Detailed tour through Concorde! (incl. the cockpit)

[@johno9507]

One of the greatest highlights of my career as a aircraft maintenance engineer was working on a AIr France Concorde F-BVFB (same one as 4:00) on 6th Feb 1999 in Sydney. I still remember the absolute scream of those engines, and Concorde not having a APU meant we had to get the heavy ground power cables up 30 feet in the air and connected before they could shut the engines down. After finishing our work the whole crew relaxed in the passenger seats...I sat in the cockpit of course and was given a personal tour by the flying engineer. 🙂🇦🇺

[@staralliancefan1245]

wow you'd have some stories to tell having been a FE on these!!

[@johno9507]

@@staralliancefan1245 Actually I was a Qantas aircraft engineer (mechanic), I was assigned to work on the Air France Concorde when she entered into Sydney, Australia.

[@iamtuzii]

@@johno9507 that one and only time it came to yssy

[@johno9507]

@@iamtuzii Actually Concorde came to Sydney a number of times but only on charter flights, the first time being in 1972. And here's a little inside info, while working at Qantas I came across plans from the 1970s of Concorde in QF livery..the old livery with the winged kangaroo and also dimension drawings for hangars and terminal facilities. Pity we didn't get her. 🇦🇺

[@Theaveragewarthundernoob]

@@johno9507you know Qantas can push airbus to build there concorde bec their pre-order is still pending bec Qantas hasnt payed it yet or cancelled it but its 1% chance Qantas will push airbus

[@jpx1508]

I flew roundtrips NY/London and NY/Paris on both British and French Concordes, and still consider Mach 2 life epic. Nothing compares to the experience of the speed, where the London/NY flight left London early AM catching the London sunrise; the flight would then arrive NY even earlier in the darkness, catching the sunrise a second time. Concorde was a time travel machine. With Concord flying to Europe for the weekend was a comfortable event.

[@nenblom]

Lucky you.

[@ianmangham4570]

😮Amazing plane totally amazing. 🇬🇧🤠

[@mickyday2008]

I flew on Concorde a couple of times returning from New York to London in 3 hours. Amazing.

[@SaturnCanuck]

Thanks again Paul. Great video. I have been fortunate enough to have visiting this aircraft, and been inside, in the late 1980s when she was still outside! Wow, had it been that long? Oh I digress. And I’m super pumped you got to sit in the cockpit. Anyway, at this point I have to be pedantic here as she is not technically a prototype, but a pre-production Concorde. They built two prototype Concorde’s, these being F-WTSS (001) and G-BSST (002), and these differed from having the original nose configuration (oh I’ve seen the later as well). This is the first pre-production Concorde (101) and there were four of these, before production commenced with Concorde 203. Oh and fun fact, that particular aircraft, was used for the infamous movie “The Concorde: Airport ‘79” in which it crashed, and later, registered now as F-BTSC, was involved in the crash on July 25, 2000. Seems it was doomed either way….

[@B747-4OO]

Excellent tour! THX a lot! 👍😎

[@totalyep]

Amazing all the engineering challenges they had to address.

[@Robslondon]

Fantastic video Paul. I grew up near Heathrow Airport and often saw the Concorde flying in, I’ll never tire of seeing this beautiful piece of engineering, Stay well.

[@neilhenderson6602]

What a superb video! Even today that aircraft can't fail to amaze, and the detail in this piece really brings out the extraordinary rule breaking engineering

[@well-blazeredman6187]

Great review. Driving past Heathrow one day, I had the joy of being overflown by a Concorde on after-burners. It shook my car!

[@andreasjakayudha2483]

I like how Paul has a thousand choices of making this thumbnail very clickbaity but he chose not to. Big appreciation!

[@brucelawson642]

Excellent video and commentary.

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@saintuk70]

What a great video of a "great" aeroplane. Was lucky enough to watch its final tour around the UK, and saw it many times in the 80's when it'd test post maintenance or updates along the west coast of Scotland.

[@ted5669]

Brilliant Paul. Can’t beat the big bird. Greatest plane ever

[@ted5669]

@@wertpollwert a thing of beauty too

[@RestrictedHades]

xb 70 best plane

[@ted5669]

@@RestrictedHades decent

[@janetbruce2430]

Fascinating video

[@redseven485]

Considering when this was designed and built, this aircraft is an engineering marvel! Absolutely nuts! Great video, Paul!

