Concorde Test Flight 06/17/01

[henrique5890]

2200KM/H É MUITO RÁPIDO,QUALQUER CAÇA O-ALCANÇA

[henrique5890]

ELE PODE ATINGI 2200 KM/H

[MrBeefaroo]

Could've kept at least one of them in operation, absolutely bollicks how it's not flying anymore!!

[Sandiforty]

I admire pilots of all sorts of planes, but when it comes to the Concorde one hell of an aircraft.

[BindNFly]

@Sandiforty One hell of an INNOCENT aircraft!

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[maninder1992]

@1:35 :D

[markallayban]

the first sst (supersonic transporter)never flew again

[XOROHN]

schade das sie nicht mehr im dienst ist...aber nicht nur der crash hat zur außerdiensteIIung geführt....die wirtschaftIichkeit eines soIschen jet's ist einfach nicht gegeben...Ieider

[pasakari]

upeaa

[FIATF130DT]

all this tyre blow out stuff aerospatiale new about it for years and they did f*** all about it . not even tyre upgrades if they had done something about it it would still be flying.after the crash concorde never realy go its brilliant reputation.it never did have to gane back our hearts because ... it never lost the true concorde fanatics hearts. concorde had power heart and soul. we miss it! loads! bring her back to the skies!!. by the way join the saveconcorde.co.uk group spread the word !!!!

[billytk247]

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

save-concorde .co .uk

[raptors222222]

There's Boeing, Tupolev, Illushyn, and Airbus. Then there's Concorde.

[LouisTheFSXplayerPS3]

bring the concorde back i really want it here today!!!

[slaweks2002]

this jet needed like 2 miles of a landing strip

[ImmortalSynn]

@slaweks2002

No it didn't. Concorde could operate on any runway modern widebodies do... there've been several airports where it landed runways 8000ft or shorter.

[dirtyweeally]

@slaweks2002 no it never

[KanaCanaful]

I wanna get on Concorde...

And not one of those dumb 747s...

[TheJefedesapuka]

puta vidio tosco!!!!!!!!!!!

[Hemant2905]

Majestic

[kingsulltan]

concord it is not airplane but magic of airplane

[jordyrhodes]

and thats hilter commentaing this

[glenw89]

wish that news reporter would shut up and let us listen to the sound of concorde.

[Zeggle]

I'll share a ittle something i see once!!! concorde flying very low over my house with two WWII spitfires abreast of it. beautifu and i will never forget it.

[Rwy02]

serious thats cool, I'm jealous. I got at the controls of an air asia A330-300 last year.

[MrLittlegate]

I Think you people should be ashamed about the comments on the bottom of this list. Especially on the topic of our beautiful Concorde - just reserve your thoughts for the men and women of daring and skill whom flew her and worked with her.

Mike Hutchins

BA Concorde

[sowabezok]

dlaczego nikt po polskiemu nie pisze.

[wluczymorda]

@sowabezok Bo w tych timesach every fucker moze speak polski ;>

[123adcadv]

The Concorde went out because of maintance issues, operational costs and of the paris crash, however i think they should bring it back

[lhrlyc]

impossible sadly - - -

[qwertdr]

It isn't impossible, not even remotely impossible - but highly unlikely.

[MrIpodzz]

i honestly think they should bring back the concorde

[unigateman]

Makes me sick, concorde flew for over 30 yrs without incident, 1 bad crash caused by bad maintanance on a continental jet leaving debris on the runway, and they are grounded. B737 fly each day, with a severe fault in their construction. Which can be catastrophic, it has already caused one crash, and one near crash. Boeing do nothing. Airbus and Boeing were both jealous of Concorde. The most beautiful aircraft, I flew on it once LDN - JFK in 1994

[Earthling16]

What is wrong with the 737?

