original upload deleted enjoy Crews View of the JFK1 departure (currently JFK3.SHIPP) of-of 31L including some checklist with explanations. Perfect example of CRM.
I flew on Concorde ... NY to London ... I will never forget it. It was like being in a Ferrari with wings ... the view of the curvature of the earth as I sipped my glass of champagne will stay with me forever. It took three hours and eight minutes ... utterly staggering.
lucky me had 4 trips, one landing at JFK strapped into jumpseat on flightdeck! yes it WAS the curvature of the Earth, your other respondent quite wrong. THE most extraordinary experience of my life. Treasured forever.
@goldenmiddledistanceraces5929 Do your research. Stop believing everything that someone tells you and start using your brain. It's called critical thinking. You will discover a new world. Wake up.
Still a marvel of engineering. We've actually taken a step back since the Concordes all stop flying. Passenger jets are a lot bigger and more efficient, but they perform.....speedwise.... much the same way as the 707s and DC-8s of the 1950s. I look forward to seeing the first Boom Overture when it rolls off the assembly line in Greensboro. It'll be the first step to achieving what the Concorde did decades ago.
And the emphasis from Airlines is promoting the standard of class with which you fly.. it still, as you say takes the same amount of time whichever class you fly.
@@Lex5576 I wasn't aware of that.... But knowing what went into just making the engine for Concorde (an engine that was already in production and 'only' had to be modified) I simply can't see it happening boom are now saying they'll make theirs themselves and from what I gather from scratch (a-bit using modern core design) but just that is no mean feat modern core design is so advanced the Chinese have yet to be able to copy commercial engines let alone military engine design I wish them luck but I simply do not think it's possible
LOL! Yeah, with over 300 fewer passengers. Not to mention the 100,000lbs+ of additional freight most passenger 747s carry. The Concorde was wholly fuel INEFFICIENT when compared to even the oldest 747. You trying to imply the Concorde was more fuel efficient than the 747 is hilarious to say the least.
This plane, admittedly very fast and cool, but it was a fuel hog and not environmentally friendly. By the way, I was a flight instructor and love Concord videos.
And a fraction of the 747's load :). But an aircraft for an oil rich world, still oblivious to peak oil and climate change. Those were the (hazy) days.
Yes we pilots enjoyed it much more than the passengers. The 31L departure was the best. In fact as a result of this special departure with the left turn at 100ft to avoid the excess noise over Queens, pretty well all the other airlines did the same and Queens had a much quieter future. Super good.
Evidently more guys have flown in space as pilots than flew Concorde. A very priviledge few. In the film it is stated by all how much they loved it. The Captain whose name escapes me said that nothing could cross the Atlantic as quick as it .The SR-71 had to refuel a couple of times. The record was New York to London in about 2 hrs 56 minutes. Wonderful aircraft.
cesare vissani no I will dig out the video but these guys NY to LDN were Supersonic from (traffic permitting ) a few minutes out of New York all the way to the Bristol Channel nearly all the way at Mach 2 . The SR would have to refuel at least once in fact they used to refuel after take off and that would take some time. I will get the video out because the Captain of this flight said it and he was The Manager for Concorde at the time. The sad thing is that both planes no longer fly.I know that the SR71 went across the US in an incredible time, it began with 1 hour but I forgot how many minute, and it took the width of California to do a normal 180 turn.I saw a SR 71 at Duxford and it was amazing, they had not cleaned it and you can see where the fuel leaked out of their tanks, but it is a dam shame it does not fly still.According to an ex wing Commander ( I saw on a video on RU-vid) the problem in flying it now is getting all the special oils and fuel etc that allowed it to fly at Mach 3.Both remarkable aircraft. On the Ldn-NY sector of this video the plane got up to 58000 ft. That is quite remarkable considering it was carrying passengers. The co pilot here Les Brodie flew on one of Concorde's last flights as a Captain and then retired. There is another remarkable video on RU-vid showing a BA Concorde doing touch and goes at Seville in Spain got quite a crowd until he finally left in the evening with his afterburners glowing in the darkness at take off. I love both these aircraft and it would appear that politicians and money men are too involved these days and such projects as these 2 when they began no longer happen. Nothing known that the skunk works has produced since comes near the SR71, and no civil aircraft is close to the performance of Concorde. Could you imagine a mark 2 version with upgraded engines and double the size. The people and the engineering is their but politicians seemed to have stopped this type of project. What was a simple answer has turned into me having a huge gripe, sorry about that.
