BOAG is scruffy, sad and unkempt on the outside. i dont know why on earth a museum could take an icon like Concorde and have her outside and rotting in the rain.
Why we giving the yanks 2 of our beautiful Birds??? One of the main reasons concorde never really sold was because of the American politicians claiming it would break people's ear drums and smash windows when it flew by! Jealousy is a cruel mistress! RIP Concorde!
What's with the american flag? This is British engineering, at first their jelously resulted in them disallowing Concorde to fly over the US, next they're hanging out the window waving their own flag? What the fuck?
The finest flying machine ever built by mankind and the US (Boeing) had basically done all it could to stop the flight of the Anglo-French Concorde. Shame on you. The Wright brothers would be turning in their graves. Ironic that Airforce1 is/was actually louder and that was what all the fuss was about. Such BS it flew at 60,000 ft!
Now we have gone backwards in terms of flight technology.
Mi niño aun hasta el final de tu VIDA fuiste un caballero ingles muy educado pues nos saludaste elegantemente antes de apagar para siempre tus motores .Siempre te recordare mi CONCORDE
YO nunca te voy a olvidar En verdad Te extraño mucho
@randomthinking A lady indeed...we should hereby give official title to Concorde....Lady Concorde. She may not be the daughter of a duke, but she is damn regal!..lol
Such a shame she doesn't fly anymore, but glad she's gone to a new home. Apparently there is a place here in England (I think) where they are going to put one back in the air, just for airdisplays, fly pasts etc.
c'est un avion Français ! fait à partir du fuselage d'une caravelle et à l'époque pas d'informatique. Sans le Général De Gaulle et la volonté politique, pas de concorde. Merci la France .
Two years agor I was lucky enough to re- visit my former home for 10 years, Seattle and visit this wonderful bird there. She is so becoming to a great town like Seattle. Now that I have missed the chance to fly with Concorde, I always say: If it ain't Boeing, I ain't going!
I dont hate America but I dont see the point of the American flag on Concorde..! If the Americans bought an SR71 to the UK, I doubt they'd fly a Union Jack......
@artherjob I am an American and I agree with you. I believe that the American flag does not belong on Concorde. I can easily understand where the British would be offended by this.
Look after her for us, she is worth more than mere dollars and cents. She is an Icon of our aviation history, and a sad loss. Not just to us Brits, but Aviation as a whole. I do wish some multi billionaire would come along and invest in her resurrection. It wouldn't bother me if the cost of a ticket was out of my reach, I just want to see her flying the flag for Britain again. Au revoir Concorde, for now at least.
I have the fantasy of winning the lottery and walking into the Museum of Flight and asking the simple question........ How big of check do I have to write to take Concord up for just one more flight? I know it would have to cover return to flight condition, return to display condition and all flight costs plus a little somethin' somethin' for the Museum...... Wouldn't that be amazing!?!
@randomthinking the nose lowers BECAUSE when they land the nose lowers when they "flare"*means pointing up before touch down* so that way the see the runway and they have to make a big flare cause this aircraft is landing at high speeds.
I flew on Alpha Golf many years ago on a supersonic luxury flight. Capt Riley was the man in charge all one hundred of us took a trip to the flight deck what an experience. Also an experience to fly at 1350mph at 60,000ft and look at the conventional aircraft 20,000ft below. Wondering where Alpha Golf had ended up now I know.
"The engines on a French Concorde are to be examined as the first move in a £15m project aiming to get the supersonic passenger jet back in the air.
The Rolls Royce engines of the former Air France Concorde will undergo an initial examination to see what work needs to be done to start the engines."
It's from an article on BBC News a few months ago which I only just found. If you search "Concorde Return" on google then it's the first result. Wouldn't that be brilliant?
Guys!!! Concorde is to take to the skies once again in 2012. She will pass over during the opening ceremony of the Olympic games in London. I'm working on the site here and it's official. She is the pride of my country and I hope she's being looked after in Seattle.
@cjdrange47: Glad you like the video, and we do love her. We tour her every time we visit the Museum of Flight here in Seattle, which is several times a year.
@cjdrange47 This is the second Concorde we've had here; first one was an Air France example in spring of 1985. I was there to view and photograph it, was there when it took off, I was atop a school bus (Shhhh...). To hear her spool up, scream down the runway, rotate, lift, tuck gear and scream off into the distance. I couldn't hear myself screaming "YEEHA!!!", what a thrill to be a part of history!
Like I said on another vid. I strongly believe we HAVEN'T seen the end of Concorde London 2012 I believe British airways will be flying the Concorde either just for athletes or limited service from heathrow to JFK
Its sad not to see a Legendary Plane like Concorde in the skies nowadays. The only plane I truly liked and I would have loved to fly on it too. Sadly that will never happen.
The American flag is flown because your dearly beloved is being looked after on US soil. It is a formality. No disrespect taken. It's an honor and a prililege to have her here btw.
Am I the only one who has the fantasy where the pilots drop the passengers off, turn that beautiful swan around yelling 'it can't end like this' & let her race for the skies again, flying until the last drop of fuel was gone, "Thelma & Louise" style
@phoenixrisen1970: When I visit G-BOAG at the Museum of Flight here in Seattle, I always wonder what it would take to get it moving again. And I have to believe that the maintenance folks have run it through their own heads, too :)
@randomthinking It's a sad time when planes ground.. Concorde shouldn't have stopped.. Maybe upgraded for efficiency.. That crash in 2000 wasn't the end, it's the French who found it the easy option to end the flight of Concorde, despite saying they'll end Concorde "the day after British Airways does". I don't want a replacement of Concorde, we want Concorde back!
