Concorde departing from Heathrow - September 2003

Filmed during the last month of scheduled British Airways Concorde flights between London Heathrow and New York in 2003. A spectacular evening departure with afterburners clearly visible, taken from the Western Perimeter Road.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• concorde
• heathrow
• LHR

[Butchuk2007]

Darn - I miss that old plane setting off my car alarm ;-)

She was a head-turner alright. I'll never forget the crowd leaving a rugby game at Twickenham. She was coming in to land at Heathrow and each and every man woman and child on the street just stopped turned around and watched as she flew past.

[lojasan88]

Amazing Bird, I saw....or heard her many times when I worked on the QE2 doing trans-Atlantic crossings...the two bangs and our Captain spoke to her Captain...."hello QE2 this is speedbird we are at 47 thousand feet weather perfect and mach 2+ here and you? Hurricane and 30 ft seas....

[Concordespeedbird]

@210482fmj You are exactly right on that front

[210482fmj]

@Concordespeedbird no i was only joking man. I was meaning that commercial aircraft flights do not recieve the same level of attention as airforce one. Airforce one would likely have a team of people clearing the runway for something even as small as a tiny stone but commercial operations do not have the time for this. YOu are right tough people shold of made sure the runway was clean before it took off. it shows what happens when things are rushed

[Concordespeedbird]

@210482fmj But it was the highest class that anyone could offer, and at 60,000 feet there were wonderful views, flight times much shorter and you could see the sun rise from the west going east, because she went quicker than the earth rotates. Airforce one can not offer you any of those.

[210482fmj]

@Concordespeedbird This isn't airforce one.

[Concordespeedbird]

@210482fmj But also the runway should have been cleaned, so it could happen to no plane.

[210482fmj]

@Concordespeedbird depends how you look on it i guess. After seeing it flying through the air on fire it really makes me glad i didn't go on it. Regardless of facts if it was really safe it would of been made so this could not of possibly happened. It just shows that no machine is really truly safe

[yamahonkawazuki]

@lojasan88 would be funny if following dialogue went:

Concorde capt. : Neener neener, neener lol

Qe2 officer : :/

[Concordespeedbird]

@210482fmj Well that is a shame, as flying on her was a tremendous experience.

[210482fmj]

@Concordespeedbird I'm still glad i didn't go on it

[Concordespeedbird]

@210482fmj Well I feel sorry for you. Anyway, they modified it afterwards, with Kevlar, so it couldn't happen again. And she is still the safest plane ever made. And the most technologically advanced. You cannot disagree with that.