Can you imagine how much better it would’ve been with modern electronics and turbines. Modern turbines are more fuel efficient and produce more thrust.
My uncle used to ride the Concorde across the pond three times per week for 15 years. He had more transoceanic crossing miles than I do and I'm a B744/B748 captain!
I flew the BA Concord subsonic in 1984. We had a fuel door issue that could not be fixed at JFK and had to fly to London subsonic. Took off and landed 2x because we could not go supersonic and tried to fix at jfk. It took about 9 hours. Most of the other passengers opting to fly first class on other flights and left only about 5 of us on the subsonic flight. Each of us sat in the jump seat between the pilot and first officer in the cockpit for over an hour because there was no movies or entertainment on Concord. Was very cool. The pilot was the same pilot who held the record for the fastest flight from London to jfk. Held both records, fastest and slowest.
Like top fuel at a dragstrip! I am confident an announcement will be coming out soon about a new plane. The routes are too long for todays aircraft premium class.
Fuel management on the Concorde was very complicated. It had like 15 fuel tanks, and they had to constantly move the fuel around to keep the Concorde balanced. It was also one of the few commercial planes that had radiation monitoring equipment. This is due to its 60k cruising altitude. exposing it to more cosmic ray and solar proton radiation.
A lot of the pilots retired when Concorde was grounded including the First Officer here Les Brodie who had become a Captain. This was taken in 1995, Concorde was taken out of service in 2003 ( from memory).
it's interesting to note that was once the worlds fastest commercial aircraft, had virtually no cockpit computer screen readouts.....I'd love to see this speedster comeback for Trans Atlantic flights with updated fuel efficient version engines...
+Carmen Seeger How about the Buran shuttle? I know it was 2 decades after the Apollo missions, but still. Made an autonomous rocket launch, 2 orbits, autonomous landing in 61 kph crosswind and only landed 3 meters off course after a go-around that the shuttle initiated by itself.
Flew on Concorde supersonic around the Bay of Biscay. Mach 2 55000 feet above ground. My champagne glass did not move at all. So smooth!. Miss hearing it fly over head at 11.05 each day as it passed Bristol England on the way to the USA.
i like how at 4:59, the flight engineer is actually explaining some of it to us, rather than just showing off...seems like he would a make good flight instructor
Agreed, but the Concorde program's crystal ball didn't foresee the fuel crisis but the US (Boeing) SST concept was perhaps fortunate enough to be 'behind' Concorde, so it had the benefit of being able to pull out before the whole supersonic airliner thing became non-viable. I worked in the airline industry during the Supersonic conceptual phase and the amount of behind the scenes planning for this 'new era' was formidable. Then, serendipity prevailed upon the yanks and Boeing, which always had superior long range market forecasting, was gifted an advantage with the fuel cost factor, so the jumbo jet era emerged and dominated for decades.
Having flown in it in 1992 I can confirm the acceleration on the ground when the reheats are plugged in is incredible - real pushed into your seat stuff. A bit noisy as well it has to be said
They had to have spectacular acceleration in order to leave the ground before reaching the end of the runway. Delta wings are superb for sustained high speed cruising but generating lift at lower speeds is compromised.
i was at the end of the runway for a Concorde takeoff from YVR.,,I'm pretty sure they were using reheat, the rate of climb was amazing, and the aircraft left holes in the clouds...additionally, the noise level, with Concorde about 200 feet overhead, was about the same as being on the starting grid of a motorcycle race, ooops, with no hearing protection! Not a "sound" as such, more like your whole ear is rattling!