@phoenixrisen1970 Great comment, mate! I bet those pilots were fighting back a few tears as they had to shut those engines down for the last time! What a waste of such a stunningly beautiful engineering masterpiece!
No disrespect but why is their an American flag hanging out of that window? Should be French as the Americans had no input to our aircraft whatsoever. Why has it even gone to Seattle? When concerning the U.S. she was only allowed to fly the blue ribbon route to JFK so why one is as at Seattle is beyond me.
what a sad day..why did we sell them to America? of all places i would have rather given them away to the chinese. at least they could have copied them and made some more on the cheap...hand crafted by 10 year olds ...lol
to send the conocorde into retirement was a step into the wrong direction. They should have modified or rebuilt it in order to make it more efficient and economical.
@randomthinking what i find amazing 3 years later they start 1 up to fly over buckingham palace for the queen's jubilee in 2006 and there was not a single fault with the plane just shows how much of a waste there are sitting as museum piece's
I wish concorde was still in service!!! Its just too lovely and beautiful not to be. I was luck to fly on here from Manchester Airport. Took me a while to save the cost of the trip but wow, it was worth it and she is so dearly missed.
Most elegant and stunning aircraft ever built - walked through her in New York. She's a beauty. When they shut the engines it feels like something big has come to an end - in fact it has.
@d00t : I'm the guy who posted this video. It's still clear as day in my memory, 6+ years later, the sound of those engines... and the silence when they shut down for the last time. I feel lucky to have captured that in this video.
@randomthinking In 2003 I saw the last one land at Filton airport in Bristol for the last time, we had a spitfire flying ahead of it as it came in too.
When it came in, it was so sad, I was crying my eyes out. It looked so graceful and beautiful slowly descending to land. I took pictures but my shutter speed was wrong, so they came out unsharp. Still, worth it for the experience, there were like 10,000 people all along the airport road all cheering on this beautiful bird.
The Concorde is a combination of French and British engineering.. In fact it has absolutely nothing to do with America at all, it should be a British and a French - I don't see the logic in there being an American flag?
i can see your point there but Concorde did only between Britain, or France and America, and there was a huge effort to get it to fly there because there were protests etc etc, so its a pretty iconic thing on both sides of the pond, oh and not forgetting the fact that the Americans love our engineering lol.
@SamSnuffle the French did not support much in the building of the concorde rather then support with economics. Frensh probably paid more $ and the brittish engeneering made it fly. American constumers over the years payed more money than brittan and france togheter. The American flag is obvious present when they land in seatle. duh?
Dealerovski82, That was such a typical American answer, I was waiting for something like that I must admit - This is a British and French plane, not American, I was simply stating when a British and French plane flies to another country, it could have been any country in the world, somehow I think it would have always had an American flag in the place of where should be a French flag, I just don't see the logic in it. Thanks to DanBarnes91, I now understand
@SamSnuffle It land in America to be preserved and moseunized there. So its logic they have an American flag. Oh, and Britts and Americans dont like the frensh. hahaha
it was a joint anglo french process between the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) and Aerospatiale which is now EADS i think and airbus is an off shoot of it also. the Rolls-Royce/Snecma Olympus 593 engines were also a joint venture between Rolls Royce and Snecma, the aircraft were owned by the governments until the British government sold theres to British Airways.
it was a joint venture, sadly, bloody french.
European countries are small so joint ventures make sense economically .
@SamSnuffle Then explain why briton has B1, B2 B17 and other military planes at their museums. Further more, if it werent 4 amercans ever inventing flight, you wouldnt have had concorde. It's called a tribute!!!!!!!Just like a concorde being in barbados. Learn to appreciate aviation all together. Not just a british...or should i say 30% british plane. Rolls Royce engines, is that it? Same with Airbus. What planes DO you actually make. Its not the Shitfighter, neither the harrier.
@dougiecoolietrini I'm quite certain the American planes we have in our museums have American flags on them - if they had British flags I would be asking them the same question. I'm also sure that even if the Wright Brothers hadn't invented their aeroplane in 1903, we'd have some sort of aircraft by now, 107 years on. I have full respect for everyone and everything linked to aviation, including both Britain and America - the American flag on Concorde though seems both pointless and false.
If you spent more time reading, rather than indulge in nationalistic chest-beating on YouTube, you'd have known the first powered flight actually took place in Chard, Somerset, England, in 1848.
Americans fly the US flag from cash registers, porches, cars, and just about any other fucking thing they can fix them to, so I wouldn't read too much into it.
Well you're wrong. Both pilots, Les Brodie and Mike Bannister were waving flags. The Flight Engineer would also help with controls while this was happening.
AG just didn't have a buyer, and sat unsold in a hanger. BA were then offered it on sale or return when AC was being repaired. A few more things happened, but this loan agreement started it's career with BA.
BA wanted to carry on. Airbus, said no. BA had no chance, Virgin had no chance.
Branson's ideas may have been for real at the start, but towards the end, it was just for publicity. There was no way he would have been able to operate it.
It's weird seeing this video after walking through that very aircraft last summer. Kind of sad to see this remarkable aircraft just sitting there as a museum piece. Even though it was a couple years ago that this happened, is still sad to hear those big Olympus engines shut down for the final time.
da40flyer: I hear you. I've been working on a new edit of this video, and that moment - when the engines shut down - gets me every time. It's (was?) quite a machine.
