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concorde was the up to me in speed and aviation. when she took off for the 1st time nobody could have imagined how the story would end. to this day kroft can compete with. many grim to being able to experience a cool the cleanest once if you could afford to come cool was a clone. of the skies. the story is a dramatic adventure where i'm. playing the new thing rolls on fate is that correct . on the 25th of july

2002 concorde planes took off because so many germans wanted to take a supersonic flight to new york that day only one of the 2 planes made it to j.f.k. airport for the 2nd concorde the journey was over after just 143 seconds on this day fixed and corning some passengers smoked seats between the 2 planes. the 25th of july 2000 marks a turning point in the history of aviation. pervan

law has a special relationship with concorde the i'd be modest if we always felt we needed a concorde it was a lifelong dream of miles but it was just a dream it was out of reach it's a classic case of michael mania. there's a 5 on those that are. after the fatal concorde crash injured on a 2000 his dream came true his since high museum of technology near heidelberg got the chance to buy a french concorde for one symbolically euro and even had to deliver to germany by and france. the pilot on this flight was from newsweek try to not. get there morkie. 2 characters sticks to shine called beauty and

speed to describe the plane has always been a mine by every pilot only with more the at parvati's of your eyes your vehicle caught it in a body is going to talk design and top speed but also top technology and. future. technology. more than a month into your. concorde was the world's fastest ever passenger aircraft be a star and have active days is now become a legend that continues to move people and fascinate millions. the plane was built to push the limits of aviation it's that he did after takeoff $680.00 to maximum speed and that's not miles that you would for cruising if.

you're always flying your visit her screen. on it did throughout take on the it's. the bus from a different it all sort of a problem we can't afford any mistakes or arizona concorde so we have very careful sponsor of the money that's also. in the plates piece today the flight from paris to the york is fully booked. many passengers travel with big pounds i'm small baggage. concorde is still an adventure everything else is like taking the bus. while i fly a lot and so for me the facts to get there the better it is.

the distance between the tricky and the aircraft is the stock shown cool and cold yesterday's tests include film director from track numbers stories and groups one is. yes he was there some no pun intended the passengers is a showbiz celebrity ships this. show i've ever known a scheduled flight from paris to new york you would arise with very. low fuel reserves something like a maximum of 20 minutes of additional 5 times very little compared to other passenger planes why are they. followed it. is the 1st time we've ever been on the concorde we're very excited about it to be

traveling to the sky twice the speed of sound is something very few people get to do so why did you book this flight on a concorde it's a lifelong dream ever you've been looking forward to it to go supersonic for 2 hours is just a thrill. look i'm on board to find your. music producer william because i know you seen a lot of the world but he is as excited as if this were his 1st shot. german funk attendants bridget's a cruiser who's been working on concorde for 20 years at lunch some passion she moved to paris especially for this plan kind of to have. most of their cousins are regulars for the new ones printed to crews of patient to take photos of the occasion i've taken of the one that says something but never say.

coffee and come. to an opulent 6 course menu. this people go see the man she says concorde is the absolute luxury the intoxication of speed what do you want from us like there's nothing better than sick and you don't like the ones if you don't. is the fight over the food is today. it is. 50 percent full especially during the week on weekends it's a bit quieter. when concorde flies at max to the temperature of it's home to skim rises it is no $109.00 degrees celsius the flight engineer explains and the

concorde hull expands by 20 centimeters a gap opens up he says look after an hour of supersonic flight i can stick my hand into it and the gap will close up again after number. to move the tide would suffice then the ability to fly supersonic for more than 2 hours at twice the speed of sound to have as never been achieved by any other aircraft before or after a busy all kinds not. the pilot is only an down to accept the regs to makkah to over the atlantic because breaking the sound barrier causes a frightening down this is prohibited over didn't happen to areas the passengers on the plane did not notice anything was cool simply flies away from the center. it's very exciting week or so i have to plead guilty to being a target taking pictures of the mock meter as a way to get steak or to realize how few people have actually gone to

