In February 1981, I was a junior manager who wangled a trip to NY with two directors, and as a group their First Class eligibility uplifted them(and me!) to Concorde out FC back to LHR. WHAT an experience! The pilot gave the tannoy address at Mach 2, including, after perhaps 20 secs, "Which means we have travelled 5 miles since I started speaking". Seeing the curvature of the Earth from 50,000ft? The memories go on and on. Irony is that this kind of jolly ended when Lord Hanson bought Ever Ready Batteries!
So interesting to see Lord Hanson on the Concorde. He had his own corporate flight department at his disposal and he chose to fly Concorde across the pond.
I am from NY, and I remember driving on the Belt Parkway and hearing her loud engines and seeing her so close tot he ground as she was landing at JFK. It was amazing. Then when deep sea fishing off of Montauk, Long Island, near the Continental shelf, you see the concord beak the sound barrier.
I remember as a kid and my dad bought me a Concorde. I never knew I was from money until I was the only kid in London with a Concorde. To this day the model Concorde sits on my office desk next to my pen case.
Growing up in Cornwall very near lands end, the Concord's flight path went right over us. I remember as a kid hearing her going supersonic, the plane was of course miles off the coast but the rumble was very audible. It was very common to hear it in the early morning. just a boom boom.
@@Heldermaior No it wasn't as safe as any aircraft. You don't even have to look for these Information longer than 1 minute on google. So do your reasearch
@@agreeable-youth what? The concorde was considered the safest airliner in the world until the 2000 crash. That was its only crash in 30 years of flights... On 14 airframes... I don't think you know what you are talking about mate.
One of my childhood memories is my dad taking me to the viewing gallery at Heathrow to watch the Concorde come in. I’ll keep that day cherished for the rest of my life.
I remember travelling in the family car during 1988, we were on a trip to the West Country - but had to travel throw central Hounslow and just above came the majestic Concorde. An amazing sight.
When you see this and see how small it actually was (seats about 100 people and only has a wingspan of about 25 meters) you realize this wasn't a commercial jet plane... it was an oversized and very fast private jet.
The small wingspan is because of the swept wings, the small passenger count is because it was all first class, and it was 62m long, twice the length of jets like the A320 family and roughly the same length as the A330
@@ajs41 Yes it was highly profitable in later years, they realised they could charge a lot more than they were charging, the customers were generally very rich and money wasn't much of a problem, apparently they rarely knew how much the ticket price was because it was all organised through their company or PA but thought it was significantly more than it was. I recall reading it made a significant portion of BAs profits at one point. Sadly it went out of service after the impact of 9/11 hit the industry.
The first time I have ever seen a picture of the Concord was on the front cover of my brand new, 3rd grade Science book back in 93. They briefly talked about the jet later on in the chapter just explaining what lift is, and why the jet's nose does what it does. It was more just something cool they put in there to catch our attention because anything beyond that would have went over our heads.
In 2002 I had the privilege of a front row seat to several Concorde take offs and landings due to my project on at roof of a hangar at JFK. An unforgettable experience!
In 1993 I spent the summer in London. You could tell a Concorde was flying overhead just by the sound. Very loud and distinctive. I think I stopped every time I heard it to look up and see the distinctive shape.
I flew her in the mid 90’s with the landor livery - seat was comfy - but not a pivoting seat, when it had to be refitted - however the food & Champagnes were well above average :) much better then most restaurants Pol Roger “ Sir Winston Churchill “ curvee w/ Caviar and canapés , and lobster-fish cakes 4 mains And sterling silver gifts etc b4 departing Concorde.
Concorde was expected to be airborne until 2010 - 2018 especially BA who extended the retirement until the mid 2010s on 2000 . Originally it was estimated to retire by 2005-2008. Unfortunately we all know it only ever made it till 2003 due to the political reasons involving its early demised.
