Wonderful Take-off however this was a charter with no luggage, and of course the take off is much swifter and steeper climb out, the flights i have been on or were 1/2 to 3/4 full and it was a slower asent and take off was 35 seconds or so b4 pull back..
wish i cld have been on this coaster...!!!! Thrilling !!!!
Kind of annoying that they felt they needed to supply a play-by-play narration of the take-off rather than just let the passengers enjoy the sights and sounds on their own.
Overspeed for one thing. The aircraft and its engines are not intended to go that fast **at that altitude** without stresses that it's not designed to handle longterm.
ATC for another. There might have been other aircraft in the airspace that weren't expecting to encounter such a climb from rising traffic, and it'd be a lot for ATC to clear them.
Fuel burn for another. Why burn all that fuel in air this viscous? Sit back and let Concorde's ingenious intakes do their job.
I was there that evening! Standing right under you. I remember all the brown smoke on the horizon as Concorde powered up at the runway's end, and yes, I also remembered that it climbed very high very fast on that takeoff. Thanks for posting this fine memory!!
Why did he say "climbing too fast"? Ive seen the doco, and distinctly remember the call "3..2..1..Noise" and the Flight Eng reaches forward and pulls back the throttle out of reheat. For some reason my favourite moment in the show, a typically British understatement.
Yeah right,,,, lasted for years did the Concorde, I stick by my opinion.
Bugatti and their veyron makes no profit. Not the same scale but still doesn't make a profit.
Jealous countries using a crash as a lame excuse to stop it coming into their airspace. An old grudge of their failed attempts of Concorde type aircraft.
Reason it ended. Probably jealousy from "certain" countries failed attempts in the past and took advantage of the the concord crash and said "we don't want that landing here now".
@nanarocxie (smiling) Yes, we had to pay. It's a funny story, how I came to have tickets. Days earlier, I'd mentioned to my husband that I'd heard something about Concorde being retired. He said he didn't think that was true.
One day, my Grocery Gateway delivery was late. As a token, they gave me a newspaper. I hate newspapers, but decided to read through this one. In it, I read a story about Concorde's retirement. The article mentioned tickets still for sale...
(cont'd) Within minutes of booking "the last two seats" on that flight, the power went out. That was the day of the big blackout, here in North America. I worried that when the power came back on, my reservation might have been lost. It took (what? 3 days??) before the power was restored. My tickets were still reserved. Phew! So, ultimately, I have Grocery Gateway to thank for nabbing those tickets.
the reason why they stop flying it was because first of all 2 fast, 2nd of all breaked the sound barrier and 3 flight 4590 crash and 4th of all they had such a high level people the ring of the earth and they said it's too much so its down. ps i think they have 1 near the hudson river
@edomloge my technology teacher MR Condron worked on the team that developed the delta wing for concord,he said that every single part on the aircraft was designed and built here in the UK... so why are we making sod all today?
I bet the Pilots where so GUTTED when BA announced that they will be reitiring this bird. Ha! god imagine the fact from stepping off a concorde to say something like a 777 or 747. Wonder if concorde pilots did get jobs flying airliners after the cricis???
@ispymartuni - Honestly, I didn't notice it at the time. Only after reviewing the video did I realize exactly "how" dirty the window was. :-(
I loved when the fight attendant walked by my seat and noticed I hadn't touched my champagne. She jokingly said, "Come on! Put some effort into it!!" The food was excellent!
Fuel is injected directly into the exhaust of the engine to offer the requied full power at takoff and are relit to trasit into its supersonic stage of flight. Only after over open water or cleared land mass so no one would be affected by the sonic bang !
This is a very rapid take off, obviously this was a charter, no luggage. Oh concorde was a scalded Cat at take-off, but not with a 3/4 payload! But it was still a thrill and so very memerable! Take off was the best part of the trip. and also getting there in only over 3 hours was also a advantage to be certain!
