I've never heard aircraft as loud as Concorde or the Vulcan. Even without reheat.The ground would shake. The air would vibrate. You would hear it, feel it and taste it. Immense power.
Whenever anyone saw a different aircraft, they described it as a Boeing 747, a Raptor or a Harrier etc but whenever they saw Concorde, it's was just Concorde. That's how special that plane was and still is.
Both the test and commercial pilots admitted as much. She was just a really big fighter. With champagne and caviar as factory fitted equipment 😂 When they did the noise tests to get landing rights into JFK, the pilots knew where the monitors were and to good extent took advantage of her maneouvability and just banked her around them.
CONCORDE WAS NO SUCH THING. THE WORD 'JUST' IS AN INSULT TO THE GENIUS THAT CREATED AND BUILT HER. SOME HAVE MADE THAT COMPARISON WITH THE SR 71. UTTER CRAP. WHAT DOES IT TAKE, TO FLY A CREW AND 100 PASSENGER'S AND THEIR BAGGAGE, SAEFLY, FASTER THAN MACH 2. ON THE FRINGES OF SPACE, DAILY, FOR 32 YRS. NOBODY ON BOARD, NEEDED A PRESSURE SUIT, OR EVEN A HELMET AND GOGGLES, THEY WERE IN THEIR BEST LOUNGE SUITS , BEING SERVED THE BEST FOOD, AND WINES, AND ARRIVING IN LESS THAN HALF THE TIME, OF ALTERNATE PLANES. A US APPOLLO ASTRONAUT SAID, CONCORDE WAS THE GREATEST TECHNICAL ACHEIVEMENT OF THE 20TH CENTURY, MORE SO THAN THE APPOLLO PROGRAMME. SENDING TWO BRAVE MEN UP IN A ROCKET TAKES GUTS AND GENIUS. OBTAINING A ' SAFETY PASSENGER FLYING CERTIFICATE '' UNDER CONCORDES DEMANDS, IS A MIRACLE.
I live right beside Lisbon airport , and will never forget the happiness and amazement every time thr CONCORDE came to Portugal, those afterburners , the noise , the drama of a broken window in my old room , telling my father it wasn't me...
one of the greatest plane ever built..i never seen one in persone and i am really sad..i was born in 2001..my father and mother flight with one of them to US..but i wasn't lucky enough to be born in 80-90's to fly with this amazing plane!
This should still be gracing the skies,a powerful icon of the air. This was the most stylish aircraft apart from its awesome speed.It should still be flying!!
But your opinion can't change true. Spitfire, P-51 Mustang and F-4 Corsair ARE most beautiful propeller planes in history... And remember: Uf you want peace, you must have tools and power for keep it. And the tools were, are and will be weapons...
Thanks, she was certainly a sight worth witnessing live at least once. Yup afterburners only for takeoff and pushing through M1. Turbojets (as used on the old 707, DC-8, DC-10, etc.) are much louder than modern turbofans; but the AB definitely adds a little zing :)
Once I was at my local airport (Toronto International) doing some construction related work on the pavement when the Concorde took off. I'll never forget the sound those engines made when they were run at full power, it was a gawdawful rumble the likes I never heard any other hydrocarbon burning engine make (not even other turbofan or turbojet engines). The engines in the Concorde have to be using afterburners or some other exhaust re-heat in order to generate both the thrust amount and thrust velocity needed to get airborne and enable level supersonic flight.
Why did it run afterburners on takeoff? Couldn't it climb a few thousand feet and then run the engines wet to burst through mach 1? It would make the sound issue a lot less of an issue (I assume?)
@@hayleyxyz Concorde had a very high takeoff speed, presumably it needed to use reheat to reliably reach that speed on commercial runways. Given the fuel reheat consumed, they wouldn't have used it if it wasn't necessary.
@@hayleyxyz because it was loaded with more than 90 tons of fuel. Pilots were instructed to pull the throttles back a little and turn the reheats off after about a minute and some 20 seconds have passed after the takeoff rollout start, depending on takeoff weight. At that point, concorde was somewhere about 500-1000 feet above the runway with established climb rate and it was safe to turn reheats off. After that, aircraft just pitched down a bit to maintain speed. As the aircraft gained altitude, the throttles were gradually opened, and finally, after clearing 6000 feet, it was running on full throttle again. Relights were again lit up when aircraft was cleared to supersonic climb and it was turned off when aircraft reached at least mach 1.3 or when max 15 minutes have passed of running relights.
