Concorde

So what I want to know is what would be your dream plane to fly? Your dream base, departure airport, dream passengers, dream destination?

Concorde is the obvious one.

I'd love to fly Concorde, but that's obviously never going to happen.

If there is one aeroplane I'd love to get my hands on is the 747.

Yeah, Queen of the Skies.

Yeah.

We're mentioning this today because we haven't had it since the Concorde.

Yep.

And that, I don't even remember when that retired, but it was a while ago.

Aw, nice.

Yeah, I like that.

The Concorde, humanity's only successful supersonic airliner, vanished from the skies in 2003. leaving behind a legacy of speed, ambition, and unanswered questions.

Now, for the first time since its retirement, the world is on the edge of a new era.

And I think it allowed so many more people to then travel long distances.

And when you look at the size of the thing, when you think about the fact that really when they were building the thing and building or doing the blueprints, um it was uh it was only uh with a slide rule essentially they didn't have all the fancy computer modeling and everything that they did this was in the late 60s that they uh that they were designing the thing so to come up with such a uh an iconic airplane that you know flying 450 people i mean it was just unheard of back uh back before that so yeah really did change everything so they've i've got a soft spot for them but Things like the Concorde as well, I think were just an extraordinary aircraft way ahead of its

time.

People are still fascinated by the Concorde.

Oh yeah, there's all sorts of docos and things around the place and still talking to people who flew them back in the day and a friend of mine got to ride in one.

a couple of times over in the UK and just such an extraordinary experience.

So I've got a soft spot for them.

Things like the Concorde as well, I think were just an extraordinary aircraft way ahead of its time.

People are still fascinated by the Concorde.

Oh yeah, there's all sorts of docos and things around the place and still talking to people who flew them back in the day and a friend of mine got to ride in one.

a couple of times over in the UK and just such an extraordinary experience.

It's actually these things might add something.

It created entire new problems, similar to the Concorde.

A lot of the production methods needed to be completely changed and they're completely different problems.

I mean, even just looking at all of the...

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Mainly because I know that...

Molly's just done an episode on the Concorde.

So just like some healthy competition.

my Japan tickets cost.

I remember when the Concorde, the Concorde, you could fly.

5,000 each way.

Yeah, exactly.

You flew five.

Well, it was 5,000.

You'd fly from Amsterdam to London, then London on the Concorde to New York.

And the way back, they would fly you first class British Airways.

And there was a homing pigeon race and the birds all got lost.

And the people who were racing the birds put it down to Concorde flying over the top and breaking the sound barrier and creating a sonic boom, which they say actually disrupted the birds.

Again, no evidence, but a good story.

All right.

Also, I think it had, I think a lot of airlines went out of business or lost a huge amount of money.

Yeah, contributed to the end of Concorde, you know, as a basic depression.

But yeah.

I mean, it's not the most important consequence.