Shame on the pilot for flying the Union Jack upside down from the cockpit window. That is a distress signal in the world of flags. Perhaps he knew what was coming for the the beautiful bird.
I believe that the sole reason for a movable nose is to ensure that the pilots have adequate visibility during take-off and landing.
Perhaps someone else can chime in if the above is incorrect or incomplete.
I've always wondered: if we were to design a supersonic airliner today... economic issues aside... would we end up with something similar to Concorde, complete with movable nose... or would the knowledge/lessons accumulated in the past 40 years motivate a (really) different design?
The nose is purely for visibility. Now-days they would probably rid of it for a fixed nose and rely on a GPS style system as the working parts are excessive weight.
your right :) the nose was lowered during none supersonic flight and landing. to give the pilots increased view.
the nose was raised before supersonic flight to increase the aerodynamics of the aircraft and stability and to allow a smooth pass through the sound barrier.
having flown on concorde myself i can say it was an awsome aircraft :)
I think we would still come up with something very similar. After all, you'd be designing something for a very specific task. For example, look at The TU144 or the Buran space shuttle. Very similar vehicles to Concorde and our Space Shuttle, but not blatant copies. The only way you'd have something without a delta wing would be to up the complexity stakes and go with a V.G. wing. (Just as I wrote that I thought "Well, you've now got something similar to a B-1B or TU-160")
The cause 4 CONCORDE terrible tragedy, as for all other plane crashes is plain and Simple: The American Crappy Technology.
A Boeing DC-10 had left a piece of metal crap on the runnway, causing the tyre to blow up damaging Concorde´s Wing and subsequently creating a BIG FIRE that destroyed this awesome CREATURE.
FUCK AMERICANS, THEY NEVER WENT SUPERSONIC.
Lesson Learned Kids: Don´t get into American Crappy Planes...Ur life is under big DANGER.
Fatal Crash Rate per 1.000.000 Flights. Boeing 727** 0.49 Boeing 737 0.47 Boeing 747 0.76 Boeing 757** 0.30 Boeing 767 0.40 Boeing 777 0.00 Boeing DC9** 0.57 Boeing DC10** 0.67 Boeing MD11** 0.56 Boeing MD80/MD90 0.26 American Aircraft Industry has a SAFETY "problem" indeed. GROW UP...
2) you're not telling the whole story, such as the fact that a passenger 757 has never had a fatal crash that wasn't attributed primarily to human error (navigation, plus leaving foreign objects over sensors) or intention. Never a problem with the aircraft itself.
America has great Air Force technology and state of the art test places and millitary planes. We invented most of the apps for planes. We also created the plane. Other countries are weak in aviation. Concorde went out of buisness cause of cost of rides and less people so bankrupt.
So what if teh first to fly belonged to the Wright Brothers?
It doesn't mean you came up with the ideas. There were many concepts from all over the world many years before. Even a British man developed and created one, but sadly died in an accident before he could demonstrate it. It was late found that it could fly.
The Jet Engine is British, being devised by Frank Whittle. Where would we be without that?!
Yes, he died in 1899, and was planning to demonstrate his aircraft but it was too windy, so he went hang-gliding instead. He was sadly killed while hang-gliding.
But his aircraft was discovered to be flyable and if t hadn't been for the weather or his accidental death, it would have been the first flight.
Yes people should intergrate and mix in with everyone and the British culture, but if they want to bring something that is not typically British with them, eg. religion or general ways of doing things, then let them get on with it, as long as it doesn't hurt anyone, it's fine. And there's nothing wrong with us learning something new, either!
That's my view.
I just don't want people to argue here, because this is a video of Concorde and I don't want it to clog up with unrelated things.
If your family see next door doing really well financially by say, shopping at a certain supermarket on a Tuesday, then YOUR family can COLLECTIVELY DECIDE (= Democracy) to do the same.
Imitation (not invasion) is the best form of flattery,
Cultures are separate entities and if you mix them you destroy ALL of them
Use you brain before you mouth, thats what wrong with people today, everyone thinks they are so F***G clever.
The RAF, Royal Air Force in Britain has been acclaimed as the best air force in the world. This isn't to say the UASF is no good, however.
The British Aviation industry isn't much anymore, but in the past it was a cut above the rest.
To say other countries are weak in aviation is a stupid and bigoted thought. I'm not saying the US is bad, because they're not, but don't think for one minute that you created everything and are the best at everything - because you're not.
But I have to say, your view on our country is not one I would at all be happy with. From your page, I understand what you are saying, but feel you are going over the edge. Your views on other countries, such as the 'grass skirts' and 'spears' is nonsense - it is bigoted and, yes, i'm saying it, racist.
BOAG is scruffy, sad and unkempt on the outside. i dont know why on earth a museum could take an icon like Concorde and have her outside and rotting in the rain.
concorderules 5 days ago
Dumb having an american flag ...
dezontk101 1 month ago
why on earth american flag its air france and british airways who fuckin made the concorde hey americans go fetch your boeings >:D
pyramyde1 2 months ago
Dear America because you took 2 Concordes can we have a shuttle?
BlackWidowZ93 2 months ago
@BlackWidowZ93 We have 3 just fyi
hondafrk 2 months ago
Why we giving the yanks 2 of our beautiful Birds??? One of the main reasons concorde never really sold was because of the American politicians claiming it would break people's ear drums and smash windows when it flew by! Jealousy is a cruel mistress! RIP Concorde!
jonny96 2 months ago 3
@jonny96
in fairness we did get the A-Team Vans !!!!!
