Air France concorde take off

[BernhardRottweiler]

At 2:59 Minutes one can see that the speed is limited to 1.97 Mach - this is due to the TMO (maximum operating temperature) of 127 degrees celsius. The temperature sensor was positioned on the nose of the aircraft.

[agutransporte]

how long was the flight?

[CultOfPersonality90]

can i become a pilot with glasses ???????

[tjampe]

@CultOfPersonality90 yes you can.

[03Wale]

@hackerboy96 Those are approach plates and STARS not maps

[plasticspastic201]

trust the french to crash the concorde, just like they crashed the bloody AF447. the truth is they cant fly properly. too busy sounding all poncey with their huge noses and stinking of onions to be able to operate a plane correctly.

[rugbytlse]

@plasticspastic201 Ok, ask your parents before expressing on the internet. How old are you anyway ? 10 ?

[03Wale]

@plasticspastic201 You are an idiot

[plasticspastic201]

@03Wale oh really. prove im wrong then Froggy.

[musiclas1]

@plasticspastic201 You have milk at the bottom of your nose. Tell your mom to wash it ! Incredible to be so childish !

[paulgrem]

Great view of a Concorde flight. There's one shot that's WAY up there. And running at Mach 2.02. No one's flying higher or faster than that these days.

[mmichaeldonavon]

I just love those "steam gauges"!! Check out the old HSI, and those ADI's - Wow!!

Now that's a panel...that's a cockpit - none of that new fangled stuff. :-)

[butch400]

Not a SINGLE word in English :D.

[beeroosterm]

What a shame about all the empty seats!

[MrYan772]

ah! ce bon vieux concorde 

[laulam8369]

A quand surtout un Concorde remotorisé et réaménagé.....il est toujours sans concurrence !!!......

Le savoir-faire est unique et n'a pas de prix dans ce domaine !!!......

[xraycortina]

Came from the 1960s and still looks modern.

[fleiva30]

noise cockpit..!!

[mymd11]

Who makes the concord? Which company?

[raptors222222]

@mymd11 BAE Systems and EADS. British and French respectively.

[AdognamedOp]

Wow, I was working on that American Airlines terminal in the background at 0:45. Thats a Liebherr 1200 crane.

[iiiset]

empty plane... yeah, real commercially viable service, there.

[nurvus]

Wow what a let down :(

No landing?? And they were on short final!

[FunnyItalyBoy]

It was still being a prototype,that's why it had many problems,a day there 'll be his son,maybe a new kind of concorde!

[FeelFree3]

Although 'Time is money' but not much people want to spend that much to save some time.

[CNCCF]

Concorde on t'aime,

André Turcat on t'adore

CN-CCF

[kingmarco301]

i wanna be a pilot and concord is my hero and i know one day its gonna rule the skies again!!!!

[Rico8458]

each ticket was like 10,000 dollars per seat?

[CubsFanJohn]

@Rico8458,

Yes at the very least it cost that much on a full fare.....

[TeenAviator]

@Rico8458 No! Around 3500 dollars per seat. It's still a ton of money!

[ImmortalSynn]

@TeenAviator

Actually, no. Rico was right. Near its economic peak (mid-1990s to 2000) a roundtrip ticket on AF averaged $9,800USD and on BA $11,400USD... so a mean value of about $10,000

[urashimakeitaro22]

they should make fuel and cost efficient concordes in the future. simple.

[ImmortalSynn]

@urashimakeitaro22

If it were "simple" then it would've been done, lol. The problem is, so few Concordes were made, that it was hard to incrementally improve them. They gave a real effort with "Concorde B" which would've removed re-heat, had wider wings, movable leading-edge slats, greater fuel storage, and longer range.

Not a single airline bought one, and the project was canceled. It's tough to get to version 3.0, 4.0, etc... when no one wants to buy 2.0. :(

[airbus340driver]

Still the most beautiful aircraft to take to the skies......she deserved to fly longer

[Aussiephil99]

I'd rather fly British Airways concorde.....at least you know it won't crash

[ImmortalSynn]

@Aussiephil99

What kind of stupidity is that?  BA had quite a few maintenance woes (micro-fiber cracks in wing, that almost caused on to delaminate) and also had its share of wing-damaging tire blowouts as well. But for the grace of God and fortune, THEY weren't the ones to have suffered to fatal accident.