@@recoswell no it crashed into a hotel not a motorway. But anyway many aircraft have crashed before - the 747 hundreds of times, many times without survivors however the Concorde crashed once. Just once and it was grounded.
Mainly economical - people will happily pay just £300 or less for a return flight to New York from London on budget airlines and the only downside is it takes double the time to fly there that Concorde did it in.....rather that than £10000 for a ticket. Its a no brainer.
Something about a plane with the capacity of an E190 but having the fuel burn of a B747 also didn't sit well with the increasing fuel prices, and the profit margin of the thing actually was not great until British Airways started lowering ticket prices to have a higher load factor. The other reason the slower planes started getting more popular was because the introduction of more luxurious premium cabins, such as lie flat beds in business and first class. They would rather use an 8 hr overnight flight to catch up on some sleep in a flat bed than save 4 hrs in a cramped glorified economy seat.
@@recoswellIt didn't flop onto a motorway. And the DC10's wearstrip causing tyre to hit Tank 5 wouldn't have been nearly as catastrophic if Air France hadn't been routinely filling fuel tanks beyond the 95% limit. AF4590 was also overweight and hadn't recalculated V1 speed for updated wind conditions. One failure ultimately ushered in its demise.
The brilliance of the design and look are utterly stunning and shows the amazing achievements of British and the French in joint engineering of this beautiful aircraft. They should both come together and design Mark 2 concord 🇬🇧 ✈️ 🇫🇷
Difference now is that corporate executives commonly have their own planes that can fly into smaller airports, to which is far more convenient in scheduling and smaller air strips have tremendously easier access than getting into a big airport.
Almost any flight on a domestic airline was the same as another. That is, until the Concorde. You instantly noticed the narrower fusilage, the lower ceiling, and the tight quarters. The sound was noticeably different in tone and more pronounced. The service was a bit higher insofar as there was no 'steerage', i.e. economy class. What was most striking was the plane. In pictures the plane appeared to be a big jet like some air force bomber; in reality, it was shockingly small, the smallest plane you'd have flied in.
@@ciudad-del-mar Yes they are very narrow, go to see one of them on static display and see for yourself, worth a visit. At one point I lived near heathrow and worked in Reading and loved Concorde coming over daily heading out to NY.
I got to fly the Concorde London to new York, as promotion by BA for being a frequent business class traveller. I arrived in new York nice and early then waited for several hours for my connecting flight to Montreal. Yeah, it was nice to do, but a regular 747 business class flight, though longer, would have been more comfortable.
Lucky enough to have travelled on Concord several times, beautiful outside a little cramped and noisy inside. Unfortunately it was prohibitively expensive for the majority and as you can see in this video it was half empty.
Lord Hanson had a 10 Billion pound Empire at the time he passed away, Amazing really, I am sure getting back and forth to NY so quickly made a difference
He pretty much was a tycoon/villain/king. He was one of England's top industrialists and corporate raiders. He made billions doing hostile takeovers to companies on both sides of the Atlantic by asset stripping them to the bone, which explains why he was on the Concorde a lot. His nickname was literally Lord Moneybags. He was so rich and powerful, he once dated and was engaged to Audrey Hepburn and used to hang out with Thatcher all the time. He died in 2003 not too long after Concorde was retired. Maybe it was out depression and sadness that his favorite plane was gone.
amazing plane, terrible jet liner. noise pollution would be taken more seriously nowadays and it's too expensive to maintain in a world with cheap tickets
The crazy thing about this is that in the 80s and 90s you could fly twice as fast across the ocean than you can in 2023. They could easily invest in this so people can fly faster.
London to New York was £4000 back then, there was trips to Ireland and back £750 which I would do was a 45 minute journey extremely brilliant experience but worth it
Look how tiny that plane actually is. He paid 5000 pounds for that seat. That amount would land you a 1st class seat on many other airlines with many more luxuries. Yet here, not having to sit for 7 hours but just 3, is the luxury.