[ImmortalSynn]

"without incident"? Uh, no

Concordes had been blowing tires, causing structural damage, for 21yrs before the crash. F-BVFC once had such a horrific blowout that the tire went completely THROUGH the wing, spilling fuel at a higher rate than the F-BTSC incident; only by the grace of God did it not ignite. And that was in 1979. BA put the restraining wires on their birds shortly after, AF did much of nothing

Oh, and PS:

BAC + Aerospatiale = today's Airbus...

Tough to be jealous of yourself

[unigateman]

You are dead right, 5 incidents involving

blown tyres, and damaged fuel tanks in the firdt TWO years of service, 1979-1981.

These faults were rectified, Concorde flew

for over 20 years without major incident.

[ImmortalSynn]

You're pathetic. Where on earth are you getting this made up crap? Concorde tire burst cases date back from 1979 (F-BVFC) to October 12, 2003 (G-BOAC).

The following is straight from Air Safety Week, January 15, 2001.

"Of the 57 cases, 12 caused damage to wings and/or fuel tanks; 22 occurred during takeoff; foreign objects caused 19 of the tire failures."

Try again rookie-- and this time, mind actually using a FACT or two?

[wluczymorda]

@ImmortalSynn Damn straight brother !

[tonightwefly]

BAC is no longer part of Airbus, they pulled out 3 years ago

[rjhonert]

Correct, they are now part of the BAE Systems corp!

[hatrru]

@unigateman, i agree. But another reason why is because it burn 10 times mure fuel per mile than any other jet...

[FIATF130DT]

@hatrru WHAT? 10 times more fuel per mile,???!!!! where do you go to do find out that ???

[barthoedemaker]

@unigateman 737 crashed 1 week ago in Jakarta.

[barthoedemaker]

@unigateman Concorde is from Airbus, how can they be jalous on it? It was business decission sadly, it's not up to the engineers to decide.

[unigateman]

@barthoedemaker concorde was a joint project betweeb british aerospace and l'aerospaciale. Airbus Industrie based in Toulouse had nothing to do with it.

And contrary to popular belief the maiden flight was from filton Bristol,and not France. 80% british engines R/R. Delta wing taken from the vulcan bomber, nose designed the british. as was fuselage.

[barthoedemaker]

@unigateman Airbus, creator of Concorde and our partner throughout its 27-year lifespan, to have one of Air France's Concordes and to display it for as many people as possible to admire. The magnificent work carried out on F-BVFC throughout its career is symbolic of all that has been accomplished by the teams from Air France and Airbus on the entire Concorde fleet and other aircraft in use today."

[ImmortalSynn]

@unigateman

"Airbus Industrie based in Toulouse had nothing to do with it."

Um, who do you think BAe and Aerospatiale have become? LOL

Airbus is the inheritor of the Concorde program, hence they were instrumental in pulling the plug (by refusing Mtx support) after the French wanted out.

[wluczymorda]

@unigateman What fault in 737 are you thinking about ?

[billytk247]

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

save-concorde .co .uk

[LufthansaA343]

@unigateman They already thought about dismissing the concorde before the crash due to high costs on fuel and high maintenance. Still an airplane should not crash when a small debri gets caught in its engine.

[MegaMrDamo]

@unigateman I think it was financial trouble mostly, the fact that nobody could afford to travel in such luxury and convenience. Instead standard planes were valued

[ImmortalSynn]

@MegaMrDamo

Poor assumption. For example, try pricing a 1st Class ticket on Emirates from LAX to Dubai. Or on Cathay Pacific from JFK to Hong Kong. People pay those kind of fares all the time, even now.

But Concorde had a very niche customer base, and it didn't return to the levels it once was. That does not in any way mean people aren't paying huge 5 digit fares to fly, because they do, all day every day.

[TheWarPlanet]

@unigateman 71 crashes in total of the whole series... But remember theres alot more 737s than concordes so bigger probability crashing more than concorde.

[ImmortalSynn]

@TheWarPlanet

All this shows is that you can't do BASIC statistical comparison, lol.

Only 20 Concordes ever flew, with 1 fatally crashing. 1 to 20 hull to fatal writeoff ratio.