Grow up.

[Aussiephil99]

@ImmortalSynn .......no mate you grow up.....and develop a sense of humour

[Aussiephil99]

@ImmortalSynn.....righty oh then "Mr Serious'........don't be late for church

[Millard97]

fast plane !

[skazhiprivet]

They keep looking at the map and then mumble incomprehensible stuff... I think they got lost!

:D

[chubsmagoo]

God the French language sounds like someone has a bunch of balls in their mouth and they are trying to talk.

[SinclairisCool]

@chubsmagoo

shut up. and go educate your self on other cultures.

[chubsmagoo]

@SinclairisCool isn't your self actually yourself?

[SinclairisCool]

@chubsmagoo

oh no, don't try and turn this around on me! Your the one trying to make out that the French language sounds like someone who has "balls in their mouth"

[chubsmagoo]

@SinclairisCool it's true though. They sound like they have a mouthful of scrotum when they are talking.

[SinclairisCool]

@chubsmagoo

Well thats you opinion. Its wrong but whatever.

[JackJohnson3119]

@SinclairisCool you shut up

[proudbelgian]

@chubsmagoo  English language sounds like you're in a pigpen and you hear all the grunting.

[justinasb]

Thanks a lot for this video. It was very interesting to see the only brother of Tu-144

[ffuuuucccckk]

god damn fast !!!!

[barthoedemaker]

They won't do that, we all know it's all about money.

[barthoedemaker]

It's not dififcult to make an eco friendly supersonic cruiser. The problem is not the engineers, the problem is goverments and politic and the whole maffia

[ryanhaart]

very interesting dude, the "mafia" is suppressing an eco-friendly supersonic cruiser. Yeah right.

[barthoedemaker]

@ryanhaart if you don;t understand politics back off. It's a dirty business out there, don;t believe anything you here

[bondita]

people don't have a supersonic ,..as you see they are stupid !!!!! so they don;t deserve one. The only thing they deserve is to drink their minds off !!!

[28baran28]

it says departing JFK :S

[anisocoro]

Periodically it is "launched" an idea about new supersonic airliners,but considerations about fuel-consummation, pollution of stratosphere, development intele-communications blow down those projects. Now it seems rational to suppose that there is no need of big supersonic airliners,but a "mini-concorde" for private use (very rich people do exsist!) should be appetible

[4brigade]

bad video huh why did yew cut tht?

[Whild91]

Looks so great by the window! Very beautiful plane!

[richarddx22]

cop out, no touchdown scene, shit

[jawrz]

the clue was in the title "Air France concorde TAKE OFF!!!!"

[CurlyBlakey]

@richarddx22 he didnt do badly, getting to film concordes cockpit, really

[jbo777]

I can't beleive that landing and touch down are missing.. why did you cut here? really sad...

[Whild91]

anyway, the crash wasn't Concorde's fault. Would you get more information until you say anything?

[miked860]

The metal strip shouldn't have been on the runway, however a blown tire shouldn't have been able to rupture the fuel tanks. Concorde had faults just like everything else. This one just happened to be exposed. I'm sure Concorde had other problems as well that I am not aware of.

[ImmortalSynn]

@Whild91

Not true. It was just as much Concorde's fault (well-known design flaw, the reason it was GROUNDED for more than YEAR and had PHYSICAL MODIFICATIONS *REQUIRED*) as much as it was Continental's (for illegally using a reverser piece made of unapproved titanium).

This sorta stuff isn't a secret ya know... that's why official reports exist.

[FelicianB]

@Whild91 The Concorde was never retired because of that accident. She just became too uneconomic and inefficient; She had a negative cost factor in the end. Just not enough people who are so busy that they have to save three or four hours...

[fighterpilot312]

Lol 00:23 listen in thew background! Lol

[PRSOV]

Great video, thanks for sharing. But why take a video that long and not show the landing?..

[Ayuyeye]

un avion muy adelantado a su epoca ...

[NikolaAU]

no wonder they stopped flying it, with those passenger loads and high maintenance costs why bother flying an expensive aircraft.

[boundaryzero]

concorde was shut down mainly due to politics, not due to financial reasons (although they didnt help)

[slargey]

what politics?

[boundaryzero]

between airbus and the british...

[qwertdr]

No. Between Aerospatiale (French) and BAC (British).

