and the 1st concorde prototype was launched in tucson the 2nd of march $969.00 with andre to come up the controls. use it up there it got a little front on board and get no problem for us he said certainly for the electronics so i decided to shorten the flight a bit throughout the abolition of all this.

after 27 minutes andre to a car sounded super bad to see rose 01 behaved in sweat. for posey when we were back in front of the hangar the press television journalists our bosses place and our wives waiting as if you gave up on the city that was a load off my mind at all of those of the 6 that. concorde sparked intense interest all over the world and the customer list got longer and longer with more than 70 purchase options trine and lines one to 3 concords further options were placed by the times i am india japan airlines and many more. the concorde custom and lines were rip. they did by senior captains do

it. options taken on concorde by the world's major airlines represent a potential sales value of hundreds of millions of pot. to further increase the 1000000000 dollar rewards the next prototype was sent out into the world the message of the undertones into woes this is what the most popular at craft in the yet to found will look like. concorde was welcomed everywhere with a v.o.i.p. reception everyone wanted to experience back to for themselves but despite their enthusiasm they turned out to reject concord in the united states a powerful vote be stood up against concorde the american aircraft industry had abandoned its supersonic project and now wanted to prevent the british french

coalition from concluding the world market. suddenly concorde was no longer a beautiful wonder bird but the noisy environmentalists and. actually i was in government at the end there was a lot of complaints from environmental groups about no it. it was over it's a strange position because so many military airplanes. flying filberts out of almost every military airplane. $973.00 a fateful year for concorde international infusion as i'm waned in view of rapidly rising oil prices nowhere in line wanted to burden itself with a gas guzzler. i think we had something like 77 options from all the major airlines in the wells and step by step

they all disappeared until eventually we were left with. france british airways and pan american. and then finally 10 american went and that was a pretty big blow. only the state turned airlines in france and great britain who took concorde in the end. from an economic point of view concorde it was a devastating flaw it never came close to being a market and making money. about it on the other hand it was an extremely similar case it became the cornerstone of a successful european airline industry bought it for foreclosure albeit a quote on. the concorde has a mystical status in people's mind is what many were actually disappointed when

they 1st saw our small cramped it was inside. view carrying us that involved. disappointment among passengers was out of the question on the morning of the 25th of july 2000. many germans wanted to fly to new york at supersonic speed for the 1st time that was point 2 courts were taking off. them and margaret to toman an entrepreneurial couple from germany books the late flight in the afternoon. along with gisele di foose and her husband for. the journey on his new camera. that humans took the flight they had booked but freetown swapped his tickets. he and his wife took the earlier flight so they could travel with their friend. today was

a special day for him 10 30 am there comes the committee madam. the 3 passengers made it onto the concorde free to dream had finally come true. erica rocket launch. the shuttle flights to new york began at about 11 15 am. after that it was booked the plane to twice the speed of sound just as it had raced across the atlantic for almost 25 years. a 2nd concorde with passengers from germany was scheduled to take off in the afternoon. while the 1st concorde had already crossed the atlantic and was about to land in new york

traffic controller. was starting work in paris it should actually have been someone else that day. and. a colleague had asked me to cover his afternoon shift for him. i was working in the tower of charles de gaulle airport in paris and i was responsible for handling the runways in the south of the airport. will. get a cruiser the german flight attendant from the concorde crew was brought back from her holiday specially for the 2nd flight just like the controller in the tower she actually had a plan for that day. you can expect the highest quality on this plane the customers pay for it and have every right to be demanding it takes. freetown di foose films the numbering at j.f.k.

the german passenger and his wife were actually booked on the later plane to new york she has brought us here safely. concorde had just landed and we all got out and then he filmed the last shot from the car above and literally says she brought us here safely. past he had never said that after our flight before the plane was special to him but there was really something sinister about it she brought us here safely not the other one feel. like it's a cruise that was opening the 1st bottle on the 2nd concorde departure from paris. the german front attendant already had over 2000 flying hours on. the passengers boarded but about 4 pm 20 minutes later the captain confirmed that the concorde was ready. for takeoff. the concorde time is a wonderful aircraft and we add traffic controllers and always watched her during

