Concorde! Washington to London in 3 hours and 12 minutes.
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- March 7, 1993 - My flight from Washington Dulles to London Heathrow aboard the British Airways Concorde. This was shot with Sony Hi8 camera on a SteadiCam. The pilot was so fascinated with the SteadiCam that he invited me into the cockpit. This was the experience of a lifetime! The return flight is also here on youtube. Search for London to Washington. Enjoy!
This speed is hard to comprehend. I worked with an old Austrian dude in the early 80s. He was fascinated by this plane. Knew everything about it. He saved up his money for a year. He said he was going to take a flight before they were grounded. Don't know if he ever did. Awesome plane
Is he still alive???
Haha you remember me?
I did have that flight buddy.
@@killersawant
I used to see it at playtime when I was a kid at school. It flew right overhead - it was always a dream of mine too - I, unfortunately did not earn any money before they were grounded.
Very cool
"I worked with an old Austrian dude"
- Austrian? Well then, "G'day mate, let's put another shrimp on the barby".
Then: A dude filming for memories and for family
Today: Y O U T U B E R
Then: crossing the Atlantic supersonic as an average PAX
Today: the one and only (?) technology related thing previous generation could do but current can't.
why Concorde stopped
czcams.com/video/VjbjnuFApKg/video.html
@@makeyoumineforever too expensive
@@murrayent1able who gives a fuck what you think !!
Yeah
How times have changed, can you imagine the captain inviting you into the cockpit now?!
Long live Concorde.
I remember flying as a child in the 90s and pestering my Mum and Dad to go see the pilots. They would ask a flight attendant and usually they would come back in a while and take us up there. I was always excited and probably would be now. It was a simpler time.
since 9/11 everything has changed
PMF1 I'll tell you what is it's A Shame because of the ILLEAGAL aliens and Terrorist that have stripped our nice life away.Years ago no one would FUCK with The United States. What a shame.
Bob Dole We should blow there ASSES off the mat those sons of bitches
@@manindersharma7640- The Catholics and the Protestants finally got settled down and now the Muslims are on the warpath.
As long as the Hindus (common name for their religion) are not harassed they don't make trouble.
I flew in her for my 30th birthday present. Undoubtedly one of the highlights of my life.
Mach 2.0 60000ft
Absolutely thrilling. ❤️
Could you see earths curvature? Or still not high enough?
@@davidc7656 yes you can but it was subtle.
If Boom Supersonic can make a go of their new plane you may have to make another milestone birthday trip. They’ve started building their assembly plant in Greensboro, N.C. Rolls Royce isn’t in on the engine deal any longer so this is likely a setback. United has preordered 15 of these planes - called Overture.
The Earth is flat, Mate
@@GDoggy-em2xc it isn't. You can see the curve out of the window. I did....
I miss the days when you could visit the cockpit while in flight.
Only 90s kids remember
Yeah these days you'd probably get your arse kicked by an air marshal!
I did it a few times around 2014
I did it in 2012
You can thank the religion of peace
So sad it was more than half empty. One of the many reasons we don't see it today
Ticket cost is 7000 GBP from London to New York in 90s
Mainly American jealousy.
@@dogwalker666 nothing to do with the pricing, and the crash?
@@Triley215 actually no the accident was not even Concorde's fault it was shrapnel on the runway that damaged her any aircraft would have had the same result they just used it as an excuse! Concord had a far better safety record than Boeing 737max!
@@dogwalker666 so once again? The operating costs, and resulting high price of tickets, had nothing to do with it?
And as we know, public image is everything. The accident may not be the aircraft's fault, but the general public isn't going to think about that when it comes time to choose how to travel.
I live in the British Channel Islands, and we always used to hear her go supersonic over the Channel at the same time every evening on her way across the Atlantic, fond memories
Crazy to think you could get up in the morning in the U.S, fly to London, have dinner, then fly home to be in bed by normal time.
yeah if u have tens of thousands to spend on a flight
Battenkill Rambler why has it gone up $10,000 since 2003?
Inflation hasn't gone up that much in 15 years. My BMW cost $60,000 in 2003, that doesn't mean it costs $110,000 today.
