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@thomaswade3072

Жыл бұрын

I just can't support games that claim free-to-play but practically speaking have a lot of pay-to-win. I watch on YT Red though, so I do support your channel!

@ukrainianfedora8787

Жыл бұрын

The snail has taken him

@garethmetcalf2314

Жыл бұрын

I already play it

@ReaperRowledge

Жыл бұрын

EERM. Concord has a delta wing...lol

@SynomDroni

Жыл бұрын

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

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

Жыл бұрын

But you must be the only one 😂

@davidhugill4668

Жыл бұрын

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

@David-iy1zt

Жыл бұрын

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

@fernandogarcia6163

Жыл бұрын

@@birisuandrei1551 "that makes one of us"😂

@harrier331

Жыл бұрын

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

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@Aeronaut1975

Жыл бұрын

*Concorde

@scottyphillips7799

Жыл бұрын

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.

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

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

@@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

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

@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

Жыл бұрын

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

I remember Concorde flying over my house, when you would hear it coming in the distance you looked up and it was above you. As it flew away and disappeared into the distance the sound was coming from above you. The most awesome 'glitch' in the matrix i've ever seen. Loud as F!!!

@panzerveps

Жыл бұрын

How could you hear it coming, if the sound came as the plane disappeared?

@p_campbell

Жыл бұрын

I remember the same when planes were doing maneuvers over the desert . Very cool

@HyperWolf

Жыл бұрын

@@panzerveps he said “you would hear it coming” but the plane “was above you” and that as it flew away “the sound was coming from above.” It made sense.

@olliehowlett8779

Жыл бұрын

@@panzerveps i used to live a out 20 miles west of Heathrow and by the time they flew over, they were so high up that by the time the sound had reached the ground, the plane had already passed overhead. Sounded like they were tearing the sky apart, it was so loud.

@jaybee9269

Жыл бұрын

@@panzerveps >> Sound travels slower than light.

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

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@Sandfrau

Жыл бұрын

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

@erikvitagliano1040

Жыл бұрын

@@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

Жыл бұрын

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.

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@ZombieDowneyJr

Жыл бұрын

@@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

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

@@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

Жыл бұрын

*Concorde

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@Cyprellus

Жыл бұрын

@@rubbergrub561 yeah, I agree

@rongendron8705

Жыл бұрын

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

@Michaelobama184

Жыл бұрын

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

@nephicus339

Жыл бұрын

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

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.

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

Жыл бұрын

Impressive

@neorodan_

Жыл бұрын

What did it feel like? Was it loud?

@davidmurphy2903

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@Brandon_Johnson04

Жыл бұрын

I don’t believe you.

@dennisrobinson8008

Жыл бұрын

@@Brandon_Johnson04 Eternal skeptic. Some had those jobs and some had those actual experiences.

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

@Boomcheeks

Жыл бұрын

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.

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...

I really enjoyed that, well done. my wife worked on Concorde for 4 years before I met her, I on the other hand have written two novels and have a bookcase full of my books. When people come to our house and see the bookcase with only two books Room 119 & Funicular it gets their attention for 5 minutes, then they see the Concorde book.... The next 4 hours is a 'have you met' question session with Claire and my books rightly have to play second fiddle. Great work, keep it up... Trev (Author name T F Lince, if there are any non Concorde fans who fancy a mystery thriller or two)

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@galaxyanimal

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@carroux4050

Жыл бұрын

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

@fredhughes4115

Жыл бұрын

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

@rwatson2609

Жыл бұрын

@@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

Жыл бұрын

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

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.

@user-bu7jl6zy5d

Жыл бұрын

I can well imagine that you still regret that decision!

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

Жыл бұрын

The Concorde flew to Aus plenty of times 🤣

@polygonally_dunce7813

Жыл бұрын

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

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

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@kudraally6492

Жыл бұрын

Hello from Tanzania😜

@clivemitchell3229

Жыл бұрын

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.

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

Жыл бұрын

Probably a B-1. Similar size and speed.

@23yearsand76

Жыл бұрын

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

@danielocarey9392

Ай бұрын

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.

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

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!

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

Жыл бұрын

You lived in the sky over 60 thousand feet up?

@icatz

Жыл бұрын

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

@TDiggz

Жыл бұрын

@@icatz haha 😄

@MrSuperG

Жыл бұрын

Flat as a pancake

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

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

@@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

Жыл бұрын

Filton

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@PaunCovek

Жыл бұрын

@@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

Жыл бұрын

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

@gshah5278

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

@@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

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

@Aeronaut1975

Жыл бұрын

*Concorde

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.

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

Жыл бұрын

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

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

Жыл бұрын

Yaaaa khuuuuuudaaaaa

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

Concorde is my favorite commercial airplane

@danielocarey9392

Ай бұрын

Mine too.

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

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

Жыл бұрын

Is that a star wars film?

@Telerian3

Жыл бұрын

@@waynehale66 they said it was a book series.

@waynehale66

Жыл бұрын

@@Telerian3 ok thanks for reply

@mariobros2628

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

@@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

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

7 ай бұрын

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

@danielocarey9392

Ай бұрын

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.

-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.

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

Жыл бұрын

Sr-71 for me!

@kaospat4173

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

The Valkyrie looks nothing like a Concorde.

