There Was Something Seriously Wrong With History's Fastest Plane

[@Thoughty2]

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[@ukrainianfedora8787]

The snail has taken him

[@garethmetcalf2314]

I already play it

[@ReaperRowledge]

EERM. Concord has a delta wing...lol

[@SynomDroni]

We should, because we could. How's that for some reasoning?

[@davidhugill4668]

Yes, Concorde was LOUD. Back in the day, my family was in Madrid and I was working in London, under the flightpath to Heathrow. Many was the time I was on the phone back home and I'd have to say "hold on, Concorde is passing". It was impossible to speak on the phone for the next 30 to 60 seconds. But I have to say, it was an experience, a joy, not an annoyance.

[@birisuandrei1551]

But you must be the only one 😂

[@davidhugill4668]

@@birisuandrei1551 Hardly the only one. Haven't you heard a thousand times that you shouldn't exaggerate?

[@David-iy1zt]

You enjoy being silenced by an engine? Loud cars are annoying enough

[@fernandogarcia6163]

@@birisuandrei1551 "that makes one of us"😂

[@harrier331]

@@David-iy1zt Loud cars are not a Concorde...

[@davidtatro7457]

I well remember the single time l got to see a Concorde in person. Ft. Myers, FL was hardly a major international destination at the time, but a Concorde made a single stop there in the late 80s for some reason. My mother took me to the airport the night it arrived, and we joined a large crowd of people who had congregated in front of the giant windows at the gate to see the beautiful beast at rest. This was back in the days when anyone could stroll anywhere in a major airport without a ticket or passing security checkpoints. Then, the next day, we went back and joined an even much larger crowd who had assembled with blankets and lawn chairs all along the runway, and watched it take off. The pilot was kind enough to circle back after takeoff and give us all a magnificent low altitude flyby. I will never forget that as long as l live.

[@Sandfrau]

There is a concord in the technic museum in Sinsheim, Germany. It’s on the roof and you can go into it. Definitely worth a visit if you’re in that region of Germany.

[@Scooty_Scooty]

@@Sandfrau Why would anyone want to be in any part of Hitlerland?

[@Sandfrau]

@@Scooty_Scooty because you can drive as fast as you want on the highway and drink Alkohol legally at 14?

[@erikvitagliano1040]

@@Scooty_Scooty very ignorant question and implication. The German people are a great people and an asset to Europe as a whole and nato. Furthermore, read history. Hitler was atrocious, yes. But by far not the worst. The catholic church killed many... many more than did the third Reich. And the third Reich did diddle kids....

[@nigeldepledge3790]

Unlike you, I'm guessing, I've visited Germany. In case you were not aware, Hitler has not been in charge for over 75 years. I visited Berlin in 1987; and the story of hhe Wall was and still is fascinating. In 2013, I visited the Black Forest, near Freiburg, which is s beautiful part of the world. Also, the motor car was invented in Germany, so Stuttgart is almost certainly worth a visit.

[@joetroutt7425]

When I was a kid the Concord landed at my local airport and me and my mom and dad went down there to look at it. it was a spectacle

[@MancFlowerDragon]

I live in Manchester UK and I remember going to see it with my primary school.

[@Aeronaut1975]

*Concorde

[@scottyphillips7799]

I had the same experience when I was younger mom and I went to the airport outside Jackson,MS to see it. One of my favorite memories cause at the time I was obsessed with flight and planes.

[@ZombieDowneyJr]

I remember hearing the sonic booms from the Concord flights as a little kid. I also remember how excited I was when it was explained to me what the noises were and how they were made. I thought it was the coolest thing ever.

[@rongendron8705]

I've heard a 'sonic boom' from a smaller military jet & used to live by JFK airport & that sound is unnerving!

[@ZombieDowneyJr]

@@rongendron8705 I just loved all the tech as a kid. The noise was daily, now military is daily. Sue me, man. The booms were so cool to me.

[@1crzflyer]

the only way you ever heard a sonic boom from a concord is if you were in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean... they never exceeded the speed of sound over dry land.

[@ZombieDowneyJr]

@@1crzflyer Unless you were a child in the late 1960s- 1980s, math my guy.. It doesn't seem like you actually paid any attention to this entire video.

[@Aeronaut1975]

*Concorde

[@Dremvel2335]

I always wanted to fly Concorde. such an amazing plane. It was long ago when I was in cub scouts back in the 70's.. We had a chance to tour one of the planes.. Beautiful.. didn't care about the cramped quarters. it would have been a thrill to travel that fast and see Our Beautiful Planet from so high above.. I do hope someone finally does it again with another supersonic miracle.. Soon...

[@mickey4125]

One of the (many) things I love about this channel is the subtle bits of poetry and alliteration he works into the scripts. Never over-eggs it, just lets it flow. It's beautiful to listen to.

[@decker528]

I've noticed a lot of alliteration is always attributed to Mr Arran's arsenal That's the best I can do. I don't know enough words

[@uncensored5104]

I used to see it in the sky every day as a kid, and you would still point up at it in excitement! When it took off, it had a distinct crackle noise about it and you could hear it on the runway winding up the engines to take off from miles away. Such a shame that its gone and not even evolved.

[@raven4k998]

your car gets safer wait can that happen?🤣🤣🤣 don't you have to buy a new car for that to happen?

[@galaxyanimal]

@@raven4k998 What does that have to do with @Uncensored's comment. I'm sure Thoughty2 meant ea. & every time you buy a new car, it's safer than the last one. However, something that isn't really talked about is that roads are also getting safer over time, so you'd be getting safer even driving the same car.

[@tooyoungtobeold8756]

I flew on Concorde and we reached 1600 mph. It wasn't cruising, it was a Heathrow to the Bay of Biscay and back - a press trip. There was a digital dispaly in the cabin. Sadly, no mobile phones to take a pic. I also lived near Heathrow and you could hear it coming, on time, everyday and it literally shook teacups on a saucer. It sounded like a rocket on take-off and the angle of take-off was very steep indeed.

