This plane could cross the Atlantic in 3.5 hours. Why did it fail?
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- Опубліковано 18 лип 2016
- The Concorde gave us supersonic transport. But why did this supersonic plane fail? The answer is complicated.
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“The droop snoot.”
“The droop snoot?”
“The snoot would droop.”
“The snoot drooped.”
Great, another person copy pasted a comment.
Dylan W. Droop died.
Lol😂
hows this funny
there it is
the famous line
I'd rather be uncomfortable for three and a half hours, than slightly less uncomfortable for seven hours...
so true
It's probably more unsafe than uncomfortable
+Ludwig The Great and MUUUUCH more expensive
+Ludwig The Great But think about it. If the project was never dropped, we would have time to advance the aircraft today.
2NDSIDE Like Alex said, it may to too expensive to manufacture so many, full them, and not to mention only rich people could probably afford a flight. Evten at that, it wouldn't be entirely comfortable for a luxurious class ride anyway.
My husband and I flew Concorde in 1987. It was very comfortable and a thrilling experience. As a WW2 naval aviator, my husband was amazed by the technology in the cockpit. We were allowed in the flight deck while over the Atlantic.
Quite an experience.
Wow
@Heavy Metal God okay, armchair pilot. I’m sure you’ve flown multiple jets before so you know all about these technical terms
@Flatearth Granny you think that’s all Pilots do? With a name like that, I’m sure you believe it
Could you safely walk around while the concorde went supersonic?
“This plane is bad for the ozone layer”
Rest of the worlds super polluting industries: oh really?
Sad reality, right? It's nice to see some change today (as miniscule as it is).
700 yrs ago!?
And to think billionaires are in a race to send fellow billionaires just out of the earths atmosphere to see the earths curvature at the cost of seriously damaging our planet, the absurdity of the rich bewilders me beyond words.
Cruel to say this, but if there was a 'space travel disaster', don't come running back to me to say 'omg you told us so!'
just saying, look at past lessons in history. It took a MAJOR DISASTER to come back and do it right. Titanic, that big weather baloon thing, etc.
@@The-Great-Brindian God i love capitalism
People: ban Concorde.
Also them: lets drill more oil and use carbon rich substances for manufacturing.
*dRoOP snOOT. ThE snOOt wOuLD dRoOp*
Mark referenced
I love that man
Ｓ Ｎ Ｏ Ｏ Ｔ Ｄ Ｒ Ｏ Ｏ Ｐ
NOOT NOOT SNOOP DROOP
The droop snooped.
Has it not taken the titanic 106 years and counting to cross the Atlantic? 🤔
Smh whens it gonna arrive 😤
Im at port right niw waiting for someone called "Jack" but its says Status Delayed wtf is goin on im gonna ask the staff why
That was a very ... dark and deep joke.
Too soon?
John Carlo Fernando LMAOOOOOO
Oh god dammit 💀
As a teenager, I flew with my Dad on the Concorde in early 2000. I remember our round trip tickets costing $9,800 dollars a piece. My ears felt like they were going to explode and it was actually very loud inside the plane. The food was DELICIOUS!... There was so much going on inside the plane with all the adults that I found that more intriguing & interesting, than the deep dark blue atmosphere you could see outside the plane and all the stars!.....
"There was so much going on inside the plane with all the adults that I found that more intriguing & interesting"
What do you mean?
@@tbg6070 I purposely omitted those details for a reason. Those plane tickets include a full discretion clause so what happens at that altitude, stays at that altitude!...
Youre talking about mile high club or drugs or something
I flew on Pan Am once. in 1988, but not on the plane that crashed lol
good god no, but it was a few months before that Lockerbie disaster. What a tragedy that was.
The food we had on Pan Am was amazing. The best flight I've ever flown on to date is Gulf Air, its was an Arab flight. The music I was listening to made no sense but it still rocked lol
@@The-Great-Brindian cool?
Fun fact: Phil Collins flew from England to the US in a day on a Concorde so he could make an appearance at both Live Aid events.
How long did the flight take
@@RegiyThornton 3 hours
LOL
Brilliant.
??
"Because of angled landing the Concord featured a droop snoot."
"A droop snoot?"
"Yeah, the snoot would droop."
"The snoot drooped."
You see, this is truly the real reason as to why this needs to be brought back.
I agree.
*Concorde.
Snout
Snoop de droop ! Snoop de droop droop droop !
Just as long as the front doesn't fall off.
I do wish someone would try this again.
Pinder Productions look up boom aerospace!
I'm sure something is in the works.
.... Elon musk?!
kiwicant I hope so.
They are... the plan is to build a plane that goes so fast that its main training standard is to cut the engines while over the ocean and cruise in going around 500mph for a landing... according to specs, there will be no windows but cameras with screens on the wall to act as windows because of the MK3 speed. The engines are currently in testing and proving to be very successful.
During the "Live Aid" concerts in the 80's Phil Collins of Genesis played live at the Wembley England leg of the concert, took a couple chopper rides and a Concorde flight and played live in the Philadelphia leg of the concert on the same day.
yes he did
Wow!
He also sang the Tarzan soundtrack in English, German, French, Spanish, and Italian.
Wouldn't be surprised if he gives the eulogy at his own funeral.
@@vitoc8454 Lol!
Brilliant.
Thank you for this. I remember this plane, and only now I noticed it just vanished out of thin air!
🎉
Jet
Only now?? It's been gone for 11 yrs.