Because if you want to say that, then you could say that a $4,000 business class seat in 2003, is now $7,500 today, which it isn't. Or a $700 economy class ticket in 2003, now $1,300 today.
If you apply to Concorde, then you have to apply to everything. And anyway, I flew on Concorde five times, and apart from two occasions where I paid full flexible fare, the other three flights I didn't pay anywhere near $12,000 round trip. I paid between $5,800 and $8,000. In today's money, that would be between $8500 and $12,000. Or about what you would pay for a first class fayre today.
Clint Tapper you have to factor in the cost of fuel though that has gone up significantly
Rosida Andriyana well, I'm American, so I don't necessarily by my flights in GBP.
Wm. Kyle Crossett 🤯
this video is 25 years old and how ahead of its time was this amazing machine travelling at mach 2 1300mph so sleek and beautiful I miss you Concorde
Why did they get rid of it?
@@BIendtecc It was too expensive.
@@weepingangel4638 airbus didnt want to the do the maintenance on them anymore
While I love watching videos about Concorde, I always have a heavy heart knowing that I'll never get to fly in one. She was the best....
1360 MPH is absolutely mindblowing!
Jordan Webb If that had decompressed at an altitude of 60,000 ft, death in two seconds.
1360 Is not MACH 2 Its approximately 1520 Mph
Jordan Webb You said it can you imagine if a hole developed in the plane while at that HEIGHT
It would have to be a pretty big hole to cause dangerous decompression. The cabin pressure supply comes off the Olympus engine compressors.
A terrorist blew a hole in an airliner fuselage large enough that he was blown out. His was the only fatality. That was at a lower altitude.
At 60,000' the outside pressure is just over 1 psi. The response of the pilot would be to dive to a survivable altitude, like under 20,000' before the passengers' emergency oxygen ran out.
At 14,115' I didn't notice any breathing difficulty but I had an hour to gradually get accustomed.
tony lee WHO says its mach 2?
She was the most beautiful airliner ever built, and to feel the power of her engines from the runway as she took off was awesome.
To think that you could do this route faster in 1968 than 2020 speaks a volume!
Technically yes, but this plane never made any money.
@@mikem9536 Is it because the ticket prices on concorde were far more expansive than a normal jet???
@@_pxychx_.o_9921the plane was very expensive to maintain and run, making the ticket fares to go very high, not every person would be able to afford it, so net profit of running it was very low
No entertainment system, just a speed counter an altimeter and the roaring engines.... I think Concorde was an aviation geek plane ;)
FXL Channel it was, sadly only the rice flew on it and thus gone
FXL Channel And aircrafts like that shall remain. The 747, 737, A series and 787 are for boring normies who love to have the NSA spy on em via their "smart" phones. Too many wannabee nerds used bitcoin cash to ruin my industry by funding bullshit techie stuff that appeals to gamers and not aviators.
Its 1993 dude there is no lcd screen inthetime
@@MarksTournaments You mean the rich?
@@hamidayis1949 er, yes there were LCD screens, Mitchell made the first proper flat panel in 1977, seiko introduced the citizen pocket in 1984, a 2.7" watch TV, by 1988 Sharp had made a 14" LCD TV!
Engineers that invented and made concorde, they were mad! what a cockpit!
They should have been given the nobel prize. It was a creation better than the new airplanes we got now. Faster, better designed, a most reliable. One crash in 30 years (and it wasn't their fault). That is almost nothing. Impressive.
Adler Santos That can also be accredited to the fact that only the most experienced pilots were to fly this amazing machine.
Spitfire Mk1af
Germans invented it....
Adler Santos One crash in 30 years? Most reliable? not really , If only 13 planes were in operation , no big deal dude .. BA and Air France have been operating close to 80 747's since more than 30 years, they carried 10000 times more passengers than Concorde, experienced 10000 times more take off's and landings, flew all over the world and accumulated probably 100.000 times more miles than Concorde with an excellent and unsurpassed safety record.
In terms of reliability the 747 wins hands down....
Mavyman that's a real cockpit non of these digital glass cockpit shenanigans
Lucky to say I've flown on Concorde, and was told by the captain that we were the highest people in the world as noone was on the current space station. That was cool :) We flew from Heathrow to New York in 3 hours, now days the flight takes 8 hours commercially, it's crazy.
