Concorde Secrets: What Airlines Had Orders For The Supersonic Jet? 

Such a stunning aircraft. How many other aircraft are known just by the name, ‘There is Concorde’, not a 747, or an A380. Just There is Concorde!.

I remember seeing a Concorde with BA livery on one side and Singapore Airlines on the other at Heathrow in 1978

A Concorde in Air Canada livery isn't something I thought I needed until now. The current AC livery would probably look absolutely badass on it.

Concorde: Absolutely the best looking passenger plane ever built.

No, I didn't even imagine this. Would any of these airlines have their orders come true, the Concorde dream would've been different.

What's ironic is that no more modern planes have such an elegant name "THE MAJESTIC *CONCORDE*"

Actually the passenger cabin of TU-144 was more comfortable than the Concord’s one.

What I really enjoy about these videos is that I learn so much! Really nice information Simple Flying! Greetings!

Didn't knew that Air India was also in this list. Wish if it had purchased Concorde. I would've spent my entire savings to fly on one. Also it would've looked gorgeous in old air India livery.

She is the most beautiful aircraft ever designed, end of. What makes me exceptionally proud is that she was conceived, born and built in Great Britain. Those Rolls Royce Olympus engines were absolutely magnificent and the sound that came from them was truly phenomenal. Interesting point......... she shared the same power plants as the brilliant Avro Vulcan bomber.🇬🇧🇬🇧✌✌

Would have suited Qantas, but the jet is too noisy and the high cost of fuel in the 70's made it a giant WHITE ELEPHANT

I thought I'd see what sort of story you'd come up with on this. Pretty good. If the operating costs (actually always high with Concorde) caused them to cancel orders before the first energy crisis, that would have caused them to cancel. Pan Am announced its first options on Concorde the day before Kennedy announced the SST program, which wasn't officially in the bag for Boeing for another three years. It started with three airframe manufacturers, Boeing, Lockheed, and North American. One had never built a production airliner. The other two hadn't actually built something supersonic as big as an SST. There were three engine manufacturers vying for a separate development contract for engines, General Electric, Pratt and Whitney, and Curtiss-Wright, the last of these thinking their engines would add an extra thousand miles of range to the SST. What we got was essentially Murphy's Law at work. Choosing Boeing, in the end, caused enough delays to allow the forces in opposition to the SST to win. I'd add that the American ban on supersonic flight overland came conveniently at a point where it was known that there would be no American SST. Sour grapes?

It took just one faulty repair of a DC10 to bring the Concorde to its knees. so sad...

Thanks for the video, anything on Concorde is welcome. Disappointing & remiss of you not to mention Singapore Airlines operation of a Concorde when one was even painted in SIA livery, on one side at least.

If only the Concorde had been around a decade earlier, then we would've seen it in multiple different liveries other than Air France and British Airways.

BOAC optioned 6 Aircraft. BOAC ordered 5 aircraft in 1972, Air France optioned 6 , in 1972 they ordered 4. CAAC and IRANAIR ordered an additional 5 aircraft which where built, however they where never delivered, they where given by the UK and French Governments to Air France/British Airways in 1980, making a total of 14 production aircraft, 7 to BA, 7 to Air France. ( plus 2 prototypes, 2 development aircraft, 2 pre production aircraft).Totalling 20 Concorde aircraft. There where 74 Concordes optioned by 18 airlines. Most options where cancelled by late spring 1973.

I remember Singapore Airlines had a Concorde

Great video well done

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Its interesting that 6 American airlines ordered Concorde

3:33 Whisper jet. Little did they know the 727 was one of the loudest 60's era jets in the world.

Im pretty sure British Airways, Air France, Singapore Airlines (x1 airframe) and Braniff were the only companys to fly Concorde Commercially....Braniff rented an Airfrance aircraft return from Washington to Dallas..

What a shame! I would have loved to have seen the Concorde draped in the QANTAS livery.

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That was a beautiful butter landing

Such a beautiful aircraft. I had the privilege of flying on one to New York in the 80’s.

I remember when i first laid my eyes on Concorde when I was 11 at JFK while taxing in a TWA 767 on my way to SJU.

