Since pilots couldn't see out of the plane because of angled landing, engineers put together a solution. The Concorde featured a droop snoot. Droop snoot? Yeah, the snoot would droop. The snoot drooped.
There is no 'god'. Religion is a Complete and Utter Delusion. That mechanism and the entire aircraft was created by Humans using Science and Engineering. Hope this helps.
Since pilots couldn't see out of the plane because of angled landing, engineers put together a solution. The Concorde featured a droop snoot. Droop snoot? Yeah, the snoot would droop. The snoot drooped.
There is footage here on YT of take off and landing showing the action from the cockpit. One of the most interesting aspects on take off was the dramatic reduction in the cockpit noise when the visor is positioned back into flight mode.
When i show to my friends this plane and then tell them that it was designed in the 60's they are all like "but it look like it is from future" and i'm like "I KNOW , RIGHT?"
One thing to remember is that the design was done before the advent of Computer Aided Design (CAD), it was done using drawing boards and pencils. Other aspects which might interest those who have posted on here about Concorde, is that the fuselage was done in England and the wings were done in France. The fuselage is dimensioned in imperial units, with a metric conversion alongside, whilst the wings were drawn in metric, with an imperial dimension alongside. The visor structure was an amazing structure with the centre spine machined from a single piece of high-grade alloy plate which was about 50 mm thick, from memory. It was very complex due to the need to minimise the weight and was one of the first parts manufactured using a CNC machine at Marshals-of-Cambridge. I did the detail design of the spine and worked with a manufacturing engineer who was responsible for the CNC programme. If the machine tool had done an incorrect cut, it would have scrapped the large piece of plate. The plate for one centre spine cost around £5000 in 1968, which would be around £100,000 in today's terms. We could not use a CAD system to check the programme, so we machined a piece of timber first, but I can't recall what type of wood it was. The other interesting thing is if the visor was raised whilst the nose was still down, and the nose raised in flight, it was likely that the visor would not align with the inner windscreen and damage the furelage structure. Thus an electrical interlock was introduced to prevent 'visor-up' selection until the nose had fully engaged with the up-locks. It was all hydraulically powered from electrical signals. All the nose/visor design was done by Marshalls-of-Cambridge, plus the Flight Engineer instrument panel. I don't think we realised at the time what an iconic aeroplane we were working on, nor how privilileged we were to be doing that job. At the time I know I was very well paid and as I was recently married it certainly helped me to buy my first house. It was a sad day when it last flew, but the costs of keeping it in service were going to become unsustainable. For example, every modification has to be paid for by the operators and a simple mod can cost a million or more. Spread that over a few hundred aircraft of that type and it has little impact on the seat-mile cost, but with only around 14 operational aircraft over which to spread that cost and it become unsustainable when passed on to the passengers. Still, it was a wonderful aeroplane. I hope this is of interest.
"When i show to my friends this plane and then tell them that it was designed in the 60's" I believe the SR71 was designed before that and it's the "evil twin" of these supersonic birds. Shortly after we landed on the moon. I believe the peak of American culture was in the 50s and the peak of American intelligence was in the 60s. If you look at progress over the twentieth century it has been astounding. If you look at progress over the first 20 years of the 21st century, not so much. I feel, and is demonstrable, that IQ has been gradually dropping over the last 60 years, and it is starting to be evident in our culture, our economics, our industries, our progress, our medicine, and our public policy.
@@petervalentine722 your comment is of great interest. Thank you for the behind the scenes look. To imagine the center spine prototype being made of wood! That'd be a fun momento to put on the wall
Sigue pareciéndose del futuro jajaja Que lástima que está fuera de servicio y veo por qué el mecanismo de la nariz caída y la visera retráctil es tan caro que el propio avión, no me imagino cuánto tiempo de revición, mantenimiento y reparación lleva cada vez que aterriza antes de ser transbordado. Espero que las videocámaras y sensores hagan volver éste avión actualizado con esos componentes más por los que faltan, ya así sería el avión supersónico más barato de comprar y reparar
Not me. It was so fkin noisy. I'm for the next generation of hyper sonic plane without the sonic boom tearing my ears. I don't remember wich company is working on a 'silent small concorde' plane .