Not at all. Zoom et al but a poor substitute for face to face. Can you honestly say that if the service were still available, you wouldn't prefer a real encounter with that business acquaintance rather than the sterile product on offer now instead?
Modern connectivity has allieviated the requirement of Concorde i.e. dead time. You can keep working on your flight these days, or just make a Zoom call.
odd how they are already predicting end to concorde in 1993, due to spare parts, while when it really ended in 2003 , it supposedly was due to safety issues after the crash and cost vs profit problems. at least thats what they told in the media
I travelled on Concorde and what they don’t tell you is that it’s airtight enough to trap 100 people’s farts. Eyes hurt after the first few trapped farts.
@@Montoya2005 That's an interesting fact that I wasn't aware of up until now. Still, it would make sense to me that they would have used air purifiers or ionisers or sprayed some sort of Febreze back then given how stupidly expensive the ticket were. Didn't they ? Also the Concorde comes with the same cabin pressurization system as any other passenger jet and those actually bring fresh air all the time whilst expelling stale air through something called an outflow valve at the back of the fuselage. Outside air is compressed by the engine blades before the combustion chamber and part of it is used to pressurize the cabin.
@@psirvent8 on a standard plane, maybe, but remember a standard plane (e.g A320 or even smaller) still has a much wider body all round from Concorde. The Concorde was as narrow as it was high so it was tightly packed. (2x2 vs 3x3). The skin or the aircraft also heats up so the aircon didn’t cool it as much as a standard aircraft. Add all of this up and you get a unique odour.
Great to see this. Good report and very accurate in the end. Also, I love the clear picture quality, especially of the beginning in the news studio. Nerdy question, Simon - this surely isn't from a VHS? Is it a higher quality tape or digital format source, as this was pre-HDTV/digital TV, right? Miss you being on ITV news!
Is that a snippet of Niteflites by the The Walker Brothers in the package? Edit: actually sounds like Bowie’s cover on Black Tie White Noise. If anyone was wondering…
True that although the prototype aircraft were 25 years old. The airline serviceable ones made between 1975 and 79 were destined to be flying till 2010 with an extention to 2015 which happened in 2000 after the crash
as a french 20 yo guy, not to have been born before to get to fly in the Concorde is one of my biggest regrets.... even though I'm broke and I still cant afford those 5 grands
@@texaswunderkind Well yes but the extra expense is only the additional cost on top of their usual First Class flight they’d take. So in this case, an extra £1k which in the scheme of things for these guys is nothing.
As someone who was born long after concord was grounded, I've never understood why the project was shelved and they didn't build more? Surely we've regressed in air travel?
Kinda simple really. Too costly, and sonic booms. Breaking the speed barrier causes sonic booms. That’s a basic aspect of physics. People didn’t like sonic booms (and they did have physical consequences) so various countries made it illegal to fly them over land (like the US). This extremely limits routes as they have to be over seas. Gas prices went up so that was also very costly. And they were never economical in the fist place. They were like the airplane version of the space race. The planes themselves were costly to repair, and then one had a high profile crash and the public lost interest. Even rich people would prefer first class flights on conventional planes than cramped seats on really fast planes so they even the Rich couldn’t be relied on to keep the planes running. We haven’t regressed in air travel, we just hit a literal wall in science, the speed of sound barrier. It’s most economical to fly like .85 the speed of sound or something like that. Any faster and wind resistance increases sharply. It’s actually worst to flay between .85 and the speed of sound than it is to fly at like 5x the speed of sound. It’s call the trans sonic zone or whatever and air resistance spikes
Clicked for Tywin Lannister, stayed for the informative segment on a retired aircraft.
same@IamtheEggmanIamtheWalrus
I thought it was Michael Caine
shut up
Same here
@@triborn217 he’s not an actor at all
Ok. I know I CAN'T be the only one that thought this Lord Hansen fellow was Charles Dance lmao.
