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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to chase a solar eclipse at supersonic speeds? In this video, we delve into the incredible story of how scientists in 1973 used Concorde, the legendary supersonic airliner, to extend their time in the Moon's shadow during one of the longest solar eclipses in history. Led by French astrophysicist Pierre Lena and piloted by Concorde test pilot Andre Turcat, this daring mission pushed the boundaries of aviation and scientific exploration. Join us as we uncover the fascinating journey of how a small team of visionaries managed to capture a rare glimpse into the mysteries of the Sun's corona, and don't forget to stick around until the end to find out how you can win in the next giveaway.
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00:00 1973 Total Solar Eclipse
00:47 Preparing for the Eclipse
01:33 Using Concorde to chase the Eclipse
02:08 Basic Principles of a Solar Eclipse
03:55 Concorde's Eclipse Flight Plan
05:35 Modifying Concorde for the Eclipse
07:03 Concorde's Solar Eclipse Flight
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Written and edited by Ewan Cunningham ( / ewan_cee )
Narrated by: Beau Stucki (www.beaustucki.com/)
3D Modeler: Orkun Zengin
Music used in this video:
As History Unfolds - Christoffer Moe Dittlevse
See You - Maxzwell
Go Down Swinging - NEFFEX
Sunrise Drive - South London HiFi
Cold War Games - Gabriel Lewis
Amalthea - Van Sandano
Stuck In The Air - The Tower of Light
Eternal Garden - Dan Henig
#concorde #aviation #solareclipse
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Ask me again after April 8...
Ive seen a total eclipse of the heart! Does that count?
I saw the 2017 one in IL! Cant wait for the April 8th one, crossing my fingers for cloudless skies!
no
I saw the 2017 in idaho.
Can you imagine being a Tuareg nomad in the Sahara and suddenly the sky darkens, the sun disappears replaced by a ring of fire, then a strange object zips by faster than any bird and massive boom erupts around you and the sun returns.
Haha best comment. I think they really thought the aliens were coming
Two booms
One of the best comments I have ever seen
You're racist and condescending. I reported you.
They would definitely say something like what the F was that???
Imagine Having An Eclipse thats 80 minutes long... truly one of the most unique moments in history.
Yeah, I was just excited that we're gonna experience twice the totality time of 2017's eclipse at over 4 minutes, but they win by nearly a factor of 20.
Black Hole Sun
Now I no longer feel bad about getting up 10 minutes late for the partial eclipse in September.
@@zucottimanicotti7112 You just _had_ to do that, didn’t you? 😂
2173 we will have another chance.
Just flying in Concorde #001 is already incredible, now imagine following an eclipse, extremely iconic.
iconic indeed!
The most concorde thing that was ever done with a concorde! ✌️✌️
How come I've never heard of this experiment?
Andre Turcat has now imprinted his name in human history.
The #001 links to something
I drove 3 hours past into Arkansas and seen my first total eclipse today, it is a unique experience, mesmerizing.
I drove from SoCal to Beaver Fork Lake just outside of Conway. Beautiful park and surreal eclipse. Totally worth it. Egypt, here I come!!!
i would have had to drive 10 hours to get to the edge of the shadow
Drove from Atlanta to Sidney, Ohio for the eclipse on my birthday! High clouds were thin enough to see through to the eclipse.
Drove 1482 miles, phoenix to lake wappapello mo.
I flew from Germany to the pacific coast of Mexico. Great time!
The eclipse these people experienced while on that Concorde flight must have been beyond words..
Would have been pretty amazing that's for sure. I hope they were able to take some time to really take it all in.
Not really. You just used those words.
@@allistairneil8968Lol no, that's not how that works
@@allistairneil8968The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.
"dark"
I had no idea that this experiment was conducted! It's incredible that the Concorde was able to keep up with the moon for that long!
Pretty incredible stuff. I'm so glad you enjoyed the topic - I was really looking forward to sharing it!
Kinda goofy the pilot hit the brakes there lol, i want a Concorde now!
@gorfhalo1 I find it incredible that we humans have managed to perform a race at 2000km/h between a beautiful metallic bird and the Moon itself. It's mind-blowing!
I always thought about it but never knew either 😩
So Concorde 001 these days resides in the French Air Museum at Le Bourget Airport in Paris. It still has the portholes in the roof from the Solar Eclipse flight. That air museum is now on my bucket list!
