This plane could cross the Atlantic in 3.5 hours. Why did it fail?
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- The Concorde gave us supersonic transport. But why did this supersonic plane fail? The answer is complicated.
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“The droop snoot.”
“The droop snoot?”
“The snoot would droop.”
“The snoot drooped.”
Great, another person copy pasted a comment.
Dylan W. Droop died.
Lol😂
hows this funny
there it is
the famous line
"Because of angled landing the Concord featured a droop snoot."
"A droop snoot?"
"Yeah, the snoot would droop."
"The snoot drooped."
You see, this is truly the real reason as to why this needs to be brought back.
I agree.
*Concorde.
Snout
Snoop de droop ! Snoop de droop droop droop !
Just as long as the front doesn't fall off.
My husband and I flew Concorde in 1987. It was very comfortable and a thrilling experience. As a WW2 naval aviator, my husband was amazed by the technology in the cockpit. We were allowed in the flight deck while over the Atlantic.
Quite an experience.
Wow
@Heavy Metal God okay, armchair pilot. I’m sure you’ve flown multiple jets before so you know all about these technical terms
@Flatearth Granny you think that’s all Pilots do? With a name like that, I’m sure you believe it
Could you safely walk around while the concorde went supersonic?
“This plane is bad for the ozone layer”
Rest of the worlds super polluting industries: oh really?
Sad reality, right? It's nice to see some change today (as miniscule as it is).
700 yrs ago!?
And to think billionaires are in a race to send fellow billionaires just out of the earths atmosphere to see the earths curvature at the cost of seriously damaging our planet, the absurdity of the rich bewilders me beyond words.
Cruel to say this, but if there was a 'space travel disaster', don't come running back to me to say 'omg you told us so!'
just saying, look at past lessons in history. It took a MAJOR DISASTER to come back and do it right. Titanic, that big weather baloon thing, etc.
@@The-Great-Brindian God i love capitalism
People: ban Concorde.
Also them: lets drill more oil and use carbon rich substances for manufacturing.
*dRoOP snOOT. ThE snOOt wOuLD dRoOp*
Mark referenced
I love that man
Ｓ Ｎ Ｏ Ｏ Ｔ Ｄ Ｒ Ｏ Ｏ Ｐ
NOOT NOOT SNOOP DROOP
The droop snooped.
I do wish someone would try this again.
Pinder Productions look up boom aerospace!
I'm sure something is in the works.
.... Elon musk?!
kiwicant I hope so.
They are... the plan is to build a plane that goes so fast that its main training standard is to cut the engines while over the ocean and cruise in going around 500mph for a landing... according to specs, there will be no windows but cameras with screens on the wall to act as windows because of the MK3 speed. The engines are currently in testing and proving to be very successful.
As a teenager, I flew with my Dad on the Concorde in early 2000. I remember our round trip tickets costing $9,800 dollars a piece. My ears felt like they were going to explode and it was actually very loud inside the plane. The food was DELICIOUS!... There was so much going on inside the plane with all the adults that I found that more intriguing & interesting, than the deep dark blue atmosphere you could see outside the plane and all the stars!.....
"There was so much going on inside the plane with all the adults that I found that more intriguing & interesting"
What do you mean?
@@tbg6070 I purposely omitted those details for a reason. Those plane tickets include a full discretion clause so what happens at that altitude, stays at that altitude!...
Youre talking about mile high club or drugs or something
I flew on Pan Am once. in 1988, but not on the plane that crashed lol
good god no, but it was a few months before that Lockerbie disaster. What a tragedy that was.
The food we had on Pan Am was amazing. The best flight I've ever flown on to date is Gulf Air, its was an Arab flight. The music I was listening to made no sense but it still rocked lol
@@The-Great-Brindian cool?
During the "Live Aid" concerts in the 80's Phil Collins of Genesis played live at the Wembley England leg of the concert, took a couple chopper rides and a Concorde flight and played live in the Philadelphia leg of the concert on the same day.
yes he did
Wow!
He also sang the Tarzan soundtrack in English, German, French, Spanish, and Italian.
Wouldn't be surprised if he gives the eulogy at his own funeral.
@@vitoc8454 Lol!
Brilliant.
Has it not taken the titanic 106 years and counting to cross the Atlantic? 🤔
Smh whens it gonna arrive 😤
Im at port right niw waiting for someone called "Jack" but its says Status Delayed wtf is goin on im gonna ask the staff why
That was a very ... dark and deep joke.
Too soon?