Three hours is just the right time for staying on a plane without feeling discomfort.
I live near London Heathrow airport. It is now decommissioned and parked at the boundary of the airport near my house.
Still looks stunning. If you want me to make a video of it and upload it.. then please hit like and leave comment. Thanks
I'd be up for taking a ganders at that if you can be arsed 🙂👌
@@KumaBean didnt understand your message
mr rambo Sorry man, translated;
I'd be interested in seeing a short video of that Concorde if you ever pass it by and have the time, my apologies lol 🙂
@@KumaBean no worries. I go past it everyday to work as i work at heathrow airport.
Ill make a short video for u tomorrow and upload.
mr rambo That would be awesome, cheers boss! 🙂👌
Past, Present, Future.....There will never be an aircraft as sexy, as beautiful, as fast or as powerful as the real lady of the skies.....
*CONCORDE!*🇫🇷🇬🇧
JR
Hi, that Video reminds me of my uncle. He was travelling from Germany to London and back to Brazil where he lived. He always got souvenirs from the hostesses on the planes, such as knives, forks, spoons and drinking glasses. Some from VARIG, PAN AM , TWA etc.
When he travelled with the Concorde he tried it again.
The got him a bag full of plastic spoones, one way knifes and forks. When he told us by phone what he got we were laughing the whole evening !
R.I.P uncle John !
I wish they could bring Concorde back....flying twice the speed of sound, AMAZING! This plane could have undergone several advancement and developments by now.
The same old issue remains, the huge amount of fuel needed to break past Mach 1.0.
@@mikem9536plenty of rich people in the world willing to trade money for time.
Yeah woouldve have been been insane with an upgraded version of Concorde 2023 godamn
Imagine being able to track one in FlightRadar24 now
Jy pensé exactamente lo mismo amigo!
It's real heaven. :)
I'm still trying to find that one
Jy you could see it moving quite quickly across the screen. Concorde travelled 100 miles every 4 minutes 24 seconds. Or, 1000 miles every 44 minutes.
So if you were using a flight tracking app, and you zoomed in, so that the edges of the map were 300 miles from edge to edge..
..And you were tracking Concorde, and an A380 crossing the Atlantic, and they entered the map on the left-hand side together..
..Concorde would zoom across the map in 12 minutes, before disappearing off the other side.
It would take another half an hour before the A380 finished crossing the screen! ..And by the time it had done so, Concorde would be another 750 miles further on.
So if the left-hand edge of your map is sitting on top of JFK.. ..the A380 would still be in US Air space - by which time the Concorde would be halfway across the Atlantic, and if it was a particularly fast flight, just 2 hours 12 mins away from landing at Heathrow!
Jed oof
I remember when I was a kid we took a flight to my grandfathers funeral in CO (6 hour flight from here) I was 9 years old in 1999 and they actually let me visit the cockpit and to my recollection they kinda just...let me stay in there until I got bored, asking what this dial meant, what this button did, what was the autopilots name lol (it was Jerry). I never did get bored and stayed until they made me sit down for landing. Best experience of my life.
Ah '93 was a more simpler time. Thanks so much for posting this! :)
In February 1996, a Concorde travelled the 3,750 miles between New York and London in a record 2hr 52min 59 sec.
Robert Turner NY and London separate each other 3,750 miles? Is that approximate?
Record for passenger aircraft or a speed record? 1974: On a flight to the Farnborough Air Show outside London, Maj. James Sullivan and Maj. Noel Widdifield fly the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird from New York to London in 1 hour, 54 minutes, 56.4 seconds. The 1,806-mph flight still holds the transatlantic speed record between the two cities.
@@xxdarknessfe2125 according to Google, 3440 miles between JFK and Heathrow.
The fucking lefties and greens will have us all living in a caves and eating cabbage morning noon and night, I loved Concorde, it was so elegant, so graceful, it could of course be built again, better, faster, higher, cheaper, so we could all enjoy the benefits, but of course we have to placate the environmentalists, wankers.
@@kevinbaird7277
Totally agree....