@@fruitycoconut your saying this like a sonic boom was a design choice if your break the speed of sound you get the same noise the company doesnt jhst decide whether or not they want the noise
@@chrisvaccaro9062 actually they can reduce the sound. I don't know how it works, obviously, but they managed to greatly reduce the sound of a sonic boom. '' NASA’s New Supersonic Jet Will Have One Thing Missing: a Sonic Boom Preparing for its first flight tests, NASA's X-59 will attempt to turn big booms into "sonic thuds" to help create public acceptance for the next generation of supersonic aircraft. ''
@@aviationist1018i think they’re trying to say concord fell out of the sky (when it didn’t, it’s a fuel fire) so they probably (and just a hunch) don’t know much about the history of the aircraft.
I do frame stress issues from supersonic flight beyond the expected wear leading to there drcomission. Along with high maintenance costs and and a wain In interest. Ie flying to empty to often.
In 1999 me and my uncle's brother on law (an air traffic controller In training) we're standing at JFK when a concord pulled in. We were speechless for minutes. He was filming the whole thing. When the nose pulled up he got amazed he was able to get it on camera.
It was great that glass technology was able to produce a glass visor compared to the prototypes 001,002 it makes the front look so different ,superb design like a swan complicated underneath but elegant and beautiful on top ,so happy to have flown twice on this great aircraft 😊
Why does the nose drop on Concorde? Concorde had a very high angle of attack during landing, which meant that a fixed streamlined nose wouldn't allow the pilots to see the runway. The engineers fixed this problem by designing a drooping nose that could be adjusted during different stages of the flight.
I guess they didn't want to rely on cameras alone. I think the original design had cameras behind the main landing gear, but it was found to be unnecessary (also not needed as a backup system for the case of a "droop failure"). In case of a failure, the droop snoot could be lowered (but not raised, as it would be drop by gravity and aerodynamic pressure) by an emergency system, allowing for a visual landing. In case of an failure of the emergency system, the nose could be released manually, again dropping due to gravity.
I really like the upper atmosphere being chemically consistent and an absence of sonic booms from my life but every time I see the concorde I forget for a while, beautiful machine
@@thephaze3 supersonic jets have a disproportionately high impact on the makeup of the stratosphere, especially the ozone layer. Ideally the chemicals in the upper atmosphere shouldn't change
"Since pilots couldn't see out of the plane during angled landing, engineers put together a solution" "The Concorde featured a droop snoot" "Droop snoot?" "Yeah. The snoot would droop" "The snoot drooped.."
Of course its a totally different design with a variable sweep wing rather than a delta like Concorde, XB-70 and the TU-144 but it's a large supersonic jet like the rest of them.
@@manston94 Lol like how ? If you are talking about the crash that stopped the concorde's carrier you are wrong, it was already doomed to stop being used way before that.
I didnt know until this video that the thing was mid operation. This is from me searching for the video the iconic line came from, but i thought that it was built with the nose pointed at an angle. Not that it would happen mid operation. Really cool
I wonder how (or even if) they compensated for the change in the approach angle for the air going into the pitot tube when the nose was lowered. Or was the Concorde always flying with such a high AOA that the two cancelled each other out? Same with the AOA probe, since it was measuring from a different reference plane with the nose lowered.
Saw one very close in December 1997 at Charles de Gaulle airport when I was walking in the tunnels, it was parked within meters of the windows, I was a kid then but I still remember it's strong presence .
I was on the Concorde's final flight frim Texas to London, UK. It was freaking awesome, 1st and 2nd class were super luxorious, even met Pierce Brosnan.
Oh so that's why the concorde was dropped. Everytime the nose is activated, the pilot has to constantly stick his head out of the cockpit to check if the mechanisms worked.
Do double pane windows with space in between such as used in many houses make it difficult to see? Both panes of glass are clear as is the space between.
