Today, 24th October 2021: 18 years ago to the day, Concorde had to say goodbye to the skies for the last time. There are now people in the UK and France who are old enough to drink, and never got the opportunity to see her soar. What an extraordinary marvel of engineering Concorde was... She may be gone, but she will never be forgotten.
Yeah, I love aerodynamics and high speed planes. It is unfortunate that I (2005) was unable to witness a supersonic passenger aircraft with my own eyes.
The Scandinavian Gaming Channel Hahah, for the record, I wrote this before the video reached the 2:46 mark where the commentator also calls it a swan. :p
I lived 2 miles from Heathrow in the 80's, and you always knew when Concorde was about to fly over the house, because everything in the house would start to shake as soon as it left the runway. Then it would rip across the sky with a tremendous roaring sound that no other aircraft could come close to.
Just this past weekend I landed at Heathrow and had a great view of the one parked near the runway. Stunning aircraft, so sad that there is noting like this in the skies now. I could never afford to travel on one but I would hang out at the airport to see it take off & land.
I was a ground crew working with the last Concorde after it landed. I saw the captain, on the stairs from the fuselage, wiping a tear off his brow. A sight i will never forget
Ellie Moritz Sorry to be one year and 2 weeks late to reply but I just saw this video - Happy Birthday! And I just wanted to know if you had ever flown on a Concorde. I haven't, but wanted to! Beautiful plane!
Thanks for posting that video. The Concord should still be in the air today. It's safety record speaks for itself. Most beautiful aircraft ever built. EVER!!!!!!!!
If you look at the profits of Airbus & BA now, not to mention the huge demand for it, there is absolutely no reason why at least one Concorde (which remember only had the airframe hours of a 4 year old 737) couldn't be made airworthy for occasional commercial/heritage flights.
@@procksomaterman It was Politics. AND, a legal agreement both airlines had signed years before,'If one stopped their Concorde Service, so would the other. B.A could have continued, they were making good profits, in fact, 25% NET, of all profits for BA, came from Concorde. The French were financially broke. ALL Airworthy Certificates, were destroyed, ALL Concordes engines became Scrap metal, one week after they last ran. They HAD---to be run every 2 days for a while, such hi -tech machinery required it.
@@MrDaiseymay I very much doubt that. If BA were making so much money off of it, they would have pressured the government to continue it's operation. The Concorde lost because it's only perk especially toward the end of it's service was it's speed. You could spend less and get a proper business class/first class seat with the same airline and with competitors. The Concorde was nearing 30 years old when it was retired, Airbus had stopped making parts for the plane. It's cockpit, outdated and required 3 to fly it. International air travel slumped after 9/11. Taking on rising fuel prices made the plane very unappealing for commercial operation. Maybe BA could have had it fly for a little longer, but the plane is a fiscal and ecological nightmare. There won't be commercial supersonic airtravel until a new plane is built.
@@procksomaterman BA were making money of Concorde upto when she retired. However Airbus announced the maintenance charge for Concorde was going up by £30 million pounds which would have been shared by Air France and BA however as Air France were gonna retire Concorde all that cost would have gone all to BA which then meant Concorde would have been non profitable for them which lead to it's sad early retirement. BA was certified to fly them until 2009 whether they would off we would never know. You can tell it all escalated very quickly as BA just spent £14 million doing up Concorde interior when it rentered service in November 2001 and as you can imagine if they knew they were gonna retire the fleet in less than 2 years no way would they have spent that money.
The facts speak for themselves. It was designed in the 1960's, first flew commercially in the 1970's, retired early due to misfortune in 2003, and here we are nearly 10 years later, and there isn't even anything serious on the drawing board to follow it! It is an amazing machine. It always caused me to look upwards as it departed or returned over Surrey en-route to JFK or LHR. I deeply regret never flying on it!
Another ten years have ticked off since your observation and there's still nothing much going on except for some aspirational press release blather. My suggestion for Supersonic Air Travel 2.0 is to take the Concorde out of the museums and sweep the runway prior to takeoff.