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fair swap :D:D:D
cits2011 1 month ago
So we give the USA a concorde and do we get a space shuttle in return? Nope. In fact they got 2...
Sterlingjob 3 months ago
@Sterlingjob Make that 3
hondafrk 2 months ago
@Sterlingjob If we gave you a space shuttle it wouldn't have made it off the ground.
GrandMasterKolbasa 2 weeks ago
@GrandMasterKolbasa Probably blown up or fallen apart as usual!!
Sterlingjob 2 weeks ago
What's with the american flag? This is British engineering, at first their jelously resulted in them disallowing Concorde to fly over the US, next they're hanging out the window waving their own flag? What the fuck?
Evilrex500 4 months ago 2
nosedioron kuenta pero grabaron un ovni
marioalfredo1234 5 months ago
Lots of love for the Concorde the way the Concorde deserves it.
KeepingModern 8 months ago
Concorde goes to its maunfacturing garage then goes to Seattle.
STORY OVER
R.I.P. Concorde 1976-2003
DJ727ROBLOX 8 months ago
The finest flying machine ever built by mankind and the US (Boeing) had basically done all it could to stop the flight of the Anglo-French Concorde. Shame on you. The Wright brothers would be turning in their graves. Ironic that Airforce1 is/was actually louder and that was what all the fuss was about. Such BS it flew at 60,000 ft!
Now we have gone backwards in terms of flight technology.
Bring back Concorde!
TheMarkyMarx 8 months ago
En MEMORIA de este HERMOSO JET SUPERSONICO
THE CONCORDE (1969-2003)
Mi niño aun hasta el final de tu VIDA fuiste un caballero ingles muy educado pues nos saludaste elegantemente antes de apagar para siempre tus motores .Siempre te recordare mi CONCORDE
YO nunca te voy a olvidar En verdad Te extraño mucho
Behappynow2009 8 months ago 4
@Behappynow2009 : thanks for the great comment. Although I think of her as a lady :)
randomthinking 8 months ago 4
@randomthinking A lady indeed...we should hereby give official title to Concorde....Lady Concorde. She may not be the daughter of a duke, but she is damn regal!..lol
shugabuns 7 months ago
THE CONCORDE SHOULD STILL BE FLYING!
Swede1962 9 months ago
Lol, consistent copy of French concorde
athla1 9 months ago
Apparently G-BOAG had some different "things" compared to others concords
ass23ful 9 months ago
Such a shame she doesn't fly anymore, but glad she's gone to a new home. Apparently there is a place here in England (I think) where they are going to put one back in the air, just for airdisplays, fly pasts etc.
puggtiracer 10 months ago
Es ironico, este Acion no lo quisieron mucho en los Estados Unidos, y alli se encuetran ...
SECAAL 10 months ago
Hearing those engines shut down is so sad.
Idaho278 10 months ago
c'est un avion Français ! fait à partir du fuselage d'une caravelle et à l'époque pas d'informatique. Sans le Général De Gaulle et la volonté politique, pas de concorde. Merci la France .
MrLandrut 10 months ago
The result of English/French engineering, a master piece this aeroplane.
ericvandenhaas 10 months ago
Hearing those engines power down for the last time is moving.
surreyboy84 10 months ago
Sorry for being a bit picky but the Union flag is upside down.
76juno 11 months ago 2
Two years agor I was lucky enough to re- visit my former home for 10 years, Seattle and visit this wonderful bird there. She is so becoming to a great town like Seattle. Now that I have missed the chance to fly with Concorde, I always say: If it ain't Boeing, I ain't going!
from a Husky, class of '83G in Istanbul, Turkey
ibrahimhcaglayan 11 months ago
lol 2:15 " Who's Driving the Airplane???
lsmith1981 1 year ago
I'm angry.
The old girl thought it was just another airport. She was wrong when the Americans shoved there fucking flag in her doorframe.
RobloxRoxLikeWaffles 1 year ago
Concorde pilot indeed flying the Union Flag upside down, school boy error.
Dino1I66 1 year ago
when i got to visit seatle for the first time,this was my first time also getting to finally touch a concorde,i was in tears
1988fierogt 1 year ago
I dont hate America but I dont see the point of the American flag on Concorde..! If the Americans bought an SR71 to the UK, I doubt they'd fly a Union Jack......
artherjob 1 year ago
@artherjob I am an American and I agree with you. I believe that the American flag does not belong on Concorde. I can easily understand where the British would be offended by this.
76ARZ 8 months ago
Super!!!!! That sound!!!
msounderson 1 year ago
Super!!, 4 Rolls Royce Olympus Engines, tears in my eyes, the sound it's really amazing!!!!
msounderson 1 year ago
Wait a minute, if these guys are waving the flags, WHO'S STEERING THE PLANE?!
rjendo 1 year ago
WHAT THE FUCK !!?? why is the american flag on concorde???/!!!!!!!