Ive been there ,theres also a Air France Concorde(F-BTSD) , Boeing 747 and Airbus A380 there its a must go to place if your in Paris
But I don’t think the portholes are still there(not 100% sure) they were probably removed during the refurbishment of the plane in 1995
The Paris Air Museum at LeBourget Airport is on my bucket list also! Thank you for that information. Paris is one amazing place I've always wanted to I visit.
To think this happened in 1973 and the job they did was incredible.things like this is why I love Science
Mate, wait till you hear about Voyager I....
I love how they were allowed to cut up Concorde 001 for this unique experiment and how precise the flight plan was conducted manually with such skill.
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Crazy how that 1 second delay cost them 6 minutes view of the eclipse. There really wasn't much room for error. Kudos to the pilot for executing the manoeuvre to near perfection.
Though it's considered a major alteration, i wouldnt exactly call poking a few window holes "cutting it up". Lol
@@davecrupel2817 A few holes in a pressurized cabin
@@deep.space.12 I know. And an extra-high performance pressurized frame too. (Higher Delta-P and some potential thermal stress) That's why i mentioned it being classed as a "Major Alteration." That's a thing in aircraft maintenance/engineering. And a pretty significant one. All kinds of special inspections & approvals needed. The fact that they bothered to show that whole piece being fit over these holes, hardware & all, is clear evidence of that. They likely had to show it in such detail for legal reasons. Even though she doesn't fly anymore.
In 1999, during a solar eclipse over Europe, three Concordes, one from France and two from Britain, briefly pursued the moon's shadow. The Concordes maintained presence in the shadow for approximately 4 to over 5 minutes, leveraging the aircraft's unique capability to exceed Mach 2. Passengers aboard these flights were tourists.
British operated Concorde not made in Britain
@@ommsterlitz1805 You are incorrect. All seven Concorde airframes operated by BA were built in Filton, near Bristol, UK, along with one prototype, one pre-production and one production test aircraft, for a total of ten built in Britain.
@@mikes8928 Britain might soon not be the only country to have had a supersonic commercial aircraft. NASA introduced their state-of-the-art supersonic airframe recently (which they had worked on for donkeys years), which should greatly reduce the sonic boom, making supersonic flights over land possible.
@@paulmichaelfreedman8334only ? 😂 You have missed something about Concorde.... Hint is in the name 👻 Bisous de France 😘
@@testman9541 Concorde was financed and maintained by both BA and AF, but they were designed and built by british aerospace engineers.
As someone who saw the 2017 and the eclipse yesterday I think this would be the best flight of all time
Loved the fact that they leveraged the strengths of the Concorde for science like the only commercial aircraft that has the ability to supercruise at that time, boasting the large usable pressurized cabin among supersonic aircrafts and the best of all no 'classified' military technology to worry for when modifying.
At the time, it was the only aircraft that could supercruise at all. Even contemporary fighter jets couldn't.
Concorde is such an amazing aircraft. I never heard about this story but I find it awesome that they did this. If I were to chose any aircraft to bring back It would be the concord. Using it for an eclipse is super awesome.
Until you learn that by jealousy and hate the USA destroyed it's chance of becoming economically viable and destroyed it on the airfield by conveniently placing US made aircraft parts on the runway of it's takeoff.
Speak no less.
Having it break your windows as it flew overhead would not be fun though.
@@MegaLokopothat's just a small price to pay to get repaired compared to your ears 💀
@@TahaShakir2 yea, but I can wear ear plugs. My windows can't.
Last year by chance I saw prototype 001 still in the “eclipse observatory” configuration in Paris. At first I didn’t get what it was all about, now thanks to this video I have a full picture and now I know how rare of a plane I’ve seen
The concord aka the coolest plane ever The concord is so iconic also imagine having watched a solar eclipse for over an hour would have been a truly amazing sight to see I also love and appreciate how much time and effort @primalspace put into this video
The coolest and best
So glad you think so too!
An Eclipse that lasts 3 minutes long in itself is one of the most beautiful things in nature... imagine it being 80 minutes long
That one photograph of Concorde with the eclipse in the sky above it has got to be one of the greatest photos of one of the coolest achievements ever! It really is such a pity that we don't have anything like Concorde flying today, but hopefully in the near future commercial airliners go supersonic once again!
Which one?
Boom is bringing supersonic commercial flight back thankfully.
what photo, it's all CGI.
