original upload deleted enjoy Crews View of the JFK1 departure (currently JFK3.SHIPP) of-of 31L including some checklist with explanations. Perfect example of CRM.
I flew on Concorde ... NY to London ... I will never forget it. It was like being in a Ferrari with wings ... the view of the curvature of the earth as I sipped my glass of champagne will stay with me forever. It took three hours and eight minutes ... utterly staggering.
lucky me had 4 trips, one landing at JFK strapped into jumpseat on flightdeck! yes it WAS the curvature of the Earth, your other respondent quite wrong. THE most extraordinary experience of my life. Treasured forever.
@goldenmiddledistanceraces5929 Do your research. Stop believing everything that someone tells you and start using your brain. It's called critical thinking. You will discover a new world. Wake up.
Yes we pilots enjoyed it much more than the passengers. The 31L departure was the best. In fact as a result of this special departure with the left turn at 100ft to avoid the excess noise over Queens, pretty well all the other airlines did the same and Queens had a much quieter future. Super good.
I flew the BA Concord subsonic in 1984. We had a fuel door issue that could not be fixed at JFK and had to fly to London subsonic. Took off and landed 2x because we could not go supersonic and tried to fix at jfk. It took about 9 hours. Most of the other passengers opting to fly first class on other flights and left only about 5 of us on the subsonic flight. Each of us sat in the jump seat between the pilot and first officer in the cockpit for over an hour because there was no movies or entertainment on Concord. Was very cool. The pilot was the same pilot who held the record for the fastest flight from London to jfk. Held both records, fastest and slowest.
My uncle used to ride the Concorde across the pond three times per week for 15 years. He had more transoceanic crossing miles than I do and I'm a B744/B748 captain!
i like how at 4:59, the flight engineer is actually explaining some of it to us, rather than just showing off...seems like he would a make good flight instructor
Can you imagine how much better it would’ve been with modern electronics and turbines. Modern turbines are more fuel efficient and produce more thrust.
Flew on Concorde supersonic around the Bay of Biscay. Mach 2 55000 feet above ground. My champagne glass did not move at all. So smooth!. Miss hearing it fly over head at 11.05 each day as it passed Bristol England on the way to the USA.
Sophisticated and complex... but distinctly analogue. It’s like a Vulcan bomber in there! I can only imagine what a modern remake of ‘Son-of-Concorde’ with a glass cockpit would look like.
I use to look at airplane cockpits and just get dizzy till i started flying video game simulators about 20 years ago, i realize they are not real training BUT they do make you realize everything has its use and its basically instruments telling you what the airplane airframe is doing and the engines etc,nothing to it@@gdutfulkbhh7537
Fuel management on the Concorde was very complicated. It had like 15 fuel tanks, and they had to constantly move the fuel around to keep the Concorde balanced. It was also one of the few commercial planes that had radiation monitoring equipment. This is due to its 60k cruising altitude. exposing it to more cosmic ray and solar proton radiation.
What a professional flight crew! I never got to fly on the Concord but a friend did told me that he knew the Earth round having seen the curvature of it.
I lived in Ayr near Prestwick airport. Every summer they did what appeared to be training or testing on a Concorde as it flew above for days on end. Was so impressive to see in the sky.
I remember Concorde being a regular at Prestwick, back in the day. Used to either go to the airport and watch or sit up at the old castle in my hometown Ardrossan.
Evidently more guys have flown in space as pilots than flew Concorde. A very priviledge few. In the film it is stated by all how much they loved it. The Captain whose name escapes me said that nothing could cross the Atlantic as quick as it .The SR-71 had to refuel a couple of times. The record was New York to London in about 2 hrs 56 minutes. Wonderful aircraft.
cesare vissani no I will dig out the video but these guys NY to LDN were Supersonic from (traffic permitting ) a few minutes out of New York all the way to the Bristol Channel nearly all the way at Mach 2 . The SR would have to refuel at least once in fact they used to refuel after take off and that would take some time. I will get the video out because the Captain of this flight said it and he was The Manager for Concorde at the time. The sad thing is that both planes no longer fly.I know that the SR71 went across the US in an incredible time, it began with 1 hour but I forgot how many minute, and it took the width of California to do a normal 180 turn.I saw a SR 71 at Duxford and it was amazing, they had not cleaned it and you can see where the fuel leaked out of their tanks, but it is a dam shame it does not fly still.According to an ex wing Commander ( I saw on a video on CZcams) the problem in flying it now is getting all the special oils and fuel etc that allowed it to fly at Mach 3.Both remarkable aircraft. On the Ldn-NY sector of this video the plane got up to 58000 ft. That is quite remarkable considering it was carrying passengers. The co pilot here Les Brodie flew on one of Concorde's last flights as a Captain and then retired. There is another remarkable video on CZcams showing a BA Concorde doing touch and goes at Seville in Spain got quite a crowd until he finally left in the evening with his afterburners glowing in the darkness at take off. I love both these aircraft and it would appear that politicians and money men are too involved these days and such projects as these 2 when they began no longer happen. Nothing known that the skunk works has produced since comes near the SR71, and no civil aircraft is close to the performance of Concorde. Could you imagine a mark 2 version with upgraded engines and double the size. The people and the engineering is their but politicians seemed to have stopped this type of project. What was a simple answer has turned into me having a huge gripe, sorry about that.
i saw a concorde take off from las vegas. i was just off the runway when she stated her roll. i stopped and watch her clear the mountains. only then did i notice a lvpd car behind me doing the same thing! we both grinned at each other and went our separate ways.