[miked860]

Aero and BAC are now part of EADS, which AIrbus is a subsidiary of however he is wrong when he says it was BA and AIrbus. The conspiracy theory is that there was collusion on the part of Airbus and Air France to get Concorde out of the air.

[qwertdr]

Aerospatiale is now part of EADS, BAC turned into British Aerospace and then BAE Systems, which only had shares in EADS and they were sold off in 2006.

I never said it were just BA and AF. BA, AF and Airbus all talked together - but BA was hesitant.

BA's Aircraft AA and AB were going to be restored, AB definately, AA was at first not going to be but BA later said they would.

I can only say so much in these boxes. I do know the situation.

[miked860]

The Concorde retirement was 100% about money. BA was going to have to foot the entire bill for spares after AF withdrew their Concordes from service(AF Concordes were losing a lot of money). Airbus did not want to support only 5 planes(G-BOAA/B were cannibalized for parts and did not have the mods made after AF4590). I believe 3/5 BA Concorde were rapidly approaching their D-Checks( almost entire teardown and rebuild i.e. expensive). Also the planes were getting older and harder to maintain.

[leonengard]

Le plus beau avion au monde...

[Anders757747]

there was nobody on the flight

[Svendogga]

I recon 1 Day she will return and rule the sky's!

Hopefully ;-)

[kingair81r]

Never soory to say

[Devast8ion]

The Concorde, probably not. But I imagine within 15 years we'll have something larger that goes even faster.

[miked860]

It all depends on how successful SSBJs are if they enter airline service.

[qwertdr]

Airline service? No airline has even showed any interest, nor would it be the best aircraft fro an airline.

[miked860]

Well no manufacturer has actually gotten one past the design stage either. We'll see what happens. How would it not work for a small airline(subsidized by a bigger airline) specializing in fast lux flight. Sure a ticket would be something like 5,000 to 10,000 USD but who knows it could work. People did pay for Concorde so why wouldn't those same people want something with the same idea?

Although you might be right if there just wouldn't be enough pax capacity to support fuel, maintenance, etc.

[foxtrot789]

@Devast8ion Wouldn't that be nice - it's so sad, the general public has taken aviation for granted.  If they had their way all General Aviation airports would be shut down and the concorde would have never left the ground cause it was "noisy" waaaaa, boo hoo

[lusomanada]

@Svendogga and then greenpeace will fire missiles at it...

[mikefin]

@Svendogga Concorde still rules the sky even though it doesn't fly anymore. There are no passanger aircrafts doing Mach 2+ these days. it will take decades before mankind will be able to create something that comes even close to Concorde. It's a piece of history that will never be forgotten. So, Concorde will live forever.

[Mridrislozada]

@Svendogga Yeah! I agree with you and it will also rule the skies better with "glass cockpits".

[riddler182]

sadly true wish they still made them they were sweet

[gopussycat]

every morning at 11:00Am,a fast beautiful bird flew over my head...

[leproux61]

toi le cretin et ton nom stupide d'ob-------e sache que concorde est un mythe abruti et le bel oiseau blanc n'est pas mort!(not to you bagelboi66 )

[bagelboi66]

They were beautiful birds. What a pity they no longer fly.

[IReallyLoveAnalPorn]

I cant believe air france bought this stupid plane, they should've bought the airbus 380

[qwertdr]

You're an idiot. Concorde serves a different purpose than the a380. Concorde was amde 30 years before the a380.

Concorde isn't 'stupid'.

You obviously don't know about what you're talking about and you have no common sense.

[bitemysausage]

@qwertdr concorde was a failure.

[beergut111]

@bitemysausage no it wasnt. it would cost too much to upgrade it to RVSM compliant.

[bitemysausage]

@beergut111 ...which means it was a failure taking into account all factors.

[beergut111]

@bitemysausage no you dont understand how it works.  a change in regulation dont mean that previous airplanes are a failure. Think about this stuff before you post ok?

[bitemysausage]

@beergut111 The concorde had a poor safety record, was too loud, sucked too much fuel. Inefficient.

[BobWeaver112]

@bitemysausage Concorde's safety record was very, very good, much due to the stringent maintenance standards that it required. Its only crash was Air France 4590, which wasn't really even caused by a problem with Concorde's design itself.

