"TRANSATLANTIC SUPERSONIC" BRITISH AIRWAYS CONCORDE SUPERSONIC JET PROMOTIONAL FILM 24844
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- Опубліковано 10 жов 2017
- Produced by British Airways Film Unit, the 1976 TRANSATLANTIC SUPERSONIC is a promotional film for British Airways’ commercial transatlantic flights on the supersonic Concorde jet. The film follows several men and one woman as they depart various locations (Germany, Bahrain, Scotland, and Paris) to travel to the U.S. via Heathrow Airport. The use of British Airways’ supersonic Concorde jet allows these passengers to cross the Atlantic in just over 3.5 hours. The Concorde lands (02:25) in London at Heathrow International Airport, where it waits for passengers to board it before flying to the U.S. The passengers board the Concorde, Flight 579, and enjoy the “club-like” cabin as the jet (08:50) and the flight deck crew (09:21) prepare to depart. The Concorde takes off (09:50) from Heathrow and flies through the sky (10:37) while passengers enjoy the high-end cabin services (10:56). Twenty minutes out of London, the Concorde prepares to reach supersonic speed (12:30); the smooth transition is hardly noticed by the passengers as they Concorde climbs up to its cruising altitude of 57,000 feet (13:18). The jet reaches speeds twice the speed of sound (14:33), before decelerating as it prepares to land at Dulles International Airport (15:53). The Concorde lands (16:31) in just over 3.5 hours, having covered 3,780 miles. Mobile lounges greet the jet (17:05) and take the passengers to the terminal. The film concludes by briefly following the featured passengers on their way to their respective destinations while touting the possibilities created by halving the time it takes to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.
The Aérospatiale/BAC Concorde is a British-French turbojet-powered supersonic passenger jet airliner that was operated until 2003. It had a maximum speed over twice the speed of sound at Mach 2.04 (1,354 mph or 2,180 km/h at cruise altitude), with seating for 92 to 128 passengers. First flown in 1969, Concorde entered service in 1976 and continued flying for the next 27 years. It is one of only two supersonic transports to have been operated commercially; the other is the Soviet-built Tupolev Tu-144, which was operated for a much shorter period.
Concorde was jointly developed and manufactured by Sud Aviation (later Aérospatiale) and the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) under an Anglo-French treaty. Twenty aircraft were built, including six prototypes and development aircraft. Air France (AF) and British Airways (BA) were the only airlines to purchase and fly Concorde. The aircraft was used mainly by wealthy passengers who could afford to pay a high price in exchange for Concorde's speed and luxury service.
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Thanks! More Concorde films please!🙂
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I do not care in the slightest if Concorde was a commercial failure, Concorde was a technical and engineering marvel and such an amazing and beautiful looking aircraft. It successfully proved that supersonic travel was indeed possible, even if it was costly. There will never be an aircraft like Concorde ever again, it truly was an aviation icon and a well loved aircraft.
Lots of memories here. While I never took the Concord, I did arrive in Dulles from Geneva back in 1975. What a change. Huge cars with Air conditioning! We never had that in Europe. Also, after 50 years, Dulles and the access highway are so Over built. Virginia is wall to wall businesses and houses now. To see what was is a treat. Yes, it was simpler back then. I am happy to have experienced air travel before we all became Sardines!
My Dad worked for the Bristol aeroplane company in the 1950’s he was involved with early supersonic development which eventually led to Concorde. I remember hearing and seeing it flying high over the South Wales coast en route to the US…….impressive aircraft!
Got a flight on the concorde as a gift. They came to Houston and did a flight into the gulf and back, just long enough to go supersonic. Glad I got to see it up close before they shut it down. It was quite a bit after this film was made.
So 70s! Such airplane! Much romance!
WOW!
That dude from "Hooston" sure is getting drunk as hell.
That is real food compared to the slop that they serve today. Aside from the speed, Concorde had one of the best in-flight services.
Was it Maxim's Paris?
08:20 Ah, yes, " and the two abreast seating". Indeed.
We used to watch the Concorde take off from JFK and listen for the boom! They once came to a military base in NY and offered rides. I couldn't talk my parents into a flight, but I did get to go onboard and see the interior. Years later, my sister got to fly NY to London on the Concorde. It was terribly sad to see this beautiful bird go!
I always found the "Smoking" and "Non-Smoking" areas in airplanes kind of interesting. In most domestic flights, your seating either had ashtrays or didn't have ashtrays; we all breathed the same air... :-)
Perhaps the most spectacular part was casually strutting into the terminal, quickly and easily buying your ticket and checking in thanks to very pleasant and courteous staff, then walking straight to your gate. Even your friends and/or family could walk with you to your gate to see you off or meet you there upon your arrival. No ridiculous security checks and long queues to deal with including ridiculous restrictions on what you could carry on board. No one demanding that you take off your belt and shoes. WOW different world back then. My how the world has regressed.
