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  • the day this lady stopped flying was a sad day for the world, more educated people can explain why the commercials wudnt buy her, i see it as a reminder of britain and france losing there belief

  • Que nota. 

  • I was just a kid when I saw the last flight,still remember it,amazing airplane.

  • Concorde was truly a marvel of engineering, well ahead of its time. I had the opportunity to see depart Toronto back in 2003/

  • @2.44 bye baby gone but not forgotten

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  • Awwwww man, this brings a little tear to my eye every time I watch it.....what a girl she was & what a step back in technology it was for he UK :(

    Great great video though.....a real pleasure to watch & thanks for posting it....we need to get our aircraft industry back to number 1 fo sho :)

  • Such a friendly send off - just such as shame it wasn't the same friendly welcome when She first wanted to land at JFK!!

  • Hermoso video. Felicitaciones !

  • really miss the Concorde, they should retrofit and put her back in service!!!!!

  • R.I.P

    

  • all about travelling fast, with comfort, and on top of all with style..... Concorde, what the hell did they take you away for?

  • 2:03 ''Speedbird Concorde Two, Contact New York Departures!''....Love it!, Sends shivers down my spine!

  • Everytime brings a tear to my eye.... an absolute marvel piece of engineering, Bella !!

  • This video makes me sad that they could just retire a great jet.. But i also agree with scrapping it as we all need to have something great to remember for our country, if concord would of gotten older in BA and AF people wouldnt have seen is as the symbolic aircraft it is nowadays ..

  • gooossssss bumpsssssss!!!!!!!!

    

  • i think i'm responsable for at least half of these 219,486 views and everytime i get a lump in my throat and goosebumps, everytime folks. i love flying into JFK but it's just not the same anymore.

    Tell everyone to go what a city, but what a plane. 5*. nice upload

  • We miss u in Manchester Concorde..

  • we miss you concorde !!!

  • the hairs on my arms have just stood on end watching that. RIP Concorde.

  • Fucking amazing plane. Why did they get rid of it? They each had life in their airframes left. Amazing british achievement to produce a supersonic airliner.... so retarded its no more. No shuttle, no concorde, we are going backwards as a planet, it doesn't make sense. Make a "concorde to the sky" campaign and raise the £15-£30 million needed to raise her again.

  • R.I.P

  • concorde is such a beautifull majestic plane i had the great privilage of being at the end of runway at heathrow at seeing this amazing plane take off over my head made the hairs stand up and goosebumps, want her back :( surely with todays technology they can make another be a cake walk.

  • SPREAD THE WORD LETS TRY GETTING A LEAST ONE OF THESE LADIES FLYING AGAIN

    save-concorde .co .uk

  • hope this baby comes back soon

  • She was our Apollo. Godspeed STS-135 Atlantis, you did the world proud.

  • Nice video. I'm Venezuelan citizen and we proud that The Concorde (Air France) visited our country late 70's and early 80's.

  • I so miss this aircraft.

  • Ryan Farish!!!!!

  • Forget the royal family....forget the history. Concorde was the only thing to make me proud to be British!  And nothing else has come close to her since.

  • @dave46563 Jenson Button must come close

    

  • @76juno That would make the whole world just stand still and watch!

  • (con't) My grandfather, who was a travel agent and had buddies in the airlines, was able to arrange a quick visit inside the Concorde by the fine people at British Airways. This was back before our era of paranoia, when you could freely stand around JFK and take photos without fear of harassment, and go straight to the gate without a ticket. I must have been no older than 10, and I got to sit in the Concorde's cabin. An experience I will never forget. Wish I could've flown in it, of course. =)

  • I have a quick story I hope you'll enjoy. I grew up (and currently still am) not to far from JFK, about a 15 minute drive in VS. As a small child, when we were out to dinner at a diner I used to draw the Concorde on my paper placemat, begging to see if we could go down to the water to see it. Sometimes we got to, and it was always the highlight to my day. Then, one of the coolest things ever for a child happened.

  • @anomalousclouds That was a cool story. Have you gone to see Alpha Delta at the Intrepid museum? I used to live under the approach to heathrow airport and i always enjoyed sitting in my back garden watching her come down to land. She would be so low that you could make out the detail on her underside. I used to keep track of her on my radio scanner so i'd know exactly when to go out as long as she was landing on the right runway. I live near one now and she looks sad now she's grounded

  • sadly missed...

  • and to think of all the protests when it first flew to the us it won them over in the end

  • How ironic is the praise the crowd gave this plane, considering how many New Yorkers (I didn't say ALL) tried to stop Concorde from ever coming to the Big Apple in the '70s. Their lawsuit went to the Supreme Court. Maybe these people are cheering because it's finally gone....Just joking!