John Carlo Fernando LMAOOOOOO
Oh god dammit 💀
I'd rather be uncomfortable for three and a half hours, than slightly less uncomfortable for seven hours...
so true
It's probably more unsafe than uncomfortable
+Ludwig The Great and MUUUUCH more expensive
+Ludwig The Great But think about it. If the project was never dropped, we would have time to advance the aircraft today.
2NDSIDE Like Alex said, it may to too expensive to manufacture so many, full them, and not to mention only rich people could probably afford a flight. Evten at that, it wouldn't be entirely comfortable for a luxurious class ride anyway.
Fun fact: Phil Collins flew from England to the US in a day on a Concorde so he could make an appearance at both Live Aid events.
How long did the flight take
@@RegiyThornton 3 hours
LOL
Brilliant.
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Thank you for this. I remember this plane, and only now I noticed it just vanished out of thin air!
🎉
Jet
Only now?? It's been gone for 11 yrs.
21 you mean
@@txtabby *20 years
"the Concorde featured a droop snoot."
Droop Snoot ?
"the Snoot would Droop."
the Snoot Drooped.
THE BEST DOCUMENTARY NARRATOR EVER.
Imam Dwi Septiadi loo
Snoot Droppy Droop
Super snooper drooper
2nd best narrator, after Benedict "Penweg" Cumberbatch.
*Droop Dog*
This is literally one of the best mini-documentaries, ever!
I agree
It would be 45mins or more if was produced by Nat Geo
They should really stick to these types of documentaries instead of their political agenda trash.
Omar Delawar yes because of dem droop snoots but it is still interesting nonetheless
the snoot drooped
We lived in its flight path in London back in the 90s....it was unbelievably loud but amazing to watch, going almost vertically up after take-off.
I was born in 93 London and I remember the sound of them literally drowning out the noise central London traffic. You would eventually find a tiny white dot in the sky. It was so so loud its indescribable now.
I used to live close to Prestwick where the Concorde pilots would practice there landing but they could never touch down so they just did a few go around it was loud
My great uncle helped design the engines of the Concorde, this is super interesting to watch!
i remember seeing concorde set off when i was like 5 and i cried at how loud it was
Adam S
Adam Schofield lol this comment made me laugh, something I would do too lmao. These aircrafts are so badass.
behind my house is a military base and i hate those planes noises
+carlos valdes I LOVE the sounds of jets and planes taking off.
+METRO If you stood next to it your ears will shatter
wow dude huge Titanic spoilers wtf
If you haven't seen titanic by now then you can't complain about its ending.
+Docter Fishy do you not understand sarcasm?
You did catch the sarcasm, right?...
+Docter Fishy How long have you lived upon this Earth to not undetstand sarcasm
perhaps everyone was being facetious....
Vox: Makes a 10 minute documentary that requires hours of work and an interview with a professional engineer
Everyone: HAHAHHAA snoot go droop
My parents knew it was dinner time when they heard the Concorde take off every evening in London
They've not eaten dinner since the early 00s?
One of the biggest factors they failed to mention was that by the early 2000s, internet/email/telepresence/other technological advances were making it less necessary for business executives to fly across the ocean and back in one day just to do a business meeting. So your already-small customer market was shrinking even more.
Well said.
That's a great point.
Exactly.
Nice argument
Great point
I am really glad that my parents tore me out of bed at the age of six in 1996 to go to Sola Airport in Stavanger, Norway and watch a Concorde land. A unique experience, unattainable today, a memory I will keep forever.
They talk about high noise levels at take off, but what about landing? Was it an issue? (from your experience)
I recall it being very loud, but we didn't have hearing protection or anything. Then again, I cannot recall ever being so close to a landing commercial jet at any other time in my life, so I don't have much to compare to.
Must have being amazing, great memories!
Kyle Eggemeyer do you remember it because of the droop snoot?
I agree. My dad, a test pilot, took me as a kid to the EAA show every few years and I was lucky enough to experience the fantastic sound of departure.
In nova scotia, we were hundreds of miles from its path to new york. At that distance, it's hard to believe yet we heard the sonic boom every morning at 830. Sound must travel well over the ocean over such distance
Today - June 3, 2021 - United Airlines announced that they ordered 15 new supersonic jets to be built by American start-up Boom Supersonic, to be completed by the year 2029, pending U.S. government approval. The model is the "Overture", and is expected to be the Concorde's direct successor. Testing will begin in 2025-2026.
Apparently Emirates might be relaunching Concorde I doubt it the Fremch will deffo give them there's but the BA ones it plans to have BA won't give as there preservered
I doubt that will take off, Especially in todays world my uncle worked on the Concorde and harrier jump jet and he doubts it himself
That be 😎
EXITING, we havemade strived innoisecancelation
@@billclinton3862 you don’t think rich Arabs will pay for the tickets? If it works the rich will pay for it
My dad once flew on the Concorde. BA overbooked his flight so upgraded him.