Son sosie.
Literally I was like “is that MB from the crown?”
Yes lolol
I kept thinking he reminded me of someone and it was always Charles Dance that came to my head
I thought the same. When did Tywin Lannister travel on a Concorde?
Even 20 years after it being retired from passenger service, the sight of a real Concorde still gives wings to my heart's delight.
In February 1981, I was a junior manager who wangled a trip to NY with two directors, and as a group their First Class eligibility uplifted them(and me!) to Concorde out FC back to LHR. WHAT an experience! The pilot gave the tannoy address at Mach 2, including, after perhaps 20 secs, "Which means we have travelled 5 miles since I started speaking". Seeing the curvature of the Earth from 50,000ft? The memories go on and on. Irony is that this kind of jolly ended when Lord Hanson bought Ever Ready Batteries!
100% separated at birth
how old were u?
He was 16 years old
Fake. The Earth is flat. That comment about curvature shows this story is fake.
Where is FC please?
At first glance I thought it was Charles Dance in the thumbnail.
Ha, I thought so too!
So interesting to see Lord Hanson on the Concorde. He had his own corporate flight department at his disposal and he chose to fly Concorde across the pond.
Because private jets were subsonic. It made sense to use the Concorde for trips to NY but other destinations would use his own sub-sonic fleet.
I am from NY, and I remember driving on the Belt Parkway and hearing her loud engines and seeing her so close tot he ground as she was landing at JFK. It was amazing. Then when deep sea fishing off of Montauk, Long Island, near the Continental shelf, you see the concord beak the sound barrier.
I remember as a kid and my dad bought me a Concorde. I never knew I was from money until I was the only kid in London with a Concorde. To this day the model Concorde sits on my office desk next to my pen case.
Growing up in Cornwall very near lands end, the Concord's flight path went right over us. I remember as a kid hearing her going supersonic, the plane was of course miles off the coast but the rumble was very audible. It was very common to hear it in the early morning. just a boom boom.
What a magnificent bird. It's a shame they couldn't keep them going, or make a replacement. This was a great achievement in the history of flight.
In reality it was a waste of money. Impractical and so expensive it hurt.
And very dangerous too. Look up Concorde Crash
@@agreeable-youth that was one crash in thousands of flights. One crash in 31 years of service. The concorde was as safe as any aircraft.
@@Heldermaior No it wasn't as safe as any aircraft. You don't even have to look for these Information longer than 1 minute on google. So do your reasearch
@@agreeable-youth what? The concorde was considered the safest airliner in the world until the 2000 crash. That was its only crash in 30 years of flights... On 14 airframes... I don't think you know what you are talking about mate.
One of my childhood memories is my dad taking me to the viewing gallery at Heathrow to watch the Concorde come in. I’ll keep that day cherished for the rest of my life.
I remember travelling in the family car during 1988, we were on a trip to the West Country - but had to travel throw central Hounslow and just above came the majestic Concorde. An amazing sight.
Lord Hanson was 26 yo when the video was recorded, really makes you think how young people looked back.
When you see this and see how small it actually was (seats about 100 people and only has a wingspan of about 25 meters) you realize this wasn't a commercial jet plane... it was an oversized and very fast private jet.
The small wingspan is because of the swept wings, the small passenger count is because it was all first class, and it was 62m long, twice the length of jets like the A320 family and roughly the same length as the A330
Except I think BA did manage to make a profit out of it quite a lot of the time. Air France never did.
@@ajs41 You are so wrong lol. Go back to the circus, clown. 🤡
I flew on it once and it was comfy. No good if you were a fat bastard but your got very good legroom, and the bathrooms were not unlike a380 first.
@@ajs41 Yes it was highly profitable in later years, they realised they could charge a lot more than they were charging, the customers were generally very rich and money wasn't much of a problem, apparently they rarely knew how much the ticket price was because it was all organised through their company or PA but thought it was significantly more than it was. I recall reading it made a significant portion of BAs profits at one point. Sadly it went out of service after the impact of 9/11 hit the industry.