FIATF130DT 1 year ago
Look after her for us, she is worth more than mere dollars and cents. She is an Icon of our aviation history, and a sad loss. Not just to us Brits, but Aviation as a whole. I do wish some multi billionaire would come along and invest in her resurrection. It wouldn't bother me if the cost of a ticket was out of my reach, I just want to see her flying the flag for Britain again. Au revoir Concorde, for now at least.
nomoreliblabcon 1 year ago 2
Mom - England Ireland Scotland and Wales
George - the Americas
Francis - France = our lovely cousins - family always England and France
gregm1able 1 year ago
and cousin Francis................ George Mom and Francis from France xxxxxxxx
gregm1able 1 year ago
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George Washington and cousin Francis would be proud............... mum and kid xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
gregm1able 1 year ago
George Washington would be proud............... mum and kid xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
gregm1able 1 year ago
I have the fantasy of winning the lottery and walking into the Museum of Flight and asking the simple question........ How big of check do I have to write to take Concord up for just one more flight? I know it would have to cover return to flight condition, return to display condition and all flight costs plus a little somethin' somethin' for the Museum...... Wouldn't that be amazing!?!
ddmod 1 year ago 2
2:30 wait...did the nose just lower a bit?
AWSOME!!!!
Supervictor1211 1 year ago 2
@Supervictor1211 Oh yes. They were having a good time with the nose.
randomthinking 1 year ago 4
@randomthinking the nose lowers BECAUSE when they land the nose lowers when they "flare"*means pointing up before touch down* so that way the see the runway and they have to make a big flare cause this aircraft is landing at high speeds.
aval1998 1 year ago
@Supervictor1211
gregayo 1 year ago
@Supervictor1211 i fucked that nose whilst it lowered on to my ass
hugecock737 10 months ago
@Supervictor1211 Thats so they could see the runway during take off and landing i think?!
pidgeblev 7 months ago
hey i have that plane in my flight simulator
coolblah243 1 year ago
I flew on Alpha Golf many years ago on a supersonic luxury flight. Capt Riley was the man in charge all one hundred of us took a trip to the flight deck what an experience. Also an experience to fly at 1350mph at 60,000ft and look at the conventional aircraft 20,000ft below. Wondering where Alpha Golf had ended up now I know.
Backpacker1uk 1 year ago
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billytk247 1 year ago
"The engines on a French Concorde are to be examined as the first move in a £15m project aiming to get the supersonic passenger jet back in the air.
The Rolls Royce engines of the former Air France Concorde will undergo an initial examination to see what work needs to be done to start the engines."
It's from an article on BBC News a few months ago which I only just found. If you search "Concorde Return" on google then it's the first result. Wouldn't that be brilliant?
dimflamingo 1 year ago
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FUCK OFF AMERICA !
BM69Production 1 year ago
Guys!!! Concorde is to take to the skies once again in 2012. She will pass over during the opening ceremony of the Olympic games in London. I'm working on the site here and it's official. She is the pride of my country and I hope she's being looked after in Seattle.
TheWattsie1 1 year ago
maybe the american flag is there becuase it flew from the uk and stopped in the U.S.???
iAirsoft69 1 year ago
Great vid by the way, so glad to see so many americans turn out to see a great beautiful aircraft like this. Seems you love her as much as us brits.
Shame the nasty blairite govenment didnt feel the same way, maybe she'd still be flying now ::: - (
cjdrange47 1 year ago 7
@cjdrange47: Glad you like the video, and we do love her. We tour her every time we visit the Museum of Flight here in Seattle, which is several times a year.
randomthinking 1 year ago 3
@cjdrange47 This is the second Concorde we've had here; first one was an Air France example in spring of 1985. I was there to view and photograph it, was there when it took off, I was atop a school bus (Shhhh...). To hear her spool up, scream down the runway, rotate, lift, tuck gear and scream off into the distance. I couldn't hear myself screaming "YEEHA!!!", what a thrill to be a part of history!
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SPREAD THE WORD LETS TRY GETTING A LEAST ONE OF THESE LADIES FLYING AGAIN
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billytk247 1 year ago
@cjdrange47 how is the blairite government involved?
pcamm 1 year ago
Like I said on another vid. I strongly believe we HAVEN'T seen the end of Concorde London 2012 I believe British airways will be flying the Concorde either just for athletes or limited service from heathrow to JFK
dcccapfan 1 year ago
Its sad not to see a Legendary Plane like Concorde in the skies nowadays. The only plane I truly liked and I would have loved to fly on it too. Sadly that will never happen.
EWS60008 1 year ago
The American flag is flown because your dearly beloved is being looked after on US soil. It is a formality. No disrespect taken. It's an honor and a prililege to have her here btw.
shugabuns 1 year ago
Am I the only one who has the fantasy where the pilots drop the passengers off, turn that beautiful swan around yelling 'it can't end like this' & let her race for the skies again, flying until the last drop of fuel was gone, "Thelma & Louise" style
phoenixrisen1970 1 year ago 9
@phoenixrisen1970: When I visit G-BOAG at the Museum of Flight here in Seattle, I always wonder what it would take to get it moving again. And I have to believe that the maintenance folks have run it through their own heads, too :)
randomthinking 1 year ago
@randomthinking It's a sad time when planes ground.. Concorde shouldn't have stopped.. Maybe upgraded for efficiency.. That crash in 2000 wasn't the end, it's the French who found it the easy option to end the flight of Concorde, despite saying they'll end Concorde "the day after British Airways does". I don't want a replacement of Concorde, we want Concorde back!
07tazman95 1 year ago
@phoenixrisen1970 Great comment, mate! I bet those pilots were fighting back a few tears as they had to shut those engines down for the last time! What a waste of such a stunningly beautiful engineering masterpiece!
drewerz01 1 year ago
So depressing.
lithium803 1 year ago
WHY have a american flag out window they didnt help in shit in making this plane should be uk and french flag
JjOoNnNnYyBb 1 year ago 4
Visit the "Save Concorde Group"
badasspete 1 year ago
When the engine were shut down, the Concorde history ended.