When 4 engines birdy down at 2003, some dreams of super sonic fall. But leaving many of super sonic dreams in future. Thank you, BAC and Aérospatiale, you guys carrying 27 years of mankind who can pay for super sonic in their years.
Used to Live in North London, on the Flight Path to Heathrow, you could hear her Coming around 9pm....would go outside and watch her going over.....just Magnificent, Dogs barking, Car alarms set off but who cared, the most Amazing Supersonic Jet of our Time.....
Great video ! I onlynly saw it in flight once, but knew what it was before I looked up. It was coming up the coast of New Jersey end route to JFK. I imagine the afterburners were not even on as it was descending but it still sounded like it was tearing a hole in the sky.
The X-59 is interesting, but nothing beats the grace of Concorde - or the noise it made over Berkshire when taking off for NY at 11am on a weekday morning.
Living under the flight path into Heathrow, they used to come directly overhead twice nearly every evening. Living high up you could tell immediately from the totally different sound, what the next aircraft would be. But I don't think I've ever seen a take off at night. And this video is pretty cool.
The London Heathrow Concorde took off one evening in 2003 and then a landed in Kennedy airport on 22L with three cockpit engineers and did well on his arrival about 42 minutes behind schedule.
@@chrisboston It was a round trip. We boarded in Amsterdam Schiphol and fles via Engeland, Norway, Denmark and made a fly by on the Air Show at Lelystad Airport and Landed on Schiphol again. Total flying time two hours, price 700 Dutch guilders!
@@chrisboston We boarded at Schiphol Airport and fles via Engeland, Norway, Denmark, made a fly by at Lelystad Air Show and Landed at Schiphol again. Total flying time two hours, Mach 2,2 , price only 700 Dutch guilders!
Those booms travelled a looong way. I lived in south Devon UK and on a quiet night the windows would rattle slightly as she went supersonic 100+ miles away west of the Bristol Channel.
@@SimonMargrett Our conservatory doors rattled as well. I'm on the South Devon/Somerset border, not far from you and will never forget hearing those regular sonic booms.
@@SimonMargrett I would find that comforting getting the slight rattle of the windows same time every day, knowing that somewhere out there that miracle of engineering called Concorde was doing its job.
My father told me one time he was on the Boston subway coming out of Logan. And he heard the Concorde taking off nearby. He said it was so loud, he couldn't hear the person next to him. I believe it now after watching these Concorde takeoffs
They were very loud compared to modern high bypass engines, but compared to older low bypass engines found on other planes of the era they were about the same.
@@adamsmith5913 I lived close to Heathrow airport and it made the tables shudder daily at school. If you were to stand at the perimeter track to watch it take off your organs shook v similar in sound and loudness of the B1 lancer
@@blainstillman7127 that's cool, thanks for the extra details, it really counts because I will never get to see this plane fly. I can fully imagine the shaking organs, I have been in Vans with deadly sound systems.
That little patch of grass field just by the KLM building......drove passed every shift for 15 yrs whilst working at Hatton Cross for SAS Service Partner......
Those were basically 2nd/3rd generation jet engines, originally built for military applications, and uprated for civilian use...at the time of their design, pretty much all jet engines were extremely noisy...
That was fantastic, I've never seen this one before. Like a GREAT BLACK BAT, rising up out of the ground. As for noise, it didn't seem at all exceptional. Car alarms always go off when Concorde passes. Be positive--It's just a free test for them.
Politics old fruit. A legally binding contract , tween UK and France, states, that if either Airline abandons the Flight programme for their Concordes, for what ever reason---the other would follow too. BESIDES, the high tech company that made specialist electronic and engineering parts for the engines., went bankrupt. I too saw The last Concorde to fly, at Filton Airport Museum, and was told that, all Concorde engines are now officially --scrap. If they weren't started up and run every month, they could never be of any use. And finally---ALL Concordes, had their Flight Certificates confiscated. Pass the bottle
I worked at Heathrow way back then and yes for those who never got to see Concorde take off, it was truly awesome ,in sight and in sound ! (as you would no doubt expect ) should have found the money to keep her in the air (imo)
Still blows my mind that there was once a large passenger jet with afterburners.
it actually was on the small side, smaller than a 737 width wise
The afterburners really are badass.