Lord Hanson is a business tycoon who always pays his debts
The first time I have ever seen a picture of the Concord was on the front cover of my brand new, 3rd grade Science book back in 93.
They briefly talked about the jet later on in the chapter just explaining what lift is, and why the jet's nose does what it does. It was more just something cool they put in there to catch our attention because anything beyond that would have went over our heads.
In 2002 I had the privilege of a front row seat to several Concorde take offs and landings due to my project on at roof of a hangar at JFK. An unforgettable experience!
Concorde once flew in to Tucson, AZ where I live. What a sight!
No way! I'm from Tucson!
Its just crazy you can fly between two continents thousands of miles apart and be home again the same day.
Don't even need supersonic flight for it... Though if you want to factor in West coast traffic to it...
Not really. That's what modern technology does.
@@Locutus Nope, you tried!
👌🏻
@@rkan2You know Mexico is in North America, right?
Unfortunately, this was Lord Hanson’s last Concorde flight, as his son shot him with a crossbow in the lavatory.
For a second, I thought it was Tywin Lannister
My nan lived close to Heathrow. I remember being obsessed with standing in the garden waiting for Concorde to fly overhead.
In 1993 I spent the summer in London. You could tell a Concorde was flying overhead just by the sound. Very loud and distinctive. I think I stopped every time I heard it to look up and see the distinctive shape.
51yrs old and can remember me and my mates watching it flying overs se9 around 40yrs ago. 🎉
Didn't realise tywin lannister flew concorde back in the days !
I flew her in the mid 90’s with the landor livery - seat was comfy - but not a pivoting seat, when it had to be refitted - however the food & Champagnes were well above average :) much better then most restaurants
Pol Roger “ Sir Winston Churchill “ curvee w/ Caviar and canapés , and lobster-fish cakes 4 mains
And sterling silver gifts etc b4 departing Concorde.
Love the guy sleeping in the shell suit in the waiting area. Classy!
Scouser from Harry Enflied taking a nap
Concorde was expected to be airborne until 2010 - 2018 especially BA who extended the retirement until the mid 2010s on 2000 . Originally it was estimated to retire by 2005-2008. Unfortunately we all know it only ever made it till 2003 due to the political reasons involving its early demised.
doing a flaming belly flop on a crowded freeway didn't help either
@@recoswell no it crashed into a hotel not a motorway. But anyway many aircraft have crashed before - the 747 hundreds of times, many times without survivors however the Concorde crashed once. Just once and it was grounded.
Mainly economical - people will happily pay just £300 or less for a return flight to New York from London on budget airlines and the only downside is it takes double the time to fly there that Concorde did it in.....rather that than £10000 for a ticket. Its a no brainer.
Something about a plane with the capacity of an E190 but having the fuel burn of a B747 also didn't sit well with the increasing fuel prices, and the profit margin of the thing actually was not great until British Airways started lowering ticket prices to have a higher load factor.
The other reason the slower planes started getting more popular was because the introduction of more luxurious premium cabins, such as lie flat beds in business and first class. They would rather use an 8 hr overnight flight to catch up on some sleep in a flat bed than save 4 hrs in a cramped glorified economy seat.
@@recoswellIt didn't flop onto a motorway.
And the DC10's wearstrip causing tyre to hit Tank 5 wouldn't have been nearly as catastrophic if Air France hadn't been routinely filling fuel tanks beyond the 95% limit. AF4590 was also overweight and hadn't recalculated V1 speed for updated wind conditions. One failure ultimately ushered in its demise.
The brilliance of the design and look are utterly stunning and shows the amazing achievements of British and the French in joint engineering of this beautiful aircraft. They should both come together and design Mark 2 concord 🇬🇧 ✈️ 🇫🇷
We may never see a more fuel efficient flight again.