[bitemysausage]

@BobWeaver112 A crash isn't the only thing that could affect the safety record of a plane. There are other factors. In terms of the crash, yes it was a design flaw that contributed. There was a DC-10 part on the runway that punctured the tyre, wing, then spread to the fuel tank. however that wasn't the only time a plane got hit with small debris on a runway. It happens. The flaw allowed the problem spread and and fire quickly engulfed the wing. Did you not check the full reports?

[BobWeaver112]

@bitemysausage The burst tire sent pieces of itself hurling towards the underside of the wing. However, combustion did not occur when a piece of tire tore through a fuel tank. The displacement of the fuel in the tank (#5) from the impact put a large structural load on the surrounding connection areas that made them rupture away from the impact point. The subsequent fuel leak was then ignited by electrical arc or contact with the hot sections of the engines. Did you not check the full report?

[bitemysausage]

@BobWeaver112 The question is, is it a design flaw? YES.

[ImmortalSynn]

@BobWeaver112

Wrong. The reason Concorde was grounded was due to the very design fault that brought it down: i.e., a single point failure should not have been sufficient to down the aircraft. 52 prior tire-bursts causing wing/empennage/tank damage are a testament to that. Were it not for the very fault cited, the aircraft would've been allowed to return to service indefinitely (as BA immediately tried to do) versus grounding it for more than year and demanding physical adjustments.

[BobWeaver112]

@ImmortalSynn Tires bursting after running over a sharp piece of titanium metal on the runway at upwards of 230mph is really not a design fault, as this could likely happen to any commercial aircraft. Your car running over a piece of jagged metal on the interstate at 70-80mph could likely burst your car's tire(s), but is that a "design fault?" I don't think so. Concorde did however have an uncommonly large number of tire bursts over its lifespan, likely due to the aircraft's high runway speed.

[ImmortalSynn]

@BobWeaver112

Tire bursting in itself wasn't the design fault. Ever try reading any of the official reports? They exist for a reason y'know

The inherent design faults were:

1) engine proximity (the likelihood of FOD affecting one had too high probability of equally affecting the adjacent)

2) tank resonance (impact should not have been able to cause an inverted blowout)

3) position and exposure of brake wiring

4) vulnerability to empennage damage due to blowouts (not the blowouts themselves)

[BobWeaver112]

@ImmortalSynn I am already aware of everything you made a point of mentioning. But, all 4 faults you listed didn't have anything to do with,or result from, the original tire burst problem. The design "faults" all were exploited as a result of tire bursts, not the other way around. Every try reading any of the official reports? They exist for a reason y'know.

[ImmortalSynn]

@BobWeaver112

You attempting to agitate me by mimicking my question, how laughably droll.

"The design "faults" all were exploited as a result of tire bursts, not the other way around"

You just made my case. The REASON that THEY are the design faults, is because they could be exploited by a single point failure... which just happens in this case to be tire failure, but the tire failure per se is immaterial. The vulnerability to s.p.f. is what caused the grounding.

[BobWeaver112]

@ImmortalSynn @ImmortalSynn Your internet penis is so huge...why don't the ladies love you with a penis that big?

It was never determined what actually caused ignition of the leaking fuel, but it was narrowed down to electrical arcing in the main landing gear and/or contact with hot sections of the engine(s). Every jet-powered aircraft has a the possibility of single point failure: ingesting a large object in its engines (ex: AWE1549). Don't be so quick to blame Concorde as being the only one.

[ImmortalSynn]

@BobWeaver112

I'll leave the opening to you and your own odd perversion, no desire to talk about penises here, thanks.

As for your 2nd claim, yes the BEA report cites both possible scenarios, but AAIB investigators settled on the higher probability of electrical arching due to the fact that it could be replicated in testing.

As for your 3rd claim, 1549 wasn't single point, it was written as dual-point. About the closest thing to single-point in recent times would've been TS236.

[BobWeaver112]

@ImmortalSynn Who said the AAIB's opinion is more valid than that of BEA? Either case is still a matter of probability and professional opinion, and neither can provide a definitive answer.

There is nothing written in the entire NTSB report about the 1549 accident being "dual-point," nor does a Google search find anything on the subject. I'd love to see a source on that. By your analogue, 1549 and 236 would both be examples of SPOF because they involved both of their engines losing thrust.

[ImmortalSynn]

@BobWeaver112

"Who said the AAIB's opinion is more valid than that of BEA?"

