Concorde! London to Washington - 2 Sunsets in One Day!
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- čas přidán 30. 09. 2011
- This is the return flight of my previous posting. The sun had just set in London as we took off for Washington Dulles airport on March 15, 1993. Our flight over the Atlantic took 3 hrs. 50 minutes, reaching Mach 2.0 at 60,000 feet. After arrival in Washington, I watched the sun set again from my hotel room at the Washington Dulles Hilton after landing, clearing customs, checking in and setting up the camera in my room. Certainly a unique experience!
Hats off to the engineers who built the Concorde 🙌👏
The nearest we have got to a time machine....two sunsets of the SAME day......now that's just pure magic!
Back in 1980, I was on a British Airways flight at Heathrow Airport waiting to taxi when the pilot announced there would be a short delay for the Concorde to take off. Talk about *LOUD!* Everything in the plane shook like crazy. That was raw power! The only other aircraft I've seen that was _louder_ was the SR-71 taking off from Payne Field in Everett, Washington in the late 80s. I was out in the open for that and felt my insides rattle like jelly. I'm so glad I got to see both of these amazing engineering accomplishments in person.
This beautiful plane should still be in the air!
Yes. If this was the case, this plane would have took just 1 hour from Chennai (India) MAA to land at Dubai international airport (DXB) !!!
@@sudhakar35gm Air India shouldn't have cancelled their order back in the sixties/seventies.
@@WarhammerWings Yes.
@Jonathan Venus and will be more fuel economic and less operation cost
@@sudhakar35gm Yes it could, but imagine it going supersonic over densely populated areas so it couldn't go super sonic until the Arabian sea
Marvelous! Two sunsets in one day, another unique thing, which one could experience with the Concorde and is now no longer possible.
You can do that in a subsonic Airliner
Yes, but you would have to travel in the opposite direction now. ie the Qantas double sunrise flight from London to Sydney.
A head of time with design of Concorde no computers to figure out how to make it all work just AMAZING ♥️♥️👍
This is a precious video to document air transport.
She went so fast that the earth couldn't rotate fast enough!!!!
Yep.. the one solid evidence against flat earth idiots... ok... actually this can be shown when flying far from the equator with ordinary airlines as well... but with concorde it's more obvious...
"She"?
Jorge Yes planes are called by “She, her etc.” and same with ships 😉
@@Captain_London Tanks are he
**AMAZING!!!** Your videos are priceless...you totally rock!!!! 💗💗💗
Great, unique video. Thank you.
As you travel west, you go back in time.
a very beautiful sunset at the very end.
Thanks for this valuable content
Cool to know that the Concorde beat the Sun!
bobmarleysweg if only we could still use these
@@Official_Mr_masky have hope, buddy. 2023 is around the corner. we have to wait a little more than how long ago your comment was posted. It's not gonna take that long anymore.
that is incredible!!
Marvelous 🌎
So many empty seats (and on the Washington-London flight, too), no wonder it went out of business. Beautiful plane, though.
It did not go out of business. Concorde made BA on average 25 million Pounds a year in profits. Occasional low yields were encountered but this was generally seasonal.
What a plane!
I really regret that i will never take this plane in my life ...
Antonette Abe I was born in 1962. I quite often think I was born at literally the best time in history. Standard of living was comparatively very high, major killer diseases crushed or on the edge of being crushed. Everything seems to be going downhill, except for technological breakthroughs. Maybe it is just my sentimental way of thinking about the past, who knows.
@@sobmaz Nope. I was born in 1997. Everything is going to shit in favour of maximum efficiency and people's precious feelings. Wish I was born around 1950s era. Globalisation and excessive migration of foreigners who (more importantly) bring their foreign culture with them, has all but destroyed every nations' cultural identity, and thus people's sense of nationalism has degraded as a consequence. Even today's music is terrible. Whole world is becoming more automated, sterile, and worse of all, homogeneous. Build walls not bridges. Tribalism is an innate and essential part of human behaviour, and if we can't achieve it on a country by country level, levels of tribalism will increase in other facets, i.e. within a country's borders. Hence America's current political state lol. No enemies or foreign competition in the recent form of the soviet union for a country's people to unite against = people going crazy. Very simple really. A little bit of competition and hatred directed at the right people makes the world go round and keeps communities knit together. Unfortunately, modern snowflakes don't understand this.
I was on this flight to LHR from IAD and rtn back in 1993 - BA guest to see American bowel @ Wembley - was a great & so quick / to see a sunrise in the West
Lounge & Champagne Pol Roger Sir Winston Churchill / food - Canapés & Caviar - lobster fish cakes - desert / cheese & fruit.
Just before landing-
A nice gift is given out , conally grey leather bag tags & sterling silver tie tack on another flight
They should bring the Concorde back just too beautiful to leave her in a museum and also, nothing could compare and still cannot
the days where flight decks were open.
Because there were barely any idiots on airplanes.
That is very cool, Terry! (This is Dana Hester, btw.)
Sad to think that today, money is so much more important than technology, we will never see the likes of Concorde again.
2027 a new one will be created and we will all get to enjoy its splendor
Oh, the days when you could smoke on aircraft. Lighting up a Marlboro at Mach 1 - Satisfaction.
YTJM962
Yeah, at everyone else's expense.
2:52 miles to go 1150, 3:01 miles to go 1130.Holy shit.
two sen sets you broke the space time continuum barrier
Não, consigo ver... Sem chorar!
cool
That's fucking amazing!
I'd still like to know what the acceleration on that plane felt like compared to a normal jet airliner given that the Concorde to accelerate all the way up to Mach 2, twice the speed of a normal plane! All I know is that it must've felt more intense and/or you felt it for a longer time.
I think you were still allowed to smoke in 93.
Was this really from 1993? You'd think it was filmed today with the speed/distance/height displays!
i'm surprised at how few passengers there appeared to be on the plane.
1 Mach = Sonic - 761.24 Mph
smoking on flight sweet..I only caught when you could smoke on train :(
Concordes are soooo OP
It didn't actually do 20 miles in 9 seconds. It does 22 miles every minute at full speed. Its just the screen they use to display the information updates really slowly.
i have this plane!
in model
Minestar Productions they had us in the first part, not gunna lie
Thank you for posting all the details in your description - the date & locations. So many videos I've checked out: "Here's footage of the Concorde landing/taking off/flying!" - no date, no location, no context. Absolute idiots.
They were doing 390 mph which is 339 kts at 7500' but all aircraft must fly no more than 250 kias below 10000 msl. That just tells me that they were doing whatever they could get away with, just to shorten that flight time.
So this is Einstein meant when he told as fast you go as slow the time goes by? lol
I liked the part when the woman took her chlothes off
In pre covid-19 world Concorde would have been profitable.
Nice view of Sandy Hook and NYC at 4:14.
You went on a nice day :)
Awesome footage! Unfortunately, Concorde had no other choice but to retire. She had so much going against it...very outdated technology on every level, couldn't be used over populated areas (sonic boom), deafening noise in the cabin, fuel burn was abysmal, very limited creature comfort in the single aisle narrow cabin, engineering flaws in its design (that proved fatal), and the Airbus acquisition of Aerospatiale ultimately deciding its fate by no longer producing spare parts. RIP Concorde.
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Always a bunch of empty seats.
No curve to be seen from concorde ...