You’d think there could at least be overland corridors for Concord to fly supersonic. Like over the western USA and the far north of Canada. I hope the Boom project is more successful

MEA: I remember when the Concorde landed in Beirut International Airport in July 1973; exciting prospects at the time. It would have been great if things went well and MEA had kept the order, but....

I am from India and I wish if air India would really get this machine

It was necessary to comment on one of the companies that made orders for the Concord, which was Panair do Brasil. It was more precisely the fourth order of the plane in 1963, as a replacement for an old order of the supersonic plane from Sud-Aviation. The most interesting thing is that Panair's plan was very different from the others, while BOAC, Air France and Panam thought of using the plane over long distances, Panair had in mind to make a supersonic air bridge between Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires. The order was for 5 planes. And it was undone in 1965 when the comania was closed by the Brazilian military dictatorship because it was owned by people linked to the opposition.

You took this information from mustard. Mustard nailed it with its concorde documentary.

Well.......There are a few factors that killed Concorde but what annoys me the most is the fact that Boeing had a big influence on the American aircraft industry and the US Government and they coerced them both into banning Concorde from being sold in their Country. How do I know this? I just do and what pissed me off is Boeing was frantically lobbying officials into killing the supersonic aircraft. They tried to do a similar thing with Airbus aircraft and the Bombardier C series, which turned into the Airbus A220. Airbus were smart enough to counter this by building plants in the States so they got around it but back then, they didn't know better.

0:20 Did anyone notice this guy?

3:52 best part of video

Anyone think if Lockheed actually got choosen to make the supersonic aircraft,maybe they could actually do it as well they are in that industry well not comercial buy you should get what I mean.

The CAAC would’ve just studied it and produced a Chinese version. Nobody: Comac: 😳

Concorde could of been a great success had some of these options turned into firm orders and delivery, Pity Air France poor maintenance contributed towards the crash of this magnificent aircraft, Airbus withdrawing the certificate of airworthness was the wrong decision, BA could have continued to operate Concorde at a profit.

It would have suited Air Canada well given the size of our country, imagine Vancouver to Toronto in 2 hours?? Too bad there were over-land restrictions.

Also an Irrelevant Fact: PAL would might order 4 Concordes to operate on potential US flights and Europe flights but The Oil crisis of 1973 stopped the 4 possible PAL orders So PAL ordered the DC-10 instead.

Could you make a video about the BAe 146/Avro RJ? It was a very cool plane and deserves a mention.

imagine if CAAC had concorde that means Air China would be flying concordes

this vidio is actully underated

If you know boom overture then this plane is the only plane to solve the Concorde's problems

So basically you just read what the site said? Interesting video...

Concorde could never fly to Singapore non stop. It didn’t have the range. For instance you do not mention that British Airways were operating Concorde’s in a collaboration with Singapore Airlines. The aircraft refueled and changed crews in Bahrain. One side of the aircraft was in BA colours and the other painted SIA. India would not allow Concorde to fly supersonically over its territory due to the sonic boom, although I am sure if Air India had bought the supersonic jet, this would not have been a problem. Flying to Singapore non stop on a 747-400 from 1989 onwards ended the viability of Concorde on the route. The Air France crash showed how vulnerable Concorde was to poor airmanship and maintenance, even though a metal strip on the runway caused the initial problem. Rudders would de-laminate occasionally and losing an engine in the cruise was quite a big event. Unlike the TU144, Concorde did not require reheat to maintain a supersonic speed. Concorde like the HS Trident, would be unlikely to be certified by the CAA today. BA pilots flying Concorde were handpicked and were the best. You did not simp,y become a Concorde pilot through choice or seniority. Even though BA and AF only had 14 Concorde’s between them, there were quite a few serious incidents not widely known. One AF Concorde had a nasty tail scrape out of Dakar, and a BA aircraft ran out of fuel at Heathrow whilst taxying from the runway. I am sure that if more airlines had operated Concorde, it would have been grounded eventually due to accidents simply caused by pilot error. This was not a forgiving aircraft to fly.

I can imagine old bidis complaining about the noise so what it's progress to many people are complaining for no reason 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

The future is in the past.

