Concorde landing at Boeing Field (November 5, 2023)
On November 5th 2003, the last of the Concorde planes would make it's final landing on the tarmac of Boeing Field.
The plane (known as G-BOAG) set a record for flying from New York to Seattle, flying accross the continent in 3 hours, 55 minutes, and 12 seconds.
The footage was recorded when it landed at Boeing Field and parked at the Museum of Flight. The weather was perfect to capture the landing on a Sony 8mm video camera even catching the reverse thrust of the engines (not included in this video).
After posting it on You Tube, I received an email from the group of builders and engineers that were responsible of the construction of the aircraft back in England who requested a copy of the raw video which was provided to them at no cost.
This video is used as part of the legacy collection of the G-BOAG aircraft back in England as well.
About the Concorde
The plane is impressive in it's speed and design.
Arriving at the museum early that day to tour the facility (it was the first time in there) and picked up a Concorde book in the gift shop and started reading.
Fifty years earlier (based on when the page was created) the place where the Condorde is parked today was near the development center where Boeing was working on a mockup model for supersonic transport that lost it's support.
While the plane never caught on a mainstream form of transportation (at the time) it was completing it's production when the energy crisis was appearing while the United States was concerned over the sonic boom noises from the aircraft.
It was an aircraft that required a navigator since it was built before the current cockpits replaced that task.
It was constructed during the days of the space age that many saw as the future of flight that may return in the near future.
This plane represented a form of transporation for the wealthy traveling over the Atlantic from New York to London or Paris that could only seat up to 128 passengers usually in one airline class with only 20 planes being constructed by BAC and Aerospaitiale before these companies would merge with Airbus.