[@systeminoperative8790]

Great content easy to listen to right amount of technical info, thank you for another great one mr matey.

[@mickyday2008]

Concorde is a work of art. Stunning

[@Travelsbydreamer]

Amazing stuff Paul, the military angle was something I’ve never heard about previously but makes for a great story!

[@paulw2604]

It is also great to see this gear being played, as its was built to do, and by such a superb guitarist, and not locked up in some speculator's vault

[@rob737700]

Interesting tidbit.... I was flying up the US coast in a turboprop back in the day and we saw a Concorde just off the coast of JFK in a holding pattern and dumping fuel. Apparently they could not raise the nose after depature and were planning on returning to the airport. It was quite a sight to see... As usual, another great video, thanks Paul.

[@user-tn1vc1xz5d]

Duxford again 😊....always happy to see Duxford exhibits. Concorde still looks beautiful and always will I think. I used to see it fly over as a kid in the evenings on way to JFK. Amazing against blue sky with the black exhausts. It used to light up ABs off Strumble Head. Could hear it a long way off as a distant rumble when air conditions for favourable. I love the escape hatch up front.....

[@TenorCantusFirmus]

What a beautiful machine. Fitting the fact it came from the same Era as the Apollo spacecrafts.

[@bluebarron351]

Really enjoyable video Paul! Your footage is still the most stable of any avgeek tour guide!

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@antman5474]

I got to see this, I was in my 20"s and it was 1993. I worked at Gatwick. We all got time to view this little beautiful aircraft. Damn she was beautiful. I'll never forget that.. She was so small.

[@louiswendt4371]

that is so amazing- thanks for the top tier content :)

[@gatewayz75]

Thanks for the video! I’ll never forget my Concorde walk through in Paris Le Bourget , I was awestruck

[@Sacto1654]

The Concorde arguably has the most complex analog cockpit instruments ever made. If you’ve seen the proposed cockpit design for the Boom Supersonic airliner, it’s all reduced down to a few large displays.

[@jayfleegle9455]

Another great video bro! Thank you

[@cyprusgrump]

Great video! I was lucky enough to fly Concorde (JFK >>> Heathrow) in 2000 and get a flight deck tour while supersonic! It was a 40th Birthday treat although there was some miss-communication and the crew thought I was 4 - I had pencils and a colouring book on my seat!

[@mrkc10]

Fascinating video Paul. That museum is amazing.

[@christopherauito7262]

What a cool experience that would be. I would love to see what a "modern" version would look like with advanced avionics and control systems.

[@mr6johnclark]

Thats a good question! I think modern material technology and Avionics could make a modernized concorde much lighter and more fuel efficient. There exists the possibility of the new concorde the ability to super cruise much better than the old version.

[@thinebiggest]

Wonderful video!

[@nenblom]

I took a tour of Concorde on the USS Intrepid in New York City. While in the queue, we passed underneath the wings of the plane which was AMAZING! The aircraft was HUGE!! So, now I can say that I have been on the Concorde! ❤❤

[@jasongarufi8187]

Hi Paul thanks for such a great tour of the Concorde.

[@staralliancefan1245]

Great video Paul! Wow those Tupolev engines are massive! No wonder it was so thirsty! Much less aerodynamic than Concord.

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Indeed!

[@Hughes500]

I toured through a Concorde at Brooklands Museum a few years back. It was a highlight and I agree, the cockpit was cosy indeed.

[@jirihamersky6152]

Thanks for the interesting video. When I see the complex technique, I can't believe that it all worked flawlessly. Awesome plane, nice video.

[@anjinsanx44]

Very cool thank you

[@johnwoodall3791]

What an amazing Aircraft this is, Flew her Once or Twice and what a Blast it was. Great Video.

[@heathertruskinger6214]

Hi Paul...thats really cool, especially getting to sit in the cockpit !

[@SJR_Media_Group]

Former Boeing... Paul, you are so lucky to visit some of the most amazing aircraft ever constructed and flown. Concorde was in a class all to its own. There will probably never be another like it due to costs to fly supersonic and restrictions to fly supersonic over land. The day they pulled the plug on the program, many of us were saddened.