Les brodie is commentating, by this time he was captain. You can got to ITVV and buy a concorde special with him as first officer and david rowland as captain, roger bricknell as flight engineer.
so? The TU-144 was civil....yet it had afterburners. Scaled Composites White Knight is civil, yet it has two GE J85s which are afterburner equipped. You dont have to the military to have Afterburners.....they're jus standard on fighter planes, the Concorde, TU-144 and not your rebuilt MD80 or Super 727.
learn that reheat is an afterburner first and i might think about using the Queen's English and proper grammar. Hell i might even spell right on top that!
dude there is no such thing as a stupid question, like one of my collge professors said, it's never stupid and you arne't stupid for asking something you have no idea about, it's only stupid not to ask : )
What did the pilot say starting from 0:47 ? (before saying:- power come back as well stop that rate of flying .... we were going too fast upwards) ? He said change in ???????
The knokordski is not the Concorde's father! It's a poorly engineered clone. Everything the west built, the soviets poorly re-verse engineered to make a crappy copy.
That's why the it crashed in its test flights and never flew passenger flights, so much for "Concorde's Father". lolz.
It flew 105 passenger flights. It flew for 3 years with NASA from 1996 to 1999 to gather information on a potential new SST. So it's not a deathtrap.
The two aircraft are very different. Ideas MIGHT have been stolen, there is no hard evidence to say definitely. You must also remember, form follows function - Concorde wasn't designed to be beautiful, it was just the best shape at the time and Boeing's potential SST also was similarly shaped.
But didn't have the nose cone, like the British or the Russian, and the boeing model was trying to use variable Geometery wings (AKA, sweepable wings). Theres more then just the body going on. Curve of the wing for one.
Its not like the Russians have stolden plane plans, or backwards engenered a plane before. (like the B-29/Tu-4)
To be fair, years after initial (western) designs were already put forward in the SST project, Russian Segei Pavlov was arrested in 1965, by French authorities, for stealing SST designs. Having found out about the espionage, before being arrested, the French had been feeding Pavlov false information about Concorde's design.
Later, it came to light that Sergei Fabiew had successfully stolen designs throughout Concorde's development., and he was subsequently arrested.
As it reads in the video info., this takeoff is in Toronto, during the farewell tour in October 2003.
Concorde used to fly to Toronto. But the route was cancelled, probably due to lack of interest. (Canada's population is relatively small, and likely couldn't support "enough" passengers paying $20,000 to fill Concorde on an ongoing basis.) :-)
The pilot explained that he used to fly to Toronto, and was pleased to take-up his old jogging route the morning of departure...one last time.
Specifically, this plane flew from Heathrow (LHR) to Toronto (YYZ), and overnighted there. Then it flew a short haul from YYZ to JFK (shown in this video). I believe it simply returned to LHR after that.
dave hes a prick he dont know what hes on about qwertdr just type in concorde breaking the sound barrier and you will see you are wrong. i used to hear it going off from cardiff so your just talking through your arse
That is so cool the way you can see the shadow of the plane's stoop/nose on the ground and then when it's airborne, you can see the full shadow of the plane on the ground below. Very cool indeed!
Well I will. It was revolutionary at the time when it was made (and is still the only supersonic airliner ever), it had an EXCELLENT safety record (one crash in ~30 years of flights), it was a British national icon, and for businessmen, it was extremely useful.
Despite this being very subjective, in my opinion it's also an extremely cool plane :D
No, you didn't hear the sonic boom, because the flight path and operating procedures were carefully calculated so that no-one on land would hear the sonic boom.
i know what i heard thanks you dont even know where i am. its just strange that since its stopped flying i dont hear them any more isnt it? it used to fly over every night then after a while we would hear the boom
look im fucking telling you what i heard how the fuck do you know what i heard like i said why dont i hear it now it dont fly anymore. what are u an expert on concorde are you like i also said u dont even know where i was.
