Concorde at Boeing Field for the Washington State Centennial July 29 1989

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09:20 home video take off
12:13 great rear view takeoff broll
13:15 home video landing
20:40 kiro7 footage of the take off
23:48 home video of blue angels

Audio goes slightly out sync near the end but otherwise enjoy some amazing home video of the Concorde at Boeing field in 1989 followed by some news coverage of the event. The last segment (Wings over Washington with Steve Pool) gets cut off on the original tape so apologies for not having the full segment.

CONCORDE STRUTS ITS MACH 2 STUFF IN SEATTLE
July 29, 1989 | Seattle Times, The (WA)
Author/Byline: WILLIAM GOUGH

A rare bird with a white metal skin and a needle-like nose has found a nest at Boeing Field for the weekend.

As thousands watched, a Concorde jetliner flew low over the airport last night, swung over Puget Sound and then landed from the south as gently as a feather.

The Concorde was chartered by the Museum of Flight and carried 70 people who paid $6,695 each for an eventful, expenses-paid week in Britain and the thrill of riding the world's only supersonic passenger aircraft. The plane, one of several operated by British Airways, will be a main attraction at the Emerald City Flight Festival at Boeing Field today and tomorrow, except when it takes two-hour flights over the Pacific each day for other paying passengers.

The jet had taken off from London early yesterday, flying at twice the speed of sound at about 12 miles high over the Atlantic. It was refueled in New York, then flew for about five hours at subsonic speeds to the landing here at 7 p.m.

One of the first people to step off the Concorde was Jean Gardner, wife of Gov. Booth Gardner. ``It was thrilling. It was very, very exciting to go so fast and be in such an unusual airplane,'' she said of the flight. ``It's really a small plane inside.''

The slim, 204-foot-long Concorde, which looks like a gull with a broken beak when the hinged nose droops for better pilot visibility during landings and takeoffs, seats 100 passengers. The seats are in pairs, four across with a single aisle.

But it's luxury class all the way.

To celebrate his 50th wedding anniversary, Robert McEachern, a retired general contractor from Seattle, took his wife, Margaret, and 12 other family members for two weeks in Britain and returned on the Concorde.

McEachern, 77, beamed as he spoke about the flight: ``It was beautiful. It was easy traveling the whole way.''

In addition to the four-man flight crew and flight attendants, the Concorde carried something of much value to another passenger, Seattle restaurateur Mick McHugh.

``Some of Britain's best beer is in the belly'' McHugh said, pointing to the Concorde's fuselage, where there were two kegs of beer he was bringing back for a promotion at two restaurants.

This is the second time a British Airways Concorde has come to Seattle. In November 1984, one flew in with passengers and a load of wine.

Long lines of cars were parked along the east and south sides of Boeing Field yesterday to see the Concorde come in, in its distinctive tail-down approach. Traffic slowed along Interstate 5 as other motorists caught glimpses of the plane.

``We had a great trip,'' said Allen Dickason of Seattle, an employee of a Lynnwood aerospace firm, said of flying in the Concorde.

``It's probably a little rougher than Boeing planes, but it goes fast.''

The Concorde is powered by four Rolls Royce engines and flies at Mach 2, twice the speed of sound or about 1,320 mph, when it reaches an altitude of about 60,000, said Capt. John Hutchinson. He was one of two Concorde captains aboard the plane, which was under the command of Harry Lindfield.

The sleek jetliner is permitted to fly at or beyond the speed of sound only over open water, so that the string of sonic booms it leaves behind bothers as few people as possible.