The reheats were at middle finger at environementalists
So considerate too.@@lukethomas.125
I've never heard aircraft as loud as Concorde or the Vulcan. Even without reheat.The ground would shake. The air would vibrate. You would hear it, feel it and taste it. Immense power.
@@xcx8646 you can hear the alarms after the take off
Whenever anyone saw a different aircraft, they described it as a Boeing 747, a Raptor or a Harrier etc but whenever they saw Concorde, it's was just Concorde. That's how special that plane was and still is.
Those afterburners look pretty in the night sky
They're British engines, so the correct term is reheat. Afterburner is an American term.
@@owensmith7530 tire tyre
@@owensmith7530 Afterburner is cooler. It's okay to admit it, older brother.
Quite simply one of the best amateur Concorde videos I have ever seen. Brilliant. And I dearly miss the old girl. Cheers. 🥃
Aw thanks :) I miss her too.
@@SimonMargrett after 10 years you still reply ???? Wow thats impressive 😱
@@sharepremium8614 not as impressive as Concorde 😅😢
Agree. I actually miss her noise. Swoosh.
STILL IN MOURNING SEE. ARENT WE ALL.@@sharepremium8614
She was a fighter jet she just took passengers also beautiful aircraft
Both the test and commercial pilots admitted as much. She was just a really big fighter. With champagne and caviar as factory fitted equipment 😂
When they did the noise tests to get landing rights into JFK, the pilots knew where the monitors were and to good extent took advantage of her maneouvability and just banked her around them.
Graeme Trotter haha brilliant 😂😂
@@trottergraeme LOL!!!
CONCORDE WAS NO SUCH THING. THE WORD 'JUST' IS AN INSULT TO THE GENIUS THAT CREATED AND BUILT HER. SOME HAVE MADE THAT COMPARISON WITH THE SR 71. UTTER CRAP. WHAT DOES IT TAKE, TO FLY A CREW AND 100 PASSENGER'S AND THEIR BAGGAGE, SAEFLY, FASTER THAN MACH 2. ON THE FRINGES OF SPACE, DAILY, FOR 32 YRS. NOBODY ON BOARD, NEEDED A PRESSURE SUIT, OR EVEN A HELMET AND GOGGLES, THEY WERE IN THEIR BEST LOUNGE SUITS , BEING SERVED THE BEST FOOD, AND WINES, AND ARRIVING IN LESS THAN HALF THE TIME, OF ALTERNATE PLANES. A US APPOLLO ASTRONAUT SAID, CONCORDE WAS THE GREATEST TECHNICAL ACHEIVEMENT OF THE 20TH CENTURY, MORE SO THAN THE APPOLLO PROGRAMME. SENDING TWO BRAVE MEN UP IN A ROCKET TAKES GUTS AND GENIUS. OBTAINING A ' SAFETY PASSENGER FLYING CERTIFICATE '' UNDER CONCORDES DEMANDS, IS A MIRACLE.
@@Willbrse NO--just silly, and Ignorant of the facts.
LOL, If you listen carfully you can hear all the car alarms going off after its passed.
I live right beside Lisbon airport , and will never forget the happiness and amazement every time thr CONCORDE came to Portugal, those afterburners , the noise , the drama of a broken window in my old room , telling my father it wasn't me...
OMG 😱 Full reheat, and that noise - that is absolutely beautiful 😍
one of the greatest plane ever built..i never seen one in persone and i am really sad..i was born in 2001..my father and mother flight with one of them to US..but i wasn't lucky enough to be born in 80-90's to fly with this amazing plane!
even today she gives me chills
Who's she? 😳
@@pokemonitishere202 the plane
That thing was like an earthbound space ship and was spectacular and scary all at the same time.
I still cant belive they retired that sexy beast
Always wanted to fly in it
IKR, one of the few times we've taken a step backwards :(
I was lucky enough to snag a one way imgur.com/gallery/fujvS
@@SimonMargrett Oh wow!! So was the ride pretty fast compared to how it feels now? like were you shocked your trip was over so quick?
thank god
IKR but sadly the sonic boom just too noisy for the pedestrians
This should still be gracing the skies,a powerful icon of the air.