21 you mean
@@txtabby *20 years
i remember seeing concorde set off when i was like 5 and i cried at how loud it was
Adam S
Adam Schofield lol this comment made me laugh, something I would do too lmao. These aircrafts are so badass.
behind my house is a military base and i hate those planes noises
+carlos valdes I LOVE the sounds of jets and planes taking off.
+METRO If you stood next to it your ears will shatter
wow dude huge Titanic spoilers wtf
If you haven't seen titanic by now then you can't complain about its ending.
+Docter Fishy do you not understand sarcasm?
You did catch the sarcasm, right?...
+Docter Fishy How long have you lived upon this Earth to not undetstand sarcasm
perhaps everyone was being facetious....
My great uncle helped design the engines of the Concorde, this is super interesting to watch!
Vox: Makes a 10 minute documentary that requires hours of work and an interview with a professional engineer
Everyone: HAHAHHAA snoot go droop
The internet is also part of the reason why a new Concorde is unlikely for awhile. Concorde flights were mostly for business because companies could afford to pay the higher ticket prices. It is much cheaper to just use a webcam and telecommute meetings than to fly 4000 miles.
Corporate travel budgets were slashed a long time ago for middle managers, forcing them to fly coach. No fun, so they embrace teleconferencing. Only executives can fly first and the 1% elite these days have so much money they can just afford to lease their own planes for the most convenient and fastest way to travel. Pick up the phone and have your flight crew ready to go in a few hours, 24x7, can't beat that.
soapftw96 the people that were paying 15,000$ for a ticket still pay 15,000$ for a ticket, business men prefer to meet irl.
soapftw96 rich ppl love to travel I would pay
Of course you're correct, but it's too bad. Frankly, I doubt we'll ever see Super-sonic transports again, at least not in my lifetime.
M.J. Leger I think it will be difficult because of the amout of fuel being used and therefore emissions beimg created. However, Virgin Galactic is developing a commercial passenger plane using "Boom Technology" that will go Mach 2.2 and could be ready by 2020. Richard Branson is superman.
This is literally one of the best mini-documentaries, ever!
I agree
It would be 45mins or more if was produced by Nat Geo
They should really stick to these types of documentaries instead of their political agenda trash.
Omar Delawar yes because of dem droop snoots but it is still interesting nonetheless
the snoot drooped
We lived in its flight path in London back in the 90s....it was unbelievably loud but amazing to watch, going almost vertically up after take-off.
I was born in 93 London and I remember the sound of them literally drowning out the noise central London traffic. You would eventually find a tiny white dot in the sky. It was so so loud its indescribable now.
I used to live close to Prestwick where the Concorde pilots would practice there landing but they could never touch down so they just did a few go around it was loud
Today - June 3, 2021 - United Airlines announced that they ordered 15 new supersonic jets to be built by American start-up Boom Supersonic, to be completed by the year 2029, pending U.S. government approval. The model is the "Overture", and is expected to be the Concorde's direct successor. Testing will begin in 2025-2026.
Apparently Emirates might be relaunching Concorde I doubt it the Fremch will deffo give them there's but the BA ones it plans to have BA won't give as there preservered
I doubt that will take off, Especially in todays world my uncle worked on the Concorde and harrier jump jet and he doubts it himself
That be 😎
EXITING, we havemade strived innoisecancelation
@@billclinton3862 you don’t think rich Arabs will pay for the tickets? If it works the rich will pay for it
"the Concorde featured a droop snoot."
Droop Snoot ?
"the Snoot would Droop."
the Snoot Drooped.
THE BEST DOCUMENTARY NARRATOR EVER.
Imam Dwi Septiadi loo
Snoot Droppy Droop
Super snooper drooper
2nd best narrator, after Benedict "Penweg" Cumberbatch.
*Droop Dog*
One of the biggest factors they failed to mention was that by the early 2000s, internet/email/telepresence/other technological advances were making it less necessary for business executives to fly across the ocean and back in one day just to do a business meeting. So your already-small customer market was shrinking even more.
Well said.
That's a great point.
Exactly.
Nice argument
Great point
In nova scotia, we were hundreds of miles from its path to new york. At that distance, it's hard to believe yet we heard the sonic boom every morning at 830. Sound must travel well over the ocean over such distance
My parents knew it was dinner time when they heard the Concorde take off every evening in London
They've not eaten dinner since the early 00s?
My dad once flew on the Concorde. BA overbooked his flight so upgraded him.
Lucky guy.
Mattblaster 14
I flew myself im a pilot so...
Nikita Gorshkov Wow... You actually flew the Concorde?
I use to be an X-Wing pilot, I fly Puddle Jumpers now. My favourite though, was a Firefly
I am really glad that my parents tore me out of bed at the age of six in 1996 to go to Sola Airport in Stavanger, Norway and watch a Concorde land. A unique experience, unattainable today, a memory I will keep forever.
They talk about high noise levels at take off, but what about landing? Was it an issue? (from your experience)
I recall it being very loud, but we didn't have hearing protection or anything. Then again, I cannot recall ever being so close to a landing commercial jet at any other time in my life, so I don't have much to compare to.
Must have being amazing, great memories!
Kyle Eggemeyer do you remember it because of the droop snoot?
