Did you Ever See Concorde ?

Question

Great Plane.Will they make Another like it?

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Answer 1

Came over my house everyday or something like that. Was amazingly loud and beautiful.

Answer 2

I saw G-BSST in Yeovilton and a Concorde preparing for takeoff at Heathrow in 1999 or 2000. I also saw the Concorde model at Heathrow :P

Answer 3

Yes, twice in my life. Fisrt time was when I was in NY. The second time was when I was in Seattle at the Boeing Air Museum. Don't think there will ever be an another Concorde like aircraft in the foreseeable future.

Answer 4

Yes, in Heathrow, shortly after landing.  I saw it takeoff.  One of the loudest airplanes I've ever heard!

Answer 5

The Concorde was allowed into YYZ (Toronto) once many years ago. It may have been for the CNE Airshow. I watched it take off from the upper level of the parking garage. Loudest aircraft I have ever heard, and I been privy to F-4 Phantoms taking off at full afterburner. They can't touch the Concorde for sound level.

There may be other Concorde type aircraft in the future but right now the aircraft manufacturers are more interested in producing aircraft that can carry large payloads economically.

Answer 6

Flew on the Concorde jet on Air France from New York JFK to Paris Charles De Gaulle. Very cool airplane.

Answer 7

Saw it operate out of Kennedy AP; it gave the impression of a fighter plane. Loud as h**l. You could tell it was coming by the distinctive loud noise.

They moved one on the Hudson River near the Intrepid aircraft carrier in NYC.

Answer 8

Yes, Since the concorde would always past my house for approach to EGLL, you could tell it is coming since it's actually louder than other aircrafts also you can feel the aircraft's engines power since the ground would start to shake a bit.

Answer 9

Only in pictures :(.  It was a beautiful bird.  

I think it is possible to have supersonic flight again with the advances in composite materials and more fuel efficient engines.  The operating cost of these type aircraft are still high though.  The engines on the Concorde were very inefficient Rolls Royce turbojet engines with after burner.  There is technology today that allows for much more fuel efficient engines.  Crewing these type aircraft also require much more experienced pilots.  There have actually been more U.S. Astronauts than there has been Concorde pilots.  There are also still plans for a Super Sonic biz jet.  Dassault Falcon Jet has been seriously trying to presue this idea.  Estimated price tag is a cool 80mil which is double the price of a new G-550.

Answer 10

Yes, in Singapore. I had just landed and was wondering what was that tiny aircraft at the gate next to a 747. It was the Concorde. It looks bigger on photos than in reality!

I don't think that supersonic flight is any longer actual with the shortage of fossil fuel we will be facing in the future. Even with a clever design, one must remember that drag, and therefore the thrust needed to overcome it, is proportional to the square of the speed.

The most economical mean of transport is the one that has the best lift to drag ratio and that is - according to what I read - a Wing In Ground (WIG) craft. So far the problem is that both ICAO and IMO say that it is neither a plane nor a ship and don't want to have anything to do with them.

Answer 11

Yes, several times and toured it once at an airshow.  As to whether another will be made, well no.  Concorde was technologically obsolescent by the time it debuted (50's technology).  It was designed for a type of air travel that didn't exist in the late 60's/70s: the "jet setter", and premiere business traveler.  People who wouldn't mind spending the equivalent of two first-class tickets to say they flew at 2.0Mach.  Which would do if you had to fly: spend $7000 to get to your destination in 3 hours or spend $650 and arrive in 5-6?  Having been inside it's cramped, and other airlines 1st/Business Class accommodations are MUCH nicer.

Had there not been  a LOT of gov't subsidies to BA and Air France, the aircraft would've been retired a lot sooner.  Boeing, TWA and Pan American saw the light in 1971 and canceled their SST project; certainly the correct decision.  By the end of its career (2003) it was only flying on the NY/Paris/London route and then with less than 1/4 of its passenger load.

Also, now with fuel very expensive and the so-called "green" political climate: airlines are not about to risk solvency on a gamble.  Airlines exist to make money, not have shiny neat aircraft sitting on the ramp.  There is zero demand from air travelers, zero demand from the airlines.

Answer 12

There is one hanging out at the Smithsonian National air and space museum in the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Washington D.C. if you want to check it out up close! http://collections.nasm.si.edu/code/emus...

Doubt they will make another one though, its all about fuel efficiency now.

Answer 13

Yes I have seen Concorde several times at the airport in Paris.  Among the other planes it looked so small but it was a beautiful aircraft.  It is doubtful there will be another supersonic airliner build in the foreseeable future.  NASA did some high speed tests using a Russian SST in the mid 90s and the conclusion that fuel burn and lack of range can not be brought up to acceptable levels.  The next giant leap in air travel will probably be a hypersonic aircraft but that is probably decades away.

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