@@TheSwanies Try google "Concorde chasing eclipse", there is a real photo out there, best Concorde photo ever. It was took from a cockpit of a chasing jet fighter.
That photo is fake unfortunately
As always, an exemplary production. Thank you.
Thank you so much, and thank you for watching!
The Concorde is one of my favorites! It was so far ahead of its time and the engineering put into it is incredible. Never knew about this mission. Great video, keep up the good work!
Thank you! So glad you enjoyed the video. Good luck in the giveaway!
i shivered many times watching this. i knew this story before, but imagining how beautiful it must be to witness a total solar eclipse for more than an hour on the fastest passenger plane is just awe inspiring
it would have been such an amazing moment to experience in real life. I really hope they had the opportunity to slow down and take it all in.
The more I learn about Concorde and the amazing things it can do, the more it makes me wish for it to return, not only can it keep up with a celestial body for 80 minutes to witness a total eclipse! But also be a commercial airliner that can go from New York to Paris in only 3 hours is amazing! I love the Concorde
sadly concord was not economical to operate due to all the fuel and maintenance the aircraft needed.
The Concorde is one of the most impressive planes ever! It’s crazy how we managed to engineer a plane like this that can go twice as fast as sound! I seriously can’t believe how accurately everything was done and the fact that they were only one second off course! I love your animations and videos! They’re entertaining, highly educational, and well made!
And that person is wise to leave 20 seconds earlier!
@@bluedarkness7125 Very true!
Imagine soaring through the sky at twice the speed of sound aboard the Concorde, and suddenly, the world below falls into an eerie twilight as the moon moves to obscure the sun. It's a breathtaking moment of cosmic alignment, where day turns to night in a matter of minutes. From the sleek windows of the Concorde, passengers gaze in awe as the solar eclipse unfolds before their eyes, painting the sky with hues of orange and purple. It's an electrifying experience that sends shivers down your spine and leaves you speechless, a moment where you feel the pulse of the universe right outside your window. The Concorde transforms into a front-row seat to one of nature's most spectacular shows, leaving everyone on board buzzing with excitement and wonder. It's not just cool-it's downright mind-blowing!
This is insane! What an incredible endeavor. So happy the pilot was on board. Great video.
The fastest bird took to the sky, following in the steps of the Legendary Icarus.. To the rescue came her closest friend the Moon who was there this time to shield her sleek wings from the burning Sun. What a ride! What an honour!
Beautiful
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Um aktually not the fastest bird/plane for the time that title goes to the blackbird 🤓
@@lonesome3958 There was one faster, but only in certain situations. See if you can figure out what it was.
@@MegaLokopo something called the X-15?
Amazing! Never heard of this before! Thanks!
And thanks for watching! Really glad you enjoyed it!
@@primalspaceeven with discounts incogni is still expensive lol because I am in Philippines
Was unaware of this till today, thats impressive... Love this Eclipse coverage
As a young boy, we used to watch the test flights of the concord over southern England. I remember being 10 years old and the news of the eclipse chasing flight. It sparked a love and wonderment of the concord and the people who designed and built it.
Concorde was a plane to allow anyone to experience supersonic speeds and for this reason it was a memorable plane
Mind you, in the 1990s it was 5000$ on way from London/Paris to New York.
I saw the total eclipse in 2017, and I’m planning to see the upcoming one. I’m hoping to view it for a full 4 min. I’m bringing a telescope, but honestly it may be best just to watch and enjoy it for the brief period of time available. Being able to see it and run tests for 70 min must have been truly awe inspiring.
Following up. Did you see it?
@jdemuro1 I did, yes! Awe inspiring again. I tried taking pictures, but I didn't bother with the telescope 😊 Still a breathtaking experience!
@@kevstubeification Amazing! Glad you got to experience. That was hands down the most incredible thing I've ever witnessed.
for us we saw it for 4 min 20 (nice)
So amazing how they experienced the longest eclipse in history, such a spectacle cannot go unnoticed and you taught many people this in this video!
Fantastic convergence of technology and nature. Shows, once again, the beauty and majesty of both.
I love the Concorde, what a beauty!