@@gblim398 Yes, 10 years since my last comment, & I still wonder at Concorde! I suppose in theory they could get one of them to make a flight, but it would be a major undertaking. It was tragic that even in 2003 parts were becoming an issue. I still regret not actually flying in it, but my dad did a couple of times, and has his certificates. He is nearly 93 now! When he was a boy the Armstrong Whitworth Atalanta was Imperial Airways long haul aircraft, capable of just 251km/h! There is still a Concorde at LHR, and a more accessible one at Brooklands in Weybridge.
Was graced to work on the British Airways fleet & lucky to have flown a few times too. My first was a C of A test flight after a major Check. November 1991. Two flights worthy of mention. G-BOAF 11th September 2001 . First full passenger & crew shake down/ proving flight where all the passengers were staff involved with the Concorde operation. Then G-BOAG JFK to LHR 24.10.2003 final flight from New York Kennedy airport to London Heathrow . So sad it’s gone from the skies now. I just hope someone in the future will take in the mantle of getting one in the air just for air shows .
Look at 2:30+ and never forget one of the most beautiful birds, ever remember her tenderness, her elegance and her obeisance while she landed with bowed head.
Whenever I was 2 in 2003, I went to see one of concordes last flights and it was amazing! We have pictures of it and I am so proud to say that I have seen one! :)
I shall never forget watching those graceful ladies coming into land from my garden. To say I had a tear in my eye would be more than true! An invention of man that made us all feel that little bit more alive whenever you saw one.
When I was a young boy, I would watch Concorde fly over my garden in South London daily....the last day they flew, I lived where I could watch all of them heading towards Heathrow one after the other, it was a very sad day, I'm not one for being too emotional, but I have to admit it brought a tear to my eye....
I lived in west London and remember seeing them occasionally especially on the scrubs… I remember watching the concords last flights circling over, didn’t really think much of it then but I’m glad I got to see it with my own eyes all them years ago when London was still mostly British.
My daughter was at high school on the edge of the north downs and we stood and watched all three circle round Crystal Palace to join their final approach 😢😢😢
Concorde is a symbol of an era when British engineering and innovation led the world. When she was finally killed off, a part of our collective soul as an engineering nation died with her, in my opinion. I often wonder what those scientists and engineers who thrived in those optimistic post-war years would make of things today. People whose genius overcame various bungling governments and resource shortages to produce beautiful, cutting edge achievements like Concorde, which shaped the world of the time, and made Britain a world leader, can't have foreseen things developing as they are now. Our civilian aerospace industry chopped up and flogged off, and reduced to making wings and other bits for dreary, generic subsonic airliners that would have been considered backward thinking if proposed 40 years ago. We don't and never have lacked the ability. What we need to do is rediscover our self-belief and sense of purpose again before it's too late.
As Mr Stephen Fry once said, technology went backwards for the first time when the Concorde was decommissioned... I wish I could have seen them in real life.
A sad day for Britain and France when they retired Concorde. There is something majestic about this plane. I would love to have had the chance to fly on Concorde.
This plane was so majestic in many ways, i never got to fly in it but i would love to fly in it for a few hours. such an eagle, unique craft and ultimate technological design. I feel sorry for the pilots im sure every person in that plane felt so proud to be part of such pioneering years. we need it back
I was lucky enough to be able to visit a concord at the Bristol aerospace museum. Marvelous plane and if was awesome to be able to walk around the cabin and look (but not go inside) the cockpit.
Agreed, Paykirri. The Concorde had a brilliant legacy. It was expensive, loud, thirsty, and in certainly dangerous in some points, but it was the first supersonic passenger airliner, the epitome of modern air travel, to this day.
How I regret never having flown on Concorde, could not afford a ticket when it was flying but now I could, often wonder what would have happened if Branson had taken them over. Beautiful plane.
0:42 The BBC were able to call upon Raymond Baxter to contribute to the programme, in respect of his iconic commentary in 1969 at the first flight in Toulouse 34 years earlier.
My Uncle an actor used to fly the Concorde from NY to Paris for breakfast with a few dates of his back in the day, I recall he said it was small, expensive and loud.
So sad I almost cried but it will always be remembered as the fastest commercial jet ever created I loved the concorde it is 10 minutes from the bottom of the US to the top of the US so long concorde
I believe aviation evolved too quick. Just look at how technically advanced this plane is and its capabilities. However, Concorde revolutionised aviation and the way we fly. In the name of Concorde we bow our heads!
