Cool video ! http://www.patricksaviation.com/videos/hokeyPokey/3812/

Concorde is still my favorite plane.

WOW. Still has to be landed by hand.

I wonder if this is the same crew that did a fly by this boat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=annkM6z1-FE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHe8R4tx_eU

I love this magnificent aircraft, hope to make nice big rc model of it one day!!!

Awesome video Butch, very cool to see the inner workings!

Capt is Dave Rowland who is coming out to Australia next month. Dave flew Concorde as both a first Officer and later as Captain becoming flight manager flight training manager and commercial manager . Few men in the world have more time at Mach 2 than Dave.

...........and no, Dr Doom she was capable of full cat 3 autoland.

Dave also presented a full 2 tape video of Concorde ops. well worth watching for those with any interest in SST ops.

Concorde, French, first flew exactly 40 years ago this week. British first flight 40 years ago on April 9th.

Regards,

David Gladwin.

How far out is TOD at? did I hear 150 miles out? That doesn't sound right descending at 350 IAS.
The INU looks very similar to that of the A300 family, probably a predecessor.

It took 120 miles to descend and slow from M2 to M1, then another 100 or so for the rest of the descent. Dave is staying with me in a couple of weeks so I'll see if he can remember the exact distances.

The INS controller is the same as on BA 707s, VC10s and 747s and was, I believe, a Delco Carousel 4, with the works modified to be more accurate and cope with the higher GS of Concorde , up to 1200 knots or so. !! No embedded GPS in those days !

The sight of that machine still gives me a warm glow of sheer admiration for a fantastic technical achievement. ! To actually watch Concorde climbing, turning and accelerating to Mach 2 in DRY power (above 1.7) still amazes me. Nothing quite like it.

Regards,

David Gladwin.

I understand. After watching the take-off video I cought myself grinning when they advanced the throttles. http://www.patricksaviation.com/videos/hokeyPokey/3814/

Butch

One of the great planes of all time. Can't believe it's not in operation anymore.
Paul

drooling. Can't help to think of HOW LOUD it must be when the Concorde overflies those neighborhoods after takeoff. Amazing.

when I was leaving in a 747 from England one took off behind us and shook that plane, everyone just jumped out of there seats,,,, awesome

Anyone take a ride in this bad boy

In one way it's sad to see Concorde prematurely grounded forever but on the other hand it's great to have there birds preserved in museums....

I sure miss hear it land at JFK!, it used to come in earlier in the morning, it had such a distinctive sound and roar that you could hear it coming from few miles away before it would pass over you, just AMAZING THUNDERING PASS!!!!

In what year were these videos taken, 1968/9 or early 70s? The cockpit reminds me of an old Applo space capsule.

Concorde first flew in 1969 (April 9th for the British prototype) but these shots were taken in the '80s. (Clue is that Les Brodie is in the RHS and still a first Officer, he was captain at the time of retirement of Concorde in 2003.)

The cckpit was cramped, fairly comfortable, and efficient just like a Porsche but accelerated rather better and for MUCH longer !!

Remember, flight times were short, JFK-LHR 2 hrs 52 minutes , LHR-JFK around 3hrs 15mins, day in day out, twice a day, sometinmes three or four times including Air France and charters, for almost a quarter of a century with incredible reliability.

To show how fast she was I flew a VC10 from London to Washington in the 1970s. Concorde took off 2 hours after us, passed us overhead, we saw her, in mid Atlantic and had been on the ground for two hours when we arrived !

Indeed a most remarkable aeroplane, certainly no bad boy, (Concorde is a she and thoroughly good !) and, yes whodaman, a few hundred times !

Regards, David Gladwin.