Outstanding video, which brought back such great childhood memories. Being a boy from the 60's, growing up in London, knowing when Concord took off from Heathrow and to see the sad end of it's last flight back into Heathrow, then to hear this story, which is the first I've heard of it, is just amazing. Most boys in the 70s and 80s, had posters of fast cars or women on their walls. I had Concord, with the nose down and the background of it's vaper trail. Next to the poster was the Esso tiger in the snow. Sadly, both gone when I left boarding school, as was the metal toy of Concord, with the moving nose cone. Your video refuelled my love for Concord and a simpler time in my life. Thank you
This is truly an amazing feat and an amazing animation and work put to bring it to us. Very appreciated ❤
I have seen a total eclipse but hats off to the scientists, the pilots and concorde for making history by flying at Mach 2.08 and see the world's longest eclipse. Congrats 👏
It is a beautiful aircraft used to study a beautiful phenomenon, the absolute precise timing needed for this and the fact they pulled it off is incredible.
Absolutely incredible, and what an amazing thing to experience.
Put free bird over this
👍👍👍
Yes
Do it and you will be viral
I just witnessed my first total eclipse yesterday in Montreal, and it was amazing. I wish it lasted longer! So cool that they were able to see it for 70 minutes.
That's amazing! I would have loved to have seen it myself!
My friends and I drove 1500 miles to see the recent eclipse and I'm hooked. It's such a jaw-dropping experience! So interesting that such an operation would not be possible today, Concorde was really something else.
Amazing! I'm sure it was worth every mile.
Thats the best use of concorde the Pier Lena is a Genius to come up with this stunt just imagine how thrilling it must have been and also Andre Turcat is a chad for keeping the delay as low as possible
The only things that make such a unique aircraft even more interesting are stories like these! Literally feels like something out of a Sci-Fi book!
I never knew of this!! The amount of precision by Andre Turcat in piloting concord is insane. What they must have experienced is insane.
This is truly the most amazing view of any eclipse anyone could wish for, and being inside a Concorde traveling at supersonic speeds is definitely an incredible experience by itself. I wish I could see one total solar eclipse one day.
Concorde is definitely an engineering marvel and a symbol of human ingenuity. What surprises me is that as someone who loves planes and rockets I never knew about this story. 😅
Thank you for this wonderful video. Being 8 years old when this flight happened, I still can remember the news in the TV about this flight. At that time, were men just walked on the moon, this seemed "normal" to me, of course, you can fly that fast to catch up with the moon. Little did I know, how unique this mission was, and probably will be for a very long time to come. This video should be dedicated to the brilliant engineers of that time, who made these miracles possible.
I love the Concorde, it is one of the reasons I chose to study aerospace engineering, my favorite Lego set (by far), and this is one of the coolest flights I’ve ever heard about, ever. It’s so niche and I’m so happy you covered it so kudos to you!
This video showing the Concorde flight under the eclipse was incredible! Really well done. Thank you!
Yet another example of how the Concorde was truly a one-of-a-kind aircraft. Missions like this only add to the legend of a truly remarkable plane. Hopefully soon we will get to see supersonic travel again
It must have been an astonishing experience, the concord was definitely a marvel of engineering.
That is so cool. Thank you for posting. Thats a long totality.
this video literally made me tear up from just how science and human engineering is amazing, truely beautiful
What an awesome piloting feat by Andre Turcat! Happy coincidence that the transit speed of the eclipse was so close to concordes top speed. Such an awesome story I'd bever heard before, great job Primal Space🙌
The fact this isn’t a movie is mind boggling ! I got chills just thinking about it.
The pilot is amazing! I would have loved to fly on Concorde...
Excellent job as usual! Such an interesting story about Concorde. Shows what a unique aircraft it really was. 🙌
Looking forward to your recreation... FPV RC plane keeping up with an eclipse!
Just a another masterpiece you've created. I think I can speak for all, you truly make learning new things interesting. We thank you and love your video's.
Thank you so much! It means so much that you all continue to watch and enjoy my videos.
Something about space and our place within it is such a fascinating, beautiful, but also lonely reality. I love moments like this where humans can find a way to grasp onto the vastness of it as if it were theirs.
An excellent and detailed video that once again demonstrates the capability and also the unexpected uses of this unique and wonderful aircraft.
i have never seen a total eclipse
I saw the eclipse in 2022 (I don’t believe it was total) and there was a total eclipse when I was a child in the early 1980s but I was outside the path of totality.
If you can you absolutely have to see totality, not just see it experience it. It is a life altering experience. You can understand why our ancients thought the world ended.
Go as soon as you can! I'm going to see my first one on the 8th
@@benjarsenault i live in Central Europe
Neither do i
Fantastic achievement! that combines two of my passions, astronomy and aviation
Absolutely!
