Concorde! Washington to London in 3 hours and 12 minutes.

March 7, 1993 - My flight from Washington Dulles to London Heathrow aboard the British Airways Concorde. This was shot with Sony Hi8 camera on a SteadiCam. The pilot was so fascinated with the SteadiCam that he invited me into the cockpit. This was the experience of a lifetime! The return flight is also here on youtube. Search for London to Washington. Enjoy!

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[RB747domme]

Yeah.. what with the 4 huge Rolls Royce engines pelting out the power needed to continue flying near the edge of space at 1,360mph.. What were the designers thinking?..

Well, I will tell you. How NOT to kill 100 people. How to put 100 people high above the earth at Mach2.00. For 3 hours. And land them safely. Without NASA. Or a rocket. In the 1960s. With just a slide-rule, & no PC to help you.

I think, just a tinsy winsy little bit of cabin noise is not a bad result.. Under the circumstances.

[jblsound13]

by the time you have read this you would of travelled 3 miles on Concorde!

[yonootzb]

Have you ever see a swan flying?

It looks like a beautiful white swan with a shape of its neck and everything! And somehow the americans killed this beautiful white swan, an icon of Europe, both France and U.K.

[ageliki moulos]

Fastest air breathing aircraft ( over a distance of 3900miles -The SR71 needed to refuel after 2900.) the world has ever seen or ever will. I master piece of French and British engineering. The Americans tried to kill it even before it entered service, because it was too noisy. They eventually killed it when they left a piece of one of their aircraft on the CDG runway...

[beeeneee]

it's pretty empty...

[GoAppo]

It crashed once...

[RoyalGamingWW]

Is there any other reason this plane was discontinued other than it was too expensive? Just wondering, I wish this thing was still around today :')

[Glen England]

So sad to see such a beautiful bird no longer in service. I'd love to see this in service for some of the trips we have today. Would shave a lot of travel time off flights, but, I know it was expensive......

[94matthen]

Money... And Environment.. For some reason burning a ton of fuel for speed isn't smiled upon anymore.

[kenjigraphics]

Because of the decibel restrictions on airports, as well as the sonic boom effect on the ground (which some have experienced due to rattling porcelains or glass, "disturbing" their sleep.)

[Nikhil Khakhar]

the transition between the window view and the cabin view was the BEST TRANSITION EVER! where did u get that?

[Ather Ahmed]

this resolution is equal to 4k of 2013