6,943 of the 737 have flown as of today. For it to have Concorde's same 1 to 20 ratio, 348 of them will have had to fatally crash. Obviously, nowhere near that amount have. Which sorta torpedoes the simplistic notion of it "probably crashing more than Concorde"

[thcaprais]

@unigateman Concorde is an AIRBUS aircraft !! 

[MSFlightVideos2]

@thcaprais: it was a airbus and BAE Systems aircraft

[Bobobidodo]

@unigateman Man you are so lucky! What was it like inside?

[Godlikehenry]

@unigateman costs only 10 grand to fly, affordable? companies are losing money, that's the MAIN reason why they got rid of them.

[ImmortalSynn]

@Godlikehenry

Well, you're semi-correct. Their clientele base plummeted after 9/11, right before they were brought back into service. It never rebuilt to anywhere near the same level it was prior.

However, your first part ("companies are losing money") isn't accurate at all... 2010 was the most profitable year on RECORD for many petroleum and finance related companies (ExxonMobil set the biggest profit, and profit margin of any company in the world) and 2011 isn't all that much different.

[xonairx]

@unigateman what you say is nice but not totally true dear! the fact why concorde is cancelled in using is that of its costs. Even airlines charge high ticket fees for flights, it could never cover its flight costs. It was also considered to stop using them before the fatal crash. However, firms insists to use it cos it was appeared as like Superiority, having concordes in the air transportaion market. But the decision was given just after the crash.

[HKS134]

@unigateman why the fuck you say about the boeing 737?? Airbus has too many faults

[HopeRanchFBS]

@unigateman im 15 and i flew on it rwice in 2002 when i was about 6. best two flights of my life. people like us are so fortunate to have been able to fly on that amazing bird. congrats :)

[dutchbhproduction]

@unigateman After the crash, concorde almost went bankrupt. fuel prices increased and too bad concorde was using fuel like a kid eating candy.

[stewardlie]

POLUTION!

[ImmortalSynn]

...part of life. Grow up.

[qwertdr]

If we are too strict with things like this, we wouldn't be able to properly enjoy ourselves.

[2pb]

I still get goosebumps watching the reheats light up at 1:34. Awesome!

One thing I noticed after the refit was that the reheats seemed quite a bit "smokier" than before.

Simply nothing like it in comparison today. There certainly aren't crowds at LHR to see the A380 land and takeoff - Concorde was a different matter!

[wild1heart]

Fuck shut up

[wild1heart]

Its to bad we got a german voice over here

[SAHBfan]

After the crash there were certain modifications made to ensure it couldn't happen again. Self sealing bags in the wing tanks, different tyres, deflector baffles over the tyres etc.

In addition BA spent 15million refitting the interiors.

But, bizarrely, after a couple more years, they stopped flying them. I get the impression this was a decision made quite soon before flying stopped, at the time of this flight BA seemed commited to carry on.

I suspect airbus were the main culprits...

[alx744]

Could we just have the video without this asshole talking all the time?

[BugattiVeyron135]

I don't see why he would be an asshole. Perhaps it is time for you to learn German, then all this will not annoy you anymore.

[sonofhendrix]

bloody stupid! Test flight, this thing does not need a test flight, It works perfectly when shit does not get left all over the runway in its way.

[jeffreyklm]

they didn't knew that.. the cause of the crash was found 2 years ago. the delta dc-10 part.. but I see your point

[qwertdr]

'They didn't knew that' KNEW?!

It was a Continental DC-10, not a Delta.

And of course they knew it could fly, it did for the last 25 years. This is just to make sure the aircraft is ready after a long time out of operation.

[santoro2020]

continental

[qwertdr]

Yes, I said that...

[santoro2020]

I meant to reply to jeffryklm...w/e

[alg1625]

what a take off

[markflack]

What a wonderful machine. Grounding Concorde is the only time in the history of man that 'technically' we have gone backwards.. Those who ordered her grounding should be ashamed of themselves...