  • stunning ... I think it's borderline criminal that we haven't been able to support a similar aircraft 30-40 years later.

  • It makes me sad thinking that I never got to fly on this plane. It is comforting however, having heard and felt the absolute raw power it produced during takeoff, followed by the numerous car alarms it set off. I still remember watching it with absolute awe as a little kid, fingers against the fence parallel to the runway at heathrow. I also believe that is why my hearing isn't upto scratch nowadays!

  • what a beautiful aircraft.

  • A majestic airplane.

  • I remember tht great day in April 1969 sat on my dads shoulders waiting for that take off from filton in the cold. Well worth the freezing wait as those olmpus engines roared i tingled alover and became very warm fast Fantastic...

  • Still Enjoy watching this.

    A great tear jerker

  • The first plane i saw and the last plane i will see

  • Amazing

  • There's a rumour going around that Concorde will fly over the Olympic Stadium as part of the Opening Ceremony for the 2012 London Olympics.

    Probably untue but what a show stopper THAT would be!

  • @76juno

    We wish, unfortunately that is just a dream :(

  • @artherjob - I have the same dreams.

    

  • Thank you for this great video, I really enjoyed it! Too bad I never had the chance of flying this amazing machine.

  • "...we're gonna miss you."

  • Safe to assume Orville and Wilbur Wright definitely disliked this video from their graves

  • @mancity1000

    too right

  • i remember the day i saw the 1st concorde to land in liverpool airport, its sad to see it go, however if everyone gave a bit of money to the SCG we can get atleast 1 concorde back in the skies.

  • Very moving...nice job.

  • throwing vapour. is he for real

  • Into the Sunset...

    (Or Dawn.. :D)

  • What a beautiful video & super music too....thanks for sharing.

    Miss that old girl :)

  • Best looking plane ever to take to the skies

  • thumbs up if you think we shoud bring atleast 1 concorde back .

  • Sad day in aviation history.

  • @2.47........bye baby

    a sad day when they took this wonderfull aircraft from our skies

  • This video represents the day mankind took a technological step backwards.

  • Best Concorde video ever! I was in tears! R.I.P Concorde and God's speed, you will be missed! Going to the Air and Space Museum in DC in June can't wait to see the Concorde!

  • Nice!!

  • Didn't matter what you was doing. When she flew over.... You looked

  • Brings back memories. Great promo for 4 handbuilt Concorde models at scale 1:144 from GTrans International. Check out the website at gtrans.com.au or email for a brochure at john@gtrans.com.au Percentage donation for each sale to the Premier's Flood Appeal

  • ...and she's gone. :(

  • On par with Titanic.

  • excellent vid spoiled by totally unnecessary music thus killing the peoples comments and cheers AND the sound of the plane!!!!!!!!!

  • they are bringing the plane back

  • blue skies are sooo lovley

  • song?

  • Sad Day, I bet you were very emotional.

  • =[

  • may god bless u concorde

  • SPREAD THE WORD LETS TRY GETTING A LEAST ONE OF THESE LADIES FLYING AGAIN

    save-concorde .co .uk

  • For the very first time i have to say: the music match perfectly with the video and of course, with the moment! Its a sad moment but was very beautiful.

  • SpeedBird Concorde one your cleared for take off, two seven left, surface winds at two, forty at ten....... Speedbird Concorde One, Ccleared for take off, two.....seven... left

  • one of the saddest moments in human history...hearing the cheers of the crowd is heart felt

  • @raikkonen8

    Your right buddy! Makes me cry watching that bird

  • @hearts76100 Makes me feel more than loosing someone I knew!! It was a awesome aircraft, wish they can fly it again.

  • For me as an motorvehicle engineer, concorde gets way more credit than A380. She should be back in service, should never be retired. Concorde flew for 27 years without any accident. Building a supersonic airliner requires way more professionalism than a subsonic liner. Hats of to the engineers who made it possible.

  • there was a concorde crash

  • What a sad day... and to replace the Concorde with REGINAL JETS :(

  • On a winters afternoon Concordes flight from LHR to JFK would set off after sunset in the UK but because of her supersonicness she would "catch" the rising sun, a sun rising from the WEST. Now that is cool!

  • 10 Boeing salesmen didn't like this video

  • Oh man that was so sad.... God Speed.

  • WHY HAVE MUSIC.......WHY....WHY....WHY.­..IDIOT

  • @vhcommy why why why not upload your own version?

  • cut the crap music spoils the film

  • Nice music ! What's this by the way?

  • Beautiful, Concorde and the SR71 blackbird 2 of the most enigmatic planes ever...

  • Es una lastima tener que decir, "yo recuerdo la epoca en la que se cruzaba el atlántico en 2 horas", excelente y hermoso avión.