I agree. My dad, a test pilot, took me as a kid to the EAA show every few years and I was lucky enough to experience the fantastic sound of departure.
we had a supersonic passenger jet, a space shuttle, hovercraft that crossed channels in the 90s. now 30 years later, the future feels like the past
We have howerboard and 6" "pocket TV"
The space shuttle is a marvel of engineering.
I grew up near Heathrow, and I still miss standing in the street watching Concorde roar over head, leaving a trail of car alarms in her wake!
Once, Concorde made a one-off visit to Perth airport. For take off (the weekend), people were gathered at the fringe of the airport to watch and I plugged my ears as it passed overhead, but Dad decided to tough it out and he regretted it as his ears were ringing the rest of the day and partially deaf. (It was loudest when just beyond overhead as then the engine exhausts were pointing toward everyone.) The flight path was over a light industrial area and all the alarms there could be heard in the distance. It was so loud you could not really relax enough to appreciate the view of this magnificent supersonic airplane!
I miss the sound and the sight ...and everyone going "Oh look ...Concorde!" despite the fact that were several of em!
I flew on the concorde twice. Greatest plane of all time absolutely no question.
That is quite a lot of money sir
Impossible anyone who rode that is now dead.... He said 1935-1947
+TheM4hero damn u need to do your research before coming in here like u know it all
what are you talking about lol
You mean greatest experience of all time!
If it were the greatest plane there would be more of them and we would still be utilising them!
Vox Sorry, but I object to the title. This plane has never failed, and this is one of the best aircraft ever if not the best and most legendary because it is 30 years of flying Mach 2. The accident was not his fault!
In my opinion the SR-71 Blackbird is the most legendary plane, even though it needed refuelling every 90 mins and only held 2 people.
+Matthew Schuurmans true its a great rexon plane as well
+Joseph Senatus recon*
He said the accident wasen't the main purpose the Concorde failed -.- Did you watch the whole video??
He objected to the title. Not the content.
I wouldn't consider Concorde a failure. I see it as the commerical passenger equivalent of an SR-71 Blackbird. Both planes were among fastest and one of the most revolutionary aircrafts ever built. But economic/financial difficulties and high-cost eventually led to both planes being retired from service.
Yep, I'd agree with that.
I think the sad thing is that aviation appears to be the only bit of technology that in my lifetime hasn’t advanced but has actually reversed. Unless things change we could be in a bizarre situation in which you’ll be able to tell your grandkids that when you were young you could fly from London to New York in just 3.5 hrs while taking them well over 7hrs,
More like "when I was young, plane seats actually had enough room to stretch out your legs!"
Not really. Ever heard of the 787 and the A350? These beasts were launched just on the beggining of the 2010s and made a HUGE improvement and revolution on the aviation industry
@@arahman56 I'd rather have more safety than legroom today. Lets remember that the 50s, 60s and 70s were the "Golden Age" but also one of the most dangerous times to fly
@@zikalokof1challenge414 Safety is not why there's less legroom today.
@@arahman56 I dont care. I'd rather have less regroom than flying in a DC-10 with a faulty cargo door, an 747 to an diversion airport with no radar whatsoever, or back in the day where you had to report your position because there was no ATC centers/radars in some places
please remember concord was 1 of the safest planes ever. it was down to a dc-10 that shot this bird down
But remember it probably flew less than other planes, decreasing the probability
UniversalMiki but remember to do research before putting false comments. British airways concord flew just below 50.000 flights over a 27 year period. That dose not include the French fleet of Concords lol
top banana the DC planes were flying deathtraps
The tire explosion was due to a piece of metal on the runway and that was what popped the tire which made a piece of rubber hit the tank which broke a fuel line and causing the engine failure. The concorde was very safe despite some bad accidents. I now want to go to that museum and pay to go inside and look around. I love planes but am very (almost deathly) afraid of heights.
moviemaker2011z flying is nowhere near the same experience as heights, trust me. Im also ultra scared of heights(after my friend fell from communications tower) but flying is nothing to me.
*American Airlines has left the chat*
@Sinjinbin 64 r/woooooosh
Christopher Flowers what pun?
@@ZaneDalton r/woosh...usually when I hear woosh I think of something flying over my head
united*
Im you're thousands like 10 months late lol
Incredible to think that British Rail was still running steam locomotives while Concorde was being designed and tested
This is why we need more high speed trains!! It’s sad the Concorde was grounded, but I do understand that the business model was difficult. I haven’t heard anything about high speed bullet trains that would warrant their business plans unsustainable in the long term
“It flew so high you could see the earth’s curve” well no wander flat earthers exist! They took this plane away 😂
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Random YT underraated comment
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😂 😂 😂
*wonder
5:27 that is actually wrong a Continental Airlines DC-10 lost a piece of the engine cowl, the piece was run over by concord causing it to blow a tire, the tire piece then stuck the delta wing causing a shock wave in the fuel and for the tank to be blown open. Concorde was already committed to take-off by this point, a resulting fire from leaking fuel burned off the Concords control surfaces, and it was unable to return for landing or make it to next airport.
Concorde, and specifically Air France, had numerous close calls with tires rupturing in the 80s and 90s. .
The AF flight that crashed exceeded aft CoG limits and was missing a critical wheel spacer, thanks to AF mechanic's ineptitude. All of these factors contributed to its demise.
+Leevi Hinkkala Totally agree with your post
spot on..... welcome to US revisionist propaganda.
The first nail in Concorde's ability to achieve financial success was protectionist noise abatement policies by the US ..... another oversight of this little hit piece.