This was the most stylish aircraft apart from its awesome speed.It should still be flying!!
You may blame bleeding heart liberal lefts for its grounding. Their environmentalists lobbied enough to shut it down.
Concorde and the Spitfire, the most beautiful planes EVER built.💖💖💖
Not the Spitfire. No instrument of war is beautiful.
True.
But your opinion can't change true. Spitfire, P-51 Mustang and F-4 Corsair ARE most beautiful propeller planes in history... And remember: Uf you want peace, you must have tools and power for keep it. And the tools were, are and will be weapons...
@@asensibleyoungman2978: Philistine.
@@THE-BUNKEN-DRUM You clearly don't know what the word philistine means. Since when has a person who objects to warmongering been a philistine?
how comes it looks like a plane from the future, while it's from the 60s...
Superb machine...20 years since she last graced the heavens, and more's the pity. Thanks for sharing.
This is the best Concord takeoff video out there. Seeing those afterburners at this time of day is so cool
Concorde taking off and car alarms going off. 2 sounds that were always together.
Those Olympus 593 Turbojets screaming in all their glory...Beautiful aircraft ever made. Last British airways livrery was wonderful..
It's awesome... however, the most beautiful aircraft ever made was the early 20 series Learjet.
@@joshuaowens4797 THATS ONE OPINION
Thanks FSX for letting me experience this magnificient beast of a plane.
The prettiest passenger aircraft.
Still there is nothing better.
Wow, thank you Simon for posting
Awesome catch and sound!!! Thanks for sharing! 👌😊👍
@00bean00 chest punchingly loud, if you listen closely after it's gone overhead you can hear car alarms going off heh.
Heavens of greatness to those who were able to take a flight, on the monstrous supersonic jetliner.
Thanks, she was certainly a sight worth witnessing live at least once. Yup afterburners only for takeoff and pushing through M1. Turbojets (as used on the old 707, DC-8, DC-10, etc.) are much louder than modern turbofans; but the AB definitely adds a little zing :)
Once I was at my local airport (Toronto International) doing some construction related work on the pavement when the Concorde took off. I'll never forget the sound those engines made when they were run at full power, it was a gawdawful rumble the likes I never heard any other hydrocarbon burning engine make (not even other turbofan or turbojet engines). The engines in the Concorde have to be using afterburners or some other exhaust re-heat in order to generate both the thrust amount and thrust velocity needed to get airborne and enable level supersonic flight.
Why did it run afterburners on takeoff? Couldn't it climb a few thousand feet and then run the engines wet to burst through mach 1? It would make the sound issue a lot less of an issue (I assume?)
@@hayleyxyz Concorde had a very high takeoff speed, presumably it needed to use reheat to reliably reach that speed on commercial runways. Given the fuel reheat consumed, they wouldn't have used it if it wasn't necessary.
@@hayleyxyz because it was loaded with more than 90 tons of fuel. Pilots were instructed to pull the throttles back a little and turn the reheats off after about a minute and some 20 seconds have passed after the takeoff rollout start, depending on takeoff weight. At that point, concorde was somewhere about 500-1000 feet above the runway with established climb rate and it was safe to turn reheats off. After that, aircraft just pitched down a bit to maintain speed. As the aircraft gained altitude, the throttles were gradually opened, and finally, after clearing 6000 feet, it was running on full throttle again.
Relights were again lit up when aircraft was cleared to supersonic climb and it was turned off when aircraft reached at least mach 1.3 or when max 15 minutes have passed of running relights.
This plane made the MD-80 sound like an Airbus A220
haha
Thanks. Your video compares very well to the other Concorde takeoff videos here.
When 4 engines birdy down at 2003, some dreams of super sonic fall.
But leaving many of super sonic dreams in future.
Thank you, BAC and Aérospatiale, you guys carrying 27 years of mankind who can pay for super sonic in their years.
... well spoken ... :) friendly greets
Used to Live in North London, on the Flight Path to Heathrow, you could hear her Coming around 9pm....would go outside and watch her going over.....just Magnificent, Dogs barking, Car alarms set off but who cared, the most Amazing Supersonic Jet of our Time.....