and if you do any research with it aviation history you'll learn how much difficulty it was to break the sound barrier. might have a test pilots have to do was their lives for this their planes could not withstand the powerful forces of a flying to mack one that's about 1000 kilometers per hour. the last. thing in october $947.00 the us air force managed to break the sound barrier. for the 1st time the only bell x. one to come from the belly of a transport aircraft with test pilots trapped in gaza because it. isn't rockets playing at the right trade and its engines enough power and trucks

the right moment for mack one. was in europe through the military was fostering technical development the british family don't add to its delta we became the model for the design of course. in june 1962 fronts and great britain signed an unusual treaty both governments pledged to build the 1st supersonic passenger aircraft at any cost the contract prohibited withdraw from the program. holding. the french team was led by test pilot andre to a car. whose counterpart was briton brian truck sure he had already flown the one whole family

both men were obliged to cooperate to educate the people of the same age 2 different worlds. at the beginning i fancy him a little difficult like a lot of. people french people and fan difficult to start with. a few of them ever made any effort to speak even a little french my colleague brian tribe short refused to say even a single word in french look one or more they were rather distant. and at the beginning you know if we didn't call one other by our christian names anything like that. we didn't go into each other's houses. all these things developed. in the cause the concord program just if it's a good program with t.v.'s because there was no central leadership no single responsible person there were always to do in my own heart i would say thank god

for the french because the french were very dominant in making sure that everybody kept good in the right direction to make concorde happen sauces but that was really hard to do. at the same time in the soviet union andre to put that was building a rival model but to call f one full for scornfully called concorde ski in the west the kremlin ordered that it must take off in 1968 before concorde on the very last day of that year the prototype toxic to its 1st flight before concorde. a spot for the 2.144 was improvised in many ways and above all she was the spawn of an incredibly ambitious race against the french and the english as the russians the

soviets wanted to fly fast they managed it by 3 months left but they had to make many compromises in their rush which in the long run backfired on them and the plaint of. america. despite the least use them from political or lose everything went well. according to the propaganda to go left one for 4 would be serving blong aeroflot domestic routes within a few years. but the team you won for 4 would never be a success. for. every pilot and passenger who had ever flown in the 2 of you have complained about the. great many shortcomings in conifers he was with us but inside the cabin it was incredibly loud all the tuple have wasn't really able to fly supersonic li for more than a very short time and it would certainly never have made an atlantic flight there's an advantage focus aft. and yet she

too became an icon of aviation. and the 1st concorde prototype was launched in tucson the 2nd of much $969.00 with andre to come up the controls. use it up there it got a little phones on board and get no problems for us me but certainly for the electronics so i decided to shorten the flight of it throughout the abolition of all this.

after 27 minutes andre to a car sounded super bad to see rose 01 basted sweat. for posey when we were back in front of the hangar the press television journalists our bosses place and our wives waiting list if you give up on the city that was a load off my mind at all are those of all the security. concorde sparked intense interest all over the world and the customer list of longer and longer with more than 70 purchase options china airlines wanted free concords further options were placed by 2 times i am india airlines i'm too many

more. the concorde customer lines were represented by senior captain since to it. options taken on concourse by the world's major airlines represent a potential sales value of hundreds of millions of pounds. to further increase the 1000000000 dollar rewards the next prototype was sent out into the world the message of the undertones into awards this is what the most popular at craft in the yet 2000 well look like. concorde was welcomed everywhere with a v.i.p. reception everyone wanted to experience mac 2 for themselves but despite their enthusiasm they turned out to reject the concorde in the united states

a powerful valby stood up against concorde the american aircraft industry had abandoned its supersonic project and now wanted to prevent the british french coalition from conquering the world market. suddenly concorde was no longer a beautiful one diabetic but a noisy environment to send. actually i was in government at the time and there was a lot of complaints from environmental groups about noise. it was over it's a strange position because so many military airplanes. flying field but that it almost every military airplane. $973.00 a fateful year for concord 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 hands in the world and step by step they all disappeared in till eventually we were left with with them and france british airways and pan american. and then finally 10 american went and that was a pretty big blow. only the state owned airlines in france and great britain boot of concorde in the end. from an economic point of view concorde it was a devastating flop and it never came close to serving the markets and making money . on the other hand it was an extremely similar it became the cornerstone of a successful european allies and industry what it.