+davet11 Lol what are you even talking about
Leevi Hinkkala I will agree that the tires had a major issue, but they had started using a harder thicker tire to prevent that from happening. So when it hit the piece of engine cowling it was made much worse than in previous blow outs.
Most people call it the perfect storm.
It didnt fail, it truly did cross the atlantic in 3.5 hours. Someone who made a video on this should know...
Flew on her twice, New York to London. Great experience, never to be forgotten. I found it very comfortable, although a little tight for space in general. Towards the end, so much was against concorde. When I travelled on her, only about 25 people on the first flight and on the second time, 33. Yes I can remember as so many empty seats. Then the crash of Air France, technology, internet and so on.
137 hours? Excuse me but the Titanic has yet to cross the Atlantic at all!
wp r it would THEORETICALLY cross the Atlantic in 137 hours.
he said WOULD
Yeah, what was he sinking?
pit stop
nice one
One piece of very important information this video did not include was that when it mentioned that "Concorde punctured a tire" at 5:16, the puncture was actually caused by a metal piece that fell off from an aircraft taken off prior to Concorde's departure. The tire puncture was not actually Concorde's fault.
In other words, the Concorde was too good for its generation that it was required to be grounded.
But aircraft tire failure does not normally cause two engine failures and a wing to disintegrate. The tire blowing wasn't Concorde's fault, but a tire causing catastrophic structural damage and an unrecoverable crash was due to poor design using underclassed tires and being overweight, which is why they redesigned the landing gear and lost their manslaughter lawsuit against the company that dropped the debris in French courts.
you'd better read up on it some more - debris was sent into the wing - tire failure didn't have a lot to do with it. Two engines failed but #1 recovered and three engines were operational after that. But being overweight (yes) and having passed V1, they didn't have enough runway left to abort.
***** It was a piece of the _tire_ itself that ejected at 310 mph, which caused the tank in the wing to come off its support and rupture, and then ignite _two_ of the engines. That's bad design. The tires might have been barely specified for that speed, but they sure were not specified to fail safely at that speed. They also stuck open which drag combined with overweight caused the aircraft to be completely unable to climb.
Only the tire blowing out was the fault of the debris. The aircraft being _forced_ into a climb that it physically could not perform and then _disintegrating_, is the fault of the landing gear design and poor inspection. Which they later addressed and improved. They wouldn't have improved if they were confident in that design.
***** The Concorde flying for 27 years doesn't prove anything. When you compare the ratio of people flown safely vs people killed in accidents, the Concorde places well _below_ conventional airliners in terms of safety. They only ever ever built 20 Concordes with limited flights, so that one accident is actually a big deal.
I believe the Air France crash was the only major incident that Concorde had. It had a fantastic safety record. I doubt you could say that about any other manufacturer. The Soviet era Tu-144 was a complete disaster which is why it never really flew. Now THAT was an unsafe aircraft in comparison to Concorde.Given your scenario, it is my first guess that you have never flown an airplane before in your life. It's much more complicated than that.
Too loud, too expensive, too much consumption, too less effective. If you travel too fast your soul cannot keep up. Nobody misses ist since then. The worlds keeps on turning without this plane. There was one good thing. Phil collins traveled in a Concorde from London to New York and played both live aid locations live. Wow. What a great achievement for mankind
This was the video that first introduced me to Vox, and I still think it's one of the best you've ever done.
The Concorde crash was caused by a piece of metal that came off the Boeing plane in front of it from Continental Airlines. Americans...
Yes. All 300+ million of us are idiots. Although I admit most Americans are. Sadly...
I'm American and I knew that.
+John Williams well congratulations, you are in a minority.
It was not a Boeing it was a DC 30.
+GuruAidTechSupport *Boeing
@3:55
" featured a "droop snoop"
"the snoop would droop"
Commentator: " the snoop drooped"
....wtf
The commentator echoes the first *droop snoop* too
It's "droop snoot." It's actually written out in the video, right at the time reference you posted. Snoot is an informal word that means "nose."
Hence the term 'snooty' or looking down one's nose to show disapproval or contempt towards those considered a lower social class.
boop the snoot
not the cockpit
the nose
Mach 2 super-cruise (turbojets) from London to NYC forty five years ago.
I saw close up landing (on tarmac) at Bergstrom in 1978. Awesome!
For those complaining about the noise, remember that there are those of us that love hearing jets overhead. I'm 25 now and still run outside like a little kid to look at a low flying plane. I would love nothing more than to experience one that could easily make me deaf for a few hours.
God the Concorde is a gorgeous aircraft.
Short Summary of the video:
1. Cost of the plane
2. Noise when the plane is flying at supersonic speed
3. Environmental damage for large scale production
There is not any more noise when flying at supersonic speed than the level of noise at subsonic speed
You either fail to understand science or fail in your ability to clearly express and explain your thought
@@noobfromnz2886 they mentioned damage to the ozone layer.
E Ur no damage caused by that. Or with the military ones we’d be done
4. Too many parts no longer in stock or manufacture
A one way ticket in 2003 was almost $9000 and the plane was nearly 30 years old. There were no alternatives and you could save $8000 at the cost of 4 hours of boredom on a more efficient subsonic jet.
If you had £9,000 to spend on a flight you were unlikely to really bothered by saving £8,000 (see your avatar)
Want to know how to become a millionaire?
Make a million dollars and don't spend any of it.
Most people that could afford it got rich by not spending.