@MrTuxy you want speed and progress you gotta burn a little fuel
Difference now is that corporate executives commonly have their own planes that can fly into smaller airports, to which is far more convenient in scheduling and smaller air strips have tremendously easier access than getting into a big airport.
Almost any flight on a domestic airline was the same as another. That is, until the Concorde. You instantly noticed the narrower fusilage, the lower ceiling, and the tight quarters. The sound was noticeably different in tone and more pronounced. The service was a bit higher insofar as there was no 'steerage', i.e. economy class. What was most striking was the plane. In pictures the plane appeared to be a big jet like some air force bomber; in reality, it was shockingly small, the smallest plane you'd have flied in.
flying death trap geared towards wealthy cocksuckers dude - don't glorify it
What? Smaller than the A319 or A318?
@@alinaqirizvi1441I believe so, at least in terms of the cabin width.
@@ciudad-del-mar Yes they are very narrow, go to see one of them on static display and see for yourself, worth a visit. At one point I lived near heathrow and worked in Reading and loved Concorde coming over daily heading out to NY.
flown in not flied in
I clicked on the thumbnail because I thought I saw Charles Dance 💀
Saw a Concord parked at JFK in the 80s. So sleek. It looked like it was moving when it was parked.
I got to fly the Concorde London to new York, as promotion by BA for being a frequent business class traveller. I arrived in new York nice and early then waited for several hours for my connecting flight to Montreal. Yeah, it was nice to do, but a regular 747 business class flight, though longer, would have been more comfortable.
Lucky enough to have travelled on Concord several times, beautiful outside a little cramped and noisy inside. Unfortunately it was prohibitively expensive for the majority and as you can see in this video it was half empty.
Phenomenal, doing what it did that many years ago. Incredible
Easy to remember as I had my 30th in New York!
Lord Hanson had a 10 Billion pound Empire at the time he passed away, Amazing really, I am sure getting back and forth to NY so quickly made a difference
Seriously thought this guy was Charles Dance. He's like a cartoon of a tycoon/villain/king
Same
He pretty much was a tycoon/villain/king. He was one of England's top industrialists and corporate raiders. He made billions doing hostile takeovers to companies on both sides of the Atlantic by asset stripping them to the bone, which explains why he was on the Concorde a lot. His nickname was literally Lord Moneybags. He was so rich and powerful, he once dated and was engaged to Audrey Hepburn and used to hang out with Thatcher all the time. He died in 2003 not too long after Concorde was retired. Maybe it was out depression and sadness that his favorite plane was gone.
Me too!
Glad I wasn't the only one - of course the footage is too old to be him. Wasted 15 mins trying to figure out which actor he reminded me of though
0:53 My guy must have the carbon footprint of a small African country
The engines on the Concorde were among some of the most efficient machines ever created when they came out
@@srpacific’when they came out’
Lol, that’s the frigging point! It was insanely inefficient when you factored in the fuel burn against passenger load.
My grandparents made that flight, well NYC to London, and flew back on a 747. Grandmother said she would rather be comfortable than cramped.
Lord Hanson played by Charles Dance.
IT IS STILL A TECHNICAL WONDER ...AMAZING PLANE👍
Why do you think that. What do you think all those fighter jets do since the 50’s?
@@InFltSvcnot London to New York carrying over a 100 passengers in 3.5 hours
The yanks got bitter and tried to destroy it
YES IT IS
Still unbeaten in fuel economy.
amazing plane, terrible jet liner. noise pollution would be taken more seriously nowadays and it's too expensive to maintain in a world with cheap tickets
it's probably the most awe inspiring and awesome bad idea ever
The Lord Tywin of the House of British Airways
The crazy thing about this is that in the 80s and 90s you could fly twice as fast across the ocean than you can in 2023. They could easily invest in this so people can fly faster.