[@dennisrobinson8008]

Impressive

[@neorodan_]

What did it feel like? Was it loud?

[@davidmurphy2903]

@@neorodan_ having worked for QANTAS Airways in Sydney Australia for many years, I'd seen and even felt Concorde take off several times. The first time was in the late 80s when I drove a baggage towing vehicle all the way to the edge of the apron facing the runway. She was not loud as she'd taxi, just a higher pitch, but once on the end of the runway when the ABs turned on, it shook everything on me and in me. Sheer brute force shoved her into the sky. What a marvel.

[@lilmsmischief69]

I don’t believe you.

[@dennisrobinson8008]

@@lilmsmischief69 Eternal skeptic. Some had those jobs and some had those actual experiences.

[@heeeeeyyyyyyyyy]

The thing I find mind blowing is that Concorde also the SR71 is that they were designed without computers, just people with pencils and wood/clay models.

[@Rena_Grace]

Dark Side you’re kinda a dick. Didn’t need to be one in your comment. Probably meant that it was draw/designed on paper and clay. Unlike today when it’s usually designed on computers. Try being a little more human not ass

[@USCG.Brennan]

@@Rena_Grace Exactly......no sense in being a jerk, but I'm sure "something dark side" has been told this before by alot of people.....including his Mamma. ;-)

[@allenburris3740]

What's mind blowing is the plane that hit the Pentagon was moving so fast it broke the camera barrier didn't matter the angle or that there was hundreds of video camera's rolling you couldn't see it at all that is fast

[@USCG.Brennan]

@Something-Something-Dark-Side Ah....more proof our 12 year old here loves frothing at the mouth because he has nothing intelligent to say. The pathetic and lonely child wants attention.... Feel better now, kid?

[@USCG.Brennan]

@@allenburris3740 Agreed, and love your sarcasm on that topic.

[@Linda-ki5xh]

I remember seeing the Concorde at Heathrow Airport in 1977. It was beautiful. It never came to us down under so I was chuffed to see

[@leonardhpls6]

The Concorde flew to Aus plenty of times 🤣

[@polygonally_dunce7813]

Wouldn't that mean you saw the same plane as the guy a few comments above yours?

[@Gye5451]

My great grandfather worked for Rolls Royce and helped develop the engines for Concorde. Learning about family history is always so interesting

[@Boomcheeks]

My grandfather worked there too. He was some form of inspector that checked certain parts in the engines were correct as far as I know.

[@backpackingtony1779]

I remember reading about an English couple was on the Concorde when it crashed. They had saved for years to afford their dream holiday. Their plan was to fly the Concorde, go to Disney land and then take a Caribbean cruise. They never made it. So sad to think about it.

[@fredhughes4115]

My guess is that there's about 50 other, equally sad stories associated with that tragedy.

[@carroux4050]

@@fredhughes4115 Probably true, still it does not make Backbacking Tonys story any less impact full...

[@fredhughes4115]

@@carroux4050 Wow. Thanks for that completely unnecessary comment.

[@rwatson2609]

@@carroux4050 HaHa, "impactfull...." very funny. Still, I think the title of the video is a little misleading since there were many faster airplanes including the X15 from the same era that flew 3X faster than it.

[@chrispict42]

Was that iron bar dropped on the runway, sabotage of Concotde; to murder good German competition winners? As no fat-rats. also travelled?

[@big6ruce]

Great video. I was 8 years old when I first saw a Concorde on the runway getting ready to take off. I remember also reading Boeing was building a similar plan but once the ban overland happened they scrapped the project.

[@babagandu]

Yaaaa khuuuuuudaaaaa

[@MikeHammer1]

I missed out on a chance to fly from Heathrow to JFK on the Concorde. My colleagues were in Germany on a meeting that I passed up on. They flew to London and their next leg of the flight, on a 747 to JFK, was cancelled. They were upgraded to the Concorde at no charge. Man was I ever jealous.

[@rongenung]

I can well imagine that you still regret that decision!

[@chrislee5362]

I swear the Concorde flew over my neighborhood back in 2001, more than once. I live in Texas though. I remember experiencing the sonic booms, and I remember my grandma saying it was a Concorde. I also recall a shape similar to it in the sky. But from that distance, it cold have been something else. Maybe a new military aircraft being tested. All I know is that those booms were no joke. I could FEEL them. I don't know how low they were flying for that to be possible, but wow.

[@Chevy17031]

Probably a B-1. Similar size and speed.

[@23yearsand76]

And to think...Concorde was all designed with Pencil and Paper....NO Computers!!!

[@danielocarey9392]

Texas received many sonic booms back starting in 1956 with the Convair B-58. There weren't restrictions on booms over land yet. And these jets were built and tested in Fort Worth. And like the later Concorde, they were built to go high and fast, and stay there, instead of super sonic spurts that fighters do.

[@amb163]

On the 24th of July, I boarded my first ever flight, on the way to Tanzania, from Canada. On the 25th of July, I sat in an airport in Nairobi, Kenya, jet lagged and slightly ill, watching the Concorde crash footage on the lounge television. We had to get onto another plane shortly thereafter, heading for Dar Es Salaam, and the trepidation was REAL. Logically I knew the chances of my plane going down were minuscule, but still... My aunt and uncle were lucky enough to fly on a Concorde once in the 1970s, but they weren't that impressed. Yes, it went fast, but it was so loud in the cabin you had to scream to be heard by your fellow passengers.

[@scootergsp]

Interesting, about the noise. I remember watching a video about the Soviet version, the TU -144 and one of the main complaints was the internal noise. That video mentioned that the Concorde designers went to extensive lengths to minimize the cabin noise. If it was that prevalent on Concorde, it must have been an absolute nightmare on the Soviet design.

[@rotarded1983]

That’s very hard to believe it was Concorde if they had to yell. It was quite pleasant in the cabin and you could hold a conversation as you could any other plane

[@amb163]

@@rotarded1983 Maybe they just had a bad experience? It was definitely the Concorde they were on.

