Concorde takeoff

short video of Concorde's takeoff from Lester B. Pearson Airport (Toronto) during the farewell tour 2003.

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• concorde
• Toronto
• 2003

[arcticblake1]

when was this

[monkeygirl000]

@arcticblake1 October, 2003

[nanarocxie]

did you have to pay anything to ride this or were people selected for this farewell tour?

[monkeygirl000]

@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]

(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]

@Ecka0007 That's just pure evil.

[ispymartuni]

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!!!

[supersonicbird11]

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 !!!!

[theknightlynews]

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.

[ImmortalSynn]

@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.

[jmkpns]

Compare how quickly this thing took off compared to a 727.

[el0x1m]

200 mph in 20 sec... its amazing!!!

[cjpatz]

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."

[Coaljet]

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!!

[BBCatitsbest20]

how much did it cost



[CorrectiveAction]

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.

[nanarocxie]

@DAL2282 haha lol