Yeah, it was a different world back then - between 1968 and 1972 there were 130 hijackings of American airliners.There were terrorist bombings such as Pan Am 103 and of course the 9/11 attacks. When is the last time you heard of an airliner being hijacked? Do you really think the world has regressed when we have managed to make flying safer than ever?
@@lisalu910 Yes, I do.
I half expected Bob to shout "More powerrrr!" or say something like "I'm riding on the fastest airliner... in the worrlld."
Fab Infomercial! Thank you! The Intro of This Jet AND this entire Era was a fantastic exciting time to be alive & well!
TODAY'S Airline Industry and INEPT TECH is a massive INSULT to the "Forward -Thinking AND Doing" of the proudly innovative PAST.
Time Machine.... PLEASE!!!!!!!✈
5:43 Instead of taking a tristar flight from Paris - London to take BA Concorde from London - Washington, Marie La Claire should've taken the Air France Concorde from Paris to Washington and save herself the hustle. Ah, those fashion girls...
Quite a lot of French people flew British Airways Concordes. In part because BA offered a more luxurious service and also they flew more frequently than Air France Concordes. (at that time British Airways had 5 Concordes, Air France only had 4 - ultimately BA would have 7 and AF 6)
That bus at Dulles is hilarious... 1970s...
Apparently they're still using it, at least in 2016 when I arrived at Dulles.
Stupendous cool.
we are in 21st century and yet we still have subsonic airliners
@William Poundstone no they arent
@@pb6198 Yes they are.
In the 1970s & 1980s, you'd average at least one major air crash in a month. Today they're so few and far in between, that when a major crash does occur, it became a worldwide scandal.
You could say that about a lot of things. We also have the technology to completely eradicate hunger and homelessness, yet we choose not to.
because that was a fluke, a pr move like "moon base by 1995"... passenger supersonic flight proved to be unaffordable and not in demand, when concorde was grounded it was like "oh, finally"... and exactly the same it was for soviets with TU-144 - everyone was glad to get rid of those pr-aircraft by dumping the remnants of both fleets to museums... M0.78-M0.82 at FL350 proved to be the most efficient flight mode for atmosphere of Earth
We will always have subsonic airliners, but now we are hopefully marching to an era where orbital and suborbital flights would be available thanks to the passenger SSTOs like SpaceX plan to do
I'm feeling Supersonic 🎵🎵🎵
Fabulous nostalgia blast, air pressure headsets, no tv screens and a bunch of galley equipment uncovered as the passengers were boarding, and to operate Concorde to any other destination than JFK became commercial suicide shortly after this.
Back when flying was still fun and they cared about the customers
They were very lucky in the past to be able to experience supersonic flight compared to us in this advanced age who still have subsonic flight 😅
Pretty sad that we’re decades on yet with a far lousier airline experience these days. Cancelling Concorde was a dreadful decision.
Love it
It made money for British Airways and if it was still flying it would still be making money. More now then ever bring Concorde back
Awesome
a total gem !!! some of the concorde footage was used in the Ruggero Deodato movie 'Concorde Affair'
The Concorde did a tour of some airports in the USA,( non super sonic) I saw it in Memphis
Did anyone notice a connection to New York via Washington, this film was from before the Concorde flew to JFK. Taking the 747 might not be quicker than the Concorde to Washington and a shuttle to LGA but its not much slower. Amusing film.
@2:54, I assume the safety wheel always deploys with the landing gear. In drag racing it would be called a "Wheelie bar." :-)
It's hard for me to believe that we're not utilizing this type of technology.
@Michael Bigdongovic - Too risky? Only one Concorde ever crashed, and that was caused by debris on the runway.
It just goes to show that the future does not always bring advances. here now in 2023 we are way behind our capacity for high speed passenger flights which was available in the 160's till the early 2000's
I hope you can find and upload a similar film about the Concorde made for Air France soon.
Around 8 minutes, you can hear an instrumental version of “Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head.”
I once bought a very cheap Air France flight from San Francisco to Hamburg via Paris.
They messed it up and I took a United Red Eye to New York.
Got on the Concord and made my Connection into Hamburg.
Quite a Ride.
Nice video, but where’s Hoooston?!
Did y’all see the connecting flight map? How did Kansas get so far south?😂
17:42 Nice rug!
Thanks for the good laugh!
18:57 - on the departures board behind the United staff. The first flight is Flight 175, which is the same flight number of the first United aircraft hijacked during the September 11 tragedy.
Grief porn much?
Why doesn't Marie La Claire just fly Air France Concorde out of Paris?
Ahhhahh!! Yes she's clueless
Service better on British Airways, perhaps 😉, or 14 minute connection time at Heathrow?
I always wanted to fly on it DC ince early 80's. Never happened, never will. 😭
i wanna see stuff how it flew to rio de janeiro ... that route and stuff...
You can see why it was vital BA and Air France got clearance to operate into JFK to make Concorde pay. Washington at least gave it a transatlantic route but all those limousine transfers to the national airport didn’t really seem that efficient or cost effective!