Sophisticated and complex... but distinctly analogue. It’s like a Vulcan bomber in there! I can only imagine what a modern remake of ‘Son-of-Concorde’ with a glass cockpit would look like.
I use to look at airplane cockpits and just get dizzy till i started flying video game simulators about 20 years ago, i realize they are not real training BUT they do make you realize everything has its use and its basically instruments telling you what the airplane airframe is doing and the engines etc,nothing to it@@gdutfulkbhh7537
………….I was so amazed at how quiet this plane was once it reached it cruising speed. Would've been quite the experience to have ridden on one of these magnificent airplanes. A shame they no longer fly.
i saw a concorde take off from las vegas. i was just off the runway when she stated her roll. i stopped and watch her clear the mountains. only then did i notice a lvpd car behind me doing the same thing! we both grinned at each other and went our separate ways.
Keerthivasan Nambiraju The b-1s never landed or took off from McCarron when Nellis was only a few miles away. My husband knows aircraft designs like the back of his hand. That concorde took off and headed in the west, turned over the mountain range, and eventually went out of sight. Dan Hughes- i don't know what type of flight it was, but i do know the difference between a b1b and the concorde. It wasn't Russian and no other aircraft flying has the nose and distinctive hood covering so indicative to the concorde. The closest possible American design for the hood could have been the XB70 Valkyrie, which is vastly bigger overall. Besides that, I'll have to look and see if i still have the pictures. At that time in '93-'97, you could take pictures all you wanted; no questions asked. Incidentally, i gave you a time frame if you would like to research mccarron and/or the FAA for Las Vegas, NV during that period to see whether or not a Concorde arrived and left. Honestly, i love aircraft in general, but this day has stayed with me because it was so unusual and i had never seen one as close as i was before.
@@ashontahuddleston6663 On March 4, 1987, an Air France Concorde landed at McCarran Airport. This was the only time as it was in a "world tour" at the time
@@keerthivasannambiraju955 concorde has flown supersonic over certain areas of the US. it just required special clearance and the route needed to be planned carefully to avoid populated areas. it's also flown supersonic over canada a number of times.
@Modest Well that was petty... while the manufacture of the aircraft was evenly split, the aircrafts design as a whole was only possible due to the availability of the Rolls Royce Olympus engines, France was intending on building a medium range aircraft and the UK was intending on a long range aircraft with a delta wing design using those engines, making the eventual product more British than French.
@Modest "Cautious" with facts... no... www.heritageconcorde.com/who-built-concorde "France showed real interest, mainly because the British were the only nation that had the possible engine, the Olympus 593. It would of taken the French years and cost millions to to develop a engine of their own."
I lived in Ayr near Prestwick airport. Every summer they did what appeared to be training or testing on a Concorde as it flew above for days on end. Was so impressive to see in the sky.
I remember Concorde being a regular at Prestwick, back in the day. Used to either go to the airport and watch or sit up at the old castle in my hometown Ardrossan.
I love the way these men talk. The clipped vowels and soft consonants make the words uber clear over the noise via (in today’s terms) a poor quality microphone.
This is very cool from the pilots view, my only favorite plane. So sadden it was retired so soon..how long can a aircraft be in service cause I truly believe air France helped get her grounded since they weren't doing as good as BA was..never knew I would be so emotional for a beautiful machine..😥💗💔♌
Nothing special really. The reheats come off at 1.70 Mach or 15 minutes of burn time whichever comes first and then the plane climbs and descends to maintain airspeed, gradually climbing as it looses weight.
When the reheats come in subsonic you get two shoves in the back as they light 2 on each side. Supersonic transition is completely normal you just notice the mach Meyer in the cabin ticking up towards Mach 2.0
What a professional flight crew! I never got to fly on the Concord but a friend did told me that he knew the Earth round having seen the curvature of it.
My grandad was a life support systems engineer on the Concorde prototype in the 60s I believe. As well as his many jobs while airborne his penultimate job was in event of abandon the aircraft being decided during in test flight he had to arm and blow the hatch for the escape chute, I believe it dropped you out from below the fuselage. He would have to ensure every man was off then he was last off even after the pilot, apparently it was tested and worked for egress at supersonic speeds, wouldn't fancy that though. I can't imagine the size of the balls of those test pilots and engineers, from what he always told me it just seemed like a case of lets try it who's up for it.