Lucky guy.
Mattblaster 14
I flew myself im a pilot so...
Nikita Gorshkov Wow... You actually flew the Concorde?
I use to be an X-Wing pilot, I fly Puddle Jumpers now. My favourite though, was a Firefly
The internet is also part of the reason why a new Concorde is unlikely for awhile. Concorde flights were mostly for business because companies could afford to pay the higher ticket prices. It is much cheaper to just use a webcam and telecommute meetings than to fly 4000 miles.
Corporate travel budgets were slashed a long time ago for middle managers, forcing them to fly coach. No fun, so they embrace teleconferencing. Only executives can fly first and the 1% elite these days have so much money they can just afford to lease their own planes for the most convenient and fastest way to travel. Pick up the phone and have your flight crew ready to go in a few hours, 24x7, can't beat that.
soapftw96 the people that were paying 15,000$ for a ticket still pay 15,000$ for a ticket, business men prefer to meet irl.
soapftw96 rich ppl love to travel I would pay
Of course you're correct, but it's too bad. Frankly, I doubt we'll ever see Super-sonic transports again, at least not in my lifetime.
M.J. Leger I think it will be difficult because of the amout of fuel being used and therefore emissions beimg created. However, Virgin Galactic is developing a commercial passenger plane using "Boom Technology" that will go Mach 2.2 and could be ready by 2020. Richard Branson is superman.
we had a supersonic passenger jet, a space shuttle, hovercraft that crossed channels in the 90s. now 30 years later, the future feels like the past
We have howerboard and 6" "pocket TV"
The space shuttle is a marvel of engineering.
we now have ai. And personal computer's that are probably a couple thousand times faster than the supercomputer's of back then
I grew up near Heathrow, and I still miss standing in the street watching Concorde roar over head, leaving a trail of car alarms in her wake!
Once, Concorde made a one-off visit to Perth airport. For take off (the weekend), people were gathered at the fringe of the airport to watch and I plugged my ears as it passed overhead, but Dad decided to tough it out and he regretted it as his ears were ringing the rest of the day and partially deaf. (It was loudest when just beyond overhead as then the engine exhausts were pointing toward everyone.) The flight path was over a light industrial area and all the alarms there could be heard in the distance. It was so loud you could not really relax enough to appreciate the view of this magnificent supersonic airplane!
I miss the sound and the sight ...and everyone going "Oh look ...Concorde!" despite the fact that were several of em!
“It flew so high you could see the earth’s curve” well no wander flat earthers exist! They took this plane away 😂
😭😭
Random YT underraated comment
😭
😂 😂 😂
*wonder
Short Summary of the video:
1. Cost of the plane
2. Noise when the plane is flying at supersonic speed
3. Environmental damage for large scale production
There is not any more noise when flying at supersonic speed than the level of noise at subsonic speed
You either fail to understand science or fail in your ability to clearly express and explain your thought
@@noobfromnz2886 they mentioned damage to the ozone layer.
E Ur no damage caused by that. Or with the military ones we’d be done
4. Too many parts no longer in stock or manufacture
Built in the 70's,yet still looks ahead of it's time today
And the prototypes were built in the 60s
I wouldn't consider Concorde a failure. I see it as the commerical passenger equivalent of an SR-71 Blackbird. Both planes were among fastest and one of the most revolutionary aircrafts ever built. But economic/financial difficulties and high-cost eventually led to both planes being retired from service.
Yep, I'd agree with that.
please remember concord was 1 of the safest planes ever. it was down to a dc-10 that shot this bird down
But remember it probably flew less than other planes, decreasing the probability
UniversalMiki but remember to do research before putting false comments. British airways concord flew just below 50.000 flights over a 27 year period. That dose not include the French fleet of Concords lol
top banana the DC planes were flying deathtraps
The tire explosion was due to a piece of metal on the runway and that was what popped the tire which made a piece of rubber hit the tank which broke a fuel line and causing the engine failure. The concorde was very safe despite some bad accidents. I now want to go to that museum and pay to go inside and look around. I love planes but am very (almost deathly) afraid of heights.
moviemaker2011z flying is nowhere near the same experience as heights, trust me. Im also ultra scared of heights(after my friend fell from communications tower) but flying is nothing to me.
*American Airlines has left the chat*
@Sinjinbin 64 r/woooooosh
Christopher Flowers what pun?