Have to correct you, BA made a profit or broke even on every Concorde flight since the 1980s and BA had no intention of stopping Concorde flights.....AF made a loss due to their bad marketting of their Concordes.
You’ll notice at 06:10 the BBC interviewer appears to quickly work in some rubbish about the union flag and the amount of people attending in an attempt to shut down John Hutchinsons’ comment that British Airways shouldn’t have grounded Concord after asking if Hutchinson thought it would ever fly again after the Paris crash.
I was lucky to be in a 747 behind Concord as she was taking off from Heathrow in 1997. A sight and sound that I will never forget.
Count yourself super more than 10000000000 supers lucky
I was in the concord
@@unavailableuser7280 You sure bout that little kid that cant even spell concorde?
@@unavailableuser7280 To top it off, you weren't alive when that happened, and made a video about "I saw a scam in ROBLOX"
LeoPinty he just a kid with a dream.
My father drove me out to heathrow to watch them all fly in, a memory I will treasure till my final day.
Brings a tear to my eye.
What a magnificent aircraft. What a legend.
Same here 😢
Beautiful , majestic aircraft way ahead of its time then and still is now .
This literally makes me cry every time ):
Broken Brainez same
Same
Today, 24th October 2021: 18 years ago to the day, Concorde had to say goodbye to the skies for the last time. There are now people in the UK and France who are old enough to drink, and never got the opportunity to see her soar. What an extraordinary marvel of engineering Concorde was... She may be gone, but she will never be forgotten.
Yeah, I love aerodynamics and high speed planes. It is unfortunate that I (2005) was unable to witness a supersonic passenger aircraft with my own eyes.
They look like gigantic mechanical swans! Beautiful! :)
The Scandinavian Gaming Channel Hahah, for the record, I wrote this before the video reached the 2:46 mark where the commentator also calls it a swan. :p
I lived 2 miles from Heathrow in the 80's, and you always knew when Concorde was about to fly over the house, because everything in the house would start to shake as soon as it left the runway. Then it would rip across the sky with a tremendous roaring sound that no other aircraft could come close to.
Just this past weekend I landed at Heathrow and had a great view of the one parked near the runway.
Stunning aircraft, so sad that there is noting like this in the skies now. I could never afford to travel on one but I would hang out at the airport to see it take off & land.
***** Do you know why they do not place this plane in a Museum?. It seems terrible that the owners of such a beautiful plane would let it rot away.
@@Paiadakine There's one on display in Bristol - it was the last one to fly non-comercially.
It's at Manchester. And I'm flying it on Flight Simulator 2020. Just landed her this morning. Wonderful Flight.
They look so sad with the nose down. "You'll miss me when I'm gone"
So glad I went to see this stunning unique work of engineering art take off and land at Fairford and Farnborough.
A truly magnificent Aircraft....watching this still makes me weep
I was a ground crew working with the last Concorde after it landed. I saw the captain, on the stairs from the fuselage, wiping a tear off his brow. A sight i will never forget
It was 2am over here in Australia (October 25th) when this happened. The day I was born
Ellie Moritz Sorry to be one year and 2 weeks late to reply but I just saw this video - Happy Birthday! And I just wanted to know if you had ever flown on a Concorde. I haven't, but wanted to! Beautiful plane!
Ellie Moritz 🍀
Lucky
I didn’t see Concorde I was in 2008
George Henderson Ellie cant of flew on a Concorde if the day they was born , they retired
Concorde Supersonic I was born 30th April 2003 , I just was alive for last months of Concorde
Ben Crisci Wilkes I was also born in 2008 and I saw it it was an exibit I had a tour and I touched the landing gear
Thanks for posting that video. The Concord should still be in the air today. It's safety record speaks for itself. Most beautiful aircraft ever built. EVER!!!!!!!!
Even though Concorde had so many issues it was still one of the most fascinating planes of its time
The Concorde didn't have "so many issues" considering its unique specificities.
May our skies be graced by the elegance of the Concorde again!
Beautiful....absolutely beautiful...The most powerful elegant beautiful aircraft..👍👍👍👍😍😍😍😍😍
The most beautiful and graceful commercial aircraft ever built. Can humans walk behind? On Oct 24th, 2003, we did. Miss you forever!
