FACTS you should know about CONCORDE! Episode 1 by CAPTAIN JOE

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 experience with this beautiful plane and don't forget to hit the subscribe button and the notification bell see you next week all of us your Captain Joe Subscribe for more nice Content from CaptainJoe ! ;-)

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Id: JgAvxvDRg6c

Length: 10min 45sec (645 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 10 2017