@@ZaneDalton r/woosh...usually when I hear woosh I think of something flying over my head
united*
Im you're thousands like 10 months late lol
Incredible to think that British Rail was still running steam locomotives while Concorde was being designed and tested
Once, in the ‘90’s, I saw a Concorde on the tarmac in Honolulu when we were flying home from a trip....just made my day...what a gorgeous plane!!
No you didn't. It only flew transatlantic routes.
I flew on the concorde twice. Greatest plane of all time absolutely no question.
That is quite a lot of money sir
Impossible anyone who rode that is now dead.... He said 1935-1947
+TheM4hero damn u need to do your research before coming in here like u know it all
what are you talking about lol
You mean greatest experience of all time!
If it were the greatest plane there would be more of them and we would still be utilising them!
@3:55
" featured a "droop snoop"
"the snoop would droop"
Commentator: " the snoop drooped"
....wtf
The commentator echoes the first *droop snoop* too
It's "droop snoot." It's actually written out in the video, right at the time reference you posted. Snoot is an informal word that means "nose."
Hence the term 'snooty' or looking down one's nose to show disapproval or contempt towards those considered a lower social class.
boop the snoot
not the cockpit
the nose
I think the sad thing is that aviation appears to be the only bit of technology that in my lifetime hasn’t advanced but has actually reversed. Unless things change we could be in a bizarre situation in which you’ll be able to tell your grandkids that when you were young you could fly from London to New York in just 3.5 hrs while taking them well over 7hrs,
More like "when I was young, plane seats actually had enough room to stretch out your legs!"
Not really. Ever heard of the 787 and the A350? These beasts were launched just on the beggining of the 2010s and made a HUGE improvement and revolution on the aviation industry
@@arahman56 I'd rather have more safety than legroom today. Lets remember that the 50s, 60s and 70s were the "Golden Age" but also one of the most dangerous times to fly
@@zikalokof1challenge414 Safety is not why there's less legroom today.
@@arahman56 I dont care. I'd rather have less regroom than flying in a DC-10 with a faulty cargo door, an 747 to an diversion airport with no radar whatsoever, or back in the day where you had to report your position because there was no ATC centers/radars in some places
This is why we need more high speed trains!! It’s sad the Concorde was grounded, but I do understand that the business model was difficult. I haven’t heard anything about high speed bullet trains that would warrant their business plans unsustainable in the long term
This beautiful creature which you could hear coming from miles away would fly over my house in London every day at the same time and every one around would stop and look up and watch her roar past, not only did you see her you also felt her and this always made me smile.
“Beautiful creature”. LMAO.
@@Handle35667 yes she was.
@Bugler55 lol you liked your own comment
@Bugler55 😆
Ahhh. I love the droop snoot.
137 hours? Excuse me but the Titanic has yet to cross the Atlantic at all!
wp r it would THEORETICALLY cross the Atlantic in 137 hours.
he said WOULD
Yeah, what was he sinking?
pit stop
nice one
This was the video that first introduced me to Vox, and I still think it's one of the best you've ever done.
"Black Country, New Road" sent me here.
same
Done partly by the Brits, so it was probably made with maths not math
Don't forget le math.
It was more than just "partly" done by the Brits, we did just as much as the French did thank you very much!
+KHCoasterKid
Third was the brits
Another third was the french
And another was... Other
+KHCoasterKid yes the last Concorde went working Bristol and now sits in the airfield in Filton near to the site where many were
Built its a shame that they destroyed the factory
+theawecabinet No in French it's "les maths".
One piece of very important information this video did not include was that when it mentioned that "Concorde punctured a tire" at 5:16, the puncture was actually caused by a metal piece that fell off from an aircraft taken off prior to Concorde's departure. The tire puncture was not actually Concorde's fault.
In other words, the Concorde was too good for its generation that it was required to be grounded.
But aircraft tire failure does not normally cause two engine failures and a wing to disintegrate. The tire blowing wasn't Concorde's fault, but a tire causing catastrophic structural damage and an unrecoverable crash was due to poor design using underclassed tires and being overweight, which is why they redesigned the landing gear and lost their manslaughter lawsuit against the company that dropped the debris in French courts.
you'd better read up on it some more - debris was sent into the wing - tire failure didn't have a lot to do with it. Two engines failed but #1 recovered and three engines were operational after that. But being overweight (yes) and having passed V1, they didn't have enough runway left to abort.
***** It was a piece of the _tire_ itself that ejected at 310 mph, which caused the tank in the wing to come off its support and rupture, and then ignite _two_ of the engines. That's bad design. The tires might have been barely specified for that speed, but they sure were not specified to fail safely at that speed. They also stuck open which drag combined with overweight caused the aircraft to be completely unable to climb.