SingaporeAirflyer 1 year ago
No disrespect but why is their an American flag hanging out of that window? Should be French as the Americans had no input to our aircraft whatsoever. Why has it even gone to Seattle? When concerning the U.S. she was only allowed to fly the blue ribbon route to JFK so why one is as at Seattle is beyond me.
ZlunkeyMonkey 1 year ago 2
what a sad day..why did we sell them to America? of all places i would have rather given them away to the chinese. at least they could have copied them and made some more on the cheap...hand crafted by 10 year olds ...lol
ragarep 1 year ago
What's this flag?!!!
lameur1977 1 year ago
GREAT video!!!! :)
Whild91 1 year ago
to send the conocorde into retirement was a step into the wrong direction. They should have modified or rebuilt it in order to make it more efficient and economical.
Mannykeri 1 year ago
awesome vid fella makes me really sad when you hear the engine's shut off for the last time at least she is being looked after over there
Snakypaintbrush 1 year ago 2
@Snakypaintbrush Glad you like the video. And I feel lucky that I was able to capture that last moment on tape.
When I visit G-BOAG here in Seattle, I often wonder what it would take to fire up those engines just one more time :)...
randomthinking 1 year ago
@randomthinking what i find amazing 3 years later they start 1 up to fly over buckingham palace for the queen's jubilee in 2006 and there was not a single fault with the plane just shows how much of a waste there are sitting as museum piece's
Snakypaintbrush 1 year ago
I wish concorde was still in service!!! Its just too lovely and beautiful not to be. I was luck to fly on here from Manchester Airport. Took me a while to save the cost of the trip but wow, it was worth it and she is so dearly missed.
160stephenspeed 1 year ago
That American flag shouldn't be there.
Mthtmty 1 year ago 2
it makes me sick that this beautiful aircraft is wasting away in museums... she should be flying over the earth where she belongs....
greengoblin200 1 year ago 3
by randomthinking's side is me (not shown in video) at 6ish years old :)
taggerungkid 1 year ago
im glad the british flag was facing the crowd...haha!
Mahoney8T7 1 year ago
As an mechanical engineer myself, grounding this bird was a step backwards. Sadly most people do not care about it.
barthoedemaker 1 year ago
Most elegant and stunning aircraft ever built - walked through her in New York. She's a beauty. When they shut the engines it feels like something big has come to an end - in fact it has.
d00t 1 year ago 12
@d00t : I'm the guy who posted this video. It's still clear as day in my memory, 6+ years later, the sound of those engines... and the silence when they shut down for the last time. I feel lucky to have captured that in this video.
randomthinking 1 year ago
@randomthinking In 2003 I saw the last one land at Filton airport in Bristol for the last time, we had a spitfire flying ahead of it as it came in too.
When it came in, it was so sad, I was crying my eyes out. It looked so graceful and beautiful slowly descending to land. I took pictures but my shutter speed was wrong, so they came out unsharp. Still, worth it for the experience, there were like 10,000 people all along the airport road all cheering on this beautiful bird.
kassad2056 1 year ago
the Rolls engines sound AWESOME
zepsterboy 1 year ago
British Airways pilot holding the union flag upside down, D"OH!
mrmulligan1268 1 year ago
i remember bein on that concorde
78720 2 years ago
The concored is the bes aircraft ever built .. wish it could be flying now a days!!
halonfsu2 2 years ago 4
You cant spell if im honest, its Concorde.
habbtrillion 2 years ago
Rolls Royce made her super sonic who cares about the design
mrmulligan1268 2 years ago 4
Ha ha...you are as wrong as a football bat! LOL
1hornet1 1 year ago
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The Concorde is a combination of French and British engineering.. In fact it has absolutely nothing to do with America at all, it should be a British and a French - I don't see the logic in there being an American flag?
SamSnuffle 2 years ago 17
i can see your point there but Concorde did only between Britain, or France and America, and there was a huge effort to get it to fly there because there were protests etc etc, so its a pretty iconic thing on both sides of the pond, oh and not forgetting the fact that the Americans love our engineering lol.
DanBarnes91 2 years ago
Ahh I see, so it was recognition of their support rather than the Americans claiming the "thunder"?
SamSnuffle 2 years ago
@SamSnuffle the French did not support much in the building of the concorde rather then support with economics. Frensh probably paid more $ and the brittish engeneering made it fly. American constumers over the years payed more money than brittan and france togheter. The American flag is obvious present when they land in seatle. duh?
dealerovski82 2 years ago
Dealerovski82, That was such a typical American answer, I was waiting for something like that I must admit - This is a British and French plane, not American, I was simply stating when a British and French plane flies to another country, it could have been any country in the world, somehow I think it would have always had an American flag in the place of where should be a French flag, I just don't see the logic in it. Thanks to DanBarnes91, I now understand
SamSnuffle 2 years ago
@SamSnuffle It land in America to be preserved and moseunized there. So its logic they have an American flag. Oh, and Britts and Americans dont like the frensh. hahaha
dealerovski82 2 years ago
it was a joint anglo french process between the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) and Aerospatiale which is now EADS i think and airbus is an off shoot of it also. the Rolls-Royce/Snecma Olympus 593 engines were also a joint venture between Rolls Royce and Snecma, the aircraft were owned by the governments until the British government sold theres to British Airways.
it was a joint venture, sadly, bloody french.
European countries are small so joint ventures make sense economically .