We do it at the speed of light now (in a way)
It’s now October 2023
And we use today the app Zoom or FaceTime to meet people 😊
@@Ducberynah it's good ..more efficient
From wikipedia: Baron Hanson died, aged 82, on 1 November 2004 after a long battle with cancer, at his home near Newbury, Berkshire.
London to New York was £4000 back then, there was trips to Ireland and back £750 which I would do was a 45 minute journey extremely brilliant experience but worth it
Imagine just take breakfast in London and later lunch at NY.
Incredible.
Look how tiny that plane actually is. He paid 5000 pounds for that seat. That amount would land you a 1st class seat on many other airlines with many more luxuries. Yet here, not having to sit for 7 hours but just 3, is the luxury.
I love how articulate Lord Nansen is. Not surprising by no means, but still great to hear one to speak so clearly
It is a jolly good and a bloody good flight aboard a British Airways Concorde jet flight-From London to New York-In only 3 hours,and 30 minutes!🥰😇
The music playing is 'Nite Flights' by David Bowie, a cover of the Walker Brothers' song, in case anyone cares.
The concept of a fast business flight now made redundant overnight by Zoom 😪
You might have said the same about the telephone.
Not at all.
Zoom et al but a poor substitute for face to face.
Can you honestly say that if the service were still available, you wouldn't prefer a real encounter with that business acquaintance rather than the sterile product on offer now instead?
@JP_TaVeryMuch Yes I totally agree. Unfortunately I think the masses and the corporate bean-counters think otherwise.
Yes, but with Zoom, how are you supposed to visit your mistress during trips? It ruined the concept of a kept woman.
Tywin Lannister
It’s still ahead of its time. We have nothing better today
Modern connectivity has allieviated the requirement of Concorde i.e. dead time. You can keep working on your flight these days, or just make a Zoom call.
Still can't believe this was an actual thing.
It Must have been one of the Amazing Flights of your Life
I'm really glad I'm not the only one who thought that was Charles Dance.
Tywin Lannister on Concorde 🤩
odd how they are already predicting end to concorde in 1993, due to spare parts, while when it really ended in 2003 , it supposedly was due to safety issues after the crash and cost vs profit problems.
at least thats what they told in the media
3:14 ".... will almost certainly be grounded shortly after the turn of the century". Crikey, that was one accurate prediction from 1993!
I was offered an upgrade on BA to fly the following day on Concorde, but I had to be back to work and couldn't take up the offer.
A massive regret.
I travelled on Concorde and what they don’t tell you is that it’s airtight enough to trap 100 people’s farts. Eyes hurt after the first few trapped farts.
@@Montoya2005 That's an interesting fact that I wasn't aware of up until now.
Still, it would make sense to me that they would have used air purifiers or ionisers or sprayed some sort of Febreze back then given how stupidly expensive the ticket were.
Didn't they ?
Also the Concorde comes with the same cabin pressurization system as any other passenger jet and those actually bring fresh air all the time whilst expelling stale air through something called an outflow valve at the back of the fuselage.
Outside air is compressed by the engine blades before the combustion chamber and part of it is used to pressurize the cabin.
@@psirvent8 on a standard plane, maybe, but remember a standard plane (e.g A320 or even smaller) still has a much wider body all round from Concorde. The Concorde was as narrow as it was high so it was tightly packed. (2x2 vs 3x3).
The skin or the aircraft also heats up so the aircon didn’t cool it as much as a standard aircraft. Add all of this up and you get a unique odour.
RIP Lord Hanson (2004) and his adopted son Brook Hanson (2014)
We need the Concorde back
The algorithm really picked this one up!
I've been inside one in Seattle I wish I could have flown one
How 'Prophetic', grounded at the start of the century. 😢
Wasn't meant to be grounded until at least 2015 ish
Great to see this. Good report and very accurate in the end. Also, I love the clear picture quality, especially of the beginning in the news studio. Nerdy question, Simon - this surely isn't from a VHS? Is it a higher quality tape or digital format source, as this was pre-HDTV/digital TV, right? Miss you being on ITV news!
