Concorde's Final Heathrow Touchdowns John Hutchinson Raymond Baxter Jon Sopel SST 2003

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The last transatlantic supersonic flight carried 100 celebrities from New York to London and touched down at 1605 BST on Friday 24 October 2003. It was one of three flights that landed at Heathrow airport within five minutes of each other.
On disembarking, actress Joan Collins said there were "cheers and tears" among the passengers when the plane landed. Others featured in this video: Dermot Murnaghan, Robert Woodcock, John Hutchinson, Simon Montague, Philippa Thomas, Fergus Walsh.
Minutes before the transatlantic trip touched down, competition winners landed on a flight from Edinburgh and a third completed its trip for invited guests around the Bay of Biscay.
Airport operator BAA built a 1,000-seat grandstand for spectators and many arrived at Heathrow hours before Concorde was due to arrive.
British Airways decided to retire the famous aircraft after 27 years because it was no longer profitable.
Background
Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde was the world's first turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airliner. It had a maximum speed over twice the speed of sound at Mach 2.04 (1,354 mph) and seated up to 128 passengers.
Maximum speed: Mach 2.04[229] (≈1,350 mph, 2,172 km/h) at cruise altitude.
Range: 3,900 nmi (4,500 mi, 7,250 km)
Service ceiling: 60,000 ft (18,300 m)
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Source media: Mini DV
Format: PAL
Audio: Hi-Fi
Location: Heathrow Airport
Recorded: 24 October 2003
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Transmitted Live: 24 October, 2003

[@chrisst8922]

I was there that day watching them land one after another from the east, it was the northernmost runway.
I didn't see this programme therefore, so good that they managed to get a very eloquent Raymond Baxter to speak. I counted them all out and I counted them all back.

[@brettpatching]

Thanks for posting this Paul!

[@markwestwood9730]

Would have been amazing if we had FlightRadar24 back then.

[@stuartlee6622]

Boom Overture will be slower than Concorde 😢

[@Samuel-gc6js]

1:38 They should have kept it flying just for heritage

[@markwestwood9730]

Money my friend, that's all it's down to. Very sad really. Branson could have kept it in the air. He'd have bought all 7 but BA weren't having it.