[@Dobuan75]

Superb insight into an icon of an aircraft. Keep up the great work!

[@johno9507]

Imagine telling a Lancaster crew that in 30 years people would be travelling at Mach 2.5 at 60,000ft sipping Champagne in short sleeves. 😂

[@112chapters3]

Thanks, mind blown.

[@tonerotonero1375]

Few people appreciate the full dimension of the technological leap that Concorde represents.

[@juliogonzo2718]

My grandfather who flew PBY's and Hudson bombers on the RCAF in WWII, never flew after the war, but absolutely loved everything aviation related till the day he died in 1994. I'm sure he loved the Concorde when it came out. I only wished I knew him more. He died when I was 10. Only remember one story he told. They damaged a wing on a PBY dropping depth charges. Wished I had been a little older and heard more of his stories.

[@aerotube7291]

Yeah, there's a story about two french mirages trying to stay with her and failing....incredible plane

[@65gtotrips]

The array of dials and switches is killer !

[@akabill79]

Just finding my RMs for the video Hello from outback Dunedoo ❤

[@ianstewartorr8455]

The Concorde I was on was the one at Seattle G-BOAG it was 1987 it was a experience flight it was wonderful I was in shock when I came off her I really enjoyed my experience flight greetings from Scotland 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@beldingja]

Hi Paul Great videos thanks for making a recording of history for all to enjoy. One question for anyone to answer. As a Bangor Maine USA resident @ 19:18 there is a Logo of the Maine Air National Guard MAINEIACS based here in Bangor. Does anyone know why this logo is on the Concord? Did it run test flights across the Atlantic here to Bangor?

[@johnwoodall3791]

That's Awesome to John who worked on the Concorde of Air France as an Engineer, Well Done Sir. Makes us all wonder though where things could have gone in this current Post Covid Situation and the desire to get to a destination quickly. What if the Concorde came about in this Time Frame with the High Tech we have now, With that Company in the United States building the Overture SST I think it's called, What if this Wonderful Plane made a Comeback. Especially when we have available to us right across the spectrum now in terms of Engineering, Cockpit and evolving Power Plants. What a thought that is. Also it makes me go back further in time to that of the once heralded USAF XB70 Valkyrie and what if she evolved in this Time and Place. Best Wishes.

[@koh_ling]

Very interesting video as usual Paul! Ohhh those cf6 spool up at the start❤❤

[@Tank_Ace_Aidan]

Paul, this is such a good video. As a Avigeek, the different systems on board fascinate me. Thank you for the video. I really enjoyed It 😀

[@TheHobartAviationFan]

Excellent video, can't wait to have a look round a Concorde myself later this year at the National Museum of Flight :)

[@vinnywelsh]

Cheers Paul! Another great video.

[@kevinkern2149]

I got to tour the inside of the Concorde at the Intrepid Museum in New York City, and I can confirm the cockpit is tiny. I'm about six foot, and I couldn't stand upright once past the cockpit door. I was impressed that they let us sit first in the original (albeit plastic-covered) passenger seats, then in the copilot's seat, right up to the controls. The Concorde is a beautiful aircraft; it's such a shame they couldn't be economical.

[@duanebonney]

Enjoyed that! Thanks for making the video mate. I’ve been to Duxford too.

[@Bad_Karma1968]

As always a great vlog Paul

[@FREETOMMY-p1d]

Well a head of its time. Imagine modern technology nowadays it would be even better. Im so glad I've come across your content second only to none my friend 👍

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Thanks and welcome! I'm off to the USA next month for more filming :)

[@EverestNZ]

I saw the first ever Concorde land at LHR G-BSST piloted by the great Brian Trubshaw when I was a kid...we lived at the end of 27l or 09r and man could you tell when that was coming or going out....the windows would literally rattle....very much like a VC10...

[@trw78]

The nose droop is actually larger on the prototype (17.5deg). It was later reduced as apparently during testing the flight crew found it unnerving not being able to see the nose at all.