ChuckMamuck 1 year ago
@SamSnuffle Then explain why briton has B1, B2 B17 and other military planes at their museums. Further more, if it werent 4 amercans ever inventing flight, you wouldnt have had concorde. It's called a tribute!!!!!!!Just like a concorde being in barbados. Learn to appreciate aviation all together. Not just a british...or should i say 30% british plane. Rolls Royce engines, is that it? Same with Airbus. What planes DO you actually make. Its not the Shitfighter, neither the harrier.
dougiecoolietrini 1 year ago
@dougiecoolietrini I'm quite certain the American planes we have in our museums have American flags on them - if they had British flags I would be asking them the same question. I'm also sure that even if the Wright Brothers hadn't invented their aeroplane in 1903, we'd have some sort of aircraft by now, 107 years on. I have full respect for everyone and everything linked to aviation, including both Britain and America - the American flag on Concorde though seems both pointless and false.
SamSnuffle 1 year ago 4
@SamSnuffle Fair enough...
dougiecoolietrini 1 year ago
@dougiecoolietrini
If you spent more time reading, rather than indulge in nationalistic chest-beating on YouTube, you'd have known the first powered flight actually took place in Chard, Somerset, England, in 1848.
TheMightyHartley 1 year ago
@SamSnuffle Because it is now part of an American museum, cared for by Americans resting on American soil. Maybe that's why...
llinkme 1 year ago
@SamSnuffle Perhaps there is an American flag because it is now part of an American museum, cared for by Americans and resting on American soil.
llinkme 1 year ago
@llinkme Thanks, that put my mind to rest, I think you're right you know :)
SamSnuffle 1 year ago
@SamSnuffle
Thank you...The Co'Pilot Should Have had the French Flag..Too Top it off the Co'pilot should have been French and the Captain British..But Oh well:(
lsmith1981 1 year ago
@SamSnuffle
Americans fly the US flag from cash registers, porches, cars, and just about any other fucking thing they can fix them to, so I wouldn't read too much into it.
beastatlay 11 months ago
@SamSnuffle
lol its pretty simple, the thing was designed for atlantic travel, do you think we designed it to fly to france in 20 seconds? :D
fearluss 11 months ago
seeing the US flag coming out of our plane made me feel sick....
Mahoney8T7 2 years ago
here here
jimmenlybobble 2 years ago
All gone now, how i miss the old girl
MrLittlegate 2 years ago
Having lived in NY state for 6 years, I can tell you that most people were jealous of the beautiful machine.
Doomsday2060 2 years ago 2
@Doomsday2060 It is a beauti, I also think of the McLaren F1 car when I see this, also a leap of English engeneering. (Im a Swede tho)
dealerovski82 2 years ago 11
@dealerovski82 Concorde = englo french. So it is englo french engennering.
konrad4212 8 months ago
makes you proud to be british, an engineering triumph
Jorwill64 2 years ago 3
IT is a great marvel. Shame it had to be retired.
Lighttheskyup 2 years ago
@Jorwill64 yep you and me both dude. Concorde was englo french. Not just british if you don't mind me saying!
konrad4212 8 months ago
So the future is put into a museum?
barthoedemaker 2 years ago 2
...future????? hahahaha.....
tuca999 2 years ago
I'm pretty sure the guy with the flag aint the pilot or else he has some great foot control.
tryithere 2 years ago
Well you're wrong. Both pilots, Les Brodie and Mike Bannister were waving flags. The Flight Engineer would also help with controls while this was happening.
qwertdr 2 years ago
Not to mention the fact that there's an aircraft tug attached to the nose gear.
fireman257 2 years ago
noisy as a mother fucker
tryithere 2 years ago
I have been on that Concorde. She is the youngest of the BA Concorde fleet.
Christisms 2 years ago
G-BOAF is the youngest by nearly a year.
AG is the youngest in terms of flight hours.
qwertdr 2 years ago
Than do you know why AF got its flight certification before AG if AF is younger?
Christisms 2 years ago
AG just didn't have a buyer, and sat unsold in a hanger. BA were then offered it on sale or return when AC was being repaired. A few more things happened, but this loan agreement started it's career with BA.
qwertdr 2 years ago
A nice video of this beautiful aircraft, In my opinion the beautiful lady should be still gracing the skies above us....
Airbus, should hold their heads in Shame, Concorde had many years of life and service to give us, RIP Concorde, the Queen of the sky...
10pinbowling 2 years ago 5
An absolutely PERFECT aircraft. So graceful!
Sammyy46 2 years ago
Mike Banister & Les brodie as captains on this flight!
773ER14 2 years ago
whats with the American flag Americans having nothing to do with Concorde
fannypenis 2 years ago
Nothing to do with it? Where do you think BA and AF flew them to for decades? Botswana? What an ignorant comment.
cweyer 2 years ago
Yes the plane may fly there and that has nothing to do with the aircrfat
fannypenis 2 years ago
Branson, should have bought it for Virgin.
unigateman 2 years ago
He tried. His bid was denied
oliverman22 2 years ago
Airbus who maintained it refused to do so for BA. Virgin therefore had NO chance.
qwertdr 2 years ago 2
Why use Airbus?
unigateman 2 years ago
Airbus held the certificate, they therefore decide what happens to it.
qwertdr 2 years ago 2
BA wanted to carry on. Airbus, said no. BA had no chance, Virgin had no chance.