That's the main reason "trickle down" didn't work.
Stephen Olan net worth
Net worth only increases when income is greater than money spent.
And one way to increase that is to minimize money spent.
Plane was 30 years old? Do you know how old some of the airliners that fly around today are?
I was so sad this incredible, elegant, and powerful marvel was laid to rest …RIP. I flew on the last flight of the one in the Smithsonian. One of the most memorable events of my life!
Built in the 70's,yet still looks ahead of it's time today
And the prototypes were built in the 60s
The Concorde crash was not the Concorde's fault. The plane that took of before it dropped a big metal piece. Any aircraft would fail.
Your information is about a decade and a half out of date =/
player276 Heh, well. I wrote it because in the video they said that the crash was only the Concorde's fault.
This is right, thank you someone pointed it out.
The Concorde still had a long history of tire blowouts and bracket failures before that incident.
That plane was a Continental DC-10. So technically it's continentals fault.
this makes me so sad :(
well for that price you can try some luxury for 7 hours straight lel.
With that money just fly Emirates or Etihad. You'll have a better experience and it won't be over in 3 hours unless you pick a short flight.
And fly on an airline so heavily subsidized by its home country that it makes competition by the rest of the world's airlines impossible? No thank you!
Waddles
Waddles- does not being able to take a Lamborghini to work make you cry too
Once, in the ‘90’s, I saw a Concorde on the tarmac in Honolulu when we were flying home from a trip....just made my day...what a gorgeous plane!!
No you didn't. It only flew transatlantic routes.
"It was exiting to get to New York before you've left" 🥰 this!
Done partly by the Brits, so it was probably made with maths not math
Don't forget le math.
It was more than just "partly" done by the Brits, we did just as much as the French did thank you very much!
+KHCoasterKid
Third was the brits
Another third was the french
And another was... Other
+KHCoasterKid yes the last Concorde went working Bristol and now sits in the airfield in Filton near to the site where many were
Built its a shame that they destroyed the factory
+theawecabinet No in French it's "les maths".
It failed because it was too expensive to operate for a large market. which is why America abandoned building an SST.
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That aircraft was a masterpiece, a pile of junk are the neurons inside your brain.
It operated in a large market for 20+ years successfully
think you want to give your head a shake why did it operate for 30 years and never made a profit bull s..t
americans were so jealous because it was not them they give up on the idea because they couldn't do it
but they could send men to the moon lol
Actually the US SST was cancelled because they screwed up in the design phase selecting a hinged wing design (as per F111) that ended up too heavy and costly too build.. they blew all the budget on this design and the politicians said enough...
"Black Country, New Road" sent me here.
same
I honestly didn’t know we had this plane, we should bring it back somehow one that’s energy efficient in today’s world
Fun fact: due to the high-speed of travel and the droop snoot design, the cockpit actually expanded during flight. During flight, you could put your hand in a gap between two panels, a gap that didn't exist when parked on ground.
The whole aircraft actually stretched as much as 30cm during flight due to the heat. They had to get specially designed carpet for this reason.
One of the Concorde pilots in British airways put his hat in that gap during the final flight of one of the aircrafts. Now the hat is still there stuck in the tiny gap it is while on the ground.
I was an ground engineer on Concorde in the 90's, and was lucky enough to get on a test flight after a rebuild. I have had my fingers in that gap, seen the sun rise in the west and curvature of the earth. ...and dropped a screw down inside the droop snoot, took 2 shifts to get it out.
Paul Abbott cool job mate 👍
buttsex
we just recently had two fighter jets go supersonic in switzerland. almos half of switzerland was able to hear it. it was really really loud.
may Syrian , Iraqis, Palestinian, Afgani peoples too hear this horrible sound as horror
Manish Sinja k, then
+CAPSLOCK you guys living in developed country and hear this sounds occasionally. .but they r living in fears n tears
I grew up in Oklahoma City and remember those sonic boom tests every day at2:30 boom boom boom. I don't think we were even directly under the flight path
It's either because sonic boom is really lound, just as you stated, or Switzerland is really, really small. Haha.
This was the first time in human history where we took a major step back in technology.
Not really. We still have the technology to create a supersonic airliner. BOOM is making one as we speak. Concorde was ahead of its time, but still old technology. It’s too inefficient and expensive to operate.
I was just thinking that.
super-cruise at mach 2 across the Atlantic Ocean 45 years ago. Turbojets.
C'mon man!
The fact is that the Concorde did NOT fail, but was sabotaged by random debris, (a defective large broken metal ring that fell off a Continental Airline jet, earlier that day) left sitting on the runway, that punctured a Concorde wheel during take-off and then the ring bounced up into the bottom of the concord, puncturing the filled to capacity fuel tank. Sadly, the horrific death of all those passengers destroyed the Concordes image, and it could never recover... blaming the Concorde would be like saying the Japanese Fukushima nuclear power plant failed, (while ignoring the random 2011 Tsunami that destroyed it.) Sometimes random things happen that are out of your control, like a lightning strike... but we all know that somebody, somewhere eventually has to be blamed, so we can all move on.
I really enjoyed the commentator (Phil) and writing on this one a lot more than some of the recent videos. I would like to see more with these guys, if possible. Examles:
Audience Interaction - 0:39 "Which one are you looking at?".
Interviews with people who are both qualified and well spoken - 2:48
Simultaneously bringing the topics down to earth (the workers and contexts), but still keeping the scale of the set of events in full view.