Thats the spirit ? I said thats the spirit
This was an amazing plane rest in peace Concorde
Great video ! I onlynly saw it in flight once, but knew what it was before I looked up. It was coming up the coast of New Jersey end route to JFK. I imagine the afterburners were not even on as it was descending but it still sounded like it was tearing a hole in the sky.
Wow those afterburners with flames 😍😍
Great catch - Keep Up
Wonderful video about Concorde I've ever watched 👏🏻
Stunning video. Nice work. Love it
The X-59 is interesting, but nothing beats the grace of Concorde - or the noise it made over Berkshire when taking off for NY at 11am on a weekday morning.
Extraño al Concorde, rápido, majestuoso
Can you hear the car alarms going off as it takes off? Power of the Concorde.
I remember as kid running out when I herd that low rumble before I saw it here in New York during the 80's that gave me goosebumps
Living under the flight path into Heathrow, they used to come directly overhead twice nearly every evening. Living high up you could tell immediately from the totally different sound, what the next aircraft would be. But I don't think I've ever seen a take off at night. And this video is pretty cool.
Thanks, the dusk really brings out the afterburners 😎 I used to live in Hampton, the sound was instantly recognisable.
The world's most beautiful machine.
Epic. I saw that departure a number of times what a thrill.
AAAAH---something positive--thanks.
The London Heathrow Concorde took off one evening in 2003 and then a landed in Kennedy airport on 22L with three cockpit engineers and did well on his arrival about 42 minutes behind schedule.
My dreams came true when I flew aboard Air france Concorde F BVFB on August 22 1987!
Which route did you fly on the Air France Concorde?
@@chrisboston It was a round trip. We boarded in Amsterdam Schiphol and fles via Engeland, Norway, Denmark and made a fly by on the Air Show at Lelystad Airport and Landed on Schiphol again. Total flying time two hours, price 700 Dutch guilders!
@@chrisboston We boarded at Schiphol Airport and fles via Engeland, Norway, Denmark, made a fly by at Lelystad Air Show and Landed at Schiphol again. Total flying time two hours, Mach 2,2 , price only 700 Dutch guilders!
WOW very nice shot I love this clip, yes !! 😊😊
in every videos available, the car alarms go off while passing - nicest touch of those vids. not even remotely imaginable nowadays
Thank you sir!
So beautiful, like a spaceship...
Woow !!! Era impresionante verlo 😍
NOTHING comes close to this beautiful plane.
Aviation greatness!
... always remembering that feeling to be part of the group !!!
Great footage!!
May she always be remembered, and her memories, soar ever onward!!! #OlympusEngines #Concorde.
Civilian passenger plane with military spec engines, what a great combination, the Concorde was and still is way ahead of it's time.
When the burners go out, it's like saying "Bye, see you later".
I miss hearing those sonic booms above back in the 80's from where I live.
Those booms travelled a looong way. I lived in south Devon UK and on a quiet night the windows would rattle slightly as she went supersonic 100+ miles away west of the Bristol Channel.
@@SimonMargrett Our conservatory doors rattled as well. I'm on the South Devon/Somerset border, not far from you and will never forget hearing those regular sonic booms.
@@SimonMargrett I would find that comforting getting the slight rattle of the windows same time every day, knowing that somewhere out there that miracle of engineering called Concorde was doing its job.
Never tired of watching her - lucky to travel on her once. Didn’t the BA001 depart 1030 ? The BA003 was the evening flight
Nice video!!!
My father told me one time he was on the Boston subway coming out of Logan. And he heard the Concorde taking off nearby. He said it was so loud, he couldn't hear the person next to him. I believe it now after watching these Concorde takeoffs
They were very loud compared to modern high bypass engines, but compared to older low bypass engines found on other planes of the era they were about the same.
Afterburners look so cool. To think 100 people sitting on leather chairs, such a shame no longer in the air
Jeez, those afterburners looked good!
Priceless!
There's nothing more futuristic than the early 2000
This is true folks.....I was very fortunate to on board for that take off.......Red Letter Day
What a sight to experience at night! 🥳👍🏾😎🤟🏾😆🙏🏾🤴🏾
That sounds powerful--how loud was it in person?