did while concorde has a mystical status in people's mind is that many were actually disappointed when they 1st saw a small crowd it was inside. the 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. then and margarita tomine an entrepreneurial couple from germany books the late flight to be afternoon. along with does not die foose and her husband. he filmed the journey on his new camera. the tillmans took the flight they 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 a coming 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 the manners took 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 fragile 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 die for those films the numbering at j.f.k. the german passenger on his wife actually booked on the later plane to new york she has brought us here safely. as the concorde had just landed and we all got out and then he filmed the last shot from the card up 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. 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 actually controllers i'm always watched her during takeoff and that day was no exception and for the folks of shawn. fully loaded with passengers on fuel the concorde chucks it to the runway. hard like. very like. at 4 42 pm and france 4590 took off as the flight recorder knocks later revealed is everyone ready. stop all thought of violence on. group of i thought only we saw flames at the back of the plane by. a month old coot my colleague and i immediately hit the red alarm button. at the same time i want the pilot on the radio that

flames were coming out of the back of the plane. concorde 4590 you on fire. understood free down on 2nd engine. my heart was pounding and my adrenaline was pumping i had to keep working as best. the. gear up i understood gear up no. do what you think is best you have priority for your turn. the situation was 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 toes of your landing gear no understood i'm trying. i'm on it switched off a 2nd engine. i switched it off speed speed. the landing gear one retract speed speed. too late no time.

just 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 ones. for the for the other hundreds of rescue teams rushed in which nobody on the concorde could be saved. 100 passengers and 9 crew members died in the crash. 4 people in a hotel building also donated

a few meters decided on life or death. in the building next door the would be injuries. limited i will be all for it 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. happened of you got up out of in your study obama told us she was released to join almost. shortly before takeoff flight attendant get a cruiser had called her parents as she always did before the concorde front the next cool did not come from. 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 crews it demand 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's ride and when 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 kindly would have been. 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 father thought it was my father who wanted to fly concorde because he was amazed by its technology. stop the thought it wouldn't have been important for my mother but there would be no question of her not flying has been to iraq and to school soon as eventually among veterans. 12 a tomans died on their flight to die from this couple and their friend erika continued their journey on the cruise ship with mixed feelings they needed time to recover and process the shock they had only escape with their lives because their friend erika and been able to get a seat on the ill fated concorde for this reason they had swapped seats with another couple and a taken the earlier plane. they rebooking confirmation was like a 2nd birth certificate for them. a few hours

after the crash the investigation into the cools as be cam. concorde pilot john louis shuttle arm 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 front 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. listen to it again and again to understand everything exactly only the technical facts are important but of course you also hear human over time have nothing to do with the process. that hits you hard like a slap in the face like. 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 that 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 call. you know in a ridiculously small piece of titanic wearing all 200 grams sets off a chain reaction as so often happens in plane crashes. in sick all david know 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 concords toy cost but this time a piece of toilet hit the tongue and set off the deadly train reaction. after the accident better toys were purchased attacks reinforced. air france and british airways paid more than $200000000000.00 euros for this safety package but in the

end it was of no use 3 years after the accident concorde was taken out of service. in may 2003 the sky over parents became the stage for bidding farewell to a letter. people came through found a field to experience concorde's last flight and even listen to the tower radio. signal also such a mix of people from all walks of life i have already flown concorde there is something magical about it. there is.