i used to live on the west coast of ireland in a place called tralee in county kerry and when it was fine weather in the night we could see it going over then later on we would hear the boom. this was only in the night and if you look at a map of ireland you will see that once you leave ireland the next stop is america and it would have been going over the atlantic. so get your facts straight you arnt an expert on concorde just cos you think nobody would hear it doesnt mean you wouldnt
im not saying that its not illegal to do it im saying that i heard it and i have looked at other sites on the internet that say it is plausable that from where i was i would of heard it in the night
No, it's illegal - meaning it would not have been allowed and therefore it wouldn't have been done - if they did they would be fined very heavily. Their flight plans and operating plans would have accommodated this - it wouldn't have happened.
just fuck off you cunt i know what i heard and so do everybody else who used to hear it you are no fucking expert on concorde. like i said how the fuck do you know what we heard? it wasnt over land so YOU ARE WRONG cunty
The flight operation would have been calculated so that the boom would not be heard over land, that also means when Concorde is not over land, but the boom can still reach land near by.
Wonderful Take-off however this was a charter with no luggage, and of course the take off is much swifter and steeper climb out, the flights i have been on or were 1/2 to 3/4 full and it was a slower asent and take off was 35 seconds or so b4 pull back..
wish i cld have been on this coaster...!!!! Thrilling !!!!
supersonicbird11 1 week ago
Kind of annoying that they felt they needed to supply a play-by-play narration of the take-off rather than just let the passengers enjoy the sights and sounds on their own.
theknightlynews 1 month ago
Compare how quickly this thing took off compared to a 727.
jmkpns 5 months ago
200 mph in 20 sec... its amazing!!!
el0x1m 5 months ago
whats wrong with going too fast upwards? it would be awesome.. "ladies and gentlemen we are now 10,000ft at just one minute after takeoff."
cjpatz 5 months ago
@cjpatz
Overspeed for one thing. The aircraft and its engines are not intended to go that fast **at that altitude** without stresses that it's not designed to handle longterm.
ATC for another. There might have been other aircraft in the airspace that weren't expecting to encounter such a climb from rising traffic, and it'd be a lot for ATC to clear them.
Fuel burn for another. Why burn all that fuel in air this viscous? Sit back and let Concorde's ingenious intakes do their job.
ImmortalSynn 3 months ago
I was there that evening! Standing right under you. I remember all the brown smoke on the horizon as Concorde powered up at the runway's end, and yes, I also remembered that it climbed very high very fast on that takeoff. Thanks for posting this fine memory!!
Coaljet 6 months ago
how much did it cost
BBCatitsbest20 7 months ago
Why did he say "climbing too fast"? Ive seen the doco, and distinctly remember the call "3..2..1..Noise" and the Flight Eng reaches forward and pulls back the throttle out of reheat. For some reason my favourite moment in the show, a typically British understatement.
CorrectiveAction 8 months ago
Holy shit
cortneey0123 9 months ago
I wanted to say what a climb rate but i should say "what a punch to the sky"
MrMouns63 10 months ago
When did they stop using the concorde?
xNas92 11 months ago
@xNas92 Cost too much money to run.
sublimerhymez 10 months ago
@sublimerhymez I meant when did they stop running this :)
xNas92 10 months ago
0 - 250mph in 30 seconds
i believe the only thing that can come close to that kinda acceleration is the Veyron
carfan2k2 11 months ago
@carfan2k2 Or my grandmother
xNas92 11 months ago
@xNas92 yes true - attach the veyron's engine to your grandmother's wheelchair and smack on a MASSIVE spoiler to it and you got the total package !
carfan2k2 11 months ago
@carfan2k2 emm the veyron couldn't do that heck the original veyron couldn't even do 250 so shh cos u have no idea what u are talking about
and a fighter jet or infact pretty much any jet could kick the veyrons ass its just fact
sonyfucker 9 months ago
@sonyfucker true the standard veyron cant match the acceleration - the SS can however.
fact.
carfan2k2 9 months ago
does anyone feel really weird when you take off? I sure do, I feel like standing up! :/ Thumbs up if you agree!
yuckyha1 1 year ago
i miss concorde.... i have a model of it :)
romthunder 1 year ago
Is this the
Air France
British Airways
or
Singapore Airlines
GTADriver64 1 year ago
Why was Concorde put out of service???
dingdongditch1000 1 year ago
id be shitting in my pants
waynestatewarriors 1 year ago
fuck me its is quick
Myggomag 1 year ago
Fantastic! (Great video despite the filthy window!)
nenblom 1 year ago
@vipballer
Yeah right,,,, lasted for years did the Concorde, I stick by my opinion.