Never expected for Air Canada to purchase Corcorde planes but cancel the orders

You forgot about Philippine airlines, which placed options for 4 aircraft circa 1971. It flew to Manila for a demo flight prior to this order.

Another secret of the Concorde is Lego has made a model airplane out of 2000 pieces of Legos for under 200 buck or Euros! Not made for kids! Have fun, and good luck, some will need it!

Is there any other options

Omg $60,000,000 in 1970 would equate to $444,000,000 today. Almost half a billion dollars per Concorde.

Australian Airline TAA/Ansett also had a order

Why didn’t you talk about the Singapore airline concord... which was shared between Singapore airline and British airways?

Never heard of "placing an option" before!

You didn't mention about Air India cancellation

Actually Singapore airlines operated 1 Concorde from 1979 3 times before it was suspended it went mostly London - Singapore

In an alternate timeline where both the concorde and Mirabel were successful... Alas...

One of the reasons why they stopped flying Concorde was after it broke all the windows.

What about Singapore airlines, it flew the Concorde on a lease and got painted with a livery

Virgin Atlantic also had a Concorde but BA wouldn’t give them the suitable paint so the gave it back Sorry just wanted to add that

Suppose Somehow Ryanair would order the Concorde?😂😂 just imagine what would happen?😂😂

Good video 📹: new information. The French 🇫🇷 should never have allowed the Russians 🇷🇺 plane to fly from Paris. The plane , Konkordski. that looked identical to Concorde, crashed violently in Paris. Konkordski Tu144, was obviously badly made. Nevertheless, the reputation was damaged 💔 for the Anglo -French Concorde. 'Look, all supersonic planes are dangerous!' Orders tumbled.

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Eastern should have kept its options. Over water from New York to MIA and FLL !

I always wonder who owns the plans to Concorde, it would be interesting to take the exact same design, change out the fuselage for the most advanced materials we have no, and best engines etc, I wonder what the economics of that plane would look like.

I like how you show totally unrelated footage at times

CAAC is best Concorde if they had received it

Simpleflying can you please make a video on "Why does the Concord have a tail-dragger wheel at the end " You get me right?

On the prototype concordr was at one time painted round badges of the world airlines that put in orders then!

Hey, good stuff. Please drop the POPs; we are not children. Thanx

You forgot PAL/Philippine Airlines tho airline ordered concorde too but later cancelled bcoz of Oil crisis

What about Singapore airlines ?

All the tails of these customers were on a Hanger door in Toulouse but I think no longer!

do you know concorde was developed to double as a bomber

Philippine airlines was offered a concorde

3:22 im shocked

I wonder what will Pann Am do with their concordes If they actually put them in service.

The spatial bit in aero spatial is pronounced "spassial" not "spashial". Oh, and it should be "*which* airlines had orders for the supersonic jet" not "what airlines".

Well British and airfrace kinda had to place the orders

One of those entities who ordered Concordes could have also changed the future of supersonic flight... They would have reverse-engineered it, made multiple copies, and passed them off as their own.

What about Singapore Airlines who actually flew Concorde?

Iran air almost bought them

I wish it was still flying to this day just one small mistake made it retire wow...

Hi think about it the technology so forward thinking underrated 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

I wish the Lockheed Martin supersonic was built. They built the sr-71 so I think that if they got federal money to help them build it like Boeing we might have supersonic flights today.

Im the 433rd person to view them

The British and French sorting out the tech, and the Americans shafting the economics once again.

Maybe it was the competition that secretly destroyed Concorde

if philippines own airline company during that time concorde was rising (marcos era) there might be atleast 10 or more concorde flying here

Singapore airlines did operate the Concorde

CAAC don't worry about sending ours assembled.......

I suspect the only reason it was profitable was because of little competition in a niche market.

Also Singapore Airlines.

Qantas was the worlds only all 747 airline from 1979 to 1985 so it wasn’t just the 70s, in fact it just made it in the 70s on the retirement of the 707-338C until the arrival of the 767-238ER.

Didn't Singapore Airlines opperate the Concorde ?

where is the singapore airlines?

Very surprised than Iran Air had ordered one!!

Where is Philippine airlines dude