It's quite interesting that he was able to squeeze in the sonic boom from Street Fighter. Perhaps in his next video he can take the challenge and a "Leap of Faith" to squeeze in the phrase, "aluminum siding".

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

Жыл бұрын

Neat story...🙄

@tiberiusbrain

Жыл бұрын

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

@landon4216

Жыл бұрын

very strange story, but you had a great delivery!

@Oscarspoem

Жыл бұрын

@@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

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.

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

10 ай бұрын

But they did

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

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.

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

@davemccombs

Жыл бұрын

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

@wade7959

Жыл бұрын

@@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

Жыл бұрын

@@davemccombs Who hurt you man?

@aneyelesspig8899

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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.

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

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@GarethJonesTV

Жыл бұрын

@@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

Жыл бұрын

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

@BrunoBarata78

Жыл бұрын

@@Australian_Made and the facepalm would be to you.

@1985_Honda_CRX_Si

Жыл бұрын

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

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

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

@listey

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like being on any other plane?

@hogsandstews

Жыл бұрын

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

@georgeknox1822

Жыл бұрын

@@listey can see the curvature of the earth

@listey

Жыл бұрын

@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

Жыл бұрын

@@georgeknox1822 can I?! Cool!

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

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

no Concorde has been scrapped!

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

Жыл бұрын

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

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

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@postverifiedlifestyle

Жыл бұрын

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

@wolfmauler

Жыл бұрын

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

@stephenmcdonagh2795

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

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.

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 ,

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

Жыл бұрын

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

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

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...

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.

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

Жыл бұрын

I remember that also!

@exidy-yt

Жыл бұрын

@@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. ☺

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

Жыл бұрын

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.

We need this back so FlAt EaRtHeRs can be disproven

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

Жыл бұрын

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

I doubt that Concorde was ever profitable, at least not directly, but it was a huge prestige booster for UK/France as BA and Air France did what the Americans couldn't do.

@KurtMidas1510

Жыл бұрын

Profitable then and now are different things. With Ticket prices about 30k (in todays value) it would be definetly

@deleted-something

Жыл бұрын

It was...

@peterlonergan

Жыл бұрын

Yes and I'd imagine America would have a much greater use with for the Concorde with Pacific and the Atlantic, I wonder how long it would take to get to Australia from America in one.

@dcoing1907

Жыл бұрын

Ironically enough with American funding it could’ve actually worked too lol

@terranovarain2183

Жыл бұрын

it was profitable or believe me they wouldn't have done it you have to understand the technology to save people's time will always be valuable if it wasn't for agreements over supersonic travel reguarding [sonic booms] ~ "USA being salty" they would've been everywhere was still profitable to operate after the crash and if it wasn't for 911 would still be

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

7 ай бұрын

What is so secretive about plane with vertical take off?

@Hattonbank

7 ай бұрын

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

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

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.

Most beautifully designed commercial aircraft I have ever seen.

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.

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.

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@SSgtJohnEP

Жыл бұрын

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

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

Жыл бұрын

That would be awesome to experience

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

@harrishromero6447

Жыл бұрын

And money it cost

@harrishromero6447

Жыл бұрын

And many problem that need to be fix

@jackdurden466

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

And not crashing unfortunately.

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

In 1st place is the SR-71 at up to Mach 3.35 | In 2nd place was the North American Aviation XB-70 Valkyrie Bomber at Mach 3.1 | In 3rd place is the Concord at Mach 2.3

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.

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

Жыл бұрын

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.

One of the things that examples like the Concorde illustrate is that the very definition of "technological progress" actually means is fuzzy and not always intuitively obvious.

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.

There are ways they could avoid the sonic boom disrupting people but honestly the main reason just has to be the fact nobody wanted to fly, fuel cost was too high and it had incredibly high operating costs. It’s all about money at the end of the day and Airbus was the final decider

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

Жыл бұрын

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!

Delta wing. Engineers from the Canadian Avro F105 Arrow played a major part in Concord's development.

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.

Really informative. Great episode!

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

Жыл бұрын

That caught me off guard XD

As you’ve said mate they’d have to rebuild totally which is why that one on the side of the BA workshops at Heathrow will never fly again that aside who wants to fly in a modified Valkyrie Bomber which is what it partially resembles

Thanks mate for yet another great video 🙂 I just love how you make the subject matter quite technical but yet so simple and easy to watch and listen too well done.

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

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.

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

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.

Superior episode Thoughty2! These planes were iconic in there time. Thanks for bringing back these awesome memories.

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@pelagic6

Жыл бұрын

I also noticed this

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;-)

One of first high speed plane was the Canadian Avro Arrow fighter plane which had to break the ground on all the issues of flying higher than the speed of sound. Using the wings for fuel to cool the plane and the skin would ripple the first use of titanium was used in the Arrow engines.

It used to fly over our house every evening at about 6.30pm on its way west. What a sight it was. I'll never forget it

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

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 KZread channel telling people interesting and thought provoking stuff. May you continue providing us with these amazing videos.

@davidmacphee3549

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

Good Luck with your new Channel Ken !

@kenmusyoka

Жыл бұрын

@@davidmacphee3549 Thanks!

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

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

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

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

Yep. The Americans were so jealous.

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

Well written and reasonably informative on the all too short history of The SST Concord.

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