[@PaulStewartAviation]

interesting, thanks for the extra info

[@nolanohana]

Now this is the really cool stuff 👍🏻

[@MrDamodee]

I had no idea, or failed to pickup, that the A300 had twin isles as I always thought is was single isles but more room. This explains why it was such a breakthough to carry that many people on two engines! Unless I am missing something, and I might be, is this the reason Eastern Airlines did so well with it, more poeple with less fuel burn and maintencance costs. Nice to know us brits designed the wings too.

[@mtrsprt_media]

Exactly one werk ago, I was in a Concorde in Sinsheim, what an amazing but also scary aircraft!

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Hope you enjoyed it! It's a brilliant museum!

[@adamkeene6371]

RIP Brian Trubshaw. The man that sat in that very seat making history. Man that bird is beautiful, if only we developed it last year 😢

[@MohammadSadeqBozorgnejad-mv7rr]

The first flight of the Concorde passenger plane was from Paris to Tehran. After seeing the capabilities of this plane, the former Shah of Iran immediately made an agreement to purchase several of this plane with its manufacturer, but

[@hbaviation2008]

Wow!!! What a cool video!

[@gzk6nk]

Very good and accurate - just a couple of points (I flew on G-BOAD in the flightdeck for an entire flight, and spent 14 years from 2024 onward as a senior technical guide on G-BOAC at Manchester, initially at weekends then after I retired from my real job, during the week as well). The wing anhedral has nothing to do with crosswind performance. It was to de-stabilize the wing in roll which otherwise would be overly-stable due the wing leading edge sweep. Obviously the wing feels no crosswind (or indeed any wind) once in the air, just the slipstream which is always from dead ahead while flying. While the cabin was narrow, the seats were actually very comfortable, with plenty of leg room. It was more than comfortable enough for the usual 3 hour trip.

[@thebananacraft7298]

You should do a tour of the first two Concorde’s 001 and 002 as they are very different too the Concorde in duxford, best one is at fleet air arm museum as they are shorter and has a different window design.

[@wotan10950]

I never flew in a Concorde, but I once worked at JFK, and heard them a few times a day. It’s no exaggeration to say that the ground literally shook as they took to the air.

[@yams900]

Great work, thinking of buying for FS2020 :)

[@aerotube7291]

Good vid. In between comnents im going back to absorb the great package of facts.....really good to see original content on here

[@aerotube7291]

Are you an Aussie ? I've looking to get up to Auckland sometime and vlog the museum up there.

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Hi mate, yep I'm an Aussie. Auckland is in New Zealand which is nearby. I wasn't aware that they had an aviation museum. There is one down in Christchurch which was the first ever aircraft museum I went to and realised how fascinating these planes are! :)

[@aerotube7291]

@@PaulStewartAviation I believe they have the only surviving short Solent there amongst other things

[@aerotube7291]

Motat it's called I believe

[@PaulStewartAviation]

aah yes, i'll have to keep an eye out for it. cheers @@aerotube7291

[@RachelsSweetie]

I was surprised to see the name "Miss Moses Lake" because that's not too far from me here in the PNW. Turns out they did de-icing testing there. Who woulda thought.

[@wotan10950]

This tour reminds me that Dame Joan Sutherland, your compatriot, mentioned Concorde in her memoirs. She said, “It is simply not fit for the size of an average opera singer. One got the vague feeling of being part of the cargo displacement!”

[@colincohen2711]

I believe the fuel management system to facilitate its movement was to shift the Center of Lift to counter the effect of the supersonic shock wave. It was not for Center of Gravity change though no doubt it did that. The CoL moved aft by 12 feet at Mach 2.

[@FFlyDDrum1]

Great review.

[@pedrodurrer9630]

Great Aircraft!

[@CaymanIslandsCatWalks]

Ah man I changed my KZbin name but love seeing ya head!

[@debramage739]

Thanks Paul.

[@elcasho]

That was so cool!

[@Samuel-gc6js]

I can hear Concorde Captain John Hutchinson talk during your video. A great videob on a flight to Washington you can watch on KZbin

[@aerotube7291]

Awesome watch!

[@schmoosmith]

Legend has it that British Aircraft Corporation and Aérospatiale knew there were Soviet moles within the organisation so they intentionally circulated blue prints with deliberate design floors.