Only the tire blowing out was the fault of the debris. The aircraft being _forced_ into a climb that it physically could not perform and then _disintegrating_, is the fault of the landing gear design and poor inspection. Which they later addressed and improved. They wouldn't have improved if they were confident in that design.
***** The Concorde flying for 27 years doesn't prove anything. When you compare the ratio of people flown safely vs people killed in accidents, the Concorde places well _below_ conventional airliners in terms of safety. They only ever ever built 20 Concordes with limited flights, so that one accident is actually a big deal.
I believe the Air France crash was the only major incident that Concorde had. It had a fantastic safety record. I doubt you could say that about any other manufacturer. The Soviet era Tu-144 was a complete disaster which is why it never really flew. Now THAT was an unsafe aircraft in comparison to Concorde.Given your scenario, it is my first guess that you have never flown an airplane before in your life. It's much more complicated than that.
Flew on her twice, New York to London. Great experience, never to be forgotten. I found it very comfortable, although a little tight for space in general. Towards the end, so much was against concorde. When I travelled on her, only about 25 people on the first flight and on the second time, 33. Yes I can remember as so many empty seats. Then the crash of Air France, technology, internet and so on.
I remember watching this as a kid when one of my older brothers friend showed me this video in 2015. This was the video that got me into aviation and I thank him introducing me into aviation.
this makes me so sad :(
well for that price you can try some luxury for 7 hours straight lel.
With that money just fly Emirates or Etihad. You'll have a better experience and it won't be over in 3 hours unless you pick a short flight.
And fly on an airline so heavily subsidized by its home country that it makes competition by the rest of the world's airlines impossible? No thank you!
Waddles
Waddles- does not being able to take a Lamborghini to work make you cry too
The Concorde crash was caused by a piece of metal that came off the Boeing plane in front of it from Continental Airlines. Americans...
Yes. All 300+ million of us are idiots. Although I admit most Americans are. Sadly...
I'm American and I knew that.
+John Williams well congratulations, you are in a minority.
It was not a Boeing it was a DC 30.
+GuruAidTechSupport *Boeing
I was so sad this incredible, elegant, and powerful marvel was laid to rest …RIP. I flew on the last flight of the one in the Smithsonian. One of the most memorable events of my life!
Mach 2 super-cruise (turbojets) from London to NYC forty five years ago.
I saw close up landing (on tarmac) at Bergstrom in 1978. Awesome!
we just recently had two fighter jets go supersonic in switzerland. almos half of switzerland was able to hear it. it was really really loud.
may Syrian , Iraqis, Palestinian, Afgani peoples too hear this horrible sound as horror
Manish Sinja k, then
+CAPSLOCK you guys living in developed country and hear this sounds occasionally. .but they r living in fears n tears
I grew up in Oklahoma City and remember those sonic boom tests every day at2:30 boom boom boom. I don't think we were even directly under the flight path
It's either because sonic boom is really lound, just as you stated, or Switzerland is really, really small. Haha.
My grandfather was one of the draughtsmen on Concorde's design team. I remember us all standing on the beach on her 2003 farewell flypast. Grandad had tears in his eyes. Rest in peace to the best grandad in the world. 😍
Ask God forgiveness for him
I bet he likes pickles
thats awesome! rest in peace
@@lahoucine66 why would God be angry???
thats so cool
I got my way when I was able to be on the final flight by Air France Concorde from Paris to Caracas and it was a dream come true experience I had waited for years. I was so excited that I forgot to copy the serial number of the aircraft for the sake of my biography sometime later in my life. Here I am still at age 79, hoping to have the luck to find out, if it would be feassable. I loved flying in the Concorde.
Concorde was a great British and French achievement in aviation . Will we ever see such a plane like it again in future ? that depends on ,if new clean propulsion systems are invented and if the need for such a plane is required ! Concorde made the world a smaller place for the rich and famous , I will always remember looking up and seeing this incredible aircraft flying overhead when living in Reading England, and hearing the sonic boom as it passed over the Bristol channel from my home in South Wales .
Fun fact: due to the high-speed of travel and the droop snoot design, the cockpit actually expanded during flight. During flight, you could put your hand in a gap between two panels, a gap that didn't exist when parked on ground.
The whole aircraft actually stretched as much as 30cm during flight due to the heat. They had to get specially designed carpet for this reason.
One of the Concorde pilots in British airways put his hat in that gap during the final flight of one of the aircrafts. Now the hat is still there stuck in the tiny gap it is while on the ground.
I was an ground engineer on Concorde in the 90's, and was lucky enough to get on a test flight after a rebuild. I have had my fingers in that gap, seen the sun rise in the west and curvature of the earth. ...and dropped a screw down inside the droop snoot, took 2 shifts to get it out.