Occasional allusions and parallels to other things (in this case, titanic and toy boxes).
Humor - 3:55 "Droop Snoot"
Creative stylistic choices - Toy Concords on strings (as opposed to the often used clean and simple illustrations)
Although some citations would certainly help
yeah he is the only reason i subbscribe to vox
+Stig larsen Me too
Agreed, more of this please
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Don't forget religion and SJWs!
The snoot drooped.
DogoByte woot?
What are you going on aboot?
DogoByte *noot intensifies*
Snoot snoot
DogoByte harder than the fidget spinner views
I got my way when I was able to be on the final flight by Air France Concorde from Paris to Caracas and it was a dream come true experience I had waited for years. I was so excited that I forgot to copy the serial number of the aircraft for the sake of my biography sometime later in my life. Here I am still at age 79, hoping to have the luck to find out, if it would be feassable. I loved flying in the Concorde.
The sound these make is amazing
I live near Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Edwards AFB, and a NASA Plant... We get super sonic booms all day long. The most they do is MAYBE set off an old car alarm and scare a couple kids. So whoever said they got broken windows from it, there could be 2 reasons. 1. Flying too low but, the Air Force has regulations of which height a pilot must stay at over residential and civilian spaces (air shows don't count) and 2. Their windows were already broken, given where they live they probably didn't have a lot of money and they gave the city a reason to fix it for them. Not knowing the detrimental cost, supersonic commercial jets.
Sorry for such a long comment
+Shaoyu Maiwang exactly. We have, carriers, fighters, bombers, commercial jets, helis, flying all day... It really doesn't affect anything.
Really, all of the online sources I've heard of say that sonic booms do major damage, but I've never been near one.
didn't the myth buster test this with an f 18 in the dessert?
+stewart baker yeah. Where I live out of Edwards.
This beautiful creature which you could hear coming from miles away would fly over my house in London every day at the same time and every one around would stop and look up and watch her roar past, not only did you see her you also felt her and this always made me smile.
“Beautiful creature”. LMAO.
@@Handle35667 yes she was.
@Bugler55 lol you liked your own comment
@Bugler55 😆
Ahhh. I love the droop snoot.
Your video popped up out of no where on the feed and it is such an awesome mini doc. Wow I never that SST existed.
Concorde was a great British and French achievement in aviation . Will we ever see such a plane like it again in future ? that depends on ,if new clean propulsion systems are invented and if the need for such a plane is required ! Concorde made the world a smaller place for the rich and famous , I will always remember looking up and seeing this incredible aircraft flying overhead when living in Reading England, and hearing the sonic boom as it passed over the Bristol channel from my home in South Wales .
My grandfather was one of the draughtsmen on Concorde's design team. I remember us all standing on the beach on her 2003 farewell flypast. Grandad had tears in his eyes. Rest in peace to the best grandad in the world. 😍
Ask God forgiveness for him
I bet he likes pickles
thats awesome! rest in peace
@@lahoucine66 why would God be angry???
thats so cool
Faster than the earth's spin and flew so high you could see the earth's curve... That is crazy
And faster than a rifle bullet.
+Mowersandstuff only if the gun is stationary!
Imagine going London/Paris to New York/Washington/Miami/Barbados and seeing the sun rise in the west.
What the heck ? mission abort. :))
Judgin by my knowledge of physics, the fact that it flew faster than the earth spins make it so that you actually go much faster if flying at the same direction of the Earth's spin. So, even though it's top speed was around Mach 2, it could cover long distances as if it were flying faster than that.
that first minute was so clean
like everything that was said was the perfect word for that moment
"which one are you looking at?"
as a young boy in the 1970s i had a Aunt and Uncle that lived in Sterling Vaginia and i used to go to their home everyday to swim in their pool each day the Concorde flew over the house flying low to land at Dulless Airport only a few miles away on some occasions my Aunt would drive us to Dulless for the day so we could watch the Concorde land and take off ironically as a adult i wound up living in the same area and my Wife and Children and I flew a Commercial flight out of Dulless Airport and our Captain announced on our Taxi we would experience a rare moment in Aviation history which was simply on one side of our plane we would see a Concorde landing and on the other side one will be taking off so we should enjoy for me i’ve always thought she was a Beautiful Airplane and had a special part inmy heart i never got to fly on one but i have walked through one a few times in a Museumn tour
Vox, can you consider doing why we had airships and why it failed, one of the most badass looking vehicle to come into existence but now only exists over stadiums and in tv series like Korra. Thanks.
Yes, please!
I'll summarize it for your right now: really large object susceptible to winds and storms with weak engines(at the time), a very high crash record, lack of proper materials(before plastics, lightweight carbonfiber, etc.), and bad PR when the Hindenburg burst into flame on camera was definitely the last big nail in the coffin.
+Ben P. Sounds about right! I just love how vox makes particularly these types of videos. Hope you are having a nice day. :)
Helium ain't cheap.
Most probably these airships (and blimps) are using hydrogen and it is explosive. By then they switch to helium but it is in limited amount. If you want to know more, you can find a lot of these on YT, such as this: watch?v=ug5UafJFEYc
Something that baffles me to this day. How on earth have we gone backwards with all the advances in technology.
Ever talked to someone in a different continent? It used to be to conduct business negotiations you had to send a team of people and it had to be done quickly. You can do those same meetings without ever leaving the boardroom now. Flying supersonic drinks fuel... and once America banned it from flying coast-to-coast, to protect the Boeing supersonic jet (that failed to leave the drawing board) it really limited what routes Concord could fly... so it never really made much money.