Bugatti and their veyron makes no profit. Not the same scale but still doesn't make a profit.
Jealous countries using a crash as a lame excuse to stop it coming into their airspace. An old grudge of their failed attempts of Concorde type aircraft.
Kcon83 1 year ago
@Kcon83 i think Tupolev has managed almost the same type of aircraft.
DrNeur0tic 1 year ago
Reason it ended. Probably jealousy from "certain" countries failed attempts in the past and took advantage of the the concord crash and said "we don't want that landing here now".
Kcon83 1 year ago
@Kcon83 The reason for its ending was because it had gotten EXTREMELY expensive to maintain, And they no longer made profit from it.
VIPBaller 1 year ago
1 word, Fast
tonightwefly 1 year ago
I love how the pilot is announcing the speeds! I wish other airlines did that. Look how quickly they reached 215 mph for takeoff! Freakin awesome...
Thepylot78 1 year ago
i love canada.... :L even though im from Scotland!
zombiekilla3000 1 year ago
how much did it cost you?
alan517815 1 year ago
Jesus, that is monster performance coming from that Concorde. Let us all stop having wars and build more supersonic aircraft in stead.
AVIATIO 1 year ago 7
when was this
arcticblake1 1 year ago
@arcticblake1 October, 2003
monkeygirl000 1 year ago
@monkeygirl000 was it fast?
CatStarxo 1 year ago
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I was waiting for the flame to start from inside the concorde during take off.
Ecka0007 1 year ago
@Ecka0007 That's just pure evil.
monkeygirl000 1 year ago 17
@monkeygirl000 wow thats one fast plane sad that they ended =(
CatStarxo 1 year ago
i would have loved to be a flight attendant on one of those... as long as it was british airways... or anything other than air france
RodgersCromartie 1 year ago
did you have to pay anything to ride this or were people selected for this farewell tour?
nanarocxie 1 year ago
@nanarocxie (smiling) Yes, we had to pay. It's a funny story, how I came to have tickets. Days earlier, I'd mentioned to my husband that I'd heard something about Concorde being retired. He said he didn't think that was true.
One day, my Grocery Gateway delivery was late. As a token, they gave me a newspaper. I hate newspapers, but decided to read through this one. In it, I read a story about Concorde's retirement. The article mentioned tickets still for sale...
monkeygirl000 1 year ago 2
(cont'd) Within minutes of booking "the last two seats" on that flight, the power went out. That was the day of the big blackout, here in North America. I worried that when the power came back on, my reservation might have been lost. It took (what? 3 days??) before the power was restored. My tickets were still reserved. Phew! So, ultimately, I have Grocery Gateway to thank for nabbing those tickets.
monkeygirl000 1 year ago 8
@monkeygirl000 wow what good fate you had i wish i could have flew on one of them and what a suprising twist of fate that was for you!!
nanarocxie 1 year ago
@nanarocxie You have to go on top of the terminal and take off your cloths and jump up and down and yell penut butter jelly time lol jk :)
DAL2282 9 months ago
@DAL2282 haha lol
nanarocxie 9 months ago
AWESOME !
sealalula 1 year ago
your so lucky i would give anything to ride one :-(
Great vid!
Steelzuk 1 year ago
6000 feet per min! Unbelievable
Flyglobespan93 1 year ago
iwonda hw it feels on a concord
lilstarze 1 year ago
the reason why they stop flying it was because first of all 2 fast, 2nd of all breaked the sound barrier and 3 flight 4590 crash and 4th of all they had such a high level people the ring of the earth and they said it's too much so its down. ps i think they have 1 near the hudson river
gorillakid10 1 year ago
i want concorde back
12345678998800 1 year ago
I would feel like a star if I had been sitting on this plane :D
th992000 1 year ago
Heart-breaking to think she'll never fly again. :(
TherymasterWidnes 1 year ago
Gosh, wish I had the chance to had flown on that big bird. Thanks docmatt.
hahafunnypolis 2 years ago
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hahafunnypolis 2 years ago
flown
docmatt 2 years ago
Take off looks pretty fast
cuteness13 2 years ago 6
@cuteness13 215 mph! Most airliners take off at around 170, give or take a few (which is still faster than many people realize).