takeoff and that day was no exception for the basics of shawn. fully loaded with passengers lucky on fuel the concorde touch it to the runway. part like a very light. up for 42 pm and france 4590 took off as the flight recorder logs later revealed is everyone ready. top all for after violence on. group of i suddenly we saw flames at the back of the plane by. on i'm told my colleague and i immediately hit the red alarm button. at the same time i want the pilot on the radio the flames were coming out of the back of the plane. concorde 4590 you on fire. understood frank don't own 2nd

engine the gossamer about the time my heart was pounding and my adrenaline was pumping i had to keep working as best. the. gear up understood gear up no. do what you think is best you have priority for your turn. the situation is extremely difficult for us and traffic controllers because we had to take care of the burning concorde and at the same time direct the of an aircraft the tours of your landing gear no understood i'm trying. i'm on it's switch off a 2nd engine. i've switched it off speed speed. the landing gear when retract speed speed. too late no time. if you can see morning i almost saw the explosion there was dense smoke great like

a mushroom but i couldn't stop working i had to keep in contact with the other planes in the air and i had to continue my work. when i saw that i knew the worst had happened to complete. i radioed air france 4590 you're receiving me and i want some good things to. go for a lot of the hundreds of rescue teams rushed in that's nobody on the concorde could be saved. 100 passengers and knowing crew members died in the crash. 4 people in a hotel building also don't need a few meters decided on life or death. in the building next door the with the injuries. so they did i will be all for that as i

had the windows open in the office and i had a hell of a noise a bunny concorde was coming straight out i was on the phone and screamed the concords landing on me. i threw down the receiver and ran with it and we got to the do it 3 meters away then there was a huge explosion. up in not even a part of india also yokohama told us as we destroyed almost. shortly before takeoff fight attendant thank you to cruiser had called her parents and she always did before the concorde front the next cool did not come from out. they said fans then i turned on the television and saw the pictures of the concorde in flames and then the crash and right away the telephone rang on.

someone from the concord team asked me are you have cruise it on for a concorde since year cruisin yes is your daughter flying on concorde today yes i said i will call you again in a quarter of an hour replied well the phone rang again i picked it up and he said to me that i have some bad news story there are no survivors. as it kind of worrying that. 13 of the dead came from the german city of mention club. almost half of all the concorde victims were from the same region including several couples who had wanted to take a cruise from new york. just like moderator and vanna tellme. as one fatah's my father who wanted to fly concorde thinks he was amazed by its

technology 3 it stopped i thought it wouldn't have been important for my mother but there would have been a question of her not flying with a spent american just because soon as it amicably among the 3. 12 the terminals died on their flight the die 1st couple and their friend erica continued their journey on the cruise ship with mixed feelings they needed time to recover and process the shock. they had only a scape with their knives because their friend erica and been able to get a seat on the ill fated concorde for this reason they had swapped seats with another couple and the taken the on a plane. they rebooking confirmation was like a 2nd birth certificate for them. a few hours after the crash the investigation into the causes camp.

concorde pilot louis shot unarmed agreed to listen to the tapes of the black box as often as necessary. the last 2 hours of operation before the disaster when fully preserved on the flight recorder. talks about this experience for the 1st time in an interview. first of all i would like to say that this is really the 1st time i've allowed myself to talk about it in public because i was involved in the investigation i knew the crew very well. i needed time before i could talk about it in public you know. it's hard to listen to people who are about to die. or not.

what he could do no was well listen to it again and again to understand everything exactly only the technical facts are important but of course you also hear human overturn have nothing to do with the process. that hits you hard. like a slap in the face like. always what was. the official investigation report was not published for another 18 months but the calls had long been established by the investigating officer it is a 20 centimeters long piece of metal but fallen off a u.s. aircraft on the runway. it was part of the engine of a continental airlines d.c. 10 and snatched the time of the departing concorde.

in a ridiculously small piece of titanic weighing all 200 grams set off a chain reaction as so often happens in plane crashes. in sick all david moore in an almost diabolical way the system of safety nets failed. by one nuff bodies in it is what. it was not the 1st time that concourse tires had passed but this time a piece of toilet hit the tank and set off the deadly train reaction. after the accident better tires were purchased on the tax reinforced. air france and british airways paid more than 200000000 euros for the safety package but in the end it was of no use 3 years after the accident concorde was taken out of suttas.

in may 2003 the sky over parents became the stage for bidding farewell to a letter. people came from the front of field to experience concords last flight and even listen to the tower radio. and. to go to such a mix of people from all walks of life i have already flown concorde there is something magical about it. and there it is.