Turns out people don't mind flying for 8hrs to cross the Atlantic.
It didn't go backwards, the technology used in the Concorde advanced. The concept of supersonic transport stopped, because getting somewhere in half the time wasn't worth half the fuel efficiency.
+hmhmhmlol If it was half as efficient wouldn't it even out and use the same ammount of fuel?
Lnathang If it traveled at half its cruising speed? No, because it's _maximum_ fuel efficiency is _at_ its cruising speed. Any slower _or_ faster and it loses efficiency. Meaning the maximum efficiency the Concorde can ever achieve is half that of a conventional airliner.
De-evolution is real.
Never thought I'd ever have such an iconic meme be unironically placed in my recommendations
Concorde: Exists and is successful
Some random debris from a DC-10:
*I'm gonna end this man's whole career*
I was watching The Parent Trap (1997) and Hallie said “Mom, did you know that the Concorde gets you here in half the time?!” and I was like “huhhhh? Is that like a high speed plane?” And then I remembered in The Nanny, Maxwell had to go to London for something suddenly one day and said “no worries dear I’ll take the Concorde and be back by bedtime” or something to that extent I was soooo confused.... IT MAKES SENSE NOW!!! So fascinating. I want to ride it. Bring it back!!
Yes i noticed that too it was a nice reference
It is baffling to me that Concorde, the Harrier jump jet, moon landings, are all HISTORY, and things that can't be done today.
Great video btw!
totally agree, and now more things are becoming history as everyone just becomes offended by everything, if a time machine existed, i'd take today's technological advancements and go back to the fifties and sixties when most of the modern advancements were just being made (computers, jets, etc) and then they'd end up with a utopia, if you ask me, just because of how offended everyone is these days, this is a dystopia we're living in
The Harrier is being done today with the F-35.
can, just won't
right ???!
I went to a museum once as a kid where they had one of these, was so cool to see in person.
Once again, I have learned something that otherwise would not learn in school.
Thx Vox☺️
You failed to note that the debris left on the runway by a Continental Airways DC-10 that had an inappropriate repair done was the immediate cause of the accident. It was not exclusively a tire design fault on the Concorde.
I also doubt that the presence of a Flight Engineer was much of a factor in the retirement; given the fares charged their salary would be trivial.
All_Roads You seem to forget that Concorde had a 100% safety record before this incident. That is from the mid 70s until the 00s. The absolute reason Concorde was grounded was because of this. And that reason was because of another airlines plane. After 911 Concorde was not not financially viable for most if not all airlines at the time.THIS is why Concorde died.
@@MikeDemise Concorde did actually become profitablr for BA for a while after 9/11. But when Airfrance retired their fleet, the £100M pound maintenance fees were put on BA, and that was just too much
Concorde was profitable for the British in 2002 but not Air France, and British Airways couldnt afford to take care of them on their own
The recommendations from the accident:
Do correct maintenance, no rush jobs.
Inspect for missing parts before every flight, and report that parts are missing to the airports you have just come from.
Check your runways for foreign objects more often.
Clean your runways more often.
Put protective surrounds around your fuel tanks near the tyres (done on BA Concordes, but not on Air France).
Do not blame the aircraft because you did not build it.
I’m sure it adds up, and how many planes beside the a380 actually need a mandatory 3 staff cockpit, even as far back as 2003 3 staff cockpits we’re going out of fashion
it's sad to know that will never do another flight
couldn't care less,i would rather have confortable 9 hour flight than unconfortable 3 hour flight
Don't be a downer for your self. Technology might get improve to make this possible.
+Srdjan kesic you think Concorde was uncomfortable? idiot.
Actually Club Concorde is scheduling a return to service flight in 2019. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde#Return_to_service_plan
Tom New Have you even bothered watching the video? You inbreed moron.
May God bless you all in everything that you do today🙏🏼🙏🏼
Thanks for this video.
I always wondered
I think the premise is false. I would argue that the Concorde was not a failure at all. The fact that it was in service from 1976 to 2003 (27 years) and experienced only one catastrophic accident was a tribute to how robust the aircraft was, especially given all the advanced features it employed. The retirement of the Concorde was due mostly to external factors related to changes in air travel in general, global economic factors and increasing maintenance costs. There was nothing wrong with the airframe itself, save for a design flaw in the landing gear (a flaw that ended up leading to the Air France 4590 accident). Had the economic outlook been better, it's possible that the gear issue would have been fixed and they would still be flying today.
THATS THE POINT OF THE VIDEO
They weren't making enough $$.
And replacing the worn out parts and upgrading the cockpit was pointless. The few passengers they could fit on there wasn't enough to pay for 2 concordes at the ready all the time.
Just not viable
Rob Billeaud
True! I agree with you absolutely. And the tragedy was due to a punctured tire and not the plane's engineering.
The tragedy was due to a number of issues - not just a punctured tire.
The plane was overloaded by 6 tons.
The winds changed 180 degrees and rather than change runways, they took off with the wind instead of against it.
A mechanic working on the Concorde left a half meter spacer off the landing gear assembly.
The Concorde had a history of ruptured tires and yet rupture proof tires were not fitted until after the tragedy. Given the overload and the tail wind, the plane was reaching the limit of what the tires could withstand.
