Aviation - Concorde

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This is the last landing of the last Concorde in service ending the 30 year reign of the fastest commercial airplane in the world.

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Aviation - Concorde

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  • So sad

    I felt so very sad when Concorde was taken out of service. I don't really understand why - must have not been making profits any more. Supersonic travel had a very short-lived history. It was always my ambition to fly on Concorde, London to New York, sadly that dream was unfulfilled. A brilliant Anglo-French piece of engineering.

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    • The Reason

      the Concorde was taken out of service was that the planes had outlived their life expectancy. These planes were built with a 25 year life probability. They flew for over 30 years long surpassing thier intended use. After the 1st and only crash of a Concorde on July 25th,2000 the resulting investigations revealed major metal stresses and design flaws that ended up in the eventual grounding of this plane with it's last flight in Oct 2004.

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    • YEP

      they did a round the world once and the entire rudder fell off and they didn't even know until they landing for refueling in Sydney, great plane, used to fly over my house on takeoff and landing at very low altitude when it operated out of Dulles. VERY LOUD.

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    • Reason

      the actual reson for concorde being taken out of services is the lose in passenegers numbers which all the airlines surfered after 9/11. When concorde did retire, it was still young in the amount of take offs and landings it had done, which was the same amount as a 3-4 year old boeing 737

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  • Awesome Airplane!

    You Could Leave London In The Morning, Fly Down To Egypt, Take the Tour Of The Pyramids, and still, be back home in time for dinner. I Would Have Loved To Have Done, The Mile High Club on That Baby! Actually, a Bit Higher Than a Mile.

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  • Yes, so sad!

    I flew the Concorde once. What a plane! I´ll miss it too! :(

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  • Concord

    Was the only transatlantic supersonic aircraft to fly from London to New York in just over 3 hours. It had the best history of crashes other than Quantus (which still to date has none). It was taken out of service for one reason only, and that was that the mayor of New York forbad the plane due to its extensive noise pollution.

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  • very nice piece of machine

    I was saving miles on my US Airways miles for 125,000 miles you can
    get on the Concorde for the New York to London route; anyway it ended
    due to techanical difficulties.
    Well, now I have to watch this clip over and over again to imagine myself
    being on that plane.
    Hopefully, someday there will a better one built and we all can ride on it.

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  • Hey.. Rowdycat2

    Are you Heather Brooke's husband?

    By Elisha Cuthbert 1133340432 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • BEAUTIFUL BIRD

    What an achievement for the British and French aviation authorities. And for our next tricks. . . .The Ariane 5 space rocket and the Airbus 380 joint-ventures. Well done chaps!

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  • I was crying as I was watching this clip...

    I was a janitor in Concorde manufacture site. I really miss Concorde.

    By Elisha Cuthbert 1132652444 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Thank you for submitting.

    I'll be missing Concorde. What a lovely plane. Great aviation acheivement.

    By Elisha Cuthbert 1132651682 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • WOW

    Thank you submitting for this clip. I'll miss seeing these beautiful planes in the air.

    By MsMelly 1132625424 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • what a great clip

    brought tears to my eyes. must have been sad for them. beautiful plane.

    By mooncat56 1132583993 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • sadly

    it went hope one day it will be back :'(

    By HR 1132579752 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • great !

    what a nice plane ...

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