Keerthivasan Nambiraju The b-1s never landed or took off from McCarron when Nellis was only a few miles away. My husband knows aircraft designs like the back of his hand. That concorde took off and headed in the west, turned over the mountain range, and eventually went out of sight. Dan Hughes- i don't know what type of flight it was, but i do know the difference between a b1b and the concorde. It wasn't Russian and no other aircraft flying has the nose and distinctive hood covering so indicative to the concorde. The closest possible American design for the hood could have been the XB70 Valkyrie, which is vastly bigger overall. Besides that, I'll have to look and see if i still have the pictures. At that time in '93-'97, you could take pictures all you wanted; no questions asked. Incidentally, i gave you a time frame if you would like to research mccarron and/or the FAA for Las Vegas, NV during that period to see whether or not a Concorde arrived and left. Honestly, i love aircraft in general, but this day has stayed with me because it was so unusual and i had never seen one as close as i was before.
@@ashontahuddleston6663 On March 4, 1987, an Air France Concorde landed at McCarran Airport. This was the only time as it was in a "world tour" at the time
@@keerthivasannambiraju955 concorde has flown supersonic over certain areas of the US. it just required special clearance and the route needed to be planned carefully to avoid populated areas. it's also flown supersonic over canada a number of times.
Having flown in it in 1992 I can confirm the acceleration on the ground when the reheats are plugged in is incredible - real pushed into your seat stuff. A bit noisy as well it has to be said
They had to have spectacular acceleration in order to leave the ground before reaching the end of the runway. Delta wings are superb for sustained high speed cruising but generating lift at lower speeds is compromised.
i was at the end of the runway for a Concorde takeoff from YVR.,,I'm pretty sure they were using reheat, the rate of climb was amazing, and the aircraft left holes in the clouds...additionally, the noise level, with Concorde about 200 feet overhead, was about the same as being on the starting grid of a motorcycle race, ooops, with no hearing protection! Not a "sound" as such, more like your whole ear is rattling!
A lot of the pilots retired when Concorde was grounded including the First Officer here Les Brodie who had become a Captain. This was taken in 1995, Concorde was taken out of service in 2003 ( from memory).
it's interesting to note that was once the worlds fastest commercial aircraft, had virtually no cockpit computer screen readouts.....I'd love to see this speedster comeback for Trans Atlantic flights with updated fuel efficient version engines...
+Carmen Seeger How about the Buran shuttle? I know it was 2 decades after the Apollo missions, but still. Made an autonomous rocket launch, 2 orbits, autonomous landing in 61 kph crosswind and only landed 3 meters off course after a go-around that the shuttle initiated by itself.
Like top fuel at a dragstrip! I am confident an announcement will be coming out soon about a new plane. The routes are too long for todays aircraft premium class.
Agreed, but the Concorde program's crystal ball didn't foresee the fuel crisis but the US (Boeing) SST concept was perhaps fortunate enough to be 'behind' Concorde, so it had the benefit of being able to pull out before the whole supersonic airliner thing became non-viable. I worked in the airline industry during the Supersonic conceptual phase and the amount of behind the scenes planning for this 'new era' was formidable. Then, serendipity prevailed upon the yanks and Boeing, which always had superior long range market forecasting, was gifted an advantage with the fuel cost factor, so the jumbo jet era emerged and dominated for decades.
My grandad was a life support systems engineer on the Concorde prototype in the 60s I believe. As well as his many jobs while airborne his penultimate job was in event of abandon the aircraft being decided during in test flight he had to arm and blow the hatch for the escape chute, I believe it dropped you out from below the fuselage. He would have to ensure every man was off then he was last off even after the pilot, apparently it was tested and worked for egress at supersonic speeds, wouldn't fancy that though. I can't imagine the size of the balls of those test pilots and engineers, from what he always told me it just seemed like a case of lets try it who's up for it.
Me and a few of my mates flew a scheduled Concorde flight BA2 from NYC-LHR in 2002, so lucky....and guess how much each? GBP1200 (US$1700) for LHR-NYC in a 747 and NYC-LHR by Concorde! At 58000ft and 1350mph, it felt as though you were stationary! Amazing!
Did it in 1992 on a promo flight from Jeddah to London. All the hangers etc had hordes of people outside watching us taxi and them hammer off down the runway. And yes incredibly smooth at Mach 2 absolutely no sense of movement. I was surprised though at how small it was on the ground and inside - narrower than a 737
Still a marvel of engineering. We've actually taken a step back since the Concordes all stop flying. Passenger jets are a lot bigger and more efficient, but they perform.....speedwise.... much the same way as the 707s and DC-8s of the 1950s. I look forward to seeing the first Boom Overture when it rolls off the assembly line in Greensboro. It'll be the first step to achieving what the Concorde did decades ago.
And the emphasis from Airlines is promoting the standard of class with which you fly.. it still, as you say takes the same amount of time whichever class you fly.
@@Lex5576 I wasn't aware of that.... But knowing what went into just making the engine for Concorde (an engine that was already in production and 'only' had to be modified) I simply can't see it happening boom are now saying they'll make theirs themselves and from what I gather from scratch (a-bit using modern core design) but just that is no mean feat modern core design is so advanced the Chinese have yet to be able to copy commercial engines let alone military engine design I wish them luck but I simply do not think it's possible
This is so well filmed. At 2:12 we see the copilot reaching for some control and we cut on the action and see him turning it. Then at 2:15 we cut to a different angle focussing on the pilot's expression, but with the copilot's hand still in shot. This type of detailed multi-camera shooting is rarely attempted in any YT video now, even though the cameras have become so much cheaper and smaller.
I well up every vid I watch. flew in her. the most astonishing pride and awe still with me. we'll never see the likes of her beauty again and its heartwarming she is still so treasured 20 years later
Your view is this big for that big of a plane, can you believe this!? the skills these people need to control this thing irl must be incredible! good job to anyone who had the chance to flight a Concorde!
Great video. The Concorde certainly needed some diligent pilots to fly her! I sure hope we see another Concorde-like aircraft someday. I'd love to experience supersonic flight.