in song called was no longer politically correct the tickets were expensive the plane needed a lot of feel. speed has its price because so many end there was the lawyers and everything else down there he. knew none of the 5 remaining french concords was scrapped all of them were preserved for posterity. we shorten our flew one of them out of the country this concorde broke the sound barrier one last time by taking a detour across the atlantic its destination was cold. threw a pound bomb at costco 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's awesome just focused on. it without a. doubt about it but yeah you know survivor that flight from moscow missed about an empire cause my last trip in france after that my life changed. the. doggystyle that for the 1st time in aviation history we took a conscious backward step that we have banned and supersonic flight from then on only subsonic passenger aircraft were built in the context of aviation history when it was a backward step up on our air. the cockpit was cramped and uncomfortable

michael racing cars only about 30 pilots when lawson's to fly a concorde any one time. the french people saw the concorde as a project that was so ambitious it could outclass all its competitors if it represented a daring and entrepreneurial nation if. they like he was also a pawn. maktoum one last time fully booked one last time with something gets to phone. among them was the wife of the captain of the concorde to the croxton pants. eh andreas schmidt a german aviation expert was also invited by air france for the last flights to

boston and up. as there always should be when we got out of the plane it was like we had arrived with the beatles and. it was like in the historical record people are cheering they were staring at us they were clapping. the concorde was dismantled it bought an air pocket for the journey down the rhine then the trip continued on the closed want to bomb it tonight. 1000000 spectators looked on in or as the concorde make its last journey since high museum of technology an amazing spectacle

a farewell to the kind of nuptial ring that only came with concorde. for me his love for me luxury is 1st and foremost it's our time and how you spend it when the concorde gave you time. in the future something similar might turn out if we were able to go into the stratosphere with little air resistance and say you could do it with a reasonable amount of fuel 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 agency is working on a new test program and wants to investigate how supersonic aircraft can be made

environmentally sustainable. one question is how the supersonic could be eliminated with a new design resulting in different afflalo. we heard a loud by a stop at about 225. just a few of the space 3 i did not hear anything. in a new experimental aircraft the x. 59 has been built for nasa but sonic boom 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. is guns clark doesn't there isn't anything initiatives for new supersonic aircraft on a smaller scale. so that means in business jets or about 50 seater commercial aircraft but they all come from america and they're all private companies. 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.

because of how the big question is still is there a market for much of this is always been the crucial questions was until now the answer has always been up to now and still is. premium in 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 3 hours instead of 8 it doesn't make sense to me anymore. that people could start a book good morning to you fly from germany to australia with supersonic flight 90 minutes. engineers at the german aerospace center d.n.r. imagine are flights that takes them around the world in 90 minutes in the most

environmentally friendly way possible. and. the space liner would be ahead of our time just like concorde 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 hydrogen and oxygen after a short flight time the passenger plane decouples and it's back to earth at several times the speed of sound. in europe to australia in 1000 minutes science fiction all a look into the year 2050. when the 1st drafts for concorde were created nobody would have believed that 14 years

later it would take the passengers across the atlantic. concorde captivated old and young and inspired a whole generation. you could spend your whole life what you would be not to fight with just watch. the sofa optimizing city that minimizes emissions separates waste and in the best case recycle sentient. kamins visions become reality there gently need into. the city the living space of the future with

room for every one. of the 3000. and 3 minutes from d w. how's the feel of the world and where i come from the over that it does is go it just like with chinese food this doesn't matter where i am it's always reminds me of home after decades of living in germany chinese food is one of the things i miss the most but better taking a step back i see things a little of difference for me now and then of ford's president or going to asia and that exists the other part of the war haven't been and immensity in china that's been a lot of chinese people wondering if their foot is safe but if i have the right to learn that is this is their job just under the law how i see it and this is why i love my job because i tried to do it in clapham it is an hour

a day by name of the uninsured and i was added that view. 2. this is g.w. news why for led efforts to move a stranded container ship blocking the suez canal finally make progress directors and tug boats working around the clock managed to partially refloat the 400 metre long vessel raising hopes the busy waterway will soon reopen also coming up thailand prepares for a wave of refugees fleeing the bloodshed.