As someone who lived in the takeoff path at JFK . Its was epically loud lol
@@FlightX101 especially loud is my favorite
@@adamsmith5913 I lived close to Heathrow airport and it made the tables shudder daily at school. If you were to stand at the perimeter track to watch it take off your organs shook v similar in sound and loudness of the B1 lancer
@@blainstillman7127 that's cool, thanks for the extra details, it really counts because I will never get to see this plane fly. I can fully imagine the shaking organs, I have been in Vans with deadly sound systems.
@@adamsmith5913 My favourite youtube comment of 2020 so far. Even with spelling favourite as you did.
Car alarms lol. Stunning
Maravilla de la ingenieria, no abra otro igual, simplemente impresiona...nada mas que decir.
One of the many illigitmate children spawned by the " God of Thunder"....the Beautiful Vulcan Bomber
Beauty in air. Love you concorde from India which could cross atlantic in less than 4 hours
Using all that runway, very cool.
Apparently, the English and French test pilots barrel rolled Concorde during testing. She was that good.
Indeed they did ua-cam.com/video/KYQS3qAIjAo/v-deo.html
jeez louise.. the sound of those jets match that of my turbosharged 4WD!
I wish they brought back just 1 for the aviation enthusiast. I'm sure they'd make good money.
Sad that it discontinued before my 1st bday. Wish I would’ve been able to see it first hand
Wooooow!! Looks like a military aircraft but for the commercial aviation
Aussi beau que l envol d un oiseau.SUPERBE avion👍👏👏👏
La majesté et la prouesse d'y ressembler
When the past is more futuristic than the present.
WOW. You sure you did not shoot this at Cape Canaveral?? Looks land sounds like a NASA night launch!
That little patch of grass field just by the KLM building......drove passed every shift for 15 yrs whilst working at Hatton Cross for SAS Service Partner......
Those were basically 2nd/3rd generation jet engines, originally built for military applications, and uprated for civilian use...at the time of their design, pretty much all jet engines were extremely noisy...
They kept the afterburners running a lot longer than usual it seems in this video am i right ?
Think that was about the usual duration. Probably only turned them off for noise restrictions 🤣
A delta UFO with full afterburners on......
Subhanalloh...MAHA SUCI ALLOH yg menciptakan manusia hingga bisa membuat pesawat super canggih semacam concorde..... 🙏🙏
beautiful afterburners
Awesome concorde pass by Republic Indonesia
Great recommendation UA-cam
I was at donington when this thing took off from east Midlands airport... I swear to God I couldn't hear any music....
50 years ago the sky looked more like the future than today 😭
Supersonic air travel and not a blinding LED light in sight. We really have gone past the future.
4 x rolls royce snecma olympus 593
Le seul avion de ligne avec post combustion......
Magnifique
That shit was so damn loud when I had my headphones in that i felt like I was really there
That was fantastic, I've never seen this one before. Like a GREAT BLACK BAT, rising up out of the ground. As for noise, it didn't seem at all exceptional. Car alarms always go off when Concorde passes. Be positive--It's just a free test for them.
No louder than other jets of the time (turbojets, before high bypass engines were developed).
YES----QUITE RIGHT. @@SimonMargrett
Spectaculaire
Amazing how Concorde sounds like a jet fighter...
I went to see this beautiful lady in Bristol over the Christmas. Brought a tear to my eye. Branson should have been allowed to have her.
Politics old fruit. A legally binding contract , tween UK and France, states, that if either Airline abandons the Flight programme for their Concordes, for what ever reason---the other would follow too. BESIDES, the high tech company that made specialist electronic and engineering parts for the engines., went bankrupt. I too saw The last Concorde to fly, at Filton Airport Museum, and was told that, all Concorde engines are now officially --scrap. If they weren't started up and run every month, they could never be of any use.
And finally---ALL Concordes, had their Flight Certificates confiscated. Pass the bottle
YES, BEEN THERE , but she had to wait a bloody long time to be suiably re-homed.
Jesus christ I love that sound
I worked at Heathrow way back then and yes for those who never got to see Concorde take off, it was truly awesome ,in sight and in sound ! (as you would no doubt expect ) should have found the money to keep her in the air (imo)
Those afterburners sure are bright!
Bright and beautiful.
@@SimonMargrett and HOT😍