Thepylot78 1 year ago
@Thepylot78 Thats 250 mph not 215, delta wing needs speed!
edomloge 1 year ago
@edomloge my technology teacher MR Condron worked on the team that developed the delta wing for concord,he said that every single part on the aircraft was designed and built here in the UK... so why are we making sod all today?
MICKEYISLOWD 1 year ago
how did it feel to ride in an unarmed fighter with 500 friends hahaahaha
DJRandySky 2 years ago
I bet the Pilots where so GUTTED when BA announced that they will be reitiring this bird. Ha! god imagine the fact from stepping off a concorde to say something like a 777 or 747. Wonder if concorde pilots did get jobs flying airliners after the cricis???
ThomsonAirwaysFs 2 years ago 4
lol not 500 lol
been on 1, no way 500 people haha 120 maybe
Eagz 2 years ago
@DJRandySky 500? It was probably more like 50 on some of the last concorde flights hens why it was taken out of service.
cheesemaster1000 1 year ago
Very impressive, and at one point you can see the whole shadow of the plane on take-off.
The only thing is.... you pay all that money to ride the bird and the window was filthy!!!
ispymartuni 2 years ago 17
@ispymartuni - Honestly, I didn't notice it at the time. Only after reviewing the video did I realize exactly "how" dirty the window was. :-(
I loved when the fight attendant walked by my seat and noticed I hadn't touched my champagne. She jokingly said, "Come on! Put some effort into it!!" The food was excellent!
monkeygirl000 2 years ago
0.39 and 1.00 respectively.
noodlebike 2 years ago
...did that captain say climb rate was
6 THOUSAND feet per minute...? That's
almost 65 MPH vertical climb rate!
jwm239 2 years ago
He said 2 thousand
SteveCessna152 2 years ago
Yes he did. He was at 6000ft/min initially, then slowed it to 2000fpm shortly after take off. Impressive..!!!
noodlebike 2 years ago
what a beautiful sight...if only i would have had the opportunity to experience this in person...
juannavarro182 2 years ago 5
250 knots shall be rotation speed!
KubeckDK 2 years ago
That is one freakin fast plane
Randomness84726 2 years ago 6
no stupid questions "thedude7777"
Fuel is injected directly into the exhaust of the engine to offer the requied full power at takoff and are relit to trasit into its supersonic stage of flight. Only after over open water or cleared land mass so no one would be affected by the sonic bang !
supersonicbird11 2 years ago
That wasnt a stupid question he just didnt know
jacobs088 2 years ago
This is a very rapid take off, obviously this was a charter, no luggage. Oh concorde was a scalded Cat at take-off, but not with a 3/4 payload! But it was still a thrill and so very memerable! Take off was the best part of the trip. and also getting there in only over 3 hours was also a advantage to be certain!
supersonicbird11 2 years ago
how fast do these planes fly?
WickedG5150 2 years ago
Normal cruise speed was usualy mach 1.9, almost twice the speed of sound.
Carfreak44 2 years ago
No.
Cruise was Mach 2-2.02. I don't know where the hell 1.9 came from.
qwertdr 2 years ago
Mach 2 - 2.02
Carfreak44 is talking nonsense.
qwertdr 2 years ago
I say chicken.....you say?
oh yeah...chicken.
gfunk1975 2 years ago
Takeoff?
More like blast off.. lol
X6insane6X 2 years ago 3
was that the pilot giving a commentry?
ChRIs23696 2 years ago
Les brodie is commentating, by this time he was captain. You can got to ITVV and buy a concorde special with him as first officer and david rowland as captain, roger bricknell as flight engineer.