Paul Abbott cool job mate 👍
buttsex
The snoot drooped.
DogoByte woot?
What are you going on aboot?
DogoByte *noot intensifies*
Snoot snoot
DogoByte harder than the fidget spinner views
Your video popped up out of no where on the feed and it is such an awesome mini doc. Wow I never that SST existed.
Fascinating. Thanks for this
Vox Sorry, but I object to the title. This plane has never failed, and this is one of the best aircraft ever if not the best and most legendary because it is 30 years of flying Mach 2. The accident was not his fault!
In my opinion the SR-71 Blackbird is the most legendary plane, even though it needed refuelling every 90 mins and only held 2 people.
+Matthew Schuurmans true its a great rexon plane as well
+Joseph Senatus recon*
He said the accident wasen't the main purpose the Concorde failed -.- Did you watch the whole video??
He objected to the title. Not the content.
I've been in that museum hangar, at the air and space museum. Quite a place if you're into aviation, I would recommend it.
cjmcglaughlin _ where is it?
Shartline McDingleberries Chantilly, VA
one in uk as well
Cody McGlaughlin oh nice I'm fairly close
Cody McGlaughlin there's one in seattle
Thanks for this video.
I always wondered
For those complaining about the noise, remember that there are those of us that love hearing jets overhead. I'm 25 now and still run outside like a little kid to look at a low flying plane. I would love nothing more than to experience one that could easily make me deaf for a few hours.
God the Concorde is a gorgeous aircraft.
The Concorde crash was not the Concorde's fault. The plane that took of before it dropped a big metal piece. Any aircraft would fail.
Your information is about a decade and a half out of date =/
player276 Heh, well. I wrote it because in the video they said that the crash was only the Concorde's fault.
This is right, thank you someone pointed it out.
The Concorde still had a long history of tire blowouts and bracket failures before that incident.
That plane was a Continental DC-10. So technically it's continentals fault.
I really enjoyed the commentator (Phil) and writing on this one a lot more than some of the recent videos. I would like to see more with these guys, if possible. Examles:
Audience Interaction - 0:39 "Which one are you looking at?".
Interviews with people who are both qualified and well spoken - 2:48
Simultaneously bringing the topics down to earth (the workers and contexts), but still keeping the scale of the set of events in full view.
Occasional allusions and parallels to other things (in this case, titanic and toy boxes).
Humor - 3:55 "Droop Snoot"
Creative stylistic choices - Toy Concords on strings (as opposed to the often used clean and simple illustrations)
Although some citations would certainly help
yeah he is the only reason i subbscribe to vox
+Stig larsen Me too
Agreed, more of this please
Constructive feedback in a CZcams comment? Sir you must be lost. For the future, please word your comment to reflect the CZcams community's commitment to nonsensical references to politics, conspiracy theories, sexism, homophobia, racism, or some combination thereof.
Don't forget religion and SJWs!
I loved this plane so much.
Hope in some distant future, it does actually come back to life!
Same here.
This was the first time in human history where we took a major step back in technology.
Not really. We still have the technology to create a supersonic airliner. BOOM is making one as we speak. Concorde was ahead of its time, but still old technology. It’s too inefficient and expensive to operate.
I was just thinking that.
super-cruise at mach 2 across the Atlantic Ocean 45 years ago. Turbojets.
C'mon man!
A one way ticket in 2003 was almost $9000 and the plane was nearly 30 years old. There were no alternatives and you could save $8000 at the cost of 4 hours of boredom on a more efficient subsonic jet.
If you had £9,000 to spend on a flight you were unlikely to really bothered by saving £8,000 (see your avatar)
Want to know how to become a millionaire?
Make a million dollars and don't spend any of it.
Most people that could afford it got rich by not spending.
That's the main reason "trickle down" didn't work.
Stephen Olan net worth
Net worth only increases when income is greater than money spent.
And one way to increase that is to minimize money spent.
Plane was 30 years old? Do you know how old some of the airliners that fly around today are?
5:27 that is actually wrong a Continental Airlines DC-10 lost a piece of the engine cowl, the piece was run over by concord causing it to blow a tire, the tire piece then stuck the delta wing causing a shock wave in the fuel and for the tank to be blown open. Concorde was already committed to take-off by this point, a resulting fire from leaking fuel burned off the Concords control surfaces, and it was unable to return for landing or make it to next airport.
Concorde, and specifically Air France, had numerous close calls with tires rupturing in the 80s and 90s. .
The AF flight that crashed exceeded aft CoG limits and was missing a critical wheel spacer, thanks to AF mechanic's ineptitude. All of these factors contributed to its demise.