While Americans & Russians builded Strategic Mach 2 bombers at a time , France & Uk builded Mach 2 civil planes. guess what ? Concorde is the most beautiful plane ever, compared to B1, TU 160 ...
By all measures the concorde was a failure. It was built by governments on taxpayer dime. The program never broke even. There are currently several new aircraft in development right now that ARE viable including faster than concorde aircraft (both airliner and private jet) and another that will do M 1.4 over land thanks to research by NASA and Lockheed.
Be sure to ask for the afterburning Olympus engines. The Rolls Royce RB-211's, while pretty awesome in their own right, won't get you supersonic. Gotta get the Olympus. Good luck and happy flying!
Great video. The Concorde certainly needed some diligent pilots to fly her! I sure hope we see another Concorde-like aircraft someday. I'd love to experience supersonic flight.
Unlikely. Besides, supersonic flight, especially for a civil carrier is expensive, fuel inefficient, noisy (try living in the suburbs close to Heathrow...) and high CO2 emissions. . Though she was a remarkable feat of aviation engineering (I've been on the flight-deck of Concorde...), we'll never see another like her. And rightly so, given the current global warming scenario.
Your view is this big for that big of a plane, can you believe this!? the skills these people need to control this thing irl must be incredible! good job to anyone who had the chance to flight a Concorde!
Amazing. These three men are good at what they do. Like how many month's or years of training did this take to get all these checks and maneuvers mastered?
Me and a few of my mates flew a scheduled Concorde flight BA2 from NYC-LHR in 2002, so lucky....and guess how much each? GBP1200 (US$1700) for LHR-NYC in a 747 and NYC-LHR by Concorde! At 58000ft and 1350mph, it felt as though you were stationary! Amazing!
Did it in 1992 on a promo flight from Jeddah to London. All the hangers etc had hordes of people outside watching us taxi and them hammer off down the runway. And yes incredibly smooth at Mach 2 absolutely no sense of movement. I was surprised though at how small it was on the ground and inside - narrower than a 737
Looks like you definitely needed to be at the top of your game when flying one of these. The concord was from a different era. I don't think we will ever see the likes of it again. Although we have progressed through the decades I do feel we have taken a few steps back in many other ways. The world has lost it's charm if you will
I watched one come in once to land once and let me tell you....they were LOUD! And that was landing. Watching this here and seeing this on full power, flying over those homes? Their windows must've been rattling. Every dog on the ground there must've been freakin' out lol.
_Magnificent_ European aircraft. Takes one’s breath away! I hope Airbus and Boeing bring back an SST. Maybe people below would no longer be so needlessly averse to a subtle thing like a sonic boom, or _brief_ sound of afterburners. My gosh everybody: those little sounds are aviation at its best! Cheers to you Europeans from the States! 💛🙏🏼
Damn! He shoved those throttles to full power right NOW! That had to be one of the best jobs a human being could ever have flying that airplane. Could you imagine having the Concorde cockpit as your office space??? Nice!
Interesting enough Concorde was the First airliner with FADEC controlled engines, so when the throttles were slammed like that It was just a signal to the FADEC to spool the engines up as quickly but symmetrically as possible.
Pilot Benjamin No kidding? I didn't know that. Just another reason why that was such an awesome airplane. Learn something new about it all the time. Thanks and Semper Fi!
My question is, why the dramatic countdown '3-2-1-now'? Why not simply 'Brakes released, lets go'? I don't see how the world was going to end if he didn't throttle up at that EXACT millisecond.
Terrible throttle handling at the start of the take-off roll. Shoving the throttles like that can give a big spike in engine temps, reducing their life.