in song called was no longer politically correct the tickets were expensive the plane needed a lot of feel. speed has its price. and there was the lawyers and most everything else there he even. brought them here none of the 5 remaining french concords were scrapped all of them were preserved for posterity. we shot an hour flew one of them out of the country this concorde broke the sound barrier one last time i took a detour across the atlantic and its destination was cars. threw it down bought an apple scope in view of the many german victims in france decided to donate this concorde to the since high newseum of technology in the heidelberg. that is often just focused on. the whatever there are. by the by the. survivor

that flight from paris to bottom the empire calls my last trip to france after that my life changed. but upon your dog he saw that for the 1st time in aviation history we took a conscious backward step that we abandoned supersonic flight from then on only subsonic passenger aircraft were built in the context of aviation history when it was a backward step upon our yeah. the cockpit was cramped and uncomfortable like a racing car only about 30 pilots with nonsense to fly a concorde at any one time. the

french people saw concorde as a project that was so ambitious it could outclass all its competitors it represented a daring and entrepreneurial nation if. they like he was also a pawn. maktoum one last time fully booked one last time which some gets to from. among them was the wife of the captain of the concorde that crashed in pounds. eh andreas schmidt a german aviation expert was also invited by air france for the last flights to bottom after. we got out of the plane it was like we had arrived with the

beatles and the rolling stones it was like in the historical record people are cheering they were staring at us they were clapping that. the concorde was dismantled at barton air park for the journey down the rhine then the trip continued on the close want to bomb it tonight $1000000.00 spectators looked on in a war as the concorde make its nasty journey to since high museum of technology an amazing spectacle a farewell to the kind of not showing that only came with concorde.

his love for me luxury is 1st and foremost it's our time and how you spend it. because it gave you time. in the future something similar might turn out if we were able to go into the stratosphere with little air resistance so you could do it with a reasonable amount of fuel that it's the dream of many and if a few people really believe in their dream then it could come true. that nasa plays an important role in this dream and in the future of supersonics more than 70 years after breaking the sound barrier with the bell x. one the u.s. space age and. he is working on a new test program it wants to investigate how supersonic aircraft can be made environmentally sustainable. one question is how the super sonic boom could be eliminated with a new design resulting in different afflalo. right

. we heard a loud biased stop at about 2 point. get the spike 3 i did not hear. a new experimental aircraft the x. $59.00 was being built for nasa it's so mcbroom should only be used loud as a car door slamming this would enable an aircraft to fly over numbed at supersonic speeds which was not possible for concorde.

as guns clark does there isn't anything initiatives for new supersonic aircraft on a smaller scale. that means business jets or about 50 seater commercial aircraft. but they all come from america and they're all private companies film. a good decade after the end of concorde to new projects are being launched the company boom supersonic is working towards a supersonic passenger aircraft with 50 seats the pilots for the test model are already training in a simulator. the other company erion wants to launch its business jet in 2026 both companies have announced that they will fly on biofuel. what he was a father a question is still is there a market for much help this is always been the crucial questions i was until now

know the answer has always been up to now and still is. not to play god out of preview men the sabathia every great human undertaking needs a good reason what would be the good reason for a new supersonic aircraft is good enough to be able to justify the environmental impact just across the atlantic and i'm 3 hours instead of 8 it doesn't make sense to me anymore or you're doing it there. that people could start i don't have book good morning to you fly from germany to australia with straight line a supersonic flight only 90 minutes. engineers at the german aerospace center d.n.r. imagine your flights that takes them around the world in 90 minutes in the most environmentally friendly way possible. on. the space line it would be head of our time just like cancun once was.

up to 50 passengers sit in a shuttle and take off on a rocket heading for space the rocket is powered by a mixture of an oxygen after a short flight time the passenger plane decouples and collides back to earth at several times the speed of sound. europe to australia in 1000 minutes science fiction all look into the year 2050. when the 1st drafts for concorde were created nobody would have believed that 14 years later it would take passengers across the. numb to. concord captivated old and young uninspired the old generation. you could spend your whole life in

bottoming what it would be not to fight with just want. these and not the mountains and your engine and garbage everywhere. city now only says enough already the environmental activist and her fellow commissioners travel around the earth to tell a girl educating advising the boy anthony to clean up they are fighting in fact the tide of trash. is 30 minutes on the d w. y

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