Voyagerwarp9 2 years ago
jesus stan still to 250mph in 10 seconds!!!
back2thefuture1000 2 years ago
Great Video!! Really glad whoever done the video was really lucky to travel on such a great machine.Thanks for posting.
post546 2 years ago 3
awesum plane too bad the swan doesnt fly anymore
gaygaybuttsex 2 years ago 7
Wow! 250mph take off, that is serious speed
techo14 2 years ago 2
Look at how fast it accerlerates !!!!
sealalula 2 years ago
he shuts of the afterburners because it is climbing to fast? why cut the joy!?
barthoedemaker 2 years ago
It would kill your Ears
bremner006 2 years ago
Reheats, not afterburners. ;-)
SABoeing 2 years ago
samething....
6V92TA 2 years ago
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SABoeing 2 years ago
so? The TU-144 was civil....yet it had afterburners. Scaled Composites White Knight is civil, yet it has two GE J85s which are afterburner equipped. You dont have to the military to have Afterburners.....they're jus standard on fighter planes, the Concorde, TU-144 and not your rebuilt MD80 or Super 727.
6V92TA 2 years ago
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SABoeing 2 years ago
Learn to use tense and grammar in a sentence.
SABoeing 2 years ago
learn that reheat is an afterburner first and i might think about using the Queen's English and proper grammar. Hell i might even spell right on top that!
6V92TA 2 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
Save the argument for the queens grammer for the 1337 speakers. Wait, I'm a yank, we don't need a queen!
Zippercdrr 2 years ago
lol. looks like 6 people didnt agree with that comment.
6V92TA 2 years ago
Still the same thing. I say Flashlight, you say ourch. I say trunk, you say boot
Zippercdrr 2 years ago
Ourch?
Torch. There's no 'u' in it either.
qwertdr 2 years ago
TU-144 needed afterburners to sustain mach 1. Concorde didn't.
Better and more efficient engines.
bodgie247 2 years ago 5
dumb question but
what are after burners?
thedude77777 2 years ago
dude there is no such thing as a stupid question, like one of my collge professors said, it's never stupid and you arne't stupid for asking something you have no idea about, it's only stupid not to ask : )
seahawks2043 2 years ago 11
because of the noise that monster makes! lol
and burners tend to drain the tanks faster than normal.
6V92TA 2 years ago
with re-heats it consumes appx 44 tons an hour, that halfs when they are switched off.
Voyagerwarp9 2 years ago
yikes! 44 tons an hour!! Thats alot!
6V92TA 2 years ago
I wish normal airliners would tell you this stuff!! Neat.
proaudiohd 2 years ago 4
hey! cool captain shame he dosen't fly concord anymore...
gromayv 2 years ago 2
No. He's never flown Concord. He's flown Concorde though.
qwertdr 2 years ago
should of zoomed it a little
adsonkool 2 years ago
What did the pilot say starting from 0:47 ? (before saying:- power come back as well stop that rate of flying .... we were going too fast upwards) ? He said change in ???????
reverse20 2 years ago
He says "we've just taken the re-heat off and you can feel that change of power there"
kjk3000 2 years ago
Re - Heat is Afrerburner
speedbird007 2 years ago
les brodie has a really distinctive voice!
Voyagerwarp9 2 years ago
the view from 50k+ feet must have been awsome!!!
ploopsy666 2 years ago 2
sometimes cruises at 60 thousand feet
speedbird007 2 years ago 3
Well it did till Clowns stopped it from flying
speedbird007 2 years ago 4
my uncle used to work on this plane
paap15 2 years ago 5
woah you can see the difference in speed wish i were on it ^^
lovesalfie 2 years ago 3
The knokordski is not the Concorde's father! It's a poorly engineered clone. Everything the west built, the soviets poorly re-verse engineered to make a crappy copy.
That's why the it crashed in its test flights and never flew passenger flights, so much for "Concorde's Father". lolz.
jetacewaqas 2 years ago 2
It flew 105 passenger flights. It flew for 3 years with NASA from 1996 to 1999 to gather information on a potential new SST. So it's not a deathtrap.