+Leevi Hinkkala Totally agree with your post
spot on..... welcome to US revisionist propaganda.
The first nail in Concorde's ability to achieve financial success was protectionist noise abatement policies by the US ..... another oversight of this little hit piece.
+davet11 Lol what are you even talking about
Leevi Hinkkala I will agree that the tires had a major issue, but they had started using a harder thicker tire to prevent that from happening. So when it hit the piece of engine cowling it was made much worse than in previous blow outs.
Most people call it the perfect storm.
Whose here after United just bet on supersonic travel with $3billion boom plane order 🙋♂️ So all this may just come back to life!
The guy below me can’t read a sentence
@@genghiskhan.2265 i had a seizure reading that
Master school dud tyat
May God bless you all in everything that you do today🙏🏼🙏🏼
We miss you concorde😔 the emperor of the skies.
Empress*
@@CupsofCopus emperor
My Russian motherland, Concede to me.
@@HDTomo Empress all Planes are She's don't know why but they are like the 747 Queen of the Skies
It failed because it was too expensive to operate for a large market. which is why America abandoned building an SST.
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That aircraft was a masterpiece, a pile of junk are the neurons inside your brain.
It operated in a large market for 20+ years successfully
think you want to give your head a shake why did it operate for 30 years and never made a profit bull s..t
americans were so jealous because it was not them they give up on the idea because they couldn't do it
but they could send men to the moon lol
Actually the US SST was cancelled because they screwed up in the design phase selecting a hinged wing design (as per F111) that ended up too heavy and costly too build.. they blew all the budget on this design and the politicians said enough...
Never thought I'd ever have such an iconic meme be unironically placed in my recommendations
Once again, I have learned something that otherwise would not learn in school.
Thx Vox☺️
it's sad to know that will never do another flight
couldn't care less,i would rather have confortable 9 hour flight than unconfortable 3 hour flight
Don't be a downer for your self. Technology might get improve to make this possible.
+Srdjan kesic you think Concorde was uncomfortable? idiot.
Actually Club Concorde is scheduling a return to service flight in 2019. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde#Return_to_service_plan
Tom New Have you even bothered watching the video? You inbreed moron.
You failed to note that the debris left on the runway by a Continental Airways DC-10 that had an inappropriate repair done was the immediate cause of the accident. It was not exclusively a tire design fault on the Concorde.
I also doubt that the presence of a Flight Engineer was much of a factor in the retirement; given the fares charged their salary would be trivial.
All_Roads You seem to forget that Concorde had a 100% safety record before this incident. That is from the mid 70s until the 00s. The absolute reason Concorde was grounded was because of this. And that reason was because of another airlines plane. After 911 Concorde was not not financially viable for most if not all airlines at the time.THIS is why Concorde died.
@@MikeDemise Concorde did actually become profitablr for BA for a while after 9/11. But when Airfrance retired their fleet, the £100M pound maintenance fees were put on BA, and that was just too much
Concorde was profitable for the British in 2002 but not Air France, and British Airways couldnt afford to take care of them on their own
The recommendations from the accident:
Do correct maintenance, no rush jobs.
Inspect for missing parts before every flight, and report that parts are missing to the airports you have just come from.
Check your runways for foreign objects more often.
Clean your runways more often.
Put protective surrounds around your fuel tanks near the tyres (done on BA Concordes, but not on Air France).
Do not blame the aircraft because you did not build it.
I’m sure it adds up, and how many planes beside the a380 actually need a mandatory 3 staff cockpit, even as far back as 2003 3 staff cockpits we’re going out of fashion
Too loud, too expensive, too much consumption, too less effective. If you travel too fast your soul cannot keep up. Nobody misses ist since then. The worlds keeps on turning without this plane. There was one good thing. Phil collins traveled in a Concorde from London to New York and played both live aid locations live. Wow. What a great achievement for mankind
It’s 2021 and she’s back 😎
what so you mean??
Faster than the earth's spin and flew so high you could see the earth's curve... That is crazy
And faster than a rifle bullet.
+Mowersandstuff only if the gun is stationary!
Imagine going London/Paris to New York/Washington/Miami/Barbados and seeing the sun rise in the west.
What the heck ? mission abort. :))
Judgin by my knowledge of physics, the fact that it flew faster than the earth spins make it so that you actually go much faster if flying at the same direction of the Earth's spin. So, even though it's top speed was around Mach 2, it could cover long distances as if it were flying faster than that.
I flew in the concorde. My uncle worked in Heathrow. U never forget about the sound.