Hi Ian, it was uploaded from a Beta SP tape.
@@SimonHarrisITV amazing thank you Simon, and hope you are well these days. Cheers :)
@@SimonHarrisITV Lmao are you the reporter from this clip? Fancy tie👔
First I thought that was Charles Dance…and then I got Ghana Airways at 1:40, our old airline
Yep, definitely thought that was Charles Dance
Is that a snippet of Niteflites by the The Walker Brothers in the package?
Edit: actually sounds like Bowie’s cover on Black Tie White Noise. If anyone was wondering…
Anyone else think that was Charles Dance in the thumbnail before clicking? 😅
damn Lannister
I want to know what happens in these meetings that businesspeople fly so frequently
The internet has made the Concorde obsolete anyway.
News Reports always get it wrong The Concorde fleet weren't 25 years old in 1993 they were between 19 - 13 Years old at that time.
True that although the prototype aircraft were 25 years old. The airline serviceable ones made between 1975 and 79 were destined to be flying till 2010 with an extention to 2015 which happened in 2000 after the crash
as a french 20 yo guy, not to have been born before to get to fly in the Concorde is one of my biggest regrets.... even though I'm broke and I still cant afford those 5 grands
And it would probably be more like 10k now
very cool
Interesting having champagne before a business meeting :D
Looks like Tywin Lannister on the Concorde
even Tywin Lannister flew Concorde. It crashed on my Birthday.
Never got to fly on concorde or the space shuttle 😢
Pretty sad we still fly in 787s that cruise at Mach 0.85, same speed as the 757 that was launched 40 years ago.
That's physics...
Kudos for them using a lesser known Bowie song
747 queen of the skies
Coperates must love this plane consider they count their executives' time extremely preciesly
I'm guessing the executives approved the expense for themselves, as it definitely counts as a luxury more than a necessity.
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Well yes but the extra expense is only the additional cost on top of their usual First Class flight they’d take. So in this case, an extra £1k which in the scheme of things for these guys is nothing.
me miss this plane
The Lannisters send their regard
That guy looks and sounds like Charles Dance.
Fley back from barbados four times
£400.00
But it was xmas eve clever momey stayed for xmas
Fantastic
Just got recommended this after watching time-flight (dr who serial)
What's Tywin Lannister doing on a Concorde? 😲
I thought that was Charles Dance…I was like GOT with planes…good spin off lol
Should never have been stopped.
Who is the news reader in the beginning?
then it all ended in tears.
Travelling to the NYC for a business meeting? Thank god for zoom
Still happens in the Zoom era
As someone who was born long after concord was grounded, I've never understood why the project was shelved and they didn't build more? Surely we've regressed in air travel?
Kinda simple really. Too costly, and sonic booms.
Breaking the speed barrier causes sonic booms. That’s a basic aspect of physics.
People didn’t like sonic booms (and they did have physical consequences) so various countries made it illegal to fly them over land (like the US).
This extremely limits routes as they have to be over seas.
Gas prices went up so that was also very costly.
And they were never economical in the fist place. They were like the airplane version of the space race.
The planes themselves were costly to repair, and then one had a high profile crash and the public lost interest.
Even rich people would prefer first class flights on conventional planes than cramped seats on really fast planes so they even the Rich couldn’t be relied on to keep the planes running.
We haven’t regressed in air travel, we just hit a literal wall in science, the speed of sound barrier.
It’s most economical to fly like .85 the speed of sound or something like that. Any faster and wind resistance increases sharply. It’s actually worst to flay between .85 and the speed of sound than it is to fly at like 5x the speed of sound. It’s call the trans sonic zone or whatever and air resistance spikes
@stevesmith1383 ahh I see.. thank you for your well crafted reply.