Still crazy to think that it was faster than an F/A-18...you could overtake a fighter jet while sitting in the passenger compartment wearing a Hawaii T-shirt... Also, once an SR-71 "Blackbird" secretly flying above Cuba was diverted because of "other air traffic at your altitude". I guess the SR-71 crew had a WTF moment... Yes, impractical by all means, but still awesome.
That's great. I worked on the design of the droop nose in 1968 - 69. Pleased to see it still functions OK.
What a cool job that must have been. It looks very sophisticated.
ok boome-...........
@@ginger02231 isn't it "ok silent"
Kwangmyongsong 4 oh yeah
Please tell me what did the droop snoot accomplish? Would it result in the snoot being drooped?
there is no denying that that snoot infact drooped
Since pilots couldn't see out of the plane because of angled landing, engineers put together a solution. The Concorde featured a droop snoot. Droop snoot? Yeah, the snoot would droop. The snoot drooped.
... we are indeed awed by the droopiness of the snoot!
The snoot did droop, now the drooped snoot must be booped
What a droopy snoop it was
it's droopy
And god said:
"Let the snoot droop"
And the snoot drooped
Stolen but yeah please lol.
Shoot droop
dead meme
There is no 'god'. Religion is a Complete and Utter Delusion. That mechanism and the entire aircraft was created by Humans using Science and Engineering. Hope this helps.
Idk if the droop snoot drooped the snoot drooped
"the snoot drooped?"
"The snoot dropped"
Lolololololol
dead meme
Since pilots couldn't see out of the plane because of angled landing, engineers put together a solution. The Concorde featured a droop snoot. Droop snoot? Yeah, the snoot would droop. The snoot drooped.
@@miladindragojevic2766shut it
There is footage here on YT of take off and landing showing the action from the cockpit. One of the most interesting aspects on take off was the dramatic reduction in the cockpit noise when the visor is positioned back into flight mode.
The kind of thing I watched when I was small
@@ngaviation3489 yeah now you big 😊
Link to that video please?
@@MarioLoco03 That was pretty cool, thanks for posting the link.
@@plmn93._.
The snoot is cool but the visor is a whole other level of awesome
Visor?... I barely....
@@cdncitizen4700 knew her! Bob barker 2020!
When i show to my friends this plane and then tell them that it was designed in the 60's they are all like "but it look like it is from future" and i'm like "I KNOW , RIGHT?"
One thing to remember is that the design was done before the advent of Computer Aided Design (CAD), it was done using drawing boards and pencils. Other aspects which might interest those who have posted on here about Concorde, is that the fuselage was done in England and the wings were done in France. The fuselage is dimensioned in imperial units, with a metric conversion alongside, whilst the wings were drawn in metric, with an imperial dimension alongside.
The visor structure was an amazing structure with the centre spine machined from a single piece of high-grade alloy plate which was about 50 mm thick, from memory. It was very complex due to the need to minimise the weight and was one of the first parts manufactured using a CNC machine at Marshals-of-Cambridge. I did the detail design of the spine and worked with a manufacturing engineer who was responsible for the CNC programme. If the machine tool had done an incorrect cut, it would have scrapped the large piece of plate. The plate for one centre spine cost around £5000 in 1968, which would be around £100,000 in today's terms. We could not use a CAD system to check the programme, so we machined a piece of timber first, but I can't recall what type of wood it was.
The other interesting thing is if the visor was raised whilst the nose was still down, and the nose raised in flight, it was likely that the visor would not align with the inner windscreen and damage the furelage structure. Thus an electrical interlock was introduced to prevent 'visor-up' selection until the nose had fully engaged with the up-locks. It was all hydraulically powered from electrical signals.
All the nose/visor design was done by Marshalls-of-Cambridge, plus the Flight Engineer instrument panel.
I don't think we realised at the time what an iconic aeroplane we were working on, nor how privilileged we were to be doing that job. At the time I know I was very well paid and as I was recently married it certainly helped me to buy my first house.
