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Concorde take off route out of JFK

I was reading the Concorde thread on here recently and I understand that the post take-off noise reduction route was rather interesting. However it has only been described in words and I am having trouble understanding the first few minutes of the flight in terms of route, height and speed. Does anyone have a plan that would explain better?

If you look up Kennedy airport on google earth and orientate your view so that the longest runway is aligned east west that is Rwy 31L and the one that had noise sensitive departures and used by Concorde most of the time.

Basically all aircraft departing that runway towards NYC turn left briskly after take off and continue the left turn until the break off ona heading appropriate to their onward route. in Concordes case heading for the N Atlantic tracks it is onto pretty much a reciprocal heading -basically taking it our over Jamaica bay almost as soon as it passes the end of the runway and therefore not overflying any built up area. Once on the reciprocal heading it would be radar vectored to onward tracks.

Dont have a diagram as such but hope it helps and it was mostly where i saw Concorde depart from most of the time.

FYI this link is a description of this procedure from the flight deck point of view, note how low they start the left turn
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Just search "Concorde take-off New York" on YouTube, sit back and enjoy!

Boasting mode on: Did that (on the F/D) and have the t-shirt. Amazing experience. BA2, G-BOAB, 11/MAR/88. Flight time 3:21 to LHR. F/D landing too.
Boasting mode off.

I remember when I took of in Concorde we roared over Jamaica bay with only 52 onboard what a ride 3hrs 52 mins Newyork to Heathrow sad no more

3hrs 52m?! Did you take the scenic route? ;) I think that may have been your block time.

Try to get a copy of 'The Concorde Story' by Christopher Orlebar ISBN 0 600 33369 8
There's a chapter 'The Flight-Acceleration' and another on Deceleration, The Navigation Chart is printed on the inside front and rear covers too.
Worth having!