Unlikely. Besides, supersonic flight, especially for a civil carrier is expensive, fuel inefficient, noisy (try living in the suburbs close to Heathrow...) and high CO2 emissions. . Though she was a remarkable feat of aviation engineering (I've been on the flight-deck of Concorde...), we'll never see another like her. And rightly so, given the current global warming scenario.
I still have the double VHS videotape of this ITTV video bought decades ago. Unfortunately I don't have a VHS recorder any more! Super great video I watched on a weekly basis.
That would be the famous 'turn/throttle back'manouevre, when Concorde took off from JFK, to comply with noise restrictions over Queens and surrounding parts of NYC, from memory. One of Concorde's only drawbacks was that it was a f^%*ing LOUD aircraft. The other being that it couldn't fly at supersonic speeds over land and/or built-up areas, due to the sonic boom it generated, which was violent enough to break windows, as well as setting off every car alarm in a 3 km radius... Great video!
Damn! He shoved those throttles to full power right NOW! That had to be one of the best jobs a human being could ever have flying that airplane. Could you imagine having the Concorde cockpit as your office space??? Nice!
Interesting enough Concorde was the First airliner with FADEC controlled engines, so when the throttles were slammed like that It was just a signal to the FADEC to spool the engines up as quickly but symmetrically as possible.
Pilot Benjamin No kidding? I didn't know that. Just another reason why that was such an awesome airplane. Learn something new about it all the time. Thanks and Semper Fi!
My question is, why the dramatic countdown '3-2-1-now'? Why not simply 'Brakes released, lets go'? I don't see how the world was going to end if he didn't throttle up at that EXACT millisecond.
I was lucky enough to see a Concorde take off at night from Heathrow. Back in the 90s. It’s burnt into my memory. Blue flames blasting out the back. Insane noise. Beautiful.
All that chit-chat at low altitude! SOPs that back then were state of the art, today make these folks look like a bunch of enthusiastic, old gentlemen comparing their train-sets! :)
………….I was so amazed at how quiet this plane was once it reached it cruising speed. Would've been quite the experience to have ridden on one of these magnificent airplanes. A shame they no longer fly.
Amazing and beautiful aeroplane.... ... wonderful video of take off showing true professionalism and very interesting to see what goes on..... Fabulous aircraft :)
I haven't read all the comments, but they all seem to be positive or in actual awe. I was truck driving in Saudi in 1978. If we were driving next to the TAP (trans Arabian Pipe) line we would stop and watch the midday flight from Bahrein go over. It put a lump in my throat to think that they would be home in just over 3 hours, and I would be home in 3 months! The Sonic Boom was something similar to those guns that go off regularly in fields to scare the birds, hardly earth shattering. I believe that when they finally allowed Concorde into JFK, they insisted it flew out across Jamaica bay to lessen the noise footprint. I understand that the New Yorkers living below realised what a nuisance normal planes were and insisted on all flights taking that path. I may be wrong. In September I flew home on G-BOAD (I think - anyway, the one with BA on one side and Singapore Airlines on the other) A truly magical journey. like most people I went on the flight deck. I was also given a second fillet steak as they had some over! Of course now, the flight engineer's job would be replaced by a computer. Back then, the only computer I had was a Casio calculator. I still have it.
Merci infiniment pour cet accès au cockpit de concorde.......... c est merveilleux.. c était hier.... CONCORDE. Le meilleur le seul le plus beau l inoubliable l excellence technologique aeronautique nous l aimons tant nous avons besoin de lui 🛩️ 💖🇫🇷🇬🇧🌎
This is very cool from the pilots view, my only favorite plane. So sadden it was retired so soon..how long can a aircraft be in service cause I truly believe air France helped get her grounded since they weren't doing as good as BA was..never knew I would be so emotional for a beautiful machine..😥💗💔♌
_Magnificent_ European aircraft. Takes one’s breath away! I hope Airbus and Boeing bring back an SST. Maybe people below would no longer be so needlessly averse to a subtle thing like a sonic boom, or _brief_ sound of afterburners. My gosh everybody: those little sounds are aviation at its best! Cheers to you Europeans from the States! 💛🙏🏼
Looks like you definitely needed to be at the top of your game when flying one of these. The concord was from a different era. I don't think we will ever see the likes of it again. Although we have progressed through the decades I do feel we have taken a few steps back in many other ways. The world has lost it's charm if you will
While Americans & Russians builded Strategic Mach 2 bombers at a time , France & Uk builded Mach 2 civil planes. guess what ? Concorde is the most beautiful plane ever, compared to B1, TU 160 ...
By all measures the concorde was a failure. It was built by governments on taxpayer dime. The program never broke even. There are currently several new aircraft in development right now that ARE viable including faster than concorde aircraft (both airliner and private jet) and another that will do M 1.4 over land thanks to research by NASA and Lockheed.
I watched one come in once to land once and let me tell you....they were LOUD! And that was landing. Watching this here and seeing this on full power, flying over those homes? Their windows must've been rattling. Every dog on the ground there must've been freakin' out lol.
I love the way these men talk. The clipped vowels and soft consonants make the words uber clear over the noise via (in today’s terms) a poor quality microphone.
@Modest Well that was petty... while the manufacture of the aircraft was evenly split, the aircrafts design as a whole was only possible due to the availability of the Rolls Royce Olympus engines, France was intending on building a medium range aircraft and the UK was intending on a long range aircraft with a delta wing design using those engines, making the eventual product more British than French.
