Concorde Captain Talks About Barrel Roll

60,000 feet?!
whoa.

Na truth.

And he'd be lying.

I went to Brooklends museum in england where there was a Concorde and the tour man told me there was one fully functional Concorde somewhere in the Caribbean.

DO A BARREL ROLL!

I remember seeing her when she came to NZ for the first time. I was just a lad, the most amazing thing id ever seen and to this day, have ever seen. She belongs in the sky.

stunning

A very beautiful plane. I'm just sorry I've never had the chance to see it fly. Living in the USA, it was a rare bird to see. I only hope they can build another bird like it that is more fuel efficient and carries more people.

The best airplane EVER made!!

PS: I meant spare parts, not space parts ;)

This was because all airlines resigned their orderings even before Concorde was handed out because of the high operating costs. Imagine that at that time a Boeing 747 already was able to carry three times the passengers of Concorde with twice the range of Concorde by the same fuel consumption and even five times less maintenance required. Only BA and AF were left to operate Concorde because they had to. BA made profit, but not that profit you make with an modern up-to-date fleet...

From the mid 80's BA made profit. But 9/11 had some bad economic effects as well as rising costs for space parts of EADS. Condorde only was profitable if 50% seats were booked. But after the crash in Paris there were flights with only 20 passengers. That, together with the economic effects was the final end of Conorde. It was an amazing airplane, but never a real success. When the contracts were made in the 70's, the BA chairmen already said: "this is the beginning of the end"

BA actually made a nice profit from the aircraft, even after 9/11. Air France didn't as their route wasn't as popular.

ma ucle used to fly concord flew the second last flight ever

Wrong, and not even in the same ballpark. The US did, it was the XB-70 bomber.

My point exactly >:l

It was going faster than the speed of sound, what do you expect?

It was also a gas guzzler in comparison with other airliners.

The touch n' go at the end was pretty cool

DO A BARREL ROLL!!!

They were too fricken loud!

POP357UR3 is a complete and utter retard with no possibility of recovery. 1 crash caused by crappy US aircraft = extremely faulty ... I don't think so. Go take a cold bath and get a reality check son.

because the americans didnt come up with it first they couldnt hack brition having the best and fastest comercial aircraft

Extremely faulty, search for the Air France Concorde Crash

why no concordes anymore??