[ImmortalSynn]

***Those who ordered her grounding should be ashamed of themselves.***

Ah yes, so "shameful" to discontinue a program that no longer possessed the ability to operate profitably in a longterm environment. Get real.

[markflack]

You mean to tell me that this was the ONLY method of commercially flyng passengers around the world at a supersonic speed and it can't be made profitable? I think that YOU need to get real fella... Once the 9/11 dust had settled (excuse the pun), the fleet could of returned to being profitable..

[ImmortalSynn]

Are you kidding me with this drivel?

1) post 1997, each member of the BA Concorde fleet (except G-BOAF) spent more hours in checks than they did flying

2) fuel has gone up nearly 4x the price that it was following 9/11

3) Airbus would've had to increase support costs nearly 300% to continue the program sans AF

4) BA didn't even feel like the pre-retirement operational environment could yield enough ROI to justify returning G-BOAA to flight status

...try again amateur. :)

[markflack]

Well it looks like i'm going to have to bow down to you obvious knowledge of the operating procedures and policies of both Air France and B.A. I'm just wondering - as you know so much, did you used to work at either, or is it just wishful thinking on your part?Well done... However, i'll continue to have my own opinion that the Concorde 'should' and indeed 'could' of remainded flying the skies over Britain and you my good friend, will not convince me otherwise...

[ImmortalSynn]

You're entitled to your ignorance, I cannot change that... I'm just posting to prevent it from spreading to others who might not know better ;)

[nasa9boy]

Tell em

[bencaldwell08]

lovely thin tail

[4ndre4renshaw]

It's (or was) the only plane that would go into Manchester & the locals living under the flight path would stop & watch a plane go over. long live concorde

[millyx48]

concorde didn't need a test flight.

all they should have done was was check and make sure the runway was clear of debris...

[ImmortalSynn]

Another angle of this flight can be seen in the video "Modified Concorde Rises Anew"... set to music too ;)

[weeepppaaa]

shescabash ton ton bacon

[Razor19990]

it would off been good if branson operated 1 but its a good job that british airways kept it

[zbagheera]

Well said deltic! Still pissed off that BA refused to let Branson operate one just for airshows/special occasions etc. The taxpayer paid all the r&d for concorde and BA bought tham for peanuts. They even went and drained all the lubricants from the last concorde to make it as difficult as possible to ever reinstate. BA chairman is a marked man!

[ImmortalSynn]

There's no way in hell Branson nor anyone else could've operated it, as 1) Airbus had refused to support it any further without a severe cost hike that passenger revenue could never justify, 2) the aircraft's COA had been pulled, 3) Virgin would've had to reconstitute and buy out BA's entire Concorde-engineering operation AFTER BA had already moved those people elsewhere.

[qwertdr]

1) Airbus DONT have to support it. Another company can. 2) the COA was pulled because of a decision by the airlines and Airbus. You can easily apply for a COA, but only if you have the aircraft. 3) Many people from AF, BA and Airbus offered thier services to Virgin. You can train new staff too.

I know it was unlikely that BA would give in, but still if anyone had an aircraft, they could do anything providing they had the money. That still stands true even today.

[ImmortalSynn]

LOL, you lack the FAINTEST idea as to what you're talking about!

1) Airbus inherited the parts/mtx support for Aerospatiale... NO ONE would be able to provide the tooling and expertise from that program.

2) the COA was revoked, not suspended as in 2000. For reinstated, the airframe+engine combo would have to undergo complete certification again. No one's going to pay for that.

3) you can't "train new staff" from scratch on such an antiquated program. Even BACE last hired in the early 1990s.

[ImmortalSynn]

So if you want to be mad, be mad at Branson for riling people's hopes, in the name of free publicity... when he KNEW there wasn't a chance in hell he could get/operate them.

[pimp4595]

no it is not you faggot the russian copy looks different!

[deltic21]

Definately a true british concorde... the envy of the world, shame the french dont know how to clean runways and a shame that the british govenment is full of wan**rs. Rest in peace you beutiful bird.

