http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=FybXMMCAHsE
NB Not in answer to the question 'bout Concorde but a good piece of video of a Vulcan for all that.
And the last show in 1992
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xJZ0fmTUdWo
Watching those brought back another memory.
T'was 1970 IIRC and we were on an exercise which took us to Hickam USAF base in Hawaii. After the 4 V's had landed, the yanks were extracting the michael unmercifully due to their not being very BIG.
Anyway, the aircrew decided that they didn't like this one bit and hatched a plot. They got us to put word out to be on the airfield with as many natives as possible a 8a.m. next morning when they were scheduled to leave.
Went out - loads of 'natives' (i.e. local USAF personnel) there to watch. 4 V's started engines and taxied to the end of the runway (shared, incidentally, with Honolulu International Airport) where they lined up. All 4 spooled up the big Olympus engines, held on the brakes until the word.
Leader got clearance, and, on his sayso, they all gave it 105% and moved off together. They all clung to the deck until well past V2 and, again on the guvnors say so, pulled back in synch.
You've never seen so many American jaws on the floor. Those things went off near vertical.
We were delighted. Turned to the locals (who had been saying "Bombers, they're not bombers" to us all night) and said: "
Those are bombers!"
Looked mighty impressive compared to the lumbering old B52's they were flying which almost had to flap their wings to get off the ground!
Didn't buy a single beer that night in the BX!