It was a sad day when it last flew, but the costs of keeping it in service were going to become unsustainable. For example, every modification has to be paid for by the operators and a simple mod can cost a million or more. Spread that over a few hundred aircraft of that type and it has little impact on the seat-mile cost, but with only around 14 operational aircraft over which to spread that cost and it become unsustainable when passed on to the passengers.
Still, it was a wonderful aeroplane.
I hope this is of interest.
"When i show to my friends this plane and then tell them that it was designed in the 60's"
I believe the SR71 was designed before that and it's the "evil twin" of these supersonic birds. Shortly after we landed on the moon. I believe the peak of American culture was in the 50s and the peak of American intelligence was in the 60s. If you look at progress over the twentieth century it has been astounding. If you look at progress over the first 20 years of the 21st century, not so much. I feel, and is demonstrable, that IQ has been gradually dropping over the last 60 years, and it is starting to be evident in our culture, our economics, our industries, our progress, our medicine, and our public policy.
@@petervalentine722 your comment is of great interest. Thank you for the behind the scenes look. To imagine the center spine prototype being made of wood! That'd be a fun momento to put on the wall
airplanes peaked in the 60's--70's
Sigue pareciéndose del futuro jajaja
Que lástima que está fuera de servicio y veo por qué el mecanismo de la nariz caída y la visera retráctil es tan caro que el propio avión, no me imagino cuánto tiempo de revición, mantenimiento y reparación lleva cada vez que aterriza antes de ser transbordado. Espero que las videocámaras y sensores hagan volver éste avión actualizado con esos componentes más por los que faltan, ya así sería el avión supersónico más barato de comprar y reparar
When he said "droop the snoot" and the snoot drooped all over the place... I felt that.
A beautiful aircraft. Wish the Concorde was still in service.
Not me. It was so fkin noisy. I'm for the next generation of hyper sonic plane without the sonic boom tearing my ears. I don't remember wich company is working on a 'silent small concorde' plane .
@@fruitycoconut your saying this like a sonic boom was a design choice if your break the speed of sound you get the same noise the company doesnt jhst decide whether or not they want the noise
@@chrisvaccaro9062 actually they can reduce the sound. I don't know how it works, obviously, but they managed to greatly reduce the sound of a sonic boom.
'' NASA’s New Supersonic Jet Will Have One Thing Missing: a Sonic Boom
Preparing for its first flight tests, NASA's X-59 will attempt to turn big booms into "sonic thuds" to help create public acceptance for the next generation of supersonic aircraft. ''
@@fruitycoconutboom overture right?
Airline companies
"Concord, we are sorry but you are getting decommissioned"
Concord
(Droops snoot)
the cockpit windows are puppy eyes lol
You forgot the part where 2 fell out the sky with no warning
@@petman515 what
@@aviationist1018i think they’re trying to say concord fell out of the sky (when it didn’t, it’s a fuel fire) so they probably (and just a hunch) don’t know much about the history of the aircraft.
I do frame stress issues from supersonic flight beyond the expected wear leading to there drcomission. Along with high maintenance costs and and a wain In interest. Ie flying to empty to often.
the snoot would droop
the snoot drooped
It's wants to fly so badly this Concorde!
the concorde really said "let me do it for you"
In 1999 me and my uncle's brother on law (an air traffic controller In training) we're standing at JFK when a concord pulled in. We were speechless for minutes. He was filming the whole thing. When the nose pulled up he got amazed he was able to get it on camera.
Couldve been an amazing catch!
Do you have the video?
can you upload it please if you still have the footage?
It was great that glass technology was able to produce a glass visor compared to the prototypes 001,002 it makes the front look so different ,superb design like a swan complicated underneath but elegant and beautiful on top ,so happy to have flown twice on this great aircraft 😊
Why does the nose drop on Concorde?
Concorde had a very high angle of attack during landing, which meant that a fixed streamlined nose wouldn't allow the pilots to see the runway. The engineers fixed this problem by designing a drooping nose that could be adjusted during different stages of the flight.