@Modest "Cautious" with facts... no... www.heritageconcorde.com/who-built-concorde "France showed real interest, mainly because the British were the only nation that had the possible engine, the Olympus 593. It would of taken the French years and cost millions to to develop a engine of their own."
my next door neighbour was flying from Heathrow to jfk on business. That same day i was taking the train from kings cross to Edinburgh..we worked it out that by the time my train would hit newark northgate (half way up the UK) his flight would just be about taking off. He called me when he'd landed at jfk, and my train had only just left Newcastle station. 3 hrs to cross the Atlantic on concorde!!!! And it took me nearly five hours to chug barely two 3rds of the UK by rail. Still blows my mind
Amazing. These three men are good at what they do. Like how many month's or years of training did this take to get all these checks and maneuvers mastered?
Such a shame it's so hard to come by the full version of this now, it's over 3 hours long. If anyone is interested the crew names are Capt. David Rowland, S.E.O. Roger Bricknell and F.O. Les Brodie who went on to become captain. There's a great talk involving David here at 53:22 - czcams.com/video/x9CY5g27P_0/video.html Les in a simulation: czcams.com/video/nhY-t5KtBxE/video.html Roger did have a video on the startup procedure for Concorde but I cannot find it.
I flew on Concorde ... NY to London ... I will never forget it. It was like being in a Ferrari with wings ... the view of the curvature of the earth as I sipped my glass of champagne will stay with me forever. It took three hours and eight minutes ... utterly staggering.
“..the view of the curvature of the earth..” , hold your horses my friend. Not even Felix Baumgartner from 120.000 feet hasn’t seen it.
lucky me had 4 trips, one landing at JFK strapped into jumpseat on flightdeck! yes it WAS the curvature of the Earth, your other respondent quite wrong. THE most extraordinary experience of my life. Treasured forever.
@@goldenmiddledistanceraces5929 You missed the point here, my friend. If you declare that the grass is blue, doesn’t mean that it is.
Far faster than any Ferrari.
@goldenmiddledistanceraces5929 Do your research. Stop believing everything that someone tells you and start using your brain. It's called critical thinking. You will discover a new world. Wake up.
Yes we pilots enjoyed it much more than the passengers. The 31L departure was the best. In fact as a result of this special departure with the left turn at 100ft to avoid the excess noise over Queens, pretty well all the other airlines did the same and Queens had a much quieter future. Super good.
Did it ever seem like a job ?
@@vkhken1966 Hi Ken. In truth, NEVER. It was the Peter Pan syndrome. I never had to grow up. It was a truly magical life for 46 years as an aviator.
@Tony Yule. How many pilots were trained to fly the Concorde?
@@Immenreiner 72 Captains. 62 Senior First Officers and 57 Senior Flight Engieers.
He prob dead now
I flew the BA Concord subsonic in 1984. We had a fuel door issue that could not be fixed at JFK and had to fly to London subsonic. Took off and landed 2x because we could not go supersonic and tried to fix at jfk.
It took about 9 hours. Most of the other passengers opting to fly first class on other flights and left only about 5 of us on the subsonic flight.
Each of us sat in the jump seat between the pilot and first officer in the cockpit for over an hour because there was no movies or entertainment on Concord.
Was very cool. The pilot was the same pilot who held the record for the fastest flight from London to jfk. Held both records, fastest and slowest.
Lol
It doesn’t have the range to fly transatlantic subsonic unless the winds are helping.
We flew subsonic some route in a semi circle so we were always near enough to land to land if we had to. It was 1984.
@@frankdeluca2791 Ouch that’s slower than a typical airliner crossing the Atlantic despite the small speed advantage.
Cool!!
An amazing machine, remarkable professionalism from the aircrew. What a great honour it would have been to fly this aircraft.
And they got to say that epic callsign `SpeedBird Concorde' :-)
Absolutely.
The crew are total bosses.
I was one of the last passenger and its the best £8,450 i've ever spent
My uncle used to ride the Concorde across the pond three times per week for 15 years. He had more transoceanic crossing miles than I do and I'm a B744/B748 captain!
jumboJetPilot WOW!!
@Karl that, he is.
Hello, im an ex US Naval aviator, i used to fly Vought corsairs A-7E 2s off CVN-65 Enterprise Carrier.
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@@nicobrauer2989 Really
Concorde, What a masterpiece of technology. Respect for pilots and engineer.
i like how at 4:59, the flight engineer is actually explaining some of it to us, rather than just showing off...seems like he would a make good flight instructor
The most fantastic commercial aircraft in history........should still be in operation!!
Can you imagine how much better it would’ve been with modern electronics and turbines. Modern turbines are more fuel efficient and produce more thrust.
The noise coming into Heathrow was not the most attractive.
Flew on Concorde supersonic around the Bay of Biscay. Mach 2 55000 feet above ground. My champagne glass did not move at all. So smooth!. Miss hearing it fly over head at 11.05 each day as it passed Bristol England on the way to the USA.
I’m not a pilot, but seems very sophisticated and complex plane, 15min into the flight , still going through to the checklists....fascinating
Sophisticated and complex... but distinctly analogue. It’s like a Vulcan bomber in there! I can only imagine what a modern remake of ‘Son-of-Concorde’ with a glass cockpit would look like.
I use to look at airplane cockpits and just get dizzy till i started flying video game simulators about 20 years ago, i realize they are not real training BUT they do make you realize everything has its use and its basically instruments telling you what the airplane airframe is doing and the engines etc,nothing to it@@gdutfulkbhh7537
I always love hearing the sound difference when the visor is lifted, somewhat like turning on a noise canceling earphone.
Captain David Rowland, Senior First Officer Les Brodie and Senior Flight Engineer Roger Bricknell are the ones in action in this clip.
salimtufail no that is me captain al the ghost labonte shift command. L7 square d
9 car Cottrell...bullshit.
I was going to ask if the captain was Roland Beaumont!
Miss this baby flying over my house on its way to Heathrow to land. And it was always on time.Respect to all Pilots in the Sky.💯♥️🇬🇧
Fuel management on the Concorde was very complicated. It had like 15 fuel tanks, and they had to constantly move the fuel around to keep the Concorde balanced. It was also one of the few commercial planes that had radiation monitoring equipment. This is due to its 60k cruising altitude. exposing it to more cosmic ray and solar proton radiation.
