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Tour inside an extra fast Concorde prototype!

Paul Stewart

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Join me in this detailed tour though an Aérospatiale / BAC Concorde (Concord) on display at the Imperial War Museum in Duxford, UK. The tour includes the cockpit and comparisons with the Soviet TU-144.

Details:
Pre-Production test Concorde G-AXDN
Museum: Imperial War Museum at Duxford Airfield
The British Airliner Collection: https://www.britairliners.org/
Duxford Aviation society: https://www.duxfordaviationsociety.org/

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0:00 intro
0:56 Rolls-Royce/Snecma Olympus 593 turbojet engines and variable intake system
2:55 Blue Steel nuclear missile?
3:25 ogival delta wing
4:20 de-icing
4:42 front landing gear
5:22 drooping nose
5:46 aerodynamic heating and Hiduminium R.R. 58 aluminium alloy and paint
6:55 main landing gear
7:30 tail end, tail cone and APU
9:12 entering interior
9:55 flight data recorder / black box
10:40 monofuel emergency power unit
12:11 interior of passenger Concorde
12:48 escape hatch
13:11 hydroscope
14:44 cockpit, pilots positions and flight engineer panel

20 Comments

@PaulStewartAviation Creator 10 months ago Pinned

Thanks for watching everyone! If you want to see more similar guided tour videos, please comment below and let me know what you would like to see featured. Cheers! Oh and don't forget to thumbs up...etc :)

@Johnno48 3 years ago (edited)

One of the greatest highlights of my career as a aircraft maintenance engineer was working on a AIr France Concorde F-BVFB (same one as 4:00) on 6th Feb 1999 in Sydney.
I still remember the absolute scream of those engines, and Concorde not having a APU meant we had to get the heavy ground power cables up 30 feet in the air and connected before they could shut the engines down.
After finishing our work the whole crew relaxed in the passenger seats...I sat in the cockpit of course and was given a personal tour by the flying engineer. 🙂🇦🇺

@andreasjakayudha2483 3 years ago

I like how Paul has a thousand choices of making this thumbnail very clickbaity but he chose not to. Big appreciation!

@Johnno48 3 years ago

Imagine telling a Lancaster crew that in 30 years people would be travelling at Mach 2.5 at 60,000ft sipping Champagne in short sleeves. 😂

@mickyday2008 3 years ago

I flew on Concorde a couple of times returning from New York to London in 3 hours. Amazing.

@jpx1508 3 years ago

I flew roundtrips NY/London and NY/Paris on both British and French Concordes, and still consider Mach 2 life epic. Nothing compares to the experience of the speed, where the London/NY flight left London early AM catching the London sunrise; the flight would then arrive NY even earlier in the darkness, catching the sunrise a second time. Concorde was a time travel machine. With Concord flying to Europe for the weekend was a comfortable event.

@adamkeene6371 3 years ago

RIP Brian Trubshaw. The man that sat in that very seat making history.
Man that bird is beautiful, if only we developed it last year 😢

@cirimbala2307 10 months ago (edited)

Bruce Dickinson's biggest regret, according to him, was falling asleep because he was so drunk during the Concorde flight at 54,000 ft and Mach 2.
It's a tragedy that on the last flight, meant to end his career on a high note, the plane was lost because of a piece of metal. Maineiacs was top-.notch.

@wotan10950 2 years ago

This tour reminds me that Dame Joan Sutherland, your compatriot, mentioned Concorde in her memoirs. She said, “It is simply not fit for the size of an average opera singer. One got the vague feeling of being part of the cargo displacement!”

@user-ky6vw5up9m 1 year ago

Concorde Test Pilots Brian Trubshaw (UK). and Andre Turcat (France) were boyhood heroes to us Plane-mad kids.

@antman5474 3 years ago

I got to see this, I was in my 20"s and it was 1993.
I worked at Gatwick.
We all got time to view this little beautiful aircraft.
Damn she was beautiful.
I'll never forget that..

She was so small.

@neilhenderson6602 3 years ago

What a superb video! Even today that aircraft can't fail to amaze, and the detail in this piece really brings out the extraordinary rule breaking engineering

@nenblom 2 years ago

I took a tour of Concorde on the USS Intrepid in New York City. While in the queue, we passed underneath the wings of the plane which was AMAZING! The aircraft was HUGE!! So, now I can say that I have been on the Concorde! ❤❤

@MohammadSadeqBozorgnejad-mv7rr 3 years ago

The first flight of the Concorde passenger plane was from Paris to Tehran. After seeing the capabilities of this plane, the former Shah of Iran immediately made an agreement to purchase several of this plane with its manufacturer, but

@rob737700 3 years ago

Interesting tidbit.... I was flying up the US coast in a turboprop back in the day and we saw a Concorde just off the coast of JFK in a holding pattern and dumping fuel. Apparently they could not raise the nose after depature and were planning on returning to the airport. It was quite a sight to see... As usual, another great video, thanks Paul.

@well-blazeredman6187 3 years ago

Great review.
Driving past Heathrow one day, I had the joy of being overflown by a Concorde on after-burners. It shook my car!

@schmoosmith 3 years ago

Legend has it that British Aircraft Corporation and Aérospatiale knew there were Soviet moles within the organisation so they intentionally circulated blue prints with deliberate design floors.

@wotan10950 2 years ago

I never flew in a Concorde, but I once worked at JFK, and heard them a few times a day. It’s no exaggeration to say that the ground literally shook as they took to the air.

@mickyday2008 3 years ago

Concorde is a work of art. Stunning

@kevinkern2149 3 years ago

I got to tour the inside of the Concorde at the Intrepid Museum in New York City, and I can confirm the cockpit is tiny. I'm about six foot, and I couldn't stand upright once past the cockpit door. I was impressed that they let us sit first in the original (albeit plastic-covered) passenger seats, then in the copilot's seat, right up to the controls. The Concorde is a beautiful aircraft; it's such a shame they couldn't be economical.