”WORLD SHRINKER” 1972 BRITISH AIRCRAFT CORPORATION CONCORDE SUPERSONIC PASSENGER JET PROMO XD65724

[@bellakorty1334]

Concorde is really a larger version of a Mach 2 fighter jet, just got to love it. I doubt the world would ever see a passenger plane like this ever again in service.

[@markaurelius61]

Exactly. As my French nephew says, Concorde is a big Mirage.

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

@@markaurelius61 Yes, the Mirage was the first European Mach 2 jet.

[@SaltGrains_Fready]

I remember seeing it come into Kennedy Airport from 10 Mil East of there up at about 1500 feet in altitude. The most awesome flying machine ever produced.! The Rolls Royce Engines had a Boss Smooth sound like NOTHING else in the world. I watched one take off from the shore of L.I. east of there and as soon as it got to the horizon they opened the throttle for supersonic and U Could hear the Awesome roar of the engines from it even after it was way over the horizon for over 5 minutes!! A once in a lifetime experience. By that time it was probably 100 miles away !

[@postal_the_clown]

As a USAF radar op in '74, I remember the first time I saw the Concorde flash across the screen. Though we knew what it was, following the I.D. protocols, it was almost off the screen. The only thing more impressive at the time was the SR-71.

[@huwzebediahthomas9193]

Used to work with a couple of research and development engineers who worked in Filton, Bristol, on Concorde's avionics development, in the 1990's.

[@leobakkerflightandspace6655]

Concorde was the product of a time of a great belief in technological progress in aerospace in general. For quite some time in the 1960s there were more engineers working on the Boeing 2707 than on the 747 because Boeing too thought that the future would be supersonic. In fact, the 747 nose got its shape from the belief that in ten years time it would only be used for freight and passengers would fly supersonic. And take for instance the grandiose plans for bases and mobile labs on the moon, as a follow up to the initial Apollo lunar landings. The difference with the other plans and Concorde was that it was just far enough advanced to avoid cancellation by the time it became clear that most of these grandiose schemes were a bridge too far when viewed from the point of view of the economic reality of the early 70s, rather than just the insatiable optimism in the promise of the future of only a few years earlier.

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

Concorde was a perfect example of everything wrong with the U.K. aircraft industry... one big colossal flop after another until the complete colapse and the demise of britian aviation industry.

[@jacksons1010]

Concorde was an epic misreading of the aviation market. This was an aircraft that cost more to operate than a 747 while carrying a quarter of the passengers. The cheapest ticket on Concorde cost more than the most expensive first class ticket on any other aircraft. Despite cutting travel time in half, Concorde could not compete on costs and was always going to be an aircraft for the rich elite, and the airlines realized those passengers would come at the expense of empty F seats on their 747's. If that wasn't enough, when OPEC raised oil prices in 1973 the economics of the fuel-hungry Concorde went from poor to catastrophic and all but a handful of orders were cancelled.

[@huwzebediahthomas9193]

That is why MACH 2 still doesn't happen anymore - no profit, not until they develop new materials, like fuselage and wings hybrid ceramics materials.

[@theoriginalrecycler]

If only aircraft corporations hadn’t lobbied against supersonic aircraft it might be very different

[@martinusher1]

It was the first example of its type. The early jets weren't very efficient or particularly safe (Comet). Early propeller planes were expensive to fly in, slow, low capacity, used a huge amount of fuel. If I recall correctly the thing that primarily did Concorde in was the Americans -- it was bad enough that this wasn't an American plane but to make matters worse it could outperform anything the US military had (the SR-71 was a bit faster but an operational nightmare, it leaked like a sieve on the ground and had to be refueled with a different fuel once in the air before it could go supersonic). Anyway, once it started being tested and appeared to be functional there was a lot of press stories about noise, pollution and so on -- a concerted press campaign to kill it. The plane was eventually only (grudgingly) allowed a couple of transatlantic routes, enough to salvage national pride but not enough to make it economic (or dent the US's commercial aircraft near monopoly). If you don't believe me then look what happened with the marketing campaign for the new 737, how the press was full of stories about how Airbus couldn't compete any longer. This drumbeat kept up until a couple of them dropped out of the sky. Next up will be the global effort to shun COMAC's product (and don't mention the Russians....).

