I was staying at a hotel nearby Heathrow that overlooked the runway and got to see a Concord land and take off. Thing was so loud even with sound dampening windows it still shook the place where normally you couldn’t hear any other plane.
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I have been on board of one in Le Bourget museum. They are beautiful but very small.
As a side note, Braniff Airlines flew the Concorde on interchange routes from Washington Dulles on to Dallas-Fort Worth (which contributed to the airline’s demise). Here’s an interesting story about the only known gear-down ferry flight, flown by a Braniff crew. Seems like it’s only ever been recorded on Facebook, unfortunately.
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only 27 years. That's pretty long, no?
early 2000s air crashes were so hot. everyone had one, some had two.
The channel Mustard on YouTube has some good videos on concord. I think reallifelore had some too
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Beautiful plane
I clearly remember thinking... No, being absolute certain that I'd fly in a Concorde when I grew up. 🙁
My boss at the time, took one of the last flights on the Concord. I asked him if it was expensive, and he said he had to get back from Europe, and he figured he would never get another chance, so he wanted the adventure - and he could afford to pay for that sort of adventure.
Yup, never got to fly on it, but got to see it land and take off a few times. Was beautiful.
Concorde was a failure but Airbus was a success.
Too old, too expensive.