Concorde on C5

[megaphone]

It said 'new' and I've not seen this documentary before, although a lot of footage and commentary has been seen before. Worth a look, 3 episodes first was on last night, catch up here

https://www.my5.tv/concorde/season-1/episode-1

Edited by megaphone on Tuesday 5th December 17:57

[silverfoxcc]

I agree, there is a lot of Tech stuff which was all new to me

[BRR]

really enjoyed watching this last night, when I was a kid it was one of my life ambitions to fly on a concorde, such a shame that it's no longer in service

[saaby93]

megaphone said:

It said 'new' and I've not seen this documentary before, although a lot of footage and commentary has been seen before. Worth a look, 3 episodes first was on last night, catch up here

https://www.my5.tv/concorde/season-1/episode-1-2-3

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[Flying Phil]

It was a good informative, well balanced documentary. I'm looking forward to the next episode. So glad that my wife bought us a birthday treat of Eurostar to Paris and Concorde return to Heathrow - via the Atlantic for Mach 2!

[anonymous-user]

I highly recommend this book:



for an interesting insight into the challenges the Concord(e) (sic) project faced, both political and technical!

[cuprabob]

It was an excellent program mainly down to the contribution made by Ted Talbot.

It said in the guide it was a 2 part documentary so if it's actually a 3 part even better

[megaphone]

saaby93 said:

megaphone said:

It said 'new' and I've not seen this documentary before, although a lot of footage and commentary has been seen before. Worth a look, 3 episodes first was on last night, catch up here

https://www.my5.tv/concorde/season-1/episode-1-2-3

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Try this. if it doesn't work just search on the my5 site. https://www.my5.tv/concorde/season-1/episode-1

[megaphone]

cuprabob said:

It was an excellent program mainly down to the contribution made by Ted Talbot.

It said in the guide it was a 2 part documentary so if it's actually a 3 part even better

Might be two episodes, think catch up site was wrong.

[HoHoHo]

Good find, thanks

[megaphone]

Episode 2 is on C5 tonight at 9pm.

[V8LM]

megaphone said:

Episode 2 is on C5 tonight at 9pm.

Followed by a repeat of Concorde: 120 Seconds that Shocked the World.

[Welshbeef]

I watched Concorde fly over Readibg and what felt like over my house on a daily basis for years.

I’d never tire of the noise and the shape.


First time I heard it I thought a bomb was going off....

Amazing
I promised myself that one day we would fly on it.... sadly that day never happed.

It would be great to hear some stories from PH who have actually flown on it. Share that special experience.

[silverfoxcc]

I had a wad of Airmiles and found out they were ok on Concorde. So i booked one of the last flights.
Seat 8A was allocated ,picked just in front of the wing root
.
Return flight next day booked on the 747 and still mulling over what hotel to use, when the phone rang. Airmiles were cancelling the outward.
Daft cow asked if i still wanted the retuen flight
She was told in no uncertain terms that without the outward, why would i want the return?

I cried like a baby for an hour

[HoHoHo]

Welshbeef said:

I watched Concorde fly over Readibg and what felt like over my house on a daily basis for years.

I’d never tire of the noise and the shape.


First time I heard it I thought a bomb was going off....

Amazing
I promised myself that one day we would fly on it.... sadly that day never happed.

It would be great to hear some stories from PH who have actually flown on it. Share that special experience.

In 1989 I was a young salesman working for a computer company in Slough.

I was at the top of the tree and won an incentive trip to the Monaco GP, out on Concorde, watch the F1 from the back of a boat and then back on the Orient Express. Rightly I was very excited however I was gutted when the trip concided with another incentive I had won which was deemed by the management more important than the Monaco trip.

I was gutted being a total petrol and aircrafthead.

Following much negotiation the Monaco trip changed into an Orient Express trip to Salzburg followed by 4 days of getting pissed and then flying home from Linz on Concorde - happy days

I arrived at whatever station it was in London we were leaving from (Victoria?) and the trip on the OE was great fun. I made good friends and spent much time with a chap called Wolfgang over the trip and we got very pissed over that trip and from memory had a very, very good time.

The trip on Concorde was much as you would expect. We arrived at Linz airport having to fight the crowds who were rightly queuing to seeing the fastest civil aircraft in the world. We were given a tour around the outside and then boarded for out flight.

The flight was no more than about 4 hours and out over the Bay of Biscay but it was fantastic. The interior was cramped but well finishedm the food wonderful! The takeoff was faster than normal and just as you think this is pretty good the aircraft accelerates again at much the same force as take off to go from normal flying speeds through Mach 1 to Mach 2. Everyone who wanted to had a visit to the cockpit and a guided tour of the entire aircraft whilst in flight. Im not sure why but almost 30 years on I remember we had Lamb to eat! During the flight I also remember a colleague called Keith who asked me excitedly ‘have you done it Mart?’ What I asked........... ‘have your had a dump at Mach 2?’ Got to be honest it wasn’t on my list but it was on his and to be fair how many people do you know who have had a st at twice the speed of sound?, perhaps it was just a Welsh thing

We had a great trip, sadly I don’t think I have any photo’s (divorce, lost memories and all that) but I do have memories of a great few days away, a trip on Concorde and time spent with a man called Wolfgang.

Apparently he’s quite good at making wine and has a brand that’s from Australia and fairly popular so I understand......... Wolfgang Blass and so I understand he knows a thing or two about wine making

Bloody brilliant and great, great memories

Edited by HoHoHo on Monday 11th December 21:56

[saaby93]

Watching the prog
Did everyone know about the wobbly wheel and veering off the runway?

[V8LM]

Yes.

The AF Captain was a maverick. AF maintenance were equally culpable.

[Wozy68]

V8LM said:

Yes.

The AF Captain was a maverick. AF maintenance were equally culpable.

[hyphen]

Welshbeef said:

I’d never tire of the noise and the shape.

Took my toddler to Brooklands Museum recently, was interesting to see how despite being so young, he recognised the shape was so different from all the other planes he has seen or sat in, learnt the word Concorde and kept repeating.

Edited by hyphen on Monday 11th December 22:43

[saaby93]

V8LM said:

Yes.

The AF Captain was a maverick. AF maintenance were equally culpable.

Yes = No
The later prog just about the crash didnt mention the veering off of the runway or the reason the fuel tanks were brimmed or the flight operator shutting down the engine
I can see why the series was better