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This video used to appear on the British Airways website to promote Concorde. It was from the days of dial-up internet, so the quality is low. Still, a nice clip. Concorde will be forever missed!

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[maurermeister]

i'd pay every even astronomical amount of money to be on a concorde flight to new york.... and of course back to the free world ;)

[GTI2006]

It wasn't the safest Jet in the world, and something to do with the heat and expansion of the jet

[ImmortalSynn]

@macnerd93

"yeah but the simple fact is, the crash wan't down to Concorde itself"

That's no fact, that's just your (completely uneducated on the issue) supposition. The reason the fleet was FORCEFULLY GROUNDED is because of an inherent design flaw that allowed a single-point failure (in this case f.o.d.) to start a chain reaction capable of downing the airframe

And it wasn't the first time. F-BVFC suffered a fod-induced blowout so bad that it tore a hole through the wing, and THAT was 1979

[macnerd93]

@ImmortalSynn yeah but the simple fact is, the crash wan't down to Concorde itself, if that metal hadn't been on the runway it wouldn't have crashed, a lot of planes have major design flaws like DC-10's cargo door problem, the 747 had a central fuel tank problem etc

[ImmortalSynn]

@macnerd93

"i'd say it was one of the safest to say only one ever crashed,"

Then you obviously don't understand even 8th grade level statistics. 1 out of a worldwide fleet of 20 crashing = 5% frame fatality rating, the worst of any aircraft ever certified to carry passengers. By general stat, no Concorde should've EVER crashed. If the 737 had a 5% fleet fatality rating, we would've seen 346 (of the 6,919 of them flown) crash by now. And we've seen nowhere near that.

[ImmortalSynn]

@Airbus294

"Virgin offered to buy the Concorde"

Which was BEYOND a joke. There's no way in hell Virgin could've maintained the service. They would've needed trained Concorde pilots from the start (no way BA was giving those up), they would've needed the clientele to pull it off (think BA was going to just send those over?), and most importantly, they would've needed BACE's expertise (or even records!) on MAINTAINING the aircraft, which was incredibly difficult to do. Was a joke!

[ImmortalSynn]

@jiahong999long

No, because it's not true. First, you're confusing it with the Concorde at Le Bourget (ship F-BTSD, which is the only one remaining with fully intact hydraulic and electric systems). There were plans to taxi (NOT FLY) her in May 2010, and even that fell through, after a boroscoping found that she had more corrosion in her fuel and transfer systems than previously thought.

[ImmortalSynn]

@QUANTUMRohan

...because that'd be, oh I dunno: HIGHLY ILLEGAL, perhaps.

Concorde's Certificate of Airworthiness has been revoked. Only way to get it back is to re-certify the airframe+engine combo, which btw would cost Millions upon Millions upon Millions of dollars. No one is going to do that to "fly a couple of flights."

And that's assuming that BA or AF would sell the ships in the first place. The price would be beyond ridiculous, because neither entity wants to sell ANY of them.

[Jan07191]

phantastic video quality!

[TupolevTech]

i've been inside a concorde in a aircraft carrier, how cool's that!

long live the intrepid museum.

[QUANTUMRohan]

Thing is, if someone did buy a concorde flew a couple of flights, people would pay hundreds of thousands of pounds for a flight, why don't they do it??

[Archie23rulz]

Beautiful. When it flew, the air through which it so beautifully cut, also made the same sound as used in this commercial.

Nope*, not really, but it was quite the bird. (Any one know what the classical track title is?)