1,2,3,4 where engine feeders 5,6,7,8 where holding tanks 9,10,11 where trim transfer tanks and 5A and 7A where wing tip tanks.
Well, 60 000 ft is not 60 000 m.
@@nabzduterrier2736 Eh? Your point being?
What a professional flight crew! I never got to fly on the Concord but a friend did told me that he knew the Earth round having seen the curvature of it.
I lived in Ayr near Prestwick airport. Every summer they did what appeared to be training or testing on a Concorde as it flew above for days on end. Was so impressive to see in the sky.
I remember Concorde being a regular at Prestwick, back in the day. Used to either go to the airport and watch or sit up at the old castle in my hometown Ardrossan.
They did base training for new pilots converting onto it.
I bet the pilots enjoyed these aircraft even more than the passengers did.
Oh most definitely! Can you imagine having the Concorde cockpit as your office?? I doubt that they had much of a problem with people calling in sick.
Evidently more guys have flown in space as pilots than flew Concorde. A very priviledge few. In the film it is stated by all how much they loved it. The Captain whose name escapes me said that nothing could cross the Atlantic as quick as it .The SR-71 had to refuel a couple of times. The record was New York to London in about 2 hrs 56 minutes. Wonderful aircraft.
Beagle76 are you sure about the sr-71?
cesare vissani no I will dig out the video but these guys NY to LDN were Supersonic from (traffic permitting ) a few minutes out of New York all the way to the Bristol Channel nearly all the way at Mach 2 . The SR would have to refuel at least once in fact they used to refuel after take off and that would take some time. I will get the video out because the Captain of this flight said it and he was The Manager for Concorde at the time. The sad thing is that both planes no longer fly.I know that the SR71 went across the US in an incredible time, it began with 1 hour but I forgot how many minute, and it took the width of California to do a normal 180 turn.I saw a SR 71 at Duxford and it was amazing, they had not cleaned it and you can see where the fuel leaked out of their tanks, but it is a dam shame it does not fly still.According to an ex wing Commander ( I saw on a video on CZcams) the problem in flying it now is getting all the special oils and fuel etc that allowed it to fly at Mach 3.Both remarkable aircraft. On the Ldn-NY sector of this video the plane got up to 58000 ft. That is quite remarkable considering it was carrying passengers. The co pilot here Les Brodie flew on one of Concorde's last flights as a Captain and then retired. There is another remarkable video on CZcams showing a BA Concorde doing touch and goes at Seville in Spain got quite a crowd until he finally left in the evening with his afterburners glowing in the darkness at take off. I love both these aircraft and it would appear that politicians and money men are too involved these days and such projects as these 2 when they began no longer happen. Nothing known that the skunk works has produced since comes near the SR71, and no civil aircraft is close to the performance of Concorde. Could you imagine a mark 2 version with upgraded engines and double the size. The people and the engineering is their but politicians seemed to have stopped this type of project. What was a simple answer has turned into me having a huge gripe, sorry about that.
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i saw a concorde take off from las vegas. i was just off the runway when she stated her roll. i stopped and watch her clear the mountains. only then did i notice a lvpd car behind me doing the same thing! we both grinned at each other and went our separate ways.
+Keerthivasan Nambiraju I missed the bit where he said anything remotely close to Concorde being supersonic within the US, did I miss something?
Keerthivasan Nambiraju The b-1s never landed or took off from McCarron when Nellis was only a few miles away. My husband knows aircraft designs like the back of his hand. That concorde took off and headed in the west, turned over the mountain range, and eventually went out of sight.
Dan Hughes- i don't know what type of flight it was, but i do know the difference between a b1b and the concorde. It wasn't Russian and no other aircraft flying has the nose and distinctive hood covering so indicative to the concorde. The closest possible American design for the hood could have been the XB70 Valkyrie, which is vastly bigger overall. Besides that, I'll have to look and see if i still have the pictures. At that time in '93-'97, you could take pictures all you wanted; no questions asked. Incidentally, i gave you a time frame if you would like to research mccarron and/or the FAA for Las Vegas, NV during that period to see whether or not a Concorde arrived and left. Honestly, i love aircraft in general, but this day has stayed with me because it was so unusual and i had never seen one as close as i was before.
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@@ashontahuddleston6663 On March 4, 1987, an Air France Concorde landed at McCarran Airport. This was the only time as it was in a "world tour" at the time
@@keerthivasannambiraju955 concorde has flown supersonic over certain areas of the US. it just required special clearance and the route needed to be planned carefully to avoid populated areas. it's also flown supersonic over canada a number of times.
Having flown in it in 1992 I can confirm the acceleration on the ground when the reheats are plugged in is incredible - real pushed into your seat stuff. A bit noisy as well it has to be said
They had to have spectacular acceleration in order to leave the ground before reaching the end of the runway. Delta wings are superb for sustained high speed cruising but generating lift at lower speeds is compromised.
@@paulanderson7796 check a Vulcan bomber takeoff. The lift on concord was via vortex so different
i was at the end of the runway for a Concorde takeoff from YVR.,,I'm pretty sure they were using reheat, the rate of climb was amazing, and the aircraft left holes in the clouds...additionally, the noise level, with Concorde about 200 feet overhead, was about the same as being on the starting grid of a motorcycle race, ooops, with no hearing protection! Not a "sound" as such, more like your whole ear is rattling!
It must have been the most amazing experience ever to be the pilot of that plane.
A lot of the pilots retired when Concorde was grounded including the First Officer here Les Brodie who had become a Captain. This was taken in 1995, Concorde was taken out of service in 2003 ( from memory).
it's interesting to note that was once the worlds fastest commercial aircraft, had virtually no cockpit computer screen readouts.....I'd love to see this speedster comeback for Trans Atlantic flights with updated fuel efficient version engines...