[dieudonneMC]

who sends out a clean crew after each flt? Who? tell me? You are ignorant! That other plane had just used that runway not too long before the crash.

[jlebesis]

This is absolutely ridiculous...Its the bloody concorde...and in British Airways colours. Why the hell would Russia put 'British Airways' on the side...what...just for a laugh? Geeeez

[Feircejaguar]

British Airways did not buy any "Concordski"...thats not even the name of it, its called the TU-144

[lapinou7802]

This is one of the Concorde of British Airways

[jw0110]

i'm not sure if you are trying to be funny but this DEFINATLY NOT the TU-144.

[jw0110]

yes, and mach 2 is around the 1,300mph mark. so shes quite fast!

[John19182004]

about Mach 2 (twice the speed of sound) NY to Paris in 3 hours no problem

[ImagineerGenoFilmLtd]

Humanity really took a step back banning these :P

[qwertdr]

Theyre not actually banned. They could get thier Certificates back easily if airbus and the airlines suddenly threw millions to get it back to an airworthy state and provide training and all that. Of course it won't happen, it's silly to even suggest any truth in it, but it could fly again if they wanted it to.

[ImmortalSynn]

Don't be ridiculous... BA's shareholders would NEVER stand for that manner of expenditure in the current economic environment, and Airbus withdrew support because it didn't feel that a single carrier could generate the resources necessary to cover the cost+opportunity cost of supporting Concorde.

And let's not even mention the spares that was auctioned off... none of which can now be replaced as the tooling used to create them has long since been dismantled.

[qwertdr]

I DID say the 'resources necessary', which includes tooling ect. If you had the money, you CAN do it. I did say it was never gonna happen, also! I meant it in a situation where someone had accsess to an aircraft and free reign over tens of millions even hundreds of millions of pounds. THEN ITS POSSIBLE.

I never said its remotely likely, because it isnt! But technically, it is.

[ImmortalSynn]

Anything's possible given unlimited funding, genius... but that has nothing to do with the situation at hand, so why not stick to the realm of reality, shall we?

It shouldn't be that difficult to do, even for the likes of you. :)

[ComtedeMonteC]

Thank you for the very good video. The aircraft is designed to fly at up to Mach 2.2 and this to a large extent dictates its construction. If you have tried piloting Concorde you will understand that it is an extremely complex aircraft and was a major engineering achievement as well as being one of the worlds most beautiful aircraft.

[Scurvy206]

He is right just to clarify, that plane does take a long time to take off, it also sits very high off the ground and in my personal opinion i think its a horrible design, its not very good for the engines to be in that position, and i think its very ugly.

[jasonabc2374]

Scurvy206 - the engines are where they are for a REASON. If you think Concorde is ugly you're either blind, stupid or mad (or probably a combination of all three)

[csj1969]

That plane not NO respect what so ever !!!! : (

[deltic21]

to all of the above. to the guy who pointed out it takes half an hour to take off... get a life, its a test flight after a major crash, it takes a long time to double check stuff cos idiots like you are waiting to pick fault, and to the other two... get on a vidio forum and argue or just enjoy the most beutiful aircraft ever made and grow up.

[kirklager]

You're the idiot. It starts to move at one minute and thirty seconds (01:30) into the video and lifts off at two minutes and five seconds (02:05)... For the challenged, that would equate a thirty five second (:35) take off.

[fdhbvgdbfysvifsd]

yeah that means you are a geek..and how does that make me a fag?

[jacksone123]

It messed up the synchros in the camera when it passed.

[fdhbvgdbfysvifsd]

geek?

[jacksone123]

Camera geek....fag.

[Ubeans2001]

Wow too bad they canceled all Concorde flights.

[tonemusic]

nice awesome..

[cajf1970]

Aww a beautiful sight, Speedbird Concorde is sadly missed in this household.

[OlliFoolish]

it starts to roll at 1:30 and takes off at 2:05...