[@kudraally6492]

Hello from Tanzania😜

[@clivemitchell3229]

I flew on Concorde on a champagne trip around the Bay of Biscay. With the engines below the wings, directing the sound away from the cabin, it was the quietest plane I've ever flown on. If your relatives had been seated near the back of the cabin next the engines, it may have been a different matter. For me it was quiet up to Mach 1.5 when the whole fuselage started to rumble and it became quite noisy! I even visited the cockpit which you cannot do now. Below, white clouds. To the side, blue sky to the curving horizon. Above, the starless blackness of space in daytime. Unforgettable.

[@TripleAidan]

My pals Dad flew to NY regularly and said it was very uncomfortable but to do that trip so quickly back in the day was like having the internet before anyone else in the big business world, face to face meetings to sign legals etc got things done!

[@Cyp_Cyp]

I walked through a decommissioned Concorde and the plane was a LOT larger than I thought. I thought it heald around 20 people. It held a minimum of 80 people.

[@rubbergrub561]

I have too, the one in Barbados. The windows are tiny though!

[@Cyp_Cyp]

@@rubbergrub561 yeah, I agree

[@rongendron8705]

Since 109 people died (in the Concorde crash of 2000), (some were crew) wouldn't the plane have held more than 80?

[@Popwarner-x1w]

@@rongendron8705 he said it held a minimum of 80 people

[@nephicus339]

@@rubbergrub561 Probably due to the pressure of being at 60,000 ft doing 1300 mph. Just a guess, though.

[@mammutMK2]

On an airshow she made a start with full afterburner. You don't hear her start, you feel her. It was so loud it felt like you actually was leaning against the sound while it was trying to push you back. And she was up in the clouds out of visual range in no time

[@q3aryoko]

My dad was a broker when i was a kid. I was lucky enough to fly with my dad on a Concord from London to New York when i was like 10? So sometime in 1987..I didn't realize it at the time, i thought everyone could fly on one of these so it was no big deal. Now that i think of it, it was freaking awesome man. I remember being really happy the flight back was way faster than the flight there lol.

[@kitefan1]

-Thank you for the blast from the past! I grew up near a US Naval Air Station in New England. In the mid-60s the fighter pilots would kick the edge of the sound barrier which was seriously fascinating. I think they got banned from that later. As you said, when the Concordes started flying they were eventually required to stay below the speed of sound until well off the coast of NYC. At my Mother's timber frame house, 140 air distance miles (225 Km) from JFK, there would be a small creak in the roof if the weather was reasonably clear. That was the far dispersed shock wave from the Concorde departing.

[@silverismoney]

XB-70 Valkyrie will always be the greatest plane for me. It looks remarkably similar to Concorde too. But yeah I've been on-board Concorde 3 times (never while it was flying, once at Duxford museum which I highly recommend, US air force museum next door with an SR71 in there!) and it's an awesome plane. Especially it's Rolls Royce Olympus engine. They're absolutely huge when you're underneath them.

[@dazzab111]

Sr-71 for me!

[@kaospat4173]

The most crazy thing about the 70 is it's size ....at the the time it held the record for largest and fastest jet aircraft in the world

[@NoTaboos]

The Valkyrie looks nothing like a Concorde.

[@icatz]

I used to live under the flight path to Heathrow in the 80s. When it would go overhead, everything would rattle, I couldn't hear the tv, and if I was on the phone I had to tell the person to wait until Concorde had gone by. Three times a day in the summer and twice a day in the winter. I loved it. I'm sad I never got to fly on it.

[@TDiggz]

You lived in the sky over 60 thousand feet up?

[@icatz]

@@TDiggzThank you for catching that blunder! I just noticed it.

[@TDiggz]

@@icatz haha 😄

[@MrSuperG]

Flat as a pancake

[@brianpark9839]

As i worked on Concorde in Bristol from 1978 to it was a great experience ,but unfortunately the immense vibrations & stress on the rear tail rudder was the reason it was taken out of service as the tapered aluminium outer tail rudder skins were literally peeling off and it was decided that it was too dangerous to carry on flying the fleet i was there and actually saw for myself the damage.

[@GG-jw8pt]

Rubbish! Everything is down to money! Safety? You must be joking.

[@PaunCovek]

@@GG-jw8pt Unsafe planes can cost a lot of money though, if it crashes, you lose the plane and you get a bunch of lawsuits. Even if it just causes an accident without loss of life it is still a bad look for the company at the least...

[@brianpark9839]

@@GG-jw8pt hi so you say that i did not repair the concorde parts,

[@gshah5278]

Its because British Airways didnt want to lose its business class customers... which it would have lost if it sold concorde. Instead they had to be the kid who takes home the football when he doesn't get his way.

[@db-hj9cu]

@@brianpark9839 I think he tryna say they decommissioned it for monetary reasons only and not safety concerns. His point really doesn't make sense since the safety concerns actually cost money. Sounds like you had a great and interesting career

[@Ulfstigandr]

This story makes me think of the book series *Galaxies Edge* The rich and powerful left Earth on interstellar ships known as "light huggers", the most sophisticated ships of the time, and left a dying Earth behind. But some generation or 2 later, hyperdrives were invented. Allowing more people to reach even farther in space long before the "light huggers" ever could.

[@waynehale66]

Is that a star wars film?

[@Telerian3]

@@waynehale66 they said it was a book series.