[@jacksons1010]

@@martinusher1 No, no, no....this "blame the Americans" for every failed aircraft project is tiresome. You can look up the order list for the Concorde and note how many US airlines placed options to buy - hardly a boycott, sir. Then note the date that the order cancellations came, from late 1972 into 1973, coinciding with the massive increase in fuel costs. THAT is what killed Concorde. The environmental and noise concerns were always present, but most of the active protests came later around 1976 when BOAC and Air France started operating their aircraft - and *those protests were seen just as much on the European side of the Atlantic as in America* .

[@Error-fourOfour]

France's withdrawal from NATO in 1966 would certainly be another factor to consider.

[@whirledpeas3477]

Forget about the cost, compared to the Apollo program taking men to the moon, SST was a bargain.

[@movimentoraeliano4713]

Great!

[@publicmail2]

no sound last 2 mins, maybe music?

[@marspp]

Heseltine got the piss absolutely ripped out of him by Iran. All the guy wanted to do was have a go at the controls - which he did. They never intended to buy even one.

[@mazdaman0075]

Well the British also wanted permission to overfly Iranian airspace so it was a bit of a trade off as the Shah granted that (not sure if commercial Concordes ever did that in the end though, and we know what happened not long after to the Shah in 1979). I saw an interview with Heseltine years later and he knew he was getting screwed to the floorboards but that was all part of the game of global horse trading.

[@marspp]

@@mazdaman0075 good info, thanks. The religion “won” again after.

[@davidrobertson5700]

Concorde was probably made to show the Russians we could afford jets like that so it would make them waste money on a way to counter any military version. Don't forget the cold war was designed to make Russia waste what little money it had on wasteful projects until it ran out in the 90s

[@rogerfournier3284]

"WE NEED TO BRING THEM BACK ON LINE (TO MUCH FUNDING, THAT'S THE PROBLEM) WE NEED TO "BUILD HYDROGEN-TURBINE ENGINES"

[@freedomforever6718]

Besides the huge production and operating costs it was a little piece of metallic debris that brought Concord down. Pardon the pun.

[@nixsmith7051]

I know where a original copy of this film is it's on 35mm film 😉

[@RIXRADvidz]

too bad about the big bird, huh? at least the noses got used in shinkansen Micheal ''Hessel teen'' here in the Future they call him ''Hazel Tyne'' what a gorgeous Mane on that Man. mention Cathay and the sound goes dead, not suspicious at all. ...

[@I-NINE93THREE-I]

MOVE THE BLACK TIME STAMP BAR IT'S OBSTRUCTIVE

[@joshuagibson2520]

They'll gladly do that if you buy the film or donate to them.

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[@niniv2706]

Before islam polluted Iran .

[@peterbustin2683]

And no-one bought it !

[@DeepWebDiary]

2003 - Concord is no longer reliable and is scrapped.

[@MaidenCanada]

It was always reliable, unlike commercial planes!

[@DeepWebDiary]

@@MaidenCanada no kidding especially Boeing

[@johnrimmer5812]

And America ensured its' demise, as they did back in the day with many British aircraft as they couldn't compete, Tsr2 , Miles attempt at the sound barrier, nicked by the Americans on a visit to England, the list goes, before you start ranting & raving,i urge you to do some research of your own to get a balanced overview.

[@em1osmurf]

looked out the window from my commuter, it looked like a weird delta winged lear bizjet. fairly unfantastic. i couldn't imagine being cramped up into that thing for 3 or 4 hours. give me my stretch 707, where the whole plane was first class. screw that wealthy taxi cab.

[@paulward4268]

em1o Smurf - "weird?" "Unfantastic?".Jeez. You haven't got Any imagination have you.