+Gary Vale I It looks like a mess but its actually quite organized once you learn the flows it would be great to see it come back
+Gary Vale Imagine and remember what they did with the Apollo spacecrafts in the sixties :D
+Gary Vale I agree new lightweight materials new power AwEsOmEEEE!!!!
+Carmen Seeger How about the Buran shuttle? I know it was 2 decades after the Apollo missions, but still. Made an autonomous rocket launch, 2 orbits, autonomous landing in 61 kph crosswind and only landed 3 meters off course after a go-around that the shuttle initiated by itself.
EnderWiggin35 Gliders don't go around unless you have thrust to do so lol
The most exciting civil plane ever!
Like top fuel at a dragstrip! I am confident an announcement will be coming out soon about a new plane. The routes are too long for todays aircraft premium class.
Thank you! The pilots are great, too!
Enya Cristina Lind they should recreate the concorde like concorde neo
waste not waist.
Maybe the most exciting, but also the least commercially successful and the biggest waste of taxpayers money for R&D
It looks like a very hands-on aircraft, very involving to fly 2:34. I admire the calm demeanor of the aircrew. I'd be a bag of nerves.
That was the end of an epoch of discovery. Concorde was the best symbol of it. Big projects! Big challenges. Big efforts. Big achievements.
Would you consider Branson and Bezos going up as an "epoch of discovery?"
@@Cyba_ITonly as an extension of the Apollo moon landing in 1969. Otherwise, nothing really new.
Agreed, but the Concorde program's crystal ball didn't foresee the fuel crisis but the US (Boeing) SST concept was perhaps fortunate enough to be 'behind' Concorde, so it had the benefit of being able to pull out before the whole supersonic airliner thing became non-viable.
I worked in the airline industry during the Supersonic conceptual phase and the amount of behind the scenes planning for this 'new era' was formidable.
Then, serendipity prevailed upon the yanks and Boeing, which always had superior long range market forecasting, was gifted an advantage with the fuel cost factor, so the jumbo jet era emerged and dominated for decades.
Now, the worlds resources are directed away from technology and fuelling Africa/Asia's single net export ........... useless eaters.
and today we go woke 😂
The runway they were taking off was actually completely smooth, they were just bouncing with excitement.
You’d never not want to go to work.
God I love this beautiful aircraft, its amazing how silent the Concorde gets when the nose visor comes up
Used to love hearing that big metal bird going supersonic over my house in Wales. It was like a short blast of thunder.
I was sailing across the Atlantic once, and about mid-way across heard a very loud crack, and looked up to Concorde had flown overhead supersonic 😄👌🏻
Flying with such experienced Pilots give you some peace of mind...
My grandad was a life support systems engineer on the Concorde prototype in the 60s I believe. As well as his many jobs while airborne his penultimate job was in event of abandon the aircraft being decided during in test flight he had to arm and blow the hatch for the escape chute, I believe it dropped you out from below the fuselage. He would have to ensure every man was off then he was last off even after the pilot, apparently it was tested and worked for egress at supersonic speeds, wouldn't fancy that though. I can't imagine the size of the balls of those test pilots and engineers, from what he always told me it just seemed like a case of lets try it who's up for it.
It truly was a spectacular aircraft, one I was lucky enough to fly on with my parents when I was a teenager more than 30 years ago.
I worked in Hounslow - everyone stopped to watch when it flew over every day. No other plane did that, or could inspire like concorde
BA crew, always professional and safe to fly with
Me and a few of my mates flew a scheduled Concorde flight BA2 from NYC-LHR in 2002, so lucky....and guess how much each? GBP1200 (US$1700) for LHR-NYC in a 747 and NYC-LHR by Concorde! At 58000ft and 1350mph, it felt as though you were stationary! Amazing!
Did it in 1992 on a promo flight from Jeddah to London. All the hangers etc had hordes of people outside watching us taxi and them hammer off down the runway. And yes incredibly smooth at Mach 2 absolutely no sense of movement. I was surprised though at how small it was on the ground and inside - narrower than a 737
Incredible. As a sailplane pilot flying the Sierra on 02, you guys are amazing.
Still a marvel of engineering. We've actually taken a step back since the Concordes all stop flying. Passenger jets are a lot bigger and more efficient, but they perform.....speedwise.... much the same way as the 707s and DC-8s of the 1950s. I look forward to seeing the first Boom Overture when it rolls off the assembly line in Greensboro. It'll be the first step to achieving what the Concorde did decades ago.
And the emphasis from Airlines is promoting the standard of class with which you fly.. it still, as you say takes the same amount of time whichever class you fly.
BOOM is never happening I'm afraid
@@carmadme Well, they’re building the factory for it off I-73 in Greensboro. Right next to runway 23R. The place is going to be huge.
@@Lex5576 I wasn't aware of that....
But knowing what went into just making the engine for Concorde (an engine that was already in production and 'only' had to be modified) I simply can't see it happening
boom are now saying they'll make theirs themselves and from what I gather from scratch (a-bit using modern core design) but just that is no mean feat modern core design is so advanced the Chinese have yet to be able to copy commercial engines let alone military engine design
I wish them luck but I simply do not think it's possible
I was standing on its roof today :-) @@Lex5576
This is so well filmed. At 2:12 we see the copilot reaching for some control and we cut on the action and see him turning it. Then at 2:15 we cut to a different angle focussing on the pilot's expression, but with the copilot's hand still in shot. This type of detailed multi-camera shooting is rarely attempted in any YT video now, even though the cameras have become so much cheaper and smaller.
After all these years, am I the only one who STILL gets goosebumps watching that utterly beautiful machine fly? 🥲
I guess not, and It was certainly the most beautiful Day of my life ever to fly in It!