The two aircraft are very different. Ideas MIGHT have been stolen, there is no hard evidence to say definitely. You must also remember, form follows function - Concorde wasn't designed to be beautiful, it was just the best shape at the time and Boeing's potential SST also was similarly shaped.
qwertdr 2 years ago
But didn't have the nose cone, like the British or the Russian, and the boeing model was trying to use variable Geometery wings (AKA, sweepable wings). Theres more then just the body going on. Curve of the wing for one.
Its not like the Russians have stolden plane plans, or backwards engenered a plane before. (like the B-29/Tu-4)
Zippercdrr 2 years ago
damm fast take off
wish it had still been flying
dragonjay619 2 years ago 2
To be fair, years after initial (western) designs were already put forward in the SST project, Russian Segei Pavlov was arrested in 1965, by French authorities, for stealing SST designs. Having found out about the espionage, before being arrested, the French had been feeding Pavlov false information about Concorde's design.
Later, it came to light that Sergei Fabiew had successfully stolen designs throughout Concorde's development., and he was subsequently arrested.
monkeygirl000 2 years ago
Was this one of the last 3 flights to Heathrow because i thought they were all from NY.
moviesunrated 2 years ago
As it reads in the video info., this takeoff is in Toronto, during the farewell tour in October 2003.
Concorde used to fly to Toronto. But the route was cancelled, probably due to lack of interest. (Canada's population is relatively small, and likely couldn't support "enough" passengers paying $20,000 to fill Concorde on an ongoing basis.) :-)
The pilot explained that he used to fly to Toronto, and was pleased to take-up his old jogging route the morning of departure...one last time.
monkeygirl000 2 years ago
Specifically, this plane flew from Heathrow (LHR) to Toronto (YYZ), and overnighted there. Then it flew a short haul from YYZ to JFK (shown in this video). I believe it simply returned to LHR after that.
monkeygirl000 2 years ago
Great video -- nice to hear the commentary, and also watching the shadow of the aircraft during the take-off roll
MattF673 3 years ago
I've seen lots of take off videos, nothing compares to this though, I cant describe how marvelous this take off is.
DudishDanny 3 years ago
Everyone just shut up or I will have your balls hanging from your ears.
madisonelectronic 3 years ago
LOL! omg this these responses got sooo outta hand somewhere along the line!! Just enjoy the vid honestly :P
explorer47422 3 years ago
dave hes a prick he dont know what hes on about qwertdr just type in concorde breaking the sound barrier and you will see you are wrong. i used to hear it going off from cardiff so your just talking through your arse
mityblues 3 years ago
Liar. Simple.
qwertdr 3 years ago
thick twat simple. sound travals further at night your just a wanker who dont want to admit that you aint as much of an expert as you think
mityblues 3 years ago
Sound travels faster at night?! - only marginally!
You are truly the thick one.
IT IS ILLEGAL SO THEY NEVER WOULD HAVE DONE IT, ESPECIALLY AT NIGHT.
qwertdr 3 years ago
Oh, and you can't even spell travel, and I don't think you know of things such as punctuation and capital letters too...
qwertdr 3 years ago
tell me where you live cos im gonna smash you into the ground you little prick dont make out that im a liar
mityblues 3 years ago
I live wherever you live and have the Youtube name of mityblues.
You seem thick enough to hit yourself, so do it.
qwertdr 3 years ago
stupid little prick
mityblues 3 years ago
That is so cool the way you can see the shadow of the plane's stoop/nose on the ground and then when it's airborne, you can see the full shadow of the plane on the ground below. Very cool indeed!
bennjr 3 years ago
i been 2 dat airpot itz busy and big
Cratz227 3 years ago
That sure looks fun!
P51Mustang11 3 years ago 2
by retiring this aircraft we have taken a huge step backwards...will we ever see something like this again?...i hope so
macpac22 3 years ago
It's to bad that there retired, but however, they are a problem with noise and the enviorment, it saves time but not the earth and your ears!
garlex134 3 years ago
didn't they discontinue these?
wragglefraggle117 3 years ago
They were retired in 2003.
