interrelated .... It's possible, butt that doesn't mean it did happen, or at least some of hope not ;-) I recalled something on the way home that both shocked & surprised me! Why would a part of Māoridom, be called the Cook Island variation? Are they 'Cook's' or his crews? Interesting.... May they were more promiscious than the log books, or diaries lead us to believe.... to honour Cook & his crew, or to disgrace his name? Maybe they are the children of the French navigators, after all? Why did the French settlement near Christchurch fail? Were they all eaten or did they escape. Hard to tell, without knowing the verbal & oral histories ;-)
... CONCORDE should be relaunched in order to transport urgent goods as quick as possible over the whole world, for example medical deliveries//vaccine in CORONA-TIME ... !!
C'était la belle époque sans #UE de merde... La vie n'était pas chère... Mais gardons espoir espoir l'#UE de merde va disparaître et les prix vont revenir à 1950... Bees Buzz...
For goodness sake... for a supposedly professional program produced by British Airways who at the time owned 25% of Qantas to show a Qantas Captain and spell Qantas QUANTAS is absolutely unforgivable. Absolutely ruins it and makes you wonder how much else is incorrect in this program. I even know one of the people on the flight - can't believe they spelled Qantas wrong.
I couldn't give a rats arse whether you like QF or not, the fact they spelled it wrong is simply ignorance and stupidity, it's the oldest airline in the English speaking world, it's not like it just came along yesterday... I wonder if the reaction would be the same if they'd put BRUTISH AIRWAYS on the titles. Besides, I honestly don't know why people hate Qantas... I've been flying with them for over 50 years, I've also flown on many other airlines including BA, NZ, SQ, CX, EK and many others and I'd be quite happy to be put on Qantas as a first choice any day. All of which is nothing to do with the fact this is a sloppy production - and applauding the error doesn't make you smart, it makes you look stupid.
Well I can't speak for other people, but to use the words "..it absolutely ruins the entire documentary..", and wiping out the entire film because of just ONE typo, on just one name, made by a caption editor, or just some bod in a caption edit suite - who, maybe, just maybe, wasn't perhaps that clued up about how world airlines are spelled - and who perhaps, just maybe, hadn't had that many dealings with Qantas.. ..Well maybe, it's just a little bit of an overkill statement to say it ruins the WHOLE documentary. Just saying. Personally, I don't think it takes that much away from the documentary, and I enjoyed watching it. I'm sure the relevant facts are accurate, even if a minor detail was overlooked by the producer. Yes you are correct, the final edit should have been checked a bit more closely for typos, but you know, these things get through - it happens in Hollywood in every single movie that's ever made.
