Dear friends and followers welcome back to my channel and lovely greetings from the Brooklyn museum of the birthplace of
British Motorsport and aviation history
today's video is an episode of one of three because a
Five-minute video could never cover the amazing fact about today's airplane
She's been one of my childhood dreams, and she is by far one of the most beautiful passenger jets that has ever existed
The boeing 747 might be the queen of the skies
But the plane we'll be talking about today is as beautiful as princess diana may I present you the concorde
(in the backround) The Unbelivabale speed of the Concorde
we will be talking about some amazing facts you might not have known about this plane
We'll go through a typical flight profile flying from London Heathrow to New York John-f, Kennedy
and we'll chat with a former concorde Captain John Hutchinson about his life as a captain for British Airways and
Much more so sit back and enjoy the tour with me around concorde
the original displaying go way back into the nineteen sixties as
British engineers came up with the idea of commercial Supersonic transport
Reliable Supersonic Jets at the time were the lockheed F-104
starfighter or the Little Ferry Delta to
Which both had a major impact on the wing design for future Concorde prototypes as french engineers from the airplane manufacturer?
aérospatiale were also planning on
developing a supersonic jet for commercial use British Aircraft Corporation Bac
decided on working together on this mighty project rather than again so both countries would work in very close relation to one another and
signed a treaty in
1962 to start working on the first two prototypes
and there is a reason why both countries decided on naming the playing Concorde as
concorde means
agreement Harmony or Union in
1965 Aerospace, L started building Concord 0:01 and
simultaneously
0:02 was built in filter istil after four years of hard work
Concord 0:01 performed its maiden flight from Toulouse in front of thousands of spectators and
both prototypes were then presented at the Paris Air show in
1969 after numerous world tours to present the aircraft to Airlines many of them signed up for order and
74 conchords were planned
But the glory should last for long unfortunately after a tragic event in
1973 at the Paris Air Show in Liberty as a Tuple of 144
Conchords imminent Rival crashed during its presentation flight and many airlines
Immediately withdraw their orders resulting in only 20 aircraft ever built and the plane you see right here is
Concorde zero zero three as she is one of six prototypes. She only has about
1300 hours on her watch as she never entered commercial service
But she was the first plane ever to carry 100 passengers at twice the speed of sound
She also food to Certify Further performance
enhancement after the other 14 production aircraft were in commercial service the other 14 conchords which went into
service were flown by British Airways and Air France as
Both companies were more or less stuck with them as both
governments decided on what should happen with the rest of the programme and British Airways was a nationalized airline at the time when their
7 concourse and to Thus lead Bloods
British Airways in really Wonder Concorde
But as it was a national eyes and conchords program was financed by the government and British airways being the only
British airline at the time they were forced to integrate the concrete in their fleet, so British Airways paid a symbolic
transactional Fee of One pound per plane
and it was actually the taxpayers who owned and paid for the concorde build and
there's a rumor that Concord wasn't profitable at all and that is not entirely true because
British Airways didn't had to pay sixty five million pounds worth each airplane
So no capital costs and for that reason
She was profitable from Day one
And I conchords peak she made twenty percent of all profits in one year for British airways
and they only had seven of them, so
Imagine how high the ticket prices must have been but all history aside
Let's perform an outside check and let's talk about some key elements
What made conquered so different from a normal Jetliner?
So let's get right to it here at the front of Concorde we have her iconic nose
And it's able to move the nose into four different positions and as you can see here
That's the fully up position with the visor or heat
You're protecting the main cockpit windshield and making it very streamlined for high speed slide
The next position is visor down which then gets
Retracted and slides into the nose cone you rarely saw her in that position only if the pilots decided
after landing that the windshield needs cleaning five degrees down including the visor for taxiing takeoff an initial climb and
approach all visual approaches and as you were stabilized on your approach and
extended the landing gear you then lower the nose into its fully down position of
12.5 degrees for landing which then completely removed the nose from the policy onto the runway
So some pilots actually complained as the nose and visor were down the cockpit became terribly loud because Earth also
around the nose
But once it was fully up and the heatshield making a very stream life
It was like someone unplugged annoy you stereo and the tilting of the nose was
Primarily to just ensure the clear view onto the runway for the pilot. It didn't really have any aerodynamic
significance besides the noise
But the pilots had to train and land the plane with the nose fully up in the simulator in
Case the tilting system would have failed but were then advised to the Foreman automatic landing
Automatic landing on a concorde I come back to that later
The landing gear of Concorde is relatively tall compared to other airplanes
But obviously for a reason as she comes in for landing her pitch attitude is up to 11 degrees due to the lift characteristics
Of the deltawing in that flight phase a lower pitch attitude
Would create less lift over the wing resulting in a higher landing speed and to prevent the engines tail from scraping the Runway upon touchdown
Concorde was fitted with a tail strike bumper at the far rear of the tail and the high landing gear also the landing gear was
Fitted with carbon disc brakes which performed very efficiently and to prevent the brakes from overheating
After landing she was one of the first
Airplanes to have brake fans to dissipate the generated heat within the wheel rim and besides the tall
Landing gear the flight Deck is Roughly
35 feet ahead of the nose Wheel
So taxing and lining up on the runways was pretty challenging for the pilot
For example when you were lining up on the runway the pilot
had to move
forward until the flight that was nearly above the curb of the wrong way and
then performed a
90-degree turn to line up on the runway to end on the runway Centreline here in the background
You can see the in takes of the four very powerful Rolls-Royce
Olympus 593
Turbojet engines each engine had its own
Intake and the engine nacelle were paired with a splitter plate between them to minimize
Adverse behavior of one Powerplant influencing the other the intake doors were controlled
Hydraulically and the opening was monitored by a computer which adapted the opening of the intake
depending on the airplane speed for example at Mach 2 the Air was reduced from
1,350 miles per hour to
550 miles per hour so that the air speed entered the turbine at smooth
subsonic speeds reducing the risk of an engine surge
But these four engines created an Incredible noise upon takeoff generating
122 thousand pounds of thrust
and
By adding the releases or better known as the afterburners the pilots could increase the output by another
30,000 pounds by just a push of a button making a hundred and sixty-two thousand pounds of thrust
Accessible upon takeoff so all four engines were fitted with a reheater system
Where fuel was shot into the exhaust and of the engines which gave the engines an extra boost of 20% more power
The afterburners were only used for two flight phases at takeoff and not only for a minute and a half cause you would then have
reached the noise abatement altitude you would then cancel the reheated and put the first leavers to a
Predetermined climb power setting and the other flight phase where you would use to reheat it
I'll explain in the next video the rudders at the rear of the wing were either ailerons if you perform a roll or and
Elevate if you would pull or push on the yoke or a combination of both so they were called
Elavon so that was it for today. Make sure to tune in next week
I will be giving you an exclusive tour around the concorde cockpit
And we'll go through a classic flight profile from a flight from London to
Jfk and make sure to perform a touch-And-go at my instagram account as I'll be opting many pictures of my
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