  • Just because of a CRASH.... they Retired her? That doesn't make sense.  If they can fly the worlds biggest passenger Airline (A 380 Airbus), Why can't they keep flying the Concorde?

  • @deehaw2

    Concorde wasn't efficient. Their runningcosts were simply too high. But many of us, including myself, feel depressed seeing this perfect exemple of glorious engineering of the past.

  • @deehaw2

    They did'nt just retire her about a crash, They were going to keep her in service until 2012 but due to running, servicing costs and 9/11 and the crash they decided to retiire her. I think thats right.

  • @deehaw2 because of the fuel cost !. The concorde is a BIG fuel eater :P

  • Thanks for the video, would have been a million times better without the music IMO

  • I remember in the 80's I used to sit at the top of my apartment on the roof and watch planes take-off and land around me. Then I saw the Concorde, and I was amazed to see the beautiful bird fly. I miss her...!

  • This video bring some water in my eyes. What an emotional part of history we cen see here. The controllers from JFK are emotional as well. Thanks for beeing there and show us the last flight from KJFK.

  • This is the best Concord Video on YouTube.

    Beautiful 31L Breezy point climb departue.

  • If wayching Concorde fly didn't turn you, then there was something wrong with your switch.

    The most beautiful aeroplane ever built and if it hadn't been for the rank jealousy of the Americans it would have been made better and better and would still now be flying round the world.

    I saw Concorde as a schoolboy at the Farnborough Air Show and it was so beautiful grown men had tears in their eyes after it had gone. Will they be as sad when the last 747 takes off?

    I doubt it!

  • Unbelievably sad outcome for the most beautiful bird to grace our skies. Having them as museum pieces is no better than caging a wild animal. Jeremy Clarkson got it absolutely right in saying the loss of Concorde was the biggest step backwards in aviation history. Exhilaration has been replaced with monotony.

  • This is for me the must emotianal video, good music nice communication! Thanks a lot!

  • Wonder of French/British engineering...

  • Beautiful video,and nice to see no hate comments for a change!

  • beautiful video.

    When human have dreams and make them come true....

  • Everytime i see this video it breaks my heart,it should still be flying.

  • I realy had to fight against my tears. This is such a great aircraft ! A beauty, a swan with grace. I miss her, Even though I could never afford a ticket. Good bye my love !

  • How emotional  :( :( :(

  • I can cry watching this video.

    My dad used to take me to the airport in Rio on sundays in the 70's to see it takeoff back to Paris...

    What a machine!

    Farewell to the greatest plane ever

    carlos g.

  • miss concorde best plane ever.

    

  • Wonderful video.. so sad!

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  • 150000 canettes cachées dans les soutes à New-Kork, Stouf ! T'aurais pu éviter !! Heureusement que tu pilotais, et excellent retour à Vieillevigne !!

  • A 40 year old design/production from a tight/pared down budget - but it still thrills and makes people marvel today - a unique acheivement in itself.

  • wow, i felt so sad as it took off :'(

  • Find me a person who doesn't want this bird back in the air, i know for sure i want it back where it belongs. 5*

  • nice!!

  • Was always an occasion when Concorde landed or took off from any airport....... One very sadly missed plane...

  • What a beauty...

  • So Sad this is a shame.

  • I worked at JFK from 99 to 2002 and it was always a thrill to watch the Concorde take off from over the customs parking lot. Everyone stopped what there were doing once those jets were fired up at the beginning of the takeoff.

    Long live the Concorde, it was quite a special bird in the sky, you actually felt the vibration in your chest, great feeling.

  • ...and she was called Speed Bird Concorde.

  • good bye sweet bird....

  • There'll never be another era like the London New York Concorde era

  • BLUE SKIES FOREVER CONCORDE

  • Speed Bird 2, What a name for the best flying machine mankind built and then de-commissioned. Shame on people who caused its demise from commercial aviation.

    Its such an eye watering conversation between the pilot and ATC

  • @tamanna84 I know, its so sad!

  • 1. another version is being made, gonna be in commision 2015 at the most. 2. i thank yyou for sharing

  • Thanks for the excellent video of the flight to Heathrow, it is emotional

  • cause i heard that the concorde is coming back!!

  • farewell concorde. Blue skies forever. we miss you.

  • What a video. It brought tears to my eyes. I never saw one on real life ;( I guess, Concorde was greater than the sum of its parts. And trust me on this one, is to say something.

  • I'll watch this till my dying day. I love art, and I can tell you that there is no work of art greater than that transcendental machine. And its form came purely from functional imperatives. I think it is the most beautiful physical object ever created, maybe ever will be created. I can't watch this without crying every single time. If that doesn't prove that it was more, much much more, than just a machine, nothing does.