Oh... Those days....
absolutely brilliant aircraft 60.000 feet wow mind blowing.
Sarwar hear about the space bird XcX-494 aircraft it goes up to 190,000 ft in the air
20 years ago: Washington-London ~3hours, now ~ 9-10hours lol.
The first concorde flew on 69!
paulo juchem You understand it anyway.
It was too unreliabe! It burnt more fuel than a 747 which carried more than the triple of number of pax!!!!!
Yes but today 3 hours flight with Concorde would cost 15.000 $ and its around 7 hours and not 9-10 !!!! and cost 1200 $ and get this 3 hours flight on Concorde is considerably more uncomfortable than an economy seat in 747.
747 First or Business class ..No contest ..
NO, THANK YOU CONCORDE...BYE BYE AND GOOD RIDDANCE..
barracuda7018 Someone is mad.. :) It's pointless to argue with people like you.. So, I will be quiet. ;)
Just imagine though USA to London in roughly 3 hours.. that's amazing
Man!!!! Thanks for capturing your experience of Concorde to film. What an engineering marvel! Miss the class of flying British Airways,"To fly, To Serve" back and forth London via the 747's.
Brings back a good memory of a flight we did on Concorde from New York to London , the dark blue of space above and the almost motionless flight once your at top altitude is one of my recollections . A wonderful experience .
Could you see earths curvature?
@@davidc7656 You could .
I’m impressed they were social distancing on that plane in the first aisle 👏👏
A legend.
I really miss the Concorde...
This is so amazing. I remember as a kid assembling a model of Concord.
Extremely cool video, and that never to have again moment of being able to go into a cockpit while in flight let alone the Concord.
Also, looks like such an empty flight.
imagine falling over those zillion switches on both sides of the cockpit
Wow what an amazing video from an amzing aircraft! Thank you for this upload.
Wow what a fantastic video! What an amazing experience! Thanks for sharing!
Ever since I can remember I dreamed about flying the Concorde. Sadly it will never happen. I do have very fond memories of seeing a BA Concorde land in Aruba (after a fly-by and a touch and go) in 1985. Seeing the bird take off again with full afterburners in the twilight of the setting sun was one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen!
After that I saw them on the tarmac at JFK, MIA, AMS.
Now I'll have to explain to my 6 year old that when I was a kid it was possible to fly at Mach 2 on a civillian airliner. Now we're cramped like sardines in huge metal tubes. Talk about progress....
+François Paris Actually, we saw Concorde in FLL, before the Concorde was crashes into Paris near CDG. I remember when I was young. We saw Concorde. It was too darn loud.
It's just a personal good feeling you get when you break the sound barrier, kind of a goal or milestone reached as a performance pilot.. That's the climax of it..
Thank you very much for sharing that. This is a very special bit of footage! Just wow.
Absolutely amazing...thank you so much for sharing...what a dream!!! I wish that I had had the chance to fly aboard Concorde!!! 💗💗💗
You can Literally have tea in London then go back and still able to have dinner in NY
I wish i would have splurged for the price of the ticket but couldn't afford it at the time, I was waiting for the price to come down, never would have guessed the outcome of this awesome plane.
Russell Makar I flew on Concorde five times, and the last two times I paid less than $3000 each way for a ticket. The last one was $5,800 return. You could have easily done it.
Thankyou for uploading this ...one of the best CZcams videos 😀
I grew up 5 mins away from jfk airport and would see and most of all hear the concorde come in for landing it was awesome... even as a kid i knew it was something special
Really great video Thank you
Mach 2 @ 55k and a coffee sitting on the instrument panel... stable flight at speed.
Why the heck am I born in 1995 living in a world without greatness like this!?
Very Best ever...!!! The One and Only... Thank you...!!!
Ah I thought 1993, not that long ago, then I realised it’s 25 years ago, Jesus Christ haha. Great footage
Nice one I thumbs this one up at 1380 (A380) my other favourite aircraft.
Your videos always manage to make me smile, and I’m a hard faced dude.
