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Concorde Take Off. Turn up the volume to experience that Olympus roar!

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If you “LIKE” my Concorde film then did you know I have more than 150 other films, on this “Heathrow Aircraft” channel? #heathrowaircraft
On my channel you'll find more Concorde films PLUS .... 4K films capturing aircraft at #Heathrow including the “Complete British Airways 747 fleet”, the retirement flights of many of the BA 747 fleet as well as some of the final Virgin 747 flights; plus tributes to many other "rare or gone" aircraft. More recently (Autumn 2021) I have paid a visit to the 2 UK "scrapyards" where BA's 747s and many other aircraft have ended their days take a look!
But it's not all looking back there are plenty of "planespotting" films too all with ATC comms for added authenticity.

For those who didn't have the chance to experience personally and at close hand the sound of Concorde taking off, turn up the volume on your tablet/phone. This still doesn't really do it justice it was such an amazing volcanic roar as witness the effect Concorde always had on car alarms in the vicinity of the take off run!
This was VHS camcorder footage that I took in 1996 in Colnbrook village, near the end of the take off run from Heathrow’s Runway 27 Right. Such a shame technology wasn't better in those days too!

First off is a BA Landor livery Boeing 777 back then these had only come into service with BA a few months before G ZZZC was the first, I remember now ironically this aircraft is itself also retired. See the film on my channel.

Then afterwards, you hear the distinctive roar of Concorde's 4 Rolls Royce Olympus engines as it commenced the take off run at the other end of the runway nearly 2.5 miles back and long before it came into view. What other aircraft gave you that? Even though I worked at the airport and was lucky enough to see Concorde most days, with the passage of time, I’d forgotten the orangebrown exhaust trail and the fiery glow of the reheat / afterburners too, which were lit at the start of the take off run and switched off around a minute and a half later, for noise abatement. That never stopped the car alarms going off though!
Then an American Airline MD 11 and finally a BA 737200 those were the days.
I have another short Concorde film taken at the end of Runway 09R at Heathrow on a dismal July morning. Listen to the car alarms after the steep banking turn!    • Shorts  

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