    CONCORDE FOR EVER!!!!!!!!!!

  • Love the music ..........the name please¿?

  • farewell concorde beautiful video thanks it really brings a tear to my eye

  • The perfect sky for such an event.

  • Amazing! The Queen of Heaven!

  • the sadest and coolest video I ever seen

  • the radio conversation says it all for me this is how Americans and Brits should get on, not slagging each other of over you tube i bloody love you yanks lol group hug

  • You can't stop a bird from flying Concorde will fly again!

  • In fact British Airways was making profit, it was the French who were'nt, they made the decision to retire the fleet, and of course with the plane manufactured from french and british parts they would be no longer able to maintain them, Have been on tour of corncorde at manchester airport,such a beautiful piece of engineering we have definately taken a step back and that A380 it a total monstrosity if thats the future, god help us.

  • @2009theknight exactly right, the reason the french didn't make any profits was because BA adjusted their prices to suit what people actually thought they where when they were actually alot cheaper, once they did that they started turning a profit, in her whole time with BA she turned over .75 billion profit for them.

  • Amazing story that the ATC that issued the 1st landing clearance into JFK in 1977 would issue the last takeoff clearance from JFK in 2003. Incredible! Aviation is the only field where mankind has taken giant steps backwards. To retire the greatest invention after the space shuttle really puts mankind heading in the wrong direction when it comes to Air Travel. I love my 777 but it's no Concorde!

  • @Tampaslice Retiring the Space Shuttle too now. What's left? 

  • avation took a step back when they took her out of service rip concorde

    blue skys forever ...................come back soon

  • all-time favorite concorde video, beautifully put together. Love the music.

  • I agree. We should have sealed up the windows, put in new avionics, put on bigger engines, painted her all gray and converted her to a bomber for the RAF. She was not designed for the role but she may have had a new lease on life.

  • i dont think anybody on here realizes how much money and maintenance those jet required and thus is why they got rid of them...sure it's a shame but ya gotta do what ya gotta do and the mistake was building them in the first place...a waste of british airways and air france's time

  • Great video and an awesome soundtrack. Beautiful bird she will be missed.

  • they should bring them back and rebuild them

  • Still the most beautiful jet I've ever seen. Long live CONCORDE!

  • Back in " the days " people did care less about money and more about setting goals are a dream. I wish we could do that again.

  • i still miss not seeing her fly sadly missed the only bird i fell in love with

  • long live Europe

  • We were way ahead of our time..

  • gotta love the music :D

  • ..well, there goes one of the things i wanted to do before i die...sigh....

  • concorde will never return its 'airworthy certificate has been suspended , altough the tupolev tu-144 may return at some time

  • @cliffthelightning You could be right, I find that really sad though, the Tupolev's safety compared to the Concorde is absolutely disgusting. Not to mention the infamous airshow crash, where the thing literally broke apart in front of everyone!

  • @jlebesis Didn't the..ahem..French..have something to do with that? Vehemently denied of course...

  • @cliffthelightning I beliece that if they restore her, most of the concordes have been kept in very good condition so theres a good chance with the right funding that she could fly again, the TU-144 though, never, she's not safe, just look at how many major failures it had and crashes. the tu-144's were deemed unsafe for flight.

  • great video. nice job. I don't think you could ask for better lighting.

  • tears...

  • There is something really upsetting about this video

  • why did someone ruin this video with the stupid f-cking music

  • Some people may never understand the beauty of aviation.. fortunately I do understand the beauty of it and I'm only 22

  • To Concorde the Greatest.

    BLUE SKIES FOR EVER

    This video brings tears to my eyes everytime I watch.

  • i thought our species was about evoloution, since these majestic british and french birds have left our skies, i think we have gone backwards!!!

  • Everytime concorde took off it's like watching the launch of the Saturn V moon rockets

  • It wasn't the same anymore, since they put this bird in the museum way to early. One giant step back in time for mankind.

  • Go my Concorde baby!

    Go baby go!!

  • Great video - I think it will be a long time before we see another SST.

  • Thankyou so much for these precious ending moments of this wonderful airplane!

  • Aw damn, that brought a tear to my eye....he he

    Nice video

  • leave the music OUT.

  • well, there is some hope, though not commercially. there is a group who is currently been receiving donations over the last 5 years(i have to check that over) but what they have been doing is restoring a Concorde to the point that it will be able to taxi under its own power :D hopefully from that small step, it will be able to leap back into the air once the program gets going. but i have to stress that i hard this only from one source so far so i have to find it on more sources to confirm it :)

  • i felt sorry for all Americans who watched the final Departure from JFK...i know i would of hated seing an amazing Plane take off for the very last time (In that country)....fast ending of concorde in USA i guess :(

  • 5 stars for concorde and the video!