[@waynehale66]

@@Telerian3 ok thanks for reply

[@mariobros2628]

I don't know those books, but actually I was always saying the same for years. Why would you want to send people out even with the speed of light to find new places, when the time is passing faster on Earth during your travel and they probably invent the technology to create wormholes and they'll arrive faster on your goal than you. The life of generations on a ship would be flushed down the toilet. A few weeks ago I saw a documentary where scientists talked exactly about this. Apparently I am not as stupid as some people say 😀

[@waynehale66]

@@mariobros2628 be funny 14 years one lot finally arrive and by then they’ve found a worm hole got there first and made a home then the 14 yearers get there and say how did u get here so fast we was on the turtle exspress lol

[@davidcarroll1991]

I’ll never forget when I was 12 years old attended the Blue Angels air show at Dover Air Force Base (Delaware) and at the end of the show we all heard a loud boom but saw nothing in the sky. Until the craft turned sideways and in the sky was a massive Stealth Bomber. It was like a small flying city. This thing was massive! And it was so loud children were covering their ears crying! It was absolutely unbelievable to see something like that. If you didn’t know any better you would of thought it was a giant UFO lol

[@imslightlybaked4575]

Probably wasn't a stealth bomber. The so loud children were crying doesn't sound the same as Stealth Bomber. I've seen two and if I wasn't looking up I wouldn't have seen them. Completely silent.

[@janiealexander9450]

@@imslightlybaked4575 Yes, I saw one fly the parade route at the Rose Bowl Parade, many years ago. It was Massive and absolutely Silent. Unforgettable!!!

[@paulwalker8262]

Filton

[@PrairieWolff]

Not only great content in Thoughty2 videos, imagine all the future historians, teachers, doctors, engineers, etc he inspires!!!!

[@davemccombs]

Precisely zero, those people all have better research ability by the age of 8 than this channel

[@wade7959]

@@davemccombs Nobody is suggesting this channel be their method of education, only that it might provide the initial inspiration. Those inspired could absolutely be a non-zero number.

[@soundscape26]

@@davemccombs Who hurt you man?

[@aneyelesspig8899]

Take a look at this video for example, he is only saying the Concorde is more advanced than an A330 (or any modern airliner for that matter), just because it is faster and can fly higher than it. The worst disadvantages of the Concorde, which are gone as of with modern airliners, are its enourmous fuel usage needed for its speed, destroying the ozone layer as it is flying so close to it (and emmiting tons of sulphuric acid), though it is still a thing, but it is slower and breaking the sound barrier. Plus the actual systems on modern aircraft are far more advanced than a Concorde's. A more advanced airliner isn't one that is faster, it's one that is more fuel efficient, safer and less polluting.

[@Steven-ze2zk]

He is one of the best youtubers in existence. This video could have been an hour long and I would have been glued to my screen for the duration.

[@craiggage2238]

I really didn't like history till I started watching thoughty2 and not just history he got me into science as well Thanks thoughty2 for making amazing content

[@stephenmcdonagh2795]

You'll never run out of interesting things to read with just those two subjects- I'd recommend books over all other forms of getting knowledge, they give you the complete picture not just snippets. I'd recommend to anyone on the history front, Anthony Beevors, Stalingrad- history that reads like an epic. And for science- anthropology- try Steven Pinker's "The Blank Slate". In an age where people believe they can be whatever gender- SPECIES they want to be, it puts to rest the Nurture over Nature fallacy- genetics rule.

[@wolfmauler]

How about the Paranormal?? 😳🧛🐺👻 Spooky stuff

[@postverifiedlifestyle]

@@stephenmcdonagh2795 wait till you find out sex and gender are different 😟

[@wolfmauler]

@@postverifiedlifestyle Trust "The Science"...Until it becomes unprofitable 🤔

[@stephenmcdonagh2795]

@@postverifiedlifestyle Yeh, the same day the glaciers grow back in the shape of Greta Thunberg and god pays homage to her- breaking the ice with a pick axe to salve the awkwardness one gets with when trying to converse with an androgynous wood puppet from some Soviet kids show of the 70s.

[@dj1NM3]

Perhaps some sort of technology like used in the Shkval supercavitating torpedo to create a "bubble" around its hull could be developed for use in air (rather than water), to reduce or eliminate the drag and resultant overheating problem for supersonic aircraft with a vacuum bubble? Although I imagine that this technology might be more useful for something like anti-aircraft missiles or supersonic cruise missiles, rather than air travel for people.

[@nunessilva2162]

Great video as usual. Thanks 42 I remember listening... or reading.., at this point it might just came to my mind back then, I don't know, another factor that basically sped up Concorde's retirement was the fact that in those towers where a lot of their clients, that perished in that horrible day... Those guys would have the need to fly in the morning to London, or NY to "do some business" and be back home in time for dinner... Maybe some one can clarify if that is even a fact or not, but it actually makes sense...

[@kojoyeboah7]

I was a shuttle bus driver for Europcar at Heathrow airport between 2001-2004. Watching Concorde take off in the winter mornings was always a thrill!. Shame my ex destroyed all my photos of the last day. But who needs photos with a memory like mine?😎. Brad Paisley fans know...

[@robie4569]

Your ex sounds like a right twat that's some experience for sure.

[@paperkay]

As I understand it, it's not a problem inventing or building something great. It's mass-production that's the problem.

[@jackdurden466]

I don’t know if I agree, R&D costs far exceeds just rebuilding the same thing after it’s been designed and tested, and tested and designed. Once that money is spent it’s already known what needs to be made, how to make it, and assemble it. That requires factories and workers, sure. But it’s definitely the research and development that’s the real money. It’s the same with the pharmaceutical industry, once they have developed a drug, after extensive trial and error. They have a patent on the drug which only allows the original “name brand” to be prescribed. And if you’ve ever had to pay for a brand drug, it’s insanely expensive. Recently I had an incident where my pharmacy had run out of my prescription in generics. So I asked how much for #30 pills in brand name? While the generic was about $17, the brand was, for 30 pills, $1200. They have to recoup all of the R&D costs..

[@diggingattycho7908]

It is the other way around, fabrication along with trial and error. That can add up very quickly, even with state of the art tech at your fingertips. Then comes the biggest expense of the whole thing, regulations, endless regulations, mountains of regulations, oceans of regulations. Most people haven't got a clue just how much regulations have proliferated, into as many aspects of their lives as bureaucrats and politicians can squeeze. That's where all modern great things have died.

[@paulstewart6293]

And not crashing unfortunately.