"So gracefull. ❤️ 💪
11 years ago today a truly amazing and iconic aircraft went out of service, It´s so sad considering it was still fully functional.
Concorde really was one of the most amazing airplanes we will ever see in our skies.
The best to ever do it, you're missed, Concorde!
I WAS SO LUCKY. I TRAVEL ON IT 3 TIMES FROM PARIS TO MEXICO CITY IN THE 80'S. AND INCREDIBLE EXPERIENCE, FLYING OVER 2.000 KMS. AN HOUR!
Lucky
Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened
If you look at the profits of Airbus & BA now, not to mention the huge demand for it, there is absolutely no reason why at least one Concorde (which remember only had the airframe hours of a 4 year old 737) couldn't be made airworthy for occasional commercial/heritage flights.
It would cost way too much money. Companies don't care anymore unfortunately, they would only do it if it would generate a profit
Wednesday 24th October marks the 15th anniversary of concorde’s final flight. It was back in 2003.
@@procksomaterman It was Politics. AND, a legal agreement both airlines had signed years before,'If one stopped their Concorde Service, so would the other. B.A could have continued, they were making good profits, in fact, 25% NET, of all profits for BA, came from Concorde. The French were financially broke. ALL Airworthy Certificates, were destroyed, ALL Concordes engines became Scrap metal, one week after they last ran. They HAD---to be run every 2 days for a while, such hi -tech machinery required it.
@@MrDaiseymay I very much doubt that. If BA were making so much money off of it, they would have pressured the government to continue it's operation. The Concorde lost because it's only perk especially toward the end of it's service was it's speed. You could spend less and get a proper business class/first class seat with the same airline and with competitors. The Concorde was nearing 30 years old when it was retired, Airbus had stopped making parts for the plane. It's cockpit, outdated and required 3 to fly it. International air travel slumped after 9/11. Taking on rising fuel prices made the plane very unappealing for commercial operation. Maybe BA could have had it fly for a little longer, but the plane is a fiscal and ecological nightmare. There won't be commercial supersonic airtravel until a new plane is built.
@@procksomaterman BA were making money of Concorde upto when she retired. However Airbus announced the maintenance charge for Concorde was going up by £30 million pounds which would have been shared by Air France and BA however as Air France were gonna retire Concorde all that cost would have gone all to BA which then meant Concorde would have been non profitable for them which lead to it's sad early retirement. BA was certified to fly them until 2009 whether they would off we would never know. You can tell it all escalated very quickly as BA just spent £14 million doing up Concorde interior when it rentered service in November 2001 and as you can imagine if they knew they were gonna retire the fleet in less than 2 years no way would they have spent that money.
The facts speak for themselves. It was designed in the 1960's, first flew commercially in the 1970's, retired early due to misfortune in 2003, and here we are nearly 10 years later, and there isn't even anything serious on the drawing board to follow it! It is an amazing machine. It always caused me to look upwards as it departed or returned over Surrey en-route to JFK or LHR. I deeply regret never flying on it!
Yi
Another ten years have ticked off since your observation and there's still nothing much going on except for some aspirational press release blather.
My suggestion for Supersonic Air Travel 2.0 is to take the Concorde out of the museums and sweep the runway prior to takeoff.
@@gblim398 Yes, 10 years since my last comment, & I still wonder at Concorde! I suppose in theory they could get one of them to make a flight, but it would be a major undertaking. It was tragic that even in 2003 parts were becoming an issue. I still regret not actually flying in it, but my dad did a couple of times, and has his certificates. He is nearly 93 now! When he was a boy the Armstrong Whitworth Atalanta was Imperial Airways long haul aircraft, capable of just 251km/h! There is still a Concorde at LHR, and a more accessible one at Brooklands in Weybridge.
Was graced to work on the British Airways fleet & lucky to have flown a few times too. My first was a C of A test flight after a major Check. November 1991. Two flights worthy of mention. G-BOAF 11th September 2001 . First full passenger & crew shake down/ proving flight where all the passengers were staff involved with the Concorde operation. Then G-BOAG JFK to LHR 24.10.2003 final flight from New York Kennedy airport to London Heathrow . So sad it’s gone from the skies now. I just hope someone in the future will take in the mantle of getting one in the air just for air shows .