@@mariannehoutzager9093 Ahh! You lucky person! 🍀 😁👍🏽
No
Me too and so miss
I well up every vid I watch. flew in her. the most astonishing pride and awe still with me. we'll never see the likes of her beauty again and its heartwarming she is still so treasured 20 years later
Your view is this big for that big of a plane, can you believe this!? the skills these people need to control this thing irl must be incredible! good job to anyone who had the chance to flight a Concorde!
To anyone who was in one too!
Great video. The Concorde certainly needed some diligent pilots to fly her! I sure hope we see another Concorde-like aircraft someday. I'd love to experience supersonic flight.
To fly a B 777 one can be checked out in 20 days. It took 6 months to be ready to fly the concorde.
Unlikely. Besides, supersonic flight, especially for a civil carrier is expensive, fuel inefficient, noisy (try living in the suburbs close to Heathrow...) and high CO2 emissions.
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Though she was a remarkable feat of aviation engineering (I've been on the flight-deck of Concorde...), we'll never see another like her. And rightly so, given the current global warming scenario.
Bring back the days of the flight engineer!
Why? Just increases costs of the ticket
Every since my godfather was a captain with over 800 flights, I dreamt of being a flight engineer. Bring it back!!
I still have the double VHS videotape of this ITTV video bought decades ago. Unfortunately I don't have a VHS recorder any more! Super great video I watched on a weekly basis.
That’s an unbelievable amount of switches and gages. It’s amazing there is only three people managing them.
now there are only two, the rest is managed by computer
They have extended checklists.
That would be the famous 'turn/throttle back'manouevre, when Concorde took off from JFK, to comply with noise restrictions over Queens and surrounding parts of NYC, from memory. One of Concorde's only drawbacks was that it was a f^%*ing LOUD aircraft. The other being that it couldn't fly at supersonic speeds over land and/or built-up areas, due to the sonic boom it generated, which was violent enough to break windows, as well as setting off every car alarm in a 3 km radius...
Great video!
Damn! He shoved those throttles to full power right NOW! That had to be one of the best jobs a human being could ever have flying that airplane. Could you imagine having the Concorde cockpit as your office space??? Nice!
Interesting enough Concorde was the First airliner with FADEC controlled engines, so when the throttles were slammed like that It was just a signal to the FADEC to spool the engines up as quickly but symmetrically as possible.
Pilot Benjamin No kidding? I didn't know that. Just another reason why that was such an awesome airplane. Learn something new about it all the time. Thanks and Semper Fi!
My question is, why the dramatic countdown '3-2-1-now'? Why not simply 'Brakes released, lets go'? I don't see how the world was going to end if he didn't throttle up at that EXACT millisecond.
twit
not on 4590...
I was lucky enough to see a Concorde take off at night from Heathrow. Back in the 90s. It’s burnt into my memory. Blue flames blasting out the back. Insane noise. Beautiful.
All that chit-chat at low altitude! SOPs that back then were state of the art, today make these folks look like a bunch of enthusiastic, old gentlemen comparing their train-sets! :)
………….I was so amazed at how quiet this plane was once it reached it cruising speed. Would've been quite the experience to have ridden on one of these magnificent airplanes. A shame they no longer fly.
Will miss that bird coming into KJFK, was always a welcome sight...
British, professionalism. I rode Concorde once from Caracas to London via Barbados . Best day of my life. One of 4 passengers !
Have details.
Total professionalism.
The Englishman. The skies. The opportunities
🤜🤛
Amazing and beautiful aeroplane.... ... wonderful video of take off showing true professionalism and very interesting to see what goes on..... Fabulous aircraft :)
Incredible engineering, what a plane!
Concorde Is Already At 250knts. Just After V2 Climbing Out !
V2 is 220knots
Fuel management was a big deal as it affected CG ...this is an awesome video. Thanks for sharing ❤
I haven't read all the comments, but they all seem to be positive or in actual awe. I was truck driving in Saudi in 1978. If we were driving next to the TAP (trans Arabian Pipe) line we would stop and watch the midday flight from Bahrein go over. It put a lump in my throat to think that they would be home in just over 3 hours, and I would be home in 3 months! The Sonic Boom was something similar to those guns that go off regularly in fields to scare the birds, hardly earth shattering. I believe that when they finally allowed Concorde into JFK, they insisted it flew out across Jamaica bay to lessen the noise footprint. I understand that the New Yorkers living below realised what a nuisance normal planes were and insisted on all flights taking that path. I may be wrong.
In September I flew home on G-BOAD (I think - anyway, the one with BA on one side and Singapore Airlines on the other) A truly magical journey. like most people I went on the flight deck. I was also given a second fillet steak as they had some over!
Of course now, the flight engineer's job would be replaced by a computer. Back then, the only computer I had was a Casio calculator. I still have it.
Bless You. Remember when My father stay at night for see concord in aerpot México. He was un love the concord.
Merci infiniment pour cet accès au cockpit de concorde.......... c est merveilleux.. c était hier....
CONCORDE. Le meilleur le seul le plus beau l inoubliable l excellence technologique aeronautique nous l aimons tant nous avons besoin de lui 🛩️ 💖🇫🇷🇬🇧🌎
Very good. Although I personally have the full double-DVD of this programme, you have captured a very good highlight.
This is very cool from the pilots view, my only favorite plane. So sadden it was retired so soon..how long can a aircraft be in service cause I truly believe air France helped get her grounded since they weren't doing as good as BA was..never knew I would be so emotional for a beautiful machine..😥💗💔♌
The way it turns as it takes off, so effortless, just a gorgeous machine.
I was rather enjoying that. Wish it had continued through the climb.
Right? 🤔
This is a clip from a five hour double DVD documentary by ITVV, I believe it may now be available for digital download
SO MANY BUTTONS PRESS THEM ALL
I love buttons
+Blockbusters1000 vlogs and More yeah, right
+xoXAnnahXox
You will make a great pilot
MacBook
Funny thing is, those are only half of the buttons.