Such a shame it's so hard to come by the full version of this now, it's over 3 hours long. If anyone is interested the crew names are Capt. David Rowland, S.E.O. Roger Bricknell and F.O. Les Brodie who went on to become captain. There's a great talk involving David here at 53:22 - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-x9CY5g27P_0.html Les in a simulation: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nhY-t5KtBxE.html Roger did have a video on the startup procedure for Concorde but I cannot find it.
By VISOR I guess he meant nose? I want to see the nose coming up from inside the cockpit. It looks like they caught it in the middle of action. I want a better video of it.
This is so well filmed. At 2:12 we see the copilot reaching for some control and we cut on the action and see him turning it. Then at 2:15 we cut to a different angle focussing on the pilot's expression, but with the copilot's hand still in shot. This type of detailed multi-camera shooting is rarely attempted in any YT video now, even though the cameras have become so much cheaper and smaller.
This is taken from an old British Airways VHS following the crew from LHR-JFK and back, correct? I still have it in the attic somewhere, I used to watch it all the time as a kid!
Jack Meakins The name of the video is Concorde,British Airways Produced by intelligent Television and Video I just found it in a pile of old video, I too watched it over and over
Such a beautiful plane. Amazing what man can build. Am I right in thinking, (one video I saw), Concorde was taxiing (have I spelt that right)? To take off & just getting to the runway it used up enough gas that your average car uses in 6 MONTHS!
We are LONG LONG overdue for another supersonic jet. I mean it's almost 2020 and if this jet was successful back then. Why couldn't we have perfected something even better now...? Doesn't make sense too me at all.
Does anyone know where I can find the full video? This clip is based off of a five hour movie called ‘The Fabulous Concorde’ that used to be on RU-vid. It’s an absolute historical treasure, to be sure.
I well up every vid I watch. flew in her. the most astonishing pride and awe still with me. we'll never see the likes of her beauty again and its heartwarming she is still so treasured 20 years later
I haven't read all the comments, but they all seem to be positive or in actual awe. I was truck driving in Saudi in 1978. If we were driving next to the TAP (trans Arabian Pipe) line we would stop and watch the midday flight from Bahrein go over. It put a lump in my throat to think that they would be home in just over 3 hours, and I would be home in 3 months! The Sonic Boom was something similar to those guns that go off regularly in fields to scare the birds, hardly earth shattering. I believe that when they finally allowed Concorde into JFK, they insisted it flew out across Jamaica bay to lessen the noise footprint. I understand that the New Yorkers living below realised what a nuisance normal planes were and insisted on all flights taking that path. I may be wrong. In September I flew home on G-BOAD (I think - anyway, the one with BA on one side and Singapore Airlines on the other) A truly magical journey. like most people I went on the flight deck. I was also given a second fillet steak as they had some over! Of course now, the flight engineer's job would be replaced by a computer. Back then, the only computer I had was a Casio calculator. I still have it.
The Air France disaster killed the entire Concorde program. Runway debris and she's a goner. The steering wheel looks like something off a kiddie bike. Although I've never flown on that bird I did see it take off from, of all places, Detroit Metropolitan Airport was driving down I-94 when all of a sudden all the traffic had stopped and pulled over and I asked "What the hell is going on?" They said the Concorde is going to take off! Now you must be thinking the Concorde didn't fly to Detroit, well, not usually but it was on a country wide tour designed to endorse the Concorde and allay concerns of its loud noise, so yes, MOTOR CITY CONCORDE.
@@TheLRider not pan European : Britain and France only. Although the original aerofoil work was done by two German scientists who came to the UK at the end of WW2. France doesn't always get enough credit for Concorde as British Airways marketed it brilliantly compared to Air France.
Amazing and beautiful aeroplane.... ... wonderful video of take off showing true professionalism and very interesting to see what goes on..... Fabulous aircraft :)
I used to drive a refuse truck. It was pretty similar though it did have a reverse beep. I bet Concorde doesn't have a reverse beep. Oh and the pay was a bit lower. I think.
Not so sure - Concordes brilliance was it's engines and systems especially the ramp intake doors and control systems. Rolls Royce etc still own all that IP plus BAE/Airbus so I don't see anyone doing it unless it's from them.