It's a shame this happened when I was 1 year old. Such a magnificent piece of aviation history
I wasn’t evern born
They will return in 2022.
@@agentmidas8631 me neither
@@mtwight9436 no they won't. Stop spreading false info
@@imblack011 Emirates announced that they would be re-launching the famous Concorde into service in 2022. Look it up, communist dipshit.
Look at 2:30+ and never forget one of the most beautiful birds,
ever remember her tenderness, her elegance
and her obeisance while she landed with bowed head.
How poetic and true.
Whenever I was 2 in 2003, I went to see one of concordes last flights and it was amazing! We have pictures of it and I am so proud to say that I have seen one! :)
I shall never forget watching those graceful ladies coming into land from my garden. To say I had a tear in my eye would be more than true!
An invention of man that made us all feel that little bit more alive whenever you saw one.
I am soooo upset that I never will be able to fly in such a beautiful plane!! I wish with all my heart that I could with my children!!
concorde...queen of the skies
The Queen of the sky is the 747. Concorde is the Goddess of the sky.
Say not in grief: "She is no more." but live in thankfulness that she was.
The way the ground crew were all standing on ceremony, that really got me, i'd not noticed that before now.
I still love them so much...
Well done Hutch...he hit the nail right on the head at 6:05 when He says "BA should NEVER have grounded the aircraft, it was Completely unjustified"
When I was a young boy, I would watch Concorde fly over my garden in South London daily....the last day they flew, I lived where I could watch all of them heading towards Heathrow one after the other, it was a very sad day, I'm not one for being too emotional, but I have to admit it brought a tear to my eye....
I lived in west London and remember seeing them occasionally especially on the scrubs… I remember watching the concords last flights circling over, didn’t really think much of it then but I’m glad I got to see it with my own eyes all them years ago when London was still mostly British.
My daughter was at high school on the edge of the north downs and we stood and watched all three circle round Crystal Palace to join their final approach 😢😢😢
Concorde is a symbol of an era when British engineering and innovation led the world. When she was finally killed off, a part of our collective soul as an engineering nation died with her, in my opinion.
I often wonder what those scientists and engineers who thrived in those optimistic post-war years would make of things today. People whose genius overcame various bungling governments and resource shortages to produce beautiful, cutting edge achievements like Concorde, which shaped the world of the time, and made Britain a world leader, can't have foreseen things developing as they are now. Our civilian aerospace industry chopped up and flogged off, and reduced to making wings and other bits for dreary, generic subsonic airliners that would have been considered backward thinking if proposed 40 years ago.
We don't and never have lacked the ability. What we need to do is rediscover our self-belief and sense of purpose again before it's too late.
@Here's Johnny now that we've seen the wonders of brexit this comment seems to have aged rather poorly hasn't it.
@@wstarrs The EU got us into today's mess.
British AND France !
As Mr Stephen Fry once said, technology went backwards for the first time when the Concorde was decommissioned... I wish I could have seen them in real life.
It was deafening and AWESOME!
Get concord back just do it ♥️🏴
I am incredibly fortunate to have seen British Airways Concorde G-BOAC fly for the very last time. A day I will never forget for as long as I live.
Beautiful.
A sad day for Britain and France when they retired Concorde.
There is something majestic about this plane. I would love to have had the chance to fly on Concorde.
bring it BACK still the best plane on the planet!
Nostalgia por estos súper aviones
For the first 18 years of my life i got to watch Concorde take off over my house. That noise never got old. Nor did the noise of the car alarms.
Concorde was my favorite plane:( ı just remembered that my cousin was in that plane…..:(
This plane was so majestic in many ways, i never got to fly in it but i would love to fly in it for a few hours. such an eagle, unique craft and ultimate technological design. I feel sorry for the pilots im sure every person in that plane felt so proud to be part of such pioneering years. we need it back
Still miss these beautiful birds. I was lucky to get a ticket to be on the airport roof during Alfa Charlie’s farewell visit to Cardiff. Very moving.