When the tire blew, the plane had passed the point where it could abort - it had to take off.
When the tire shredded, the missing spacer caused the plane to veer to the left. When the tire blew, chunks of tire hit the wing and caused fuel cells to rupture from the shock.
Veering to the left, the plane ingested a landing light causing one engine to explode and the other to surge. The flight engineer shut down both engines even though protocol was to keep engines running when below 200 meters even if they were experiencing problems - it is possible the surging engine would have stabilized but in any case it would have provided desperately needed thrust.
The plane was heading off the runway and toward another plane forcing the pilot to take off prematurely to avoid running onto the soft infield that would have pulled him into the other plane, but before the plane had enough speed to climb. It was caught in a slow flight attitude from which it couldn't climb with its reduced power and the pilot couldn't turn without losing lift and crashing.
Experts believe the fire on the wing would have burnt out without compromising the wing if they had enough time, unfortunately there was a hotel in the plane's path the only hope being to climb over it - they weren't able to.
A symbol of the potential of human engineering which ultimately became a symbol of elitism. Even the skilled engineers who built it couldn't afford to fly on one.
exactly... it was in fact useless for the common ppl.
Peter Pečenko Still a beautiful sight to behold. Shame we'll probably never see machines like them ever again.
maybe about 20 years in the future? Look at pcs for example our pc parts today would probably cost thousands for people in the 80s.
PC parts are cheap due to economies of scale. They started out expensive but proved useful. So more and more parts were made. Making more parts and selling more parts reduces the overhead costs that come when make stuff. There are currently no supersonic passenger jets being produced. There is no market to get big and bring overhead down that would enable these planes to eventually be made cheap.
Christopher Miller thats why I said 20 years in the future, eventually we will get into it.
I remember watching this as a kid when one of my older brothers friend showed me this video in 2015. This was the video that got me into aviation and I thank him introducing me into aviation.
Fascinating. Thanks for this
It didn't fail - It flew for 25 years! Best aircraft ever
Like Joplin, Hendrix, Cobain, Morrison and Jones, the Concorde flared across our skies and died at 27.
not actually a commercial failure, made a lot of money for British Airways and Air France. Was profitable to run, just not as profitable as short haul or slow huge aircraft. Undoubtedly a brilliant PR advert!
hugely profitable , when you look at the per flight cost and income , remember passengers are not a planes primary revenue.
Keith Lillis yes but it could fly even more years but that is the “fail” in this video
@West Park it made a decent operating profit but was at the end of its service life and it was made with old tech, it just wasn’t economical to develop a new version.
I flew in the concorde. My uncle worked in Heathrow. U never forget about the sound.
There is still 1 Concorde in heatrow. The seats have been takin out and sold as they are worth so much.
Skippo theres 3 at paris charles de gaule (CDG
Cool
there's also one as a museum piece at manchester airport
James There's one at the airport in Paris
I love the fact that 16 million people have witnessed "droop snoot"
It’s 2021 and she’s back 😎
what so you mean??
I don't mind the time spent on flights... once I'm in the seat. Sure, it's far from perfect but we've got our devices now to choose our work or entertainment, and it's a small price to pay to bounce around the globe. On the other hand, the airport experience from the freeway exit to get to the departing airport, all the way to picking up the rental car at the other end of the trip is utter bullshit that needs a huge technological overhaul.
Indeed!
If you're bouncing, you're doing it wrong, Bryan
Remember that Concorde allowed people to fly back and forth from London to New York for a business meeting... in one day. There are huuuge economic benefits to that. (Not disagreeing with you on the airporttime-bs tho)
These days you can just do video conferences over the internet. That is probably one of the other major factors. This video never mentioned it.
I think that there is a limit though. I could probably do this:
Sleep for 6 hours.
Sudoku for 1 hour.
iPad for 1 hour.
Movie for 3 hours.
Food for 1 hour.
PSP for 1 hour.
So in total, I could do 13 hours give or take. I always used to use these devices ever since I was younger, so that is where I got my stuff from. If the flight does have movies though, I could waste a lot of time there. If not, I wouldn't last nearly as long as the 13 hours I said.
About the Concorde crash: the puncturing of the tire did not cause the plane to crash, it was because the piece of metal that the tire hit actually was flung up and ruptured the fuel tank.
It was a mechanical part from a Boeing DC-10 of Continental Airways...
If the accident didn't happen, will Concorde would be still alive?
@@jadawin10 Boeing DC-10?
While the Air France crash was in 2000, 3 years after Boeing purchased Mcdonald Douglas, the DC-10 first flew in 1971 and even the MD-11 was first introduced in 1990, developed only by MD, not Boeing!
I'm not trying to start a argument or anything, just wanna help out as someone who likes commerical aircraft, hopefully this is helpful 👍
@@davidknapp7199
You are right David. At the time it was still a Mcdonnell - Douglas.
@@viejaspeliculasfilipinas3621 No, because as an aircraft gets older, it is more expensive to maintain.
About 30 years ago I was sitting in a McDonalds in Orlando, Florida eating breakfast when I looked out the front windows and saw a Concorde coming in for a landing at Orlando Int. a couple miles south of me. As far as I knew they only flew to NY, London and Paris, but there it was bigger than life. I blurted out "A CONCORDE!" and other people started pointing and yelling too. It was amazing. To this day I have no idea why it was flying to Orlando, but I have discovered that they did fly regularly to Miami and to other cities on occasion, including Rio de Janeiro.