Concorde 1962-69

Collection of clips showing the concept and development of the Concorde from 1962 through first flight in 1969

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Concorde
• super
• sonic
• transport

[qwertdr]

1: It was not actually scrapped, bar one aircraft which was sadly mistreated by a half-hearted Air France, who let it stand outside for many years until it was scrapped in 1994 because of severe corrosion.

2: That's your opinion, but to many more, Concorde is special, why let all that work go to waste. Concorde was built from dreams, and it also created many more dreams.

Concorde, for many people, will be forever special.

[MrShakin]

Nice potted history! What a shame such a fabulous aircraft got scrapped, although it flew for a good 30 years.

[FlightSimTutorials]

RIP Concorde, I am truly sad I didn't get the honour of flying with you :(

[bitukukuasukgremany3]

thanks



[RomelioSanzz]

Concorde then looked so modern, today it still looks so modern,if it could fly.

[miked860]

back in the 60s every tv announcer had the same exact voice. it's hilarious.

[spitfireJEJ]

Although it made an operating profit at some stage, this was only after development costs had been written off. It never came close to paying those so sadly it was a failure. It cost the equivalent of 110 hospitals in Britain alone. We needed those rather more than we needed 16 expensive aircraft - no matter how charismatic they were.

[Bondianwolf]

doctorwintercold = doctordouchebag

[Gruntol5]

Roy Jenkins at 2.35 - typical Labour politician: completely out of his depth. All bluff and bravado. Here he was the "Aviation Minister," yet graduated with a degree in politics, philosophy & economics. Knew nothing about aviation. Small wonder the UK is heading slowly and inexorably to third world status.

[doctorwintercold]

The problem with the concorde is that its too damn fast so that parts are shakin and people are ralphin while destinations are completely overflown because the pilots are sleeping on duty and blaming the pretty attendants for decaf and missing parts...-the end.

[anisocoro]

I think that the number of passengers was limitated by technical factors:more seats would have required a longer ,and much heavier, fuselage, and duraluminium would be not enough "strong" to guarantee the integrity at high speed. Structural integrity was a great problem, Concorde was re-designed several times in order to have enough safeness.

[adrastea99]

lol Tupolev > All