[@XrisD147]

And it costs 15000 pounds in the year 2000 for a ticket so if it was around now yur talking 25k to 30000? I dunno how to adjust for inflation.

[@marhawkman303]

@@diggingattycho7908 Yeah, non-supersonic jets... can be quite fast. Regulations don't really look as hard into how fast as long as it's not super-sonic. In fact some of the more dramatic crashes... had the jet nose-dive into the ground and break the sound barrier while crashing. but yeah, loads of regulations in modern times that are utterly evil and exist to protect big business. Sometimes from OTHER big businesses, but yeah...

[@virtuoso513]

My dad once went on this plane and said there was pressure on his chest when the plane took off but he also mentioned he doesn't know whether other people had this problem

[@TheRattyBiker]

The demise of Concorde was a real shame, so much so, it's almost like an Aerospace Industry conspiracy... Most commercial Aerospace businesses would have struggled to get £350 per ticket for over 300 people let alone £15,000 each for a handful of people and that's 90's prices.

[@bigships]

But they did

[@ajaymanoj3527]

You are a true Hero because no-one has made a perfect reason why Concord retired.

[@Aeronaut1975]

*Concorde

[@Thepuffingyank]

i lived in phoenix during the 90's. july 29 98 is the last time it flew in and out of sky harbor. it was so cool to see them fly in, circled the city twice. that was last time i saw it fly.

[@diggingattycho7908]

I remember when Concorde flew into Sky Harbor back in the late eighties. That was quite a sight to see.

[@sophiaisabelle01]

Your videos have always provided such concise and accurate information. There's no doubt in my mind you're definitely one of the best on this platform.

[@Oscarspoem]

Funny story. On the day Concorde made its last journey to Heathrow. I was lost and looking for directions for a new site, i was about to start on.. I saw a guy with a Union Jack flag wrapped his shoulders and I asked him directions. He told me to go buy a map, so I replied I hoped it would be cloudy and he wouldn't be able to see Concorde. Now I am in a car he is walking. I drove off and hes started to give chase, on foot. I was laughing, yet at the same time, seeing this fat lunatic chasing me in my mirror actually gave me the chills. Proper nut. Haha

[@malbers35]

Neat story...🙄

[@tiberiusbrain]

Oh wow wow wow...... ... ... ... Wow!

[@landon4216]

very strange story, but you had a great delivery!

[@Oscarspoem]

@@landon4216 Haha thank you. What is even stranger, he didn't run for about 5 yards, no, in my mirror I could see him, flat out chasing me. Actually as expressed it did indeed frighten me. Haha

[@danechristmas6570]

My goodness!.. I do remember all the media hype that surrounded the Concorde, and the fatal crash..I think the Russians tried a version of it after it was scrapped, but the plane was noisy both outside and inside, so passenger experience was horrible..

[@LifeInPink999]

How was it after TU-144 was world’s first supersonic comercial aircraft with his first flight in 1968 while Concorde started to operate in 1969? It was just two months before according to wiki but still first. Because of the rush to create it before USA quality obviously suffered so it didn’t last long, till 1983. After other models were created too lazy to look if any lasted longer than Concorde and if they were any better. Knowing Russian aviation (probably not). But I find this quite funny: Poukhov, one of Tupolev's designers, reminiscences: "For the Soviet Union to allow the West to get ahead and leave it behind at that time was quite unthinkable. We not only had to prevent the West from getting ahead, but had to compete and leapfrog them, if necessary. This was the task Khrushchev set us... We knew that when Concorde's maiden flight had been set for February or March, 1969, we would have to get our aircraft up and flying by the end of 1968." So yeah just by two months…but to create something not so good but faster I wonder how it’s a win. I guess just by people like me randomly commenting “hey Soviet Union did it first”. 🤦🏼‍♀️

[@cdf1uk]

no Concorde has been scrapped!

[@RebeccaBardess]

I used to love the sound of the sonic boom. We gathered in the garden when anyone saw Concorde flying over, to wait for the boom, behind the plane. Never occurred to me to complain about it, because it was flipping AWESOME! Did people really complain about this? I don't remember that at all. People loved Concorde. Also, my parents flew on it once. They confirmed that the planet is round, because they could see the curvature of The Earth from space.

[@thursoberwick1948]

American politicians complained about it because it was made by the British and French and not their own countrymen.

[@danielocarey9392]

It wouldn't give the boom except over the ocean. It didn't get supersonic until then. But they were loud because of the unmuffled turbojets.

[@dustinsouza1410]

Thanks again for the great video as always. You did a great job at explaining why there’s no hypersonic commercial jets out there on the market right now.

[@riotdejaneiro3650]

7:30 Hahahahah the random Guile instruction actually got me good! Gotta love ya Arran! :D Btw the Concorde used to break windows in our Skyscraper in Rio de Janeiro back in the 80s when I was a kid.. Was scary af because the shards would just fall from the 30th or whatever down on the sidewalk.. The silver bird was a freaking beautiful piece of art tho.. As you mentioned , keeping in mind how old it actually is and seeing how futuristic it looks is insane.. Slickest airplane ever built..

[@edgelord121]

That caught me off guard XD

[@K_a_r_l_o_s]

Used to live on the flight path into Filton airfield where she'd fly in for service work now and again. It also was the flight path on her way to the US and on a clear day could see her flying over then not long after hear a faint sonic boom once she was clear of land. I have also been lucky to have sat in the pilot seat while they were testing the engines as a kid back in the 80's thanks to a family friend who worked at Heathrow. Got to put the nose up and down and get taxed back into the hanger.

[@iam24fttall]

I went to primary school in North Bristol and remember it flying over my school playground on its final flight. I don't think I appreciated what a historic moment it was at the time!

[@pabdulazeez]

I was about five years old when the Concorde was flown in 1972 to the Santa Cruz Airport (now Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport) in Bombay (now Mumbai). We had our house in a place called Kalina which bordered the runway. Both the Air India and Indian Airlines staff colonies were located in Kalina and I still remember clearly all the fuss that was created when people started talking about the sound (we had no idea that it was the sonic boom at that time) that was created by it. I think that was the reason why Air India never went ahead with its order.