I flew her JFK to LHR back in the 90s. I remember her being very compact. Passengers had to duck their heads when boarding. Door and windows were tiny. Such an amazing once-in-a-lifetime experience. Truly unforgettable!
in the cockpit of an airborne concorde....seems like a different era altogether
I regret I never got to see the Concorde, but years ago I did get to see a military Blackbird coming in for a landing at Elsworth AFB in South Dakota. I was driving on I-90 and it flew right over the interstate at about 250 feet. It was thrilling!
I saw Concorde twice, the first time at a rock festival at Donnington Park which is near East Midlands Airport, it drowned out the music and the crowd turned to watch, the other time was over London. When I was a kid I heard a roar and looked up and saw a blackbird over Norfolk, England. Fantastic sight.
A Magnificent piece of Engineering...built beyond its time...lost too soon!
incredible video--thanks for sharing. Can't believe how many empty seats on that beautiful bird!
My grandfather was on one of them flight. Wow those were the days
that sucks I was born in 90 never got a chance to even see one hopefully someday they bring it back is a beast
+MsAmdfan how was it man was it super fast and crazy or what and your a lucky man
They have the first Concorde built on display in a hangar at Manchester airport viewing park, I sat in the captains seat
The first, and only, time I"ve enjoyed flying - watching this video!!!
4:11. They have the technology to comfortably get 100 people going twice the speed of sound but they forgot a cup holder. :) Great video. I am sure that is a cherished memory. Thx for sharing with those of us that never had the chance experience Concorde. It's a real shame it's gone now.
Oh it was a beauty!!!!! These old style aircrafts shouldn´t have gone out of service. The accident in Paris was absolute horror, nonetheless tragic accidents occur with modern day aircrafts too..... this aircraft, along with the legendary 707, DC 10 and Boeing 727 and the massive looking Tristar - they had what I call STYLE AND GRACE.
L-1011 was my fav to fly on Thomas....
Gracias por compartir este video, para los que nunca pudimos ni podremos ya subir a ese increible avión. Siempre que veo un al concord no puedo evitar sentir tristeza. Para mí fue un retroseso para la humanidad. Quién sabe cuánto tiempo pueda pasar antes que pueda existir algo igual.
Amazing video. You can hear the wind noise is twice as fast as a regular plane. That plane is a legend.
So fast absolutely brilliant👍👍👍
holy shit they went up to 60,000 fucken feet!!! a normal comercial plane goes to about, maybe 35,000 feet, 45,000 mac
Joseph Orozco
A long-haul jet goes to 39 or 41 thousand feet.
The reason is so wind resistance doesn't slow it down.
Afca 020 41k feet is usually the crusing altitude on a dreamliner and a380 for long haul flights
The good old days of supersonic flight, come on up the cockpit and film whatever you want chap
Thank you soooo much for this great footage!
Thank you for sharing this incredible experience aboard aircraft more fascinating history ever. Hopefully someday return the Concorde in an enlarged and improved version. Someday it will be real. Greetings
Sleeping at Mach 2 holy shit!!
amazing concorde...
Nice video. Pretty awesome they let you in the cockpit!
Very cool piece. Thanks for sharing. I wish I had payed more attention when the Concorde was around. That and other things. I do appreciate them now. Wow.
So sad to see such a beautiful bird no longer in service. I'd love to see this in service for some of the trips we have today. Would shave a lot of travel time off flights, but, I know it was expensive......
Yes but that plane is only for the super rich like pop stars actors and singers could avoid it you have to be extremely rich to fly on it
No... The only reason the Concorde cruises so high, is for the simple fact that the air is thinner, and higher speeds can be achieved more safely, due to the heating of the aircraft from friction.
Evanchi it is also more efficient.
And too coz it makes so much noise
To say I am jealous is the biggest understatement ever. Great vid
i hope more generations could enjoy the concorde
We need 90s back: Concorde + cigarettes and whisky on board
Cigarettes on board is a really bad idea.
Ain’t no one want them damn ass cancer sticks on board a plane
You forgot the "wild wild women'.
G S what do you mean whiskey on board?
I can’t stand cigarette smoke, and would never fly if it was allowed on a plane.
Thanks for sharing. External temperature is very low
Beautiful aircraft. I'm really glad that people have started working on SSTs again.
For 1993 that is an exceptional camera.