There is still 1 Concorde in heatrow. The seats have been takin out and sold as they are worth so much.
Skippo theres 3 at paris charles de gaule (CDG
Cool
there's also one as a museum piece at manchester airport
James There's one at the airport in Paris
The sound these make is amazing
Never got to fly on one sadly, but when I was a kid I used to go down to Heathrow just to watch them taking off. Was always awesome.
Too bad chief scholl keys concorde
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Im.30 years old and my GF just showed me that i can skip to the given minute by jist pressing it in your comment. Wow. Im flabbergasted
That’s funny
Can Yildirim Thank you. I did not know this.
Hero ❤
My god that actually works! Just press on it! Ahahahaha
It didn't fail - It flew for 25 years! Best aircraft ever
Like Joplin, Hendrix, Cobain, Morrison and Jones, the Concorde flared across our skies and died at 27.
not actually a commercial failure, made a lot of money for British Airways and Air France. Was profitable to run, just not as profitable as short haul or slow huge aircraft. Undoubtedly a brilliant PR advert!
hugely profitable , when you look at the per flight cost and income , remember passengers are not a planes primary revenue.
Keith Lillis yes but it could fly even more years but that is the “fail” in this video
@West Park it made a decent operating profit but was at the end of its service life and it was made with old tech, it just wasn’t economical to develop a new version.
that first minute was so clean
like everything that was said was the perfect word for that moment
"which one are you looking at?"
Sting looked cramped because he was sat next to Billy Bunter!
Very well put together & factually correct video, by the way 👍👍
"we had " - said the American voice ...."WE"?
"Britain and France had" :-)
we had, as in humanity had.
We, the French and the Brits. End of.
+Doney Hon, Oh "End Of" . Well knock me down with a feather! I'm sorry, I didn't realise you had such an incontrovertible argument for your position.
george385 we are all human
Yeah, the US was busy geting rid of your problems. The USSR
I heard that VOX replies if you watch a video of theirs so early
Who told you that?
Sounds like some sort of rumor, I wouldn't put much stock in it.
Vox is voice in latin
+Vox lol
lol
Awesome piece of writing!
Concorde this organ, a new one I’m forming
I was watching The Parent Trap (1997) and Hallie said “Mom, did you know that the Concorde gets you here in half the time?!” and I was like “huhhhh? Is that like a high speed plane?” And then I remembered in The Nanny, Maxwell had to go to London for something suddenly one day and said “no worries dear I’ll take the Concorde and be back by bedtime” or something to that extent I was soooo confused.... IT MAKES SENSE NOW!!! So fascinating. I want to ride it. Bring it back!!
Yes i noticed that too it was a nice reference
A symbol of the potential of human engineering which ultimately became a symbol of elitism. Even the skilled engineers who built it couldn't afford to fly on one.
exactly... it was in fact useless for the common ppl.
Peter Pečenko Still a beautiful sight to behold. Shame we'll probably never see machines like them ever again.
maybe about 20 years in the future? Look at pcs for example our pc parts today would probably cost thousands for people in the 80s.
PC parts are cheap due to economies of scale. They started out expensive but proved useful. So more and more parts were made. Making more parts and selling more parts reduces the overhead costs that come when make stuff. There are currently no supersonic passenger jets being produced. There is no market to get big and bring overhead down that would enable these planes to eventually be made cheap.
Christopher Miller thats why I said 20 years in the future, eventually we will get into it.
Concorde: Exists and is successful
Some random debris from a DC-10:
*I'm gonna end this man's whole career*
*Has high speed*
Everyone: ........
*Has cool design*
Everyone: ........
*Can see earth curve from it*
Everyone: ........
*The snoot dropped*
Everyone: now we're talking, bring it back now
Vox, can you consider doing why we had airships and why it failed, one of the most badass looking vehicle to come into existence but now only exists over stadiums and in tv series like Korra. Thanks.
Yes, please!
I'll summarize it for your right now: really large object susceptible to winds and storms with weak engines(at the time), a very high crash record, lack of proper materials(before plastics, lightweight carbonfiber, etc.), and bad PR when the Hindenburg burst into flame on camera was definitely the last big nail in the coffin.
+Ben P. Sounds about right! I just love how vox makes particularly these types of videos. Hope you are having a nice day. :)
Helium ain't cheap.
Most probably these airships (and blimps) are using hydrogen and it is explosive. By then they switch to helium but it is in limited amount. If you want to know more, you can find a lot of these on YT, such as this: watch?v=ug5UafJFEYc
I changed the comment so it doesn’t make sense lol
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HaHaHaHaHa. Well stated
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I got to saw one of the Concordes in D.C.! It was fun to look into.