I guess they didn't want to rely on cameras alone. I think the original design had cameras behind the main landing gear, but it was found to be unnecessary (also not needed as a backup system for the case of a "droop failure").
In case of a failure, the droop snoot could be lowered (but not raised, as it would be drop by gravity and aerodynamic pressure) by an emergency system, allowing for a visual landing.
In case of an failure of the emergency system, the nose could be released manually, again dropping due to gravity.
*THE SNOOT WENT DROOP*
would
I really like the upper atmosphere being chemically consistent and an absence of sonic booms from my life but every time I see the concorde I forget for a while, beautiful machine
Chemically consistent? what?
@@thephaze3 supersonic jets have a disproportionately high impact on the makeup of the stratosphere, especially the ozone layer. Ideally the chemicals in the upper atmosphere shouldn't change
@@absolutcabbagery3661that’s not how it works at all
@@absolutcabbagery3661read that somewhere? No link between jets and ozone depletion. Stay ignorant, stay foolish, stay impressionable 😢
@@Lozzie74 there is absolutely a link between sulfer emissions by supersonic jets and ozone depletion, this is not difficult information to find
I made several replacement heat shields for Concorde during my time at Triplex in Kings Norton.
Dear God, it's such a beautiful aircraft.
"Since pilots couldn't see out of the plane during angled landing, engineers put together a solution"
"The Concorde featured a droop snoot"
"Droop snoot?"
"Yeah. The snoot would droop"
"The snoot drooped.."
The legendary Concorde!
What they have achieved in the 60s without computer is insane !!!!!!!. The most beatiful jet not doubt.
Most beautiful commercial jet maybe, not of all jets 🌚
@@dirtymat8240 I'm partial to the XB-70 Valkyrie myself.
To me the TU-160 is the one
Of course its a totally different design with a variable sweep wing rather than a delta like Concorde, XB-70 and the TU-144 but it's a large supersonic jet like the rest of them.
still a computer in there, just a very slow computer
Amazing. It is every pilots dream to fly the Concorde.
Sadly it retired
And BOOM Supersonic isn’t doing so well with their Boom Overture...
@@BurgerVrReal Thank to Aribus to not keepin her airworthy. AT LEAST for shows (non comercial). They are all museum pieces now.
I always thought it was every pilot's dream to fly the blackbird.
isnt an f16 or something better
Brilliant. If only she was doing this prior to departure!
She was once a majestic big bird......
Those are some satisfying clicks toward the end. VERY nice.
God the concord was so beautiful and such a shame it had a deadly past that grounded them all forever.
It was the French that finally ruined it
@@manston94 Lol like how ? If you are talking about the crash that stopped the concorde's carrier you are wrong, it was already doomed to stop being used way before that.
Cellphones and the internet are the actual reason why the Concorde died.
Cool. There is a lego set now for the Concorde, and yes, the snoot droops as well.
Não tem rinoplasta no mundo que tenha chegado a essa perfeição 🤩
How wonderful is that!
2024 and I see the snoop drooping in real time, from Visor Down to 12º and then back to normal and then Visor Up. What a beauty
I didnt know until this video that the thing was mid operation. This is from me searching for the video the iconic line came from, but i thought that it was built with the nose pointed at an angle. Not that it would happen mid operation. Really cool
A technical masterpiece!
I wonder how (or even if) they compensated for the change in the approach angle for the air going into the pitot tube when the nose was lowered. Or was the Concorde always flying with such a high AOA that the two cancelled each other out? Same with the AOA probe, since it was measuring from a different reference plane with the nose lowered.
Thats cool that it is still functional
gotta love the concorde... almost makes one wish he was born in its era
Brookland museum has to be one of the best
Saw one very close in December 1997 at Charles de Gaulle airport when I was walking in the tunnels, it was parked within meters of the windows, I was a kid then but I still remember it's strong presence .
Concorde was light years ahead in technology and aeronautical innovation than many other aviation projects
I was on the Concorde's final flight frim Texas to London, UK. It was freaking awesome, 1st and 2nd class were super luxorious, even met Pierce Brosnan.