This is awesome. Got to see the eclipse yesterday and it was amazing.
Concorde was the most phenomenal airliner that ever took to the skies! And this eclipse with the scientists and crew on board would have been a once-in-a-lifetime experience! I only wish I could have been on board too! Unforgettable! THANK YOU so much for posting this memorable event!
Concorde is definitely an engineering marvel. Dominating the airspace for many decades with an absolutely stunning safety record. Imagine what we can accomplish with today's technology and instruments, if we had a high altitude high-speed aircraft available for civilians.
Wow what a truly amazing story. One I had never heard of before, Thank you for sharing this with us.
And thank you for watching. So glad you enjoyed it!
Drove from Chicago to Indianapolis this past weekend to experience totality, took my 6yo son with me, it was absolutely beautiful. I hope he remembers it forever.
Scientiats: We're running late... Andre: ブースト
MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE
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This is by far the best thing I've seen during all this 2024 eclipse madness. And it's about something that happened 50 years ago!
Absolutely awe inspiring! Concorde was the pinnacle of manned aerospace technology and a truly beautiful machine.
Imagine still believing that the earth is flat
They want to free tickets to moon 🌙
They want to free tickets to moon 🌙
I still believe its flat
@@nanakojoSee above comment.
Allshu akbar
Is there no footage of this😒
It was 1970s bro. No camcorders in every pocket 😢
I live in Barbados where one of the Concords is kept for display. What a great use of a fantastic machine. Great vid.❤
One of the most common interview questions I’ve been asked on my trail to being a physician scientist is what moment in history would you want to experience and see. I use to say Trinity with Oppenheimer… I think my answer has officially changed. Thank you for such an amazing video!
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Pretty early
Same
This is a spectacular video. I was curious about this very thing experiencing the eclipse of April 8, 2021 in the United States. Great Job!!!👍👍👍👍
Concorde was way ahead of time and so was this team of scientists
This is the first time I found your channel, it’s really interesting and high quality
This is truly the most beautiful thing any human could experience.
I just watched a total eclipse for the first time. Two minutes and 47 seconds of totality was amazing, but seeing it for that long would be so cool. Amazing how they did the math to figure out exactly when to take off, or when to speed up/down to be in the perfect spot to follow the eclipse. The pilot being only 1 second late is some serious skill!
This is such just a beautiful and interesting topic. Eclipses feel so magical and unifying, especially after seeing all the reactions of people today, so i can't imagine how cool an hour of it would be. Thanks for the video too. It was informative and so well edited.
It's just amazing that an airliner helped us to understand more about solar eclipses.
I found this video in preparation for our own eclipse experience yesterday. Having a little less than three minutes of totality, I can only imagine the sheer awe and majesty of 74 minutes. Plus on a Concorde, how can anything top that?!
that was a badass task from the team !! Amazing achievement
This is probably the one of coolest scientific and human endeavour stories out there, surprised this is the first time I’ve heard it!
That must have been beautiful! And I cannot believe the pilot managed to arrive one second off schedule! That is incredible precision!
That was a heck of an accomplishment and certainly highly educational. I did not know how fast an eclipse moves.
What an absolute feat of engineering! I knew about the Concorde flight chasing the turn of the millennium, but this one was new to me! Thank you so much!
Thank you for this video!!!!!! I was wondering this exact thing!!!!
Amazing observation setup!
the last experience of mine watching the solar eclipse was so amazing that i didnt even thought about anything else except the eclipse and right now i cant even imagine what these people felt , the joy , the pressure, the amazing cosmos.
Great video with amazing graphical demonstrations! What a truly fascinating experiment on such a cool plane, the Concorde really is an amazing aircraft.
Amazing! I had never even heard about this before.
flowers to the pilot for pulling such a precise job excellently.
Wow, that's stunning. I'm really excited about the total eclipse in a few hours!
The way you blend visuals and sound in your videos is truly mesmerizing.
Thank you. I'm so glad you enjoy them.
Very interesting it help us a lot to know and understand how our Sun works specially the heat wave and corona.. Amazing
I find this especially fascinating and myself further connected to this as it’s a civilian aircraft! I’ve always been most passionate about passenger jets because they’re the ones I’m most likely to be able to experience and enjoy first-hand. To think a Concorde was chosen for such a task is incredible, mind-blowing, and inspiring.