There is such thing as an old video...
qwertdr 3 years ago 4
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The concorde is retarded, talk about a shitty accomplishment of mankind-congrats on making a giant fuel guzzler :] we will not miss u :]
airlinesss 3 years ago
Well I will. It was revolutionary at the time when it was made (and is still the only supersonic airliner ever), it had an EXCELLENT safety record (one crash in ~30 years of flights), it was a British national icon, and for businessmen, it was extremely useful.
Despite this being very subjective, in my opinion it's also an extremely cool plane :D
jackjohnbob 3 years ago 3
It infact, had a prestine saftey record, if it wasn't for that titanium strip which fell off the engine of an AMERICAN plane I sure will miss it too!
kazim786 3 years ago
lol, the Corcorde had a bad rep from the beginning, wat are you talking about?
Airportchris2 3 years ago
yes, it did amongst certain people who were concerned about its environmental and noise effects etc, but that's about it.
jackjohnbob 3 years ago
I like it as a plane, but I wouldn't want to hear it flying over, and shaking everything in my house, lol.
Airportchris2 3 years ago
fair enough, but I still loved that noise personally :D
jackjohnbob 3 years ago 2
It wouldn't shake everything in your house.
qwertdr 3 years ago
ok, but i wouldn't want one flying over at night.
Airportchris2 3 years ago
But it didn't...
There are such things as noise restrictions...
But even so, early jet commercial aircraft were as or even more noisy than concorde.Early 707's and the De Haviland Comet for example.
qwertdr 3 years ago
i used to hear it every night from my house at around 1020pm you could hear the sonic boom
dave9teen77 3 years ago
No, you didn't hear the sonic boom, because the flight path and operating procedures were carefully calculated so that no-one on land would hear the sonic boom.
So don't lie.
qwertdr 3 years ago
i know what i heard thanks you dont even know where i am. its just strange that since its stopped flying i dont hear them any more isnt it? it used to fly over every night then after a while we would hear the boom
dave9teen77 3 years ago
No you wouldn't.
Don't lie. No-one on land would routinely hear Concorde's boom.
qwertdr 3 years ago
look im fucking telling you what i heard how the fuck do you know what i heard like i said why dont i hear it now it dont fly anymore. what are u an expert on concorde are you like i also said u dont even know where i was.
dave9teen77 3 years ago
Where were you then...
I still don't believe you. It is illegal for any aircraft to make a sonic boom over Britain, without proper permission - tests etc.
NEVER on regular flights.
So tell me, where were you?
In the middle of the sea?
qwertdr 3 years ago
i used to live on the west coast of ireland in a place called tralee in county kerry and when it was fine weather in the night we could see it going over then later on we would hear the boom. this was only in the night and if you look at a map of ireland you will see that once you leave ireland the next stop is america and it would have been going over the atlantic. so get your facts straight you arnt an expert on concorde just cos you think nobody would hear it doesnt mean you wouldnt
dave9teen77 3 years ago
No, I don't think its untrue, I know.
It would have been ILLEGAL to do it. It still is ILLEGAL to do it.
qwertdr 3 years ago
im not saying that its not illegal to do it im saying that i heard it and i have looked at other sites on the internet that say it is plausable that from where i was i would of heard it in the night
dave9teen77 3 years ago
No, it's illegal - meaning it would not have been allowed and therefore it wouldn't have been done - if they did they would be fined very heavily. Their flight plans and operating plans would have accommodated this - it wouldn't have happened.
qwertdr 3 years ago
just fuck off you cunt i know what i heard and so do everybody else who used to hear it you are no fucking expert on concorde. like i said how the fuck do you know what we heard? it wasnt over land so YOU ARE WRONG cunty
dave9teen77 3 years ago
Just accept that you are wrong.
The flight operation would have been calculated so that the boom would not be heard over land, that also means when Concorde is not over land, but the boom can still reach land near by.
qwertdr 3 years ago