[@razorcola9833]

06:15 what’s the purpose of the ejection jack ? Escape hatch door ?

[@PaulStewartAviation]

The escape door was to abandon the aircraft inflight. I suspect that it's mostly there to provide comfort that it could be done. I doubt it could be used in reality.

[@captainjoshq300]

Cool video

[@paul_mumford]

I've flown on Concorde!

[@sharonbraselton4302]

master has diñt this aß well fly in concordé scho trips

[@tarnejehovahson2148]

Going to Duxford in a few weeks how did you get access to the cockpit ?

[@PaulStewartAviation]

I asked to film inside but it’s usually closed

[@ГарриГесс]

Красавец!!!

[@applejacks971]

Everyone "What makes Concorde unique?" Paul Stewart "Yes"

[@PaulStewartAviation]

😂

[@PJay-wy5fx]

Hi Paul, a few weeks ago, your channel was suggested and I've watched your videos with a lot of interest! It looks like you travel all over the world and make these wonderful videos of iconic planes. I'd be interested to know where you have traveled to, for how long you have been doing this, and if these travels are specifically/mainly with the goal of visiting museums and making videos, or that your (other) occupation takes you all over the world and you seize the opportunity to visit these museums as a bonus. It would be very nice to see a video on this, what do you think?

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Hi mate, yes I’m very lucky :) I try and keep my hobby job separate from my day job, for the time being, though :)

[@PJay-wy5fx]

I hope that soon your 'hobby job' will become your day job! Keep up the good work!

[@ianmangham4570]

Awesome channel amazing vids 🇬🇧🙏🤟

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Thank you 🙌

[@Colt1775]

This thing almost looks like it would be a space craft in Mass Effect or Star Trek.

[@sharonbraselton4302]

yess it dóse

[@ChrisJames-cj8sw]

Paul did you not do this during the Duxford visit last time? Not as in depth but in part 1 of Duxford? Great as always tho x

[@PaulStewartAviation]

I did about 4 years ago but the video was very basic. It was only 4 minutes :)

[@ChrisJames-cj8sw]

@@PaulStewartAviation ahhhh see shows I watched your videos for a while now aha yeah i was sure you had anyway epic as always you in the UK ATM then?

[@PaulStewartAviation]

@@ChrisJames-cj8sw nah back in Australia at the moment. Busy editing footage from my UK visit a few months ago

[@ChrisJames-cj8sw]

@@PaulStewartAviation makes sense really I didn't think of that just assumed you where haha thanks for the content 😉

[@MohammadSadeqBozorgnejad-mv7rr]

But after the crash of the first Concorde, he canceled the contract and signed a contract with the Boeing factory to buy several 747 passenger planes.

[@Mariazellerbahn]

... and drivers of the 2012 - 2018 Astra complained of too many control buttons.

[@PaulStewartAviation]

And now we have touch screens and want the buttons back!! 😂

[@mickyday2008]

Whilst it only had one aisle with two seats either side there was loads of leg room and I don’t remember feeling cramped at all.

[@nei1s]

I used to have a piece of the aluminium sheet (8x3 inch aprox) used on the experimental aircraft, if I remember correctly it was a dark yellow/green colour....... haven't a clue what happened to it 😂😂

[@philipmangaoang1352]

I wonder if the US could have made a supersonic transport based on the Rockwell B1 bomber.

[@sharonbraselton4302]

boóm is bjg ít

[@zoperxplex]

It has been said that the Concorde was to Britain and France what the Moon landing was to the United States.

[@mstevens113]

Correction, Americans use afterburner, the UK refer to it as reheat.

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Isnt that what i said?

[@mstevens113]

​@@PaulStewartAviation nope, got it back to front, "reheat, what the British call afterburners"😂. As a brit I know what you meant though.

[@shrimpflea]

@@PaulStewartAviation Yes it is what you said, ignore them.

[@PaulStewartAviation]

@@mstevens113 that makes sense, though. I can see where you’re coming from and I could have been clearer 😂

[@antman5474]

Yeah but this bad boy fucking nailed it. End of. But so old.

[@F14-talktomegoose]

not a whole lot of clearance between the elevators and engine exhaust

[@kjm-ch7jc]

A real life Wallace without Gromit 😊