[@cd5433]

Well they definitely made that airport name much easier to pronounce . Good on them, I couldn’t quite Santa Cruz out all the time .

[@charlietango7267]

I remember seeing the Concorde at an air show… so loud, so amazing!

[@geekishgir]

I did my nursing training at St Peter's in Chertsey, which is close to Heathrow. We had in class day on Thurs and the Concorde passed by our window at 3 at about the stage it was slowing for landing. We got an extra break for tea as it was so deafeningly loud no one could hear a word the teacher said. It was a magnificent sight but SO loud it shook the building.

[@busybillyb33]

5:45 Some cool fact (or not so cool!): Concorde's total length stretched by 6 to 10 inches during flight due to heating - Source: British Airways.

[@IreneWY]

There are 2 Concordes in the flight museum in Sindelfingen in Germany. They looked so sleek and futuristic. On a other note - last winter 2 military airplanes crossed the sound barrier too early by accident and the boom was really really loud even 10s of kilometers away. Sounded like a massive explosion.

[@the.ghost.behind.u]

That would be awesome to experience

[@P5ykoOHD]

My grandmother was one of few who designed the seats that were used in the plane ^^

[@nottingtohide]

Me & my mum saw the first British Concorde fly over our house in Bristol, England, after watching it take off on live TV, from Filton, just down the road from us. It was fast and very noisy, as we scrambled from the living room windows up the stairs to the bathroom window, where it 'roared!' off into the distance. When we came back downstairs, our back French windows, & a bay window at a neighbours across the road had cracked. We also saw the last flight as it passed over Fulham in west London. I miss Concorde so much, never could afford to fly on it. Loved the noise it made, tho' never heard its sonic boom as far as I know.

[@michaillouvranos293]

I like your videos and it was just a matter of time to have one with the Concorde! Actually it`s called Delta wing from the Greek letter "Δ" not an Alpha wing.

[@alm5992]

Thank you! I thought I would have to post this!

[@pelagic6]

I also noticed this

[@kenmusyoka]

Men, your videos always have some interesting stuff to tell us. They are irresistible. So much so that you inspired me to start my own KZbin channel telling people interesting and thought provoking stuff. May you continue providing us with these amazing videos.

[@davidmacphee3549]

Beware of Spambot I reported it and it appears to be gone. EDIT: It came back even worse. This is the type that really tries to fish you in pretending to be the host with a prize just for you. BEWARE.

[@davidmacphee3549]

Good Luck with your new Channel Ken !

[@kenmusyoka]

@@davidmacphee3549 Thanks!

[@georgeknox1822]

Been on it twice. It was amazing. Seeing the earth from so high was incredible

[@listey]

Sounds like being on any other plane?

[@hogsandstews]

@@listey No considering no plane you can currently go on cruises at 60,000 ft. U sound jealous.

[@georgeknox1822]

@@listey can see the curvature of the earth

[@listey]

@Giles Hubbard nah I'm not at all jealous. But does that extra altitude really make that much of a difference? You get a pretty great view from any commercial airline. Although it's generally ruined by cloud cover. And I couldn't think of much worse than being stuck in the window seat, but that's a separate conversation I guess.

[@listey]

@@georgeknox1822 can I?! Cool!

[@saimcheeda93]

I remember watching The Parent Trap when I was 5 and Hallie mentioned the Concorde gets from America to England in half the time. After that I always wanted to travel in one

[@DannyDieHard369]

This is my childhood favorite airplane , I must have drawn the concorde billions of times as a child , living in miami close to the airport I remember seen it fly over my house , my school had a field trip that took us to see the plane they walked us around the inside showed us the cabin and when it was time to watch it take off 😑 I was sent to the bus punished because I was out of hand , this plane and the iconic black bird made my childhood ,

[@jayhanbhagvati]

Concorde is my favorite commercial airplane

[@danielocarey9392]

Mine too.

[@feralbluee]

i have a beautiful four inch model of the Concorde from France. 🇫🇷 when i saw it, i just had to have it and it wasn’t expensive at all! it’s just so beautiful an airplane. ✈️

[@davidellis279]

Virgin wanted to buy these planes but they weren’t allowed to because BA and Air France couldn’t risk Virgin showing them how to make money out of these planes plus of course the customers they might loose. It was a scandal to scrap these magnificent aircraft which had millions of pounds of taxpayers money in them,I think there was political pressure from the USA to scrap them because they were really Piss Off because they couldn’t build anything as good as Concorde so they made it difficult to operate in US airspace.

[@exidy-yt]

I was lucky enough to see the Concorde make serveral low passes over the world expo in Vancouver in 1986. It was the closest I would ever come to supersonic flight in my lifetime, most likely.

[@thisisme1999]

I remember that also!

[@exidy-yt]

@@thisisme1999 A sight you will never forget, eh? I think seeing it was what inspired my father to get his pilot's license and plane, I still remember his grin and 'I got to see the Concorde!' he yelled as the engines roared overhead. ☺

[@jakdrpr2106]

I remember the Concord taking off when itccame to Guam. The Airport was just above the complex where I worked. Sound just shook the island so loud.

[@waynesimpson2074]

When we travelled to Legoland with the kids the main highlight for me was Concorde taking off right next to us. The noise and the black filth coming out from those engines was terrific. Also I've just been on G-BO Alpha Delta onboard USS Intrepid , it was the Altlantic record holder. My fave Concorde fact; the automatic cruise control was not defined by engine RPM, fuel consumption etc. it was fed by inputs back from leading edge temp sensors in the wings, 1350 MPH causes a lot of heat and friction with the air.