Branson's ideas may have been for real at the start, but towards the end, it was just for publicity. There was no way he would have been able to operate it.
qwertdr 2 years ago
You said it!!
bitukukuasukgremany3 3 years ago
It's weird seeing this video after walking through that very aircraft last summer. Kind of sad to see this remarkable aircraft just sitting there as a museum piece. Even though it was a couple years ago that this happened, is still sad to hear those big Olympus engines shut down for the final time.
da40flyer 3 years ago 5
da40flyer: I hear you. I've been working on a new edit of this video, and that moment - when the engines shut down - gets me every time. It's (was?) quite a machine.
Thanks for commenting.
randomthinking 3 years ago
Shame on the pilot for flying the Union Jack upside down from the cockpit window. That is a distress signal in the world of flags. Perhaps he knew what was coming for the the beautiful bird.
donepearce 3 years ago
Lovely aircraft and fantastic video.
RailForum 3 years ago
whats the moveable nose do for the plane?
Airplanesaremything 3 years ago
I believe that the sole reason for a movable nose is to ensure that the pilots have adequate visibility during take-off and landing.
Perhaps someone else can chime in if the above is incorrect or incomplete.
I've always wondered: if we were to design a supersonic airliner today... economic issues aside... would we end up with something similar to Concorde, complete with movable nose... or would the knowledge/lessons accumulated in the past 40 years motivate a (really) different design?
randomthinking 3 years ago
The nose is purely for visibility. Now-days they would probably rid of it for a fixed nose and rely on a GPS style system as the working parts are excessive weight.
qwertdr 3 years ago 2
your right :) the nose was lowered during none supersonic flight and landing. to give the pilots increased view.
the nose was raised before supersonic flight to increase the aerodynamics of the aircraft and stability and to allow a smooth pass through the sound barrier.
having flown on concorde myself i can say it was an awsome aircraft :)
danjjnr 3 years ago
I think we would still come up with something very similar. After all, you'd be designing something for a very specific task. For example, look at The TU144 or the Buran space shuttle. Very similar vehicles to Concorde and our Space Shuttle, but not blatant copies. The only way you'd have something without a delta wing would be to up the complexity stakes and go with a V.G. wing. (Just as I wrote that I thought "Well, you've now got something similar to a B-1B or TU-160")
jpatt1000 2 years ago
The cause 4 CONCORDE terrible tragedy, as for all other plane crashes is plain and Simple: The American Crappy Technology.
A Boeing DC-10 had left a piece of metal crap on the runnway, causing the tyre to blow up damaging Concorde´s Wing and subsequently creating a BIG FIRE that destroyed this awesome CREATURE.
FUCK AMERICANS, THEY NEVER WENT SUPERSONIC.
Lesson Learned Kids: Don´t get into American Crappy Planes...Ur life is under big DANGER.
arsenium666 3 years ago
arsenium666 3 years ago
1) some of these figures are way off
2) you're not telling the whole story, such as the fact that a passenger 757 has never had a fatal crash that wasn't attributed primarily to human error (navigation, plus leaving foreign objects over sensors) or intention. Never a problem with the aircraft itself.
Weak.
ImmortalSynn 3 years ago
America has great Air Force technology and state of the art test places and millitary planes. We invented most of the apps for planes. We also created the plane. Other countries are weak in aviation. Concorde went out of buisness cause of cost of rides and less people so bankrupt.
santoro2020 3 years ago
You created the aeroplane?!
So what if teh first to fly belonged to the Wright Brothers?
It doesn't mean you came up with the ideas. There were many concepts from all over the world many years before. Even a British man developed and created one, but sadly died in an accident before he could demonstrate it. It was late found that it could fly.
The Jet Engine is British, being devised by Frank Whittle. Where would we be without that?!
qwertdr 3 years ago
First powered aircraft = Percy Pilcher - British and years before the wrights.
MegaBrits 3 years ago
Yes, he died in 1899, and was planning to demonstrate his aircraft but it was too windy, so he went hang-gliding instead. He was sadly killed while hang-gliding.
But his aircraft was discovered to be flyable and if t hadn't been for the weather or his accidental death, it would have been the first flight.
qwertdr 3 years ago
Yes people should intergrate and mix in with everyone and the British culture, but if they want to bring something that is not typically British with them, eg. religion or general ways of doing things, then let them get on with it, as long as it doesn't hurt anyone, it's fine. And there's nothing wrong with us learning something new, either!
That's my view.
I just don't want people to argue here, because this is a video of Concorde and I don't want it to clog up with unrelated things.
qwertdr 3 years ago
No wrong.
If your family see next door doing really well financially by say, shopping at a certain supermarket on a Tuesday, then YOUR family can COLLECTIVELY DECIDE (= Democracy) to do the same.
Imitation (not invasion) is the best form of flattery,
Cultures are separate entities and if you mix them you destroy ALL of them
Use you brain before you mouth, thats what wrong with people today, everyone thinks they are so F***G clever.
MegaBrits 3 years ago
The RAF, Royal Air Force in Britain has been acclaimed as the best air force in the world. This isn't to say the UASF is no good, however.
The British Aviation industry isn't much anymore, but in the past it was a cut above the rest.
To say other countries are weak in aviation is a stupid and bigoted thought. I'm not saying the US is bad, because they're not, but don't think for one minute that you created everything and are the best at everything - because you're not.
qwertdr 3 years ago
Bullshit. LOL.
MegaBrits 3 years ago
But I have to say, your view on our country is not one I would at all be happy with. From your page, I understand what you are saying, but feel you are going over the edge. Your views on other countries, such as the 'grass skirts' and 'spears' is nonsense - it is bigoted and, yes, i'm saying it, racist.
qwertdr 3 years ago