No one did, so why ask like that? Particularly considering that 1) the BEA didn't issue an opinion and 2) listed the AAIB's in its conclusion.

[BobWeaver112]

@ImmortalSynn You seemed to reference the AAIB's findings in an effort to disclaim my statements that come directly from BEA. The BEA concluded that two hypotheses can be accepted to explain the ignition of the leaking fuel - electric arc in the gear bay, and contact with hot sections of the engines. AAIB's findings are likely not as detailed, as they were unable to examine all wreckage items or to participate in certain component examinations.

[ImmortalSynn]

@BobWeaver112

I reference it because the BEA report itself does. BEA offers two potential causes, then in its conclusion cites the more settled determination of the AAIB researchers. You're acting as if they somehow conflict or something. This truly isn't that difficult.

[rafalweb]

@bitemysausage Poor safety record, no. Loud as hell, yes.

[1053857]

Yea, you're really an idiot

[323tiim]

@IReallyLoveAnalPorn You sir, are stupid as hell

[scotplane]

@IReallyLoveAnalPorn Ehh... Mate, they didn't buy it. They made it with us Brits.

[simpsonstewie]

id be scared to ride

[IReallyLoveAnalPorn]

it is a little scary before the plane takes off the runway, when it's running.

[martingale1234]

schmuck

[qwertdr]

We call people like you mad.

[jklhklb]

the last time i saw the concoard landing or take off it was 2002 and i think i was 3 :D

[sibtupolev]

J'ai fait CDG-NYC sur le F-BVFA en juillet 2000.J'avais pu aller qq minutes dans le cockpit. Je n'avais pas de caméra vidéo à l'époque. Grâce à vous, je revis ces moments merveilleux. Merci.

[Liat6078]

How long was the flight. And how'd you go from the PAX seat to the cockpit?

[Concordefixer]

The flight across the Atlantic between Paris and New York was approximately 3 to 3.5 hours, the altitude was 15 kilometres after the start and then rose gradually to 18 km.

[TonyFirelli]

What is longer from Heathrow to JFK or from Paris to JFK on Concorde?

[Concordefixer]

The flight from Paris to New York is longer. The route goes from CDG to Caen on the English Channel - South of Ireland - North Atlantic - Sabre Iceland - Nantucket to New York JFK.

[sertainbliss]

par excellence.thankyou for your show,it was nice,if i could i would show a seaplane dodging overhanging trees along a shoreline,i would.

thankyou for everything you have done,Godbless the Concorde.A fan

[furtherandyfield]

Amen,relaunch the concorde!

[rltsdj]

one second prior to touchdown, and the phrase 'on y va' is uttered. i despair the human race, i really do

[czdavid1]

what a knob

[gopussycat]

love it!

[yuppiemobile69]

What is Mach 2 in MPH? What is with these French pilots not eating frogs and stale cheese? Was the food onboard that bad? I don't see many passengers! The sky lobby looks like something out of 2001-the movie. Why didn't those stubborn Frenchies keep running this fuel fryolator after the Brits bailed out?

[ImmortalSynn]

M2 is 1323mph (nautical).

Also, AF pulled out several months before BA, not after.

[james882444]

its quieter than the a380 and airbus and alot faster. Why is this?

[ImmortalSynn]

The A380 is nowhere ~NEAR~ as loud as Concorde was... I can't imagine where you're getting that from.

Anyways, the A380 is designed for capacity; Concorde for speed. Simple reason why one's faster than the other.

[gopussycat]

nice !

[gopussycat]

have you ever been in a A380 and a concorde?

[ImmortalSynn]

Concorde yes, A380 no.

[gopussycat]

hose the noise when you reach mach1.0?

[ImmortalSynn]

There is no noise. No bumpiness, no shaking, nothing. You'd never know you passed through it unless you were either looking at the cabin (speed) display, or the Capt. told you, which he usually would.

[gopussycat]

cool.but strange that it dosen't make noise because from out side you can here the sonicboom.

[ImmortalSynn]

The simple reason for that is because the sonic boom resonates ~away~ from the aircraft in an N-wave pattern; not towards it.

[gopussycat]

oh,ok.thanks a lot!

[erich211oh2002]

Great video!! Start to finish with cockpit views. Great Job on this.

[POON3345]

Take off from New york and landing in Paris CDG RWY 27L.