[@andrewcordle2424]

Your videos are always very informative with a great sense of humor, this one is no exception Aaran. Keep up the good work !!! 👍🤗

[@paulh7589]

Another informative video from the Master. All aspects of aviation intrigue me. I used to love flying, now I hate it. In the 1970's and 1980's I had leg-room, now I have none. I am 6'8". I'd much rather drive my own vehicle or take a ship. Being stuck in the fetal position for hours with a kid sneezing and wiping his nose seated next to me just doesn't excite me.

[@davidmacphee3549]

lol

[@GarethJonesTV]

Excellent analysis BUT Concorde wasn't "the fastest plane ever built" - that would be the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird (or the Bell X-15 if you count rocket planes) and were Concordes "destroyed", or simply withdrawn from service?

[@Australian_Made]

FASTEST commercial PASSENGER plane EVER BUILT ! ( does THAT agree with you ? )🤦‍♂️

[@GarethJonesTV]

@@Australian_Made Not only does it agree with me, but being the truth it is a more accurate statement...and agrees with the facts, unlike the title of this video.

[@foxstrangler]

@@Australian_Made That would be the Tu-144 Mach 2.15, or 1600 mph.

[@BrunoBarata78]

@@Australian_Made and the facepalm would be to you.

[@1985_Honda_CRX_Si]

Only two Concordes we're destroyed out of the 20+

[@TOMMY-xc6ou]

7:30 that's so cool. I literally just finished playing street fighter II. nostalgia at it's finest.

[@leopolddupuis6678]

Hey Thoughty you should do a part 2 to this video on the Boom Overture that you mentioned. Neither Boeing or Airbus have a Supersonic passenger plane in the works, only Boom does. So they may be like Concord all over again for the 21st century. Hehe 😎👍 Keep up the good work and Awesome content. The Overture does look pretty damn awesome. Boom says that ticket pricing will be similar to regular airlines on slower than sound airliners and they will have economy, business, and first class. So supersonic travel will no longer be cramped and uncomfortable like it was on Concord due to shape of the fuselage.

[@jofawe]

I will never forget the day I first saw an Concorde in real life. I was ten years old and saw it both land and take off at Heathrow. 15 years later I could visit it in real life in New York and see it's inside. Such an marble of technology and beautiful airplane.

[@90taetaeya]

Singapore Airlines had a concorde too but due to Malaysia being jealous of Singapore’s success , purposely banned any concorde to fly over its airspace.

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

It never had a Concorde, it was a British Airways Concorde that was trialing it's use on routes to the Far East and if I am correct only one side was in Malaysia airways livery and the other in British Airways, the only two Airlines that ever owned and operated Concorde were British Airways and Air France.

[@tinaroberts5858]

Most beautifully designed commercial aircraft I have ever seen.

[@zarc0n]

"War funder... sounds fun!" Should be the new slogan

[@paulciccarello661]

Great jet,I live near JFK the noise was over the top as it landed and took off, but it was an amazing experience to watch

[@rickeygray210]

Exactly I grew up in east ny the Concorde jets used to rip the skies up. Those were they days We lived on the 20th floor

[@markmh835]

My favorite feature of the Concorde was the droop snoot. 😊👍

[@via45]

Wow noticed the quality the videos have gone up so much. Props to you 👏👏👏

[@davidmacphee3549]

I think they were always good!

[@doughnutharvest]

Interesting, I was thinking earlier how technology in some industries just seems to stop progressing at a certain point.

[@Make_Boxing_Great_Again]

Concorde wasn’t to blame for its crash, Air France was, the plane that ended in disaster was already scheduled for Kevlar upgrades in its fuel tanks as the dangers of tyre burst on take off were already documented. Unfortunately the plane crashed before such upgrades were installed. Furthermore, the plane that crashed was overloaded.

[@sid7088]

Hard to wrap my head around the fact that a person could travel at the speed of a rifle bullet. I saw the Concorde at the Toronto air show in the '80s. What a loud beautiful beast.

[@keithalderson100]

Passing Heathrow airport I enjoyed getting glimpses of Concord(e). One day I am aged to synchronise my perimeter road route as Concord took off over me... my car door popped onto the safety catch as the thrust noise hit me! Couldn't be snowed though;-)

[@SuperChewy444]

Listening to Stick a flag in it: 1000 Years of Bizarre History. Outstanding facts and it is even narrated by Aaron himself. If you haven’t bought this book you are missing out!

[@DEVILTAZ35]

KZbin is free though. He has enough money. I am not into making rich people richer than necessary seeing his content is not ad free so he is making a bucket load from ad revenue already lol. He also doesn't need you to offer free marketing.

[@SuperChewy444]

☝️didn’t ask

[@jeffcochran2195]

I'd always figured it was something about being able to cheat radar systems from other countries like the SEC shut down the Sony X-ray camera when the shot daylight is called the X-ray camera. And since a lot of the SR-71 Blackbird which is my favorite airplane is still classified I would imagine the Concord was shut down because the lack of commercial ability and the laws the really bent or possibly were overlooked and then maybe that it broke thanks for posting great video!

[@GoliathZ13]

For longer flights (i.e. 11+ hours) having this technology would be amazing

[@0mally13]

10,500 dollar per ticket according to my Unc. We spoke about it awhile ago. When it first was introduced it was much cheaper. Lol first time i heard a british accent. I flew concord when I was 6 or 7 like...mid 90s. It's really small inside, like really small. Never experienced service like that tho. Beautiful experience from what i remember. I didn't even think of taking in the experience of seeing the curve of the earth. I would be to scared to fly concord now. The Russian one looked cool. I need to build the lego

[@walterfechter8080]

Once again, you did a stellar job with this video! Many thanks, Arran.

[@TheNarrator497]

Here’s another strange story about aircraft: Someone I knew once drove something into Area 51 in a truck. Not the small ones that everyone drives, a huge truck. The were told that they actually did go into Area 51 at one point. When they went in, they didn’t see anything odd except for one thing. Instead of an aircraft going down an airway to launch off, it went *straight* up, then went forward, already in the air. If you’re wondering if it was illegal for them to tell me, you’re wrong. There name was never on any signed paper telling them to keep the secrets of Area 51. So they were allowed to tell anything they wanted about Area 51.