The Concorde is flown by 3 pilots, instead of just 2. :D
Holy moly. Look at all the control switches in that plane cockpit
I'm also impressed how small those cameras were for the time. Must've been fairly late in the run
I've met Dave Rowland (Captain) a couple of times. Always had the time to talk about his days in the Concorde.
Two magical numbers on the Concorde. On takeoff the engines always reach their maximum power at 100 kias. And you always reach mach 2.0 at 50,000 ft.
Wow fantastic to see this, thanks for posting it! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🙏🏻
Not used to V1 and rotate being so far apart, amazing machine
_Magnificent_ European aircraft. Takes one’s breath away! I hope Airbus and Boeing bring back an SST. Maybe people below would no longer be so needlessly averse to a subtle thing like a sonic boom, or _brief_ sound of afterburners. My gosh everybody: those little sounds are aviation at its best! Cheers to you Europeans from the States! 💛🙏🏼
European aircraft
@@jameswellings9944 Thanks James, I corrected my post! God bless, 💛🙏🏼
The only passenger jet that goes from V1 to V2 in only seconds. It's literally a fighter jet with passengers
all go from v1 to v2 in only seconds
the gap is quite lengthy on Concorde, on all others and in most conditions V1 is almost equal to VR
@@kikofaria0051 takes about 12 seconds on most 737s
@@pb6198 yep, seconds
Well, it's not literally a fighter jet with passengers
If you look carefully you can see the pilots making a living, absolutely fascinating
When an airplane is so cool, it puts it's own sunglasses on.
Looks like you definitely needed to be at the top of your game when flying one of these. The concord was from a different era. I don't think we will ever see the likes of it again. Although we have progressed through the decades I do feel we have taken a few steps back in many other ways. The world has lost it's charm if you will
google boom aero
I never flew in one but I did get to go on one once and got shown around by the crew when it parked beside us at JFK.
What a greyhound and thoroughbred of an airplane. Awesome.
Fantastic! Love the realtime info.
Sweet......Like how quiet it got with the visor up.....
I would do anything to be able to fly a Concorde in my lifetime.
While Americans & Russians builded Strategic Mach 2 bombers at a time , France & Uk builded Mach 2 civil planes. guess what ? Concorde is the most beautiful plane ever, compared to B1, TU 160 ...
But can it bomb the fuck outta u doeeeeee?!
I agree it was a beautiful plane.
The French and the British were so proud of Concorde. I know as a Brit I was.
By all measures the concorde was a failure. It was built by governments on taxpayer dime. The program never broke even. There are currently several new aircraft in development right now that ARE viable including faster than concorde aircraft (both airliner and private jet) and another that will do M 1.4 over land thanks to research by NASA and Lockheed.
louder than concorde but not quite as pretty. B1 is gorgeous as well.
@Firsthgyhgyhuy Lastujhujhuj So how many passengers drinking champagne could the SR-71 carry? ..... Oh wait ......
Have any idea how cool this whole thing was? Like seriously
I watched one come in once to land once and let me tell you....they were LOUD! And that was landing. Watching this here and seeing this on full power, flying over those homes? Their windows must've been rattling. Every dog on the ground there must've been freakin' out lol.
I love the way these men talk. The clipped vowels and soft consonants make the words uber clear over the noise via (in today’s terms) a poor quality microphone.
The pride of Great Britain (and France :-))
@Modest Well that was petty...
while the manufacture of the aircraft was evenly split, the aircrafts design as a whole was only possible due to the availability of the Rolls Royce Olympus engines, France was intending on building a medium range aircraft and the UK was intending on a long range aircraft with a delta wing design using those engines, making the eventual product more British than French.
@Modest Everything that I said is a fact not an opinion, facts cannot be biased, you should know that...
@Modest "Cautious" with facts... no... www.heritageconcorde.com/who-built-concorde
"France showed real interest, mainly because the British were the only nation that had the possible engine, the Olympus 593. It would of taken the French years and cost millions to to develop a engine of their own."
@Modest French had to ruin it tho so only right they go after
Great video. Spectacular jet and crew.
Beautiful bird. Her last flight was a sad sad day. Never had the privilege of a flight on her, I can only imagine how good it was
This is awesome - we need part 2!😀
A lot quieter when she puts her shades on :)
my next door neighbour was flying from Heathrow to jfk on business. That same day i was taking the train from kings cross to Edinburgh..we worked it out that by the time my train would hit newark northgate (half way up the UK) his flight would just be about taking off. He called me when he'd landed at jfk, and my train had only just left Newcastle station. 3 hrs to cross the Atlantic on concorde!!!! And it took me nearly five hours to chug barely two 3rds of the UK by rail. Still blows my mind
woooow absolutely mesmerizing video. Thanks for the upload.
I wasn’t ready for that to end!
You saved a bit of history.....at least for a couple decades! I hope!
Such fun, such discipline, great training.
Amazing. These three men are good at what they do. Like how many month's or years of training did this take to get all these checks and maneuvers mastered?
I have that DVD and all the others in the series. This Concorde one is great.
Realy nice. Thank you for sharing.
What a great video. I was so lost in it 🔥❤️
This is an amazing footage!
I really enjoyed this video. Thank you.
Such a shame it's so hard to come by the full version of this now, it's over 3 hours long. If anyone is interested the crew names are Capt. David Rowland, S.E.O. Roger Bricknell and F.O. Les Brodie who went on to become captain.
There's a great talk involving David here at 53:22 - czcams.com/video/x9CY5g27P_0/video.html
Les in a simulation: czcams.com/video/nhY-t5KtBxE/video.html
Roger did have a video on the startup procedure for Concorde but I cannot find it.