Awesome jet but it saddens me to see so many empty seats. I heard somewhere that a ticket on one of these flights could cost around $60,000 but still always thought that these flights would be full.
Glad to know that the Concorde (or something very similar to it) is on the way back.
Your Royal Highness that Washington route wasn't a busy route, so that's why they stopped flying it. The New York route was way more profitable, and much busier.
The single fare London to NYC was about $5000. Pocket change to the regular fliers.
If you flew the concord from london to new york, it would only take 3 hours and 15 minutes. You would fly so fast you would actually outrun the earth's terminator; meaning that if it were just dark in london you would see the sun come back up in new york. Damn talk about a sunrise rising in the west. Only on Venus you would see a sunrise in the west..
actually you fly faster going east because of the jet stream.
anthony evans Arnold Schwarzenegger cannot fly. Even the upgrades with the poly memetic alloy is unable to fly.
Mind blown
Brill video mate. Great share. Loved this aircraft. Shame she was taking out of service. She was so graceful and elegant to see and watch.
Thanks for posting! Great video. Looks like there were plenty of empty seats. Loved the cockpit visit. It’s too bad the Concorde doesn’t fly any longer.
Those empty seats give me a clue as to why it was retired...
Concorde did not retire because they didn't get enough passengers and money, Its because the Concorde Project was difficult to maintain because it cost so much. And also because after the general downturn in the aviation industry at the beginning of the 2000's. On this flight there are a good amount of empty seats but lots of times all the seats were taken.
Gibson Guitar Yes and it consumed to much oil it became impossible for it to stay competitive
Josh Guzek in addition to the Air France crash right after take off, which killed everyone on board along with a few in the hotel it crashed into.
All caused by a 12 cm piece of metal on the runway, blowing one of the Concordes tires and causing a fire, melting the entire left wing.
Skyler Weaver caused by it hitting debris which had fallen off of a Boeing.
DC-10
Woohoooooo🕺anyone in 2019 here??
No
The best part is imagining the VHS camcorder on the shoulder of who ever filmed this.
Thanks for posting this video. I had always wanted to fly in the Concord, but never had the extra money to do so. This video gives a very nice look into what was once a great aircraft!
Empty because was very expensive travel in this aircraft. But in near future this type for plane will come back to fly again in the skies
I wonder how many people actually knew that the engines powering this beast came from the Vulcan bomber ??
They came from Rolls Royce Snecma. It is written on the engine housing.
dinointhetube the Olympus 592 engines on Concorde were *_derived_* from the Vulcan engines.
@@RB747domme
The 593s were actually from the BAC TSR-2. Supersonic Recon Plane. But when the TSR-2 got cancelled...the 593s were now repurposed for Concorde.
And they actually mounted a test engine at a Vulcan bomber.
Awesome! I grew up about 5 miles from Dulles. I distinctly recall being able to hear Concorde taking off and landing at Dulles from my house when I was a kid.
Almost twice the speed of sound. 1400 mpr. Thank you so much for this presentation.
I'm jealous! What a fantastic plane, I wish it would still fly and I could afford a trip. Btw: The coffee mug at 4:09 - is this safe between all this switches and electronics?
As an A&P mechanic you should see the crap flight crews leave in the cockpit. I don't know how many times I've cleaned up spillt coffee and Coke off of instruments or control heads. At least as an Army contractor, I have my pilots held captive and I hand them the stuff to clean their own messes up.
Richard Alderson Scary..
@@chazbaz4519 yeah like comet
Lejf Diecks no worries, at that altitude there’s no turbulence so the chances of spilling coffee is minimal.
I wish I could of flown on Concord, sadly it will never be 😞
Thank you for showing me the Concorde!
Amazing video, I found it cool as hell! Thank you for posting.
60000 Feet Holy shit!!!
Programierer93 60k feet you will die of the pressure that’s in the sky at 1520 MPH.
@@xxdarknessfe2125- Wut? What pressure? It's about 1 psi.
OMG over 1000 mph
Great vídeo with real sound.
I saw a BA Concorde at the Intrepid Museum in NYC this weekend. It’s amazing to look at and the speeds and altitude must have been amazing to experience.