[@kburtsev]

What is so secretive about plane with vertical take off?

[@Hattonbank]

Or a F-22 that goes straight up, then abruptly levels off.@@kburtsev

[@SimonAmazingClarke]

If the American super sonic aircraft had come to market, sales would have boomed for both. As they didn't they kiboshed the whole industry.

[@peterj5751]

That’s a huge if. Plus, the US proposal was for a plane twice as big and faster so the fundamental problem of sonic boom would likely have been even worse. I really hope we end up with another supersonic plane but the US plans I the 60’s and 70’s was not going to be the answer.

[@NoTaboos]

Yep. The Americans were so jealous.

[@TimRHillard]

I flew as soon as possible after 9/11. I had to, I was a consultant and had clients all over the world. No go, no money. So, I went. It was a really, really weird time to fly. Just a few people on the planes. The flight attendants would come sit and visit, they had nothing else to do. I flew from Boston to Manchester (I have flown this flight either way over 100 times), I was literally the only person on the overnight flight. I was ''upgraded'' to first. I taught the flight attendants how to play Texas No Limit Hold'em. We played for hours. I don't miss those times. 9/11 was personal to me, as it is to so many. But, I had a job to do and just did it. It was solemn for a long time. Even today, I look out the window when flying and think about those Americans who died. And, all those who fought. We are so fortunate to live at the level of peace that we do. Life is so precious.

[@SSgtJohnEP]

The fastest plane was the SR-71 Blackbird. The biggest problem was the rigid titanium that was used to combat excessive heat, was prone to stress fractures from vibration. 12 out of 32 built were lost due to operational or mechanical failure, but no planes were lost due to enemy fire. I repaired and inspected the Lockheed Martin C-5 Galaxies for the USAF, but 13 years after the SR-71 was decommissioned in 1990.

[@Aeronaut1975]

Fastest plane was the X-15 at Mach 6.7, it was rocket powered, but was still a plane.

[@SSgtJohnEP]

@@Aeronaut1975 do you also consider the space shuttle a plane, because that is faster

[@stpbyrn3]

This is fascinating content, Arran. Great work, as always. Ever considered exploring a similar theme for early electric vehicles? An episode on GM’s EV1 would be an engaging watch in my opinion!

[@jaxonhancock6415]

Absolutely!

[@InsaneToggled]

ur content is always amazing! as well as ur editing!

[@danielbray5877]

I remember being a teen and flying from Australia to the UK to visit my grand mother. I am aviation obsesed. Concord was not allowed to operate in Australia for reasons I soon found out. My grandmother lived quite near Heathrow. I had only been on the ground a few hours when standing in her back yard I heard a unfamiliar noise and looked up. There it was. A big delta wing right over above. It sounded so awsome my head almost blew off. Loud AF

[@j4y167]

Fellow Aussie here, why wasn't it allowed to operate here?

[@Fuphyter]

I grew up on the east end of Long Island. Grumman was making very fast planes in the 70s. I would hear them breaking the sound barrier often. We went for a drive when my kids were young in the 90s. We saw a line of cars parked on the side of the road outside Grumman. We pulled over to see what was going on. Shortly after a B-2 Stealth Bomber flew over our heads. It was an incredible sight. It was landing and flew so low I could see the screws in the bottom.

[@DRE2XL]

The Concorde was an incredible machine, I went on a concorde experience flight for my mums 40th birthday in year 2000 just months before the end. it literally made me feel sick, I was only 10. We flew from Heathrow to the distance I believe of Greece and back, the utter speed it was at on the run way I thought we were already in the air, literally pushed me back into my seat lol. Barbados airport were given a BA Concorde when they retired and they had an experience center next to the airport with a plane that you could also go in and visit etc, I remember that there was no number 13 seat on the planes due to conspiracies. What a beautiful machine!

[@TravelKnowHau]

Wonderful story and covering the tech from the past. Let's hope new inovative ideas will create better solutions to travelling faster.

[@jammawun]

I saw a Concorde fly over head back in the 80s. It was on the same day they did "hands across America". And yes. It was loud. I heard it before I saw it.

[@Aeronaut1975]

*Concorde

[@yousufsarang4153]

following this channel for quite a long time. I love how he never goes out of interesting content.

[@davidmacphee3549]

People used to joke about his Mustache and Whether or not he was wearing pants. He has a wonderful channel. I also like Joe Scott. If there are people here that have never heard of Joe, he has come a long way too! Have a look.

[@DjangoFlaherty]

Recently stumbled on this channel and was immediately hooked. We are truly blessed to have such quality content available on our phones.

[@michaelsmyth3935]

ERTL, had a great 1/24 Scale kit of the Concorde. My Father and I painted and built one. Glass display case. It was like having a real Spaceship scooting people around.

[@trevormiles5852]

Remember, russia also had similar plane. Industrial espionage was term being thrown around. i will leave this up to you have fun looking it up. What is England plus France = ?? Canada. Concord brain power went to Canada and developed military plane, similar to concord. The spear ?? Did not get off the ground haha no pun intended.. C. Engineer here. Love your site. Your my lunch break

[@leonardhpls6]

Get back to gym class child

[@dos3622]

Avro Canada built the CF-105 and did a succesful run. The CF-105 reached a top speed of Mach 1.98 at 50,000 ft. Progressive Conservative government under John Diefenbaker scraped the project, claimimg it was "A rampant Liberal spending".

[@trevormiles5852]

cv@@dos3622 kudos to Canadian engineers.

[@Rose-inspirations]

They should have investigated the other plane as well I'm sure.. it's too bad about Concord. They did make an amazing plane

[@zamijaster]

Tbh getting the flight done in 3 hours should be the goal .. 3 hours max on a flight seems like the dream

[@mrthc7689]

I live in Barbados in the Caribbean, we use to love hear to that plane as kids. Never knew the reason why they stop flying those planes