Free limo service was offered at JFK too. Flew in on AF Concorde and connected with Continental from EWR. Was met at the gate and escorted all the way to curbside to the limo. Well, a rather old Town Car with a fat bloke lacking in grooming and playing some Arabic music all the way at annoyingly loud level.
@@jackdoe3889that bloke was my dad.
An accountant's worst nightmare and an aviation enthusiast's wet dream
It actually made money, despite what the leftists will tell anyone
@@pb6198 Stop talking nonsense my party wanted to or many Tories wanted an end to it. This executive from Pan-American gave a master class on why it would fail. Look it up on UA-cam. The R and D costs were never recovered. The units were sold for peppercorn. Come and help me study for my cost accounting exams and stop talking rubbish. Or better yet pay my ACCA exam fees.
@@peterbradshaw8018 you are talking ballocks, it did recover it's costs, in 1997 it gained back all of it, operations after that date where fully profitable
@@peterbradshaw8018 you are talking to an already established business accounted and multiple business owner, so nice one.
Go fail those exams buddy 😂
@@pb6198 Who is, and these are your words not mine a "business accounted." Oh Richard Branson an accomplished business man admitted to not knowing the difference between net and gross. But he unlike you admitted to being ignorant of a particular fact which makes him infinitely smarter than you an established "business accounted." I have been getting grades in the nineties thus far the lowest being 92%.
urgent cable :D
It's 2020. We fly subsonic....
It's Bob "I'll have a P Bob, Holness" narrating.
I noticed that too
Good old Bob
Hmm,is that '70's porno music in the background?
How quaint
12:43 it looks like hes holding an iphone with imessage open wtf
Yo vi que era una calculadora.
Well, at least I got to ride in the "mobile lounge" anyway ..
Transition from subsonic to supersonic
Imagine spending $10k in 1970 money and fly faster than a rifle bullet for thousands of miles to have Dulles lose your luggage
$10,000 ticket (?)
what happened to the Future?
It's stuck in the past. 😥
Great film. However, forgotten in the journey time is the 2 hour queue to get through customs and immigration in the US!
Not at the Concorde lounge
13:00
Stethoscope
I wonder if they actually flew the actors on Concorde to shoot this video?
And now, almost fifty years later, we are back to boring, uncomfortable six hours Atlantic crossings ...
6 if you’re very lucky.
BA in its monopoly days staff where proud to serve in all areas I know I worked their now look in the year 2020 what next with BA
Supersonic and atomic its the only way to go
the faster you go in air the safer you are since you are putting yourself in the air less of time and airspace isnt really crowded well it is but you are all far apart imagine going on the freeway and seeing about 2 cars pass the opposite lane thats why its safer less congestion so unlike car travel where its safer to travel slower for a better reaction time its opposite in air you have to haul ass
Mach 10 baby
All these transit bags look empty...lol
Oh cmon what's wrong with subsonic airliners.
Anthony Wilfred Wong - Nothing at all....but in 2022 - 60 years after Concorde was conceived, we should all have access to Supersonic travel by now!!!
I prefer the B747.
Anthony Wilfred Wong - If you needed to make a trip from Sydney to London, and it took you 12 hours instead of 24 you wouldn't.
@@Gg1118dieo My reply to the other poster was in regards to the imaginary prospect of spending 12 hours in flight instead of 24.
But in any case, Concorde's primary market was transatlantic, not Pacific - so there was no comparison in range performance with the 747.
Those times are ludicrous--ad films say anything. The film is also wildly confusing with all the time quotes. A friend did NY to London in about 1984--$5000 one way. She said it was loud, cramped and Jerry Hall was on board (Jagger''s girlfriend). People hated the noise over their houses and it was really pretty ill conceived and elitist. We have to make planes that pollute less.
I bet you're fun at parties.
D Stuart - You forget that this project was started in a different time - the early 1960s - when high technology such as this was seen as progressive and forward looking, so it was NOT ill conceived - nothing of the sort. Yes, it probably was noisy onboard - but did you ever fly on any of the early model 727 or 737s ? or any other 60s era jets? Cabin noise was something you put up with. Jerry Hall? First Class has always been full of rich idiots being obnoxious on any aircraft. And there will always be "'Elitist" things for the rich - that will never change.
And as for people hating Concorde flying over their houses - well most people living near any airports usually hate ALL aircraft flying over! I worked at London Heathrow for 31 years, and lived beside the field, so I know what I speak of.
The world that Concorde was born into was not the world it ended up operating in, but thats the way life goes. Yes, modern aircraft engines pollute far less than the models that were made in 1960, and that should have been obvious before you wrote your comment. Times change, and technological improvements are based on previous experience, and there are too many people these days who think it's ok to denigrate past achievements when they know nothing of the times.
Therefore, I think Your comments are pretty "Ill conceived", and maybe a little prior thought would've been appropriate.