Was there a second class? I thought there had only 1st?
@@paulhorn2665 I recall there being a 2nd class, but then again this is over 20 years ago.
Incredible engineering.
Oh so that's why the concorde was dropped. Everytime the nose is activated, the pilot has to constantly stick his head out of the cockpit to check if the mechanisms worked.
this video really did it for me 👍
I wish Concorde was still flying but hopefully boom overture will have more success
the drooping of the snoot
Good to see it works I’m pretty sure this one hasn’t been in the sky since the 80s sad really it was retired young
super precision. sophisticated technology
Genius design
What a beautiful machine
I think this is what Aladeen was imagining the rocket would look like.
Wow, that snoot sure drooped!
we need a place where a concorde stands so people can walk in and see it, if that isn't already a thing
Que privilégio!!!
Good lord that is glorious
HOW WERE YALL ABLE TO GET THIS??(or get the chance to kinda use it I should say)
Le plus bel avion jamais construit !
That guy was having the time of his life!
2023 random put me here.
I’m actually curious about how this helped or what the purpose of it was. Can someone explain?
It allows the pilot to see the runway.
Did they have windshield wipers?
bro just casually owns a concorde
OMG that plane has a fighter-mode!
I wonder if rain and dirt makes its way between the two window sections and that must suck to clean.
I wish Richard Brandson would buy one of these, full restore and fly them on occasion. These aircraft only flew half their life in aviation terms
You're so gullible, stop praising parasites
Where did you get hold of one
I still love how the official term is “droop snoot”
Ahhh yes, the droop snoop. classic!
for a second my sleepy brain thought richard hammond was talking at the beginning lol i was so confused
The snoot does droop!
I like to imagine the pilot sticking his head out the window like this in flight while drooping or undrooping the snoot
What a shame that the Concorde was discontinued
"It had.. a droop snoot."
"Droop snoot."
"The snoot would droop."
Not gonna lie, that takes a LOT less time than i imagined it would.
DROOP SNOOP 😍😍😍
how did u get ur hands on a concorde? O.O
Pure genious
Is there a reason why you can’t start the engines up ? So it can be taxing
Saudade deste deus dos céus...
Am I correct in thinking that’s the one at Brooklands?
"The Snoot Drooped" -some random interview a few years ago on the concorde
Where is this Concorde at?? Awesome it still functions like it should. Always Loved Concorde.
Not sure but looks like Brooklands
Absolutely ridiculous, but also very cool.
Apparently I’m getting the Lego version of this for valentines day
It really does feature a droop snoot.
Crazy to think this is one of only 20 ever made
@Soul really? do you really think he built one?
this is a real droop snoot moment
So he just pops his head out of the window when on landing approach?
very interesting, thanks
oh yeah now i know how to opperate my backyard concorde
“Lemme do it for you” vibes rn
concorde boutta say "LeMmE dO iT fOr yOu"
Snoot droop?
Bring back the Concorde
This is concorde G-BBDG, which was restored.
because pilots couldn’t outside, they found a solution
the concorde featured a droop snoot
droop snoot?
it’s, snoop would, droop
99% of Comments - Droopsnoot.
1% of Comments: Snootdroop
Did the 2 panes of glass, with space in between them, not make it difficult for the pilots to see?
Do double pane windows with space in between such as used in many houses make it difficult to see? Both panes of glass are clear as is the space between.
No, that could sea, but for even better visibility they retract it during taxi and landing
This is where the snoot would droop
Bring it back
The Concorde was a great plane. Sad to see that its gone...
But beyond impractical. The vast majority of people don't want to be constantly flown over by supersonic aircraft.
@@ashakydd1 Fair point.
Still crazy to think that it was faster than an F/A-18...you could overtake a fighter jet while sitting in the passenger compartment wearing a Hawaii T-shirt...
Also, once an SR-71 "Blackbird" secretly flying above Cuba was diverted because of "other air traffic at your altitude". I guess the SR-71 crew had a WTF moment...
Yes, impractical by all means, but still awesome.