20 years ago today 😥. Beautiful aircraft and a marvel of engineering
I was lucky enough to be able to visit a concord at the Bristol aerospace museum. Marvelous plane and if was awesome to be able to walk around the cabin and look (but not go inside) the cockpit.
super máquina,potente máquina. show de bola.
this is so sad I almost cry. what a beatiful plane
Beautiful. Just like a swan, gliding.
1:49... that shot is beautiful
i thought the .totaly agree with you
Agreed, Paykirri. The Concorde had a brilliant legacy. It was expensive, loud, thirsty, and in certainly dangerous in some points, but it was the first supersonic passenger airliner, the epitome of modern air travel, to this day.
Dangerous?? Other than the accident caused by debris on the runway, she had a spotless record.
1:47 one of those images I will always remember. I was 9 when this happened.
I still remember seeing the final Conrode on it's final approach to Heathrow airport, I must have been about 6.
Amazing and unbelievable plane gone but never forgotten.such a great plane and great victory of British airways and air France.
Went on the 1 in Filton, Bristol yesterday it was the last 1 to fly, beautiful aircraft
Concorde stopped flying 17 years ago bruv
How I regret never having flown on Concorde, could not afford a ticket when it was flying but now I could, often wonder what would have happened if Branson had taken them over.
Beautiful plane.
I still feel like it exist, it's absolutely iconic.
I wish concorde still flyed :,( atleast ones a year to remind us! I,v been in 2 but i never seen one fly
Fantastic to watch
0:42 The BBC were able to call upon Raymond Baxter to contribute to the programme, in respect of his iconic commentary in 1969 at the first flight in Toulouse 34 years earlier.
It's sad the Concorde retired I wanted to fly it or go on oard a flight on it but I never got the chance rip concorde
Right as the wheels touched the ground, it was over.
That last landing was perfect. No other way to send this beautiful bird off.
A GIGANTIC AND MOST BEAUTIFUL SWAM!
I saw one taking off a few years ago the vibration on the ground was amazing every car alarm went off in the car park.
I was there watching. Incredible. Used to fly over house every day around 5.20pm.
My Uncle an actor used to fly the Concorde from NY to Paris for breakfast with a few dates of his back in the day, I recall he said it was small, expensive and loud.
we need to travels concorde again
So beautiful so sad she is gone
Bring it back!
How could function create a form so beautiful?
such a beautiful plane and a great masterpiece of British & French technology. Unfortunately its fate was not what it actualy deserved
Concordes are notoriously difficult to land in calm wind, great job by that first pilot
So sad I almost cried but it will always be remembered as the fastest commercial jet ever created I loved the concorde it is 10 minutes from the bottom of the US to the top of the US so long concorde
even the plane looks sad oon it's last flight
fly her again please, unique design+speed= fly again.
😢😢😢❤❤how sad..and amazing at the same time.
5:44 "I'm sure there will be a sucessor to Concorde"
Almost 18 years later, nothing... :(
not even the *Boom Overture Supersonic* could ever outmatch the Concorde's beauty.
I think we will get there eventually.
This....IS GOLD
So sad 😞
I believe aviation evolved too quick. Just look at how technically advanced this plane is and its capabilities. However, Concorde revolutionised aviation and the way we fly. In the name of Concorde we bow our heads!
SO SO SAD....
Concorde o unico aviao comercial supersonico do mundo, um mito!
Have to correct you, BA made a profit or broke even on every Concorde flight since the 1980s and BA had no intention of stopping Concorde flights.....AF made a loss due to their bad marketting of their Concordes.
Sad day.
“Like a Swan landing on a lake”.......that gave me goosebumps
best plane in the worlds what a shame
I could see this from my work. Was amazing to see, but also really, really sad
The greatest civilian aircraft of all time!
i loved that fight a lot
You’ll notice at 06:10 the BBC interviewer appears to quickly work in some rubbish about the union flag and the amount of people attending in an attempt to shut down John Hutchinsons’ comment that British Airways shouldn’t have grounded Concord after asking if Hutchinson thought it would ever fly again after the Paris crash.
quand ont entendait le concorde ont savait l'heure sans regardé nos montres 11h30 le concorde passait au dessus de ma maison :-(
Good is plane Concorde. 👍
For sure. Would have loved to see her still flying.