Everybody has their opinion and favorites. The Concorde is a magnificent aircraft, but then again so is the SR-71 Blackbird and XB-70 Valkerie, along with the 747, F-15 ,and F-22 Raptor, and many more for sure. For me it's the SR-71.
Concorde vs the 747 and 380 is like a light weight pro armwrestler pinning an NFL lineman on the table....power, speed and technique beats size everytime...
One of, if not the most beautiful aircraft ever to grace the skys. I have loved the Concorde since I was a child. It was on my bucket list of things to do and was even saving for a trip just to fly on it. Just about saved enough too when they pulled the plug and grounded them..... Never did get the chance... :'( I cried when the last flight flew out of JFK.
@@MrDaiseymay Just going aboard static museum plane would no where be the same thing as actually flying onboard. And WOW I posted this 6 years ago! LOL
At about 1.45 is what the Concorde engines actually sounded like in real life on the ground while spooling up on the ground.Like a thunderous slow motion explosion. The thing shook Queens NY to the core on takeoff
Nothing has ever garnered such attention better than the Concorde. And they still can't produce a super sonic airplane to replace it. A lot of ideas, but no delivery to the commercial aviation industry yet. I could be wrong, though.
Great choice of vid to see in the new year! That might just be my 1st purchase, shame but unlikely to see a supersonic passenger flight in the near future.
She was and still is a great aircraft to be in and to see. I saw her twice once in Paris after landing. And another time with the British Airways Concorde after landing in Hong Kong. We will always miss the Concorde...
well of course it is. Apollo Astronaut Ed White said. Concorde was the greatest technical acheivement of the 20th century. Even more than the Apollo moon shot.
20 Concordes were built in total. 18 remain. The 2 missing ones are F-BTSC obviously and the other is F-BVFD, broken up in 1994. This was after a heavy landing and she lay dormant for approximately 12 years before being scrapped.
In Those Days 2001 Science and Technology it's A Great Awesome 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼🎉🎉🎉🙏🙏🙏. No Smartphones, No Smart Advanced Technology, Like Now In 2021. In 2021 With The Latest Advanced Technology Still Can't Producing Such an Almighty Flight ✈️✈️✈️. 😭😭😭😭😭 It's So Sad.
This is a wonderful dvd.As many times as I viewed this DVD I cannot figure out the departure runway.Does any one know or is it conjecture as I am doing?It certainly is not the 31L Canarsie Transition Dep.I initially said, ‘4L; perhaps BETTE or HAPPE then flight plan’ but the bird makes a right thence an immediate left, which for 4L would take it over population. The same would be 13R. So I am guessing 22RAny fellow Concorde geeks with any answer?ThanksDonL
It looks like 22R because you can see apartment complexes in the background further into Queens and then during the take off run to its right the old TWA terminal.
bon anniversaire concorde. Il y a 50 ans tu nous embarquais pour les tours du monde de nos rêves. a Mach 2 8 juillet 2021 nous pensons particulièrement à toi nous t aimons tant et toujours... merci concorde toi le plus bel avion du monde des temps modernes.. et l unique avion commercial supersonique. merci aux équipages et chacun qui t ont fait voler parmi les étoiles tout près du soleil et de la lune... je me console un peu.... car tu es à quelques mètres d appolo à Washington.... merci à nos amis et alliés les américains et les anglais...
Born in NYC! Visit far rock away beach since childhood-loudest plane to leave JFK so we always saw it and it loops before heading out from JFK. Extremely loud.
What is happening? We are supposed to be moving forward but we keep going back. We had supersonic jets almost 2 decades ago and a passenger jet hasn’t passed supersonic speed since Concorde. We need a plane like this now.
Actually, very few of "us" had supersonic jets ever. Supersonic flight was limited to so small a segment of the flying public, that almost no one enjoyed it, and never had it. Since the origin of Concorde, when almost every airline on earth decided to stick with subsonic flight, airline travel has become safer and more accessible, hardly a step back.
@@qasimmir7117 Why would that work? While 1st class passengers contribute a lot of prestige to their airline, they don't pay much towards the revenue total - more comes from the business travelers, who pay less (by thousands of dollars) per seat, but by more seats. All-business aircraft make more sense, and yet very few airlines have tried running all-business class flights. Also, it's highly unlikely that businesses would buy into the supersonic travel market.
They were departing runway 22R, which was preferred over the more famous runway 31L departure for noise abatement. The plane is actually climbing over the center of the Jamaica Bay, before turning left to cross the Rockaway Peninsula and then towards the Atlantic. I was based at JFK and saw this frequently, however the 31L departure (Canarsie Climb) was more fun to watch.
@@tonyw8146 Ok, I see. But why not turn left directly from take off? Was that because of the noise from the engines with full afterburners on? (I guess that would have been horrible for the poor people living on the peninsula...)😏
@@staernpeder A left turn would take the aircraft over the residential areas of the Rockaway Peninsula quicker and at a lower altitude. If you look at Google Maps at JFK airport, it will make more sense. .
Obviously a very pretty aircraft but very noisy (even without sonic booms) and too damned expensive to operate. Having said that, I wish I had flown in it once before it's demise as a type. It's a new year and it's time for another Just Planes purchase. What to choose, what to choose......
Graceful, but filthy. What a huge waste of effort to benefit only a few super rich exploiters of mankind. The 747 crushed it into the trash bin of history.
BobEckert56 Concorde will always be remembered for being so unique you can't compare the 747 to Concorde, Concorde was successful in its own way. For years Concorde made over 25% of British airways profits so it was extremely successful and succeeded at its goal of making supersonic travel profitable, the 747 never crushed it into a bin and it will never be forgotten because it was so unique and ahead of its time
@@jadendesveaux7452 CORRECT. HORSE FOR COURSES. THE GREAT LINER'S LIKE QUEEN MARY AND ELIZABETH, WERE BUILT ON THE PEOPLES TAXES, EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE MOSTLY USED BY THE RICH. NOBODY BEGRUDGED THAT, THOSE SHIPS MADE OUR COUNTRY PROUD, AND GAVE THOUSAND'S OF MEN JOBS, JUST LIKE CONCORDE.
And the US had been so terribyle gelious for this amazing wonderplane, that they ordered Aerospatial regulations to build this "secure nose". And Concorde got this "folding nose". Which was also phantastic. (At first Concorde was planned without front-windows but "alleged safety considerations"...) Sorry US - Europe got the Concorde - US got the noise of it...
@@wyomingadventures It was more than that, they kept on changing the dynamics of what they actually wanted from the plane, and ended up with nothing, and a massive waste of money. They were far too ambitious, and took too many steps to out do Concorde. when smaller improvements would have suceeded
