That Concorde is worldwide the only over-sound fast Airliner in the line service. The speed that Concorde of 2.060 k.p.h is comparable with the Delta rate of a projectile from a rifle. While the champagne glass of a passenger is filled, the airplane puts back 16 kms.

 

   
   

Measurements and weights of the series concorde
Wing span:
25,56 m
Overall length:
61,66 m
Total height:
12,19 m
Length of the passenger cabin:
39,32 m
   
Maximum start emphasis:
181.450 kg
Maximum landing emphasis:
111.150 kg
Operating emphasis is empty:
79.265 kg
Typical working load:
11.360 kg
   
Passenger number:
100 Persons
Flight crew:
Pilot, co-pilot,
airplane technician
   

 

 
   


Supersonic flight path

Start that Concorde:
To the start wear off that Concorde its post-torches and she then interrupts again to she let the landing zone behind itself.
Ultrasonic travel flight:
At Mach 1,7, the post-torches are disconnected again and the machine speeds up to Mach 2 at normal jet engine service
Footpath flight:
The loss of weight through fuel consumption achieve that Concorde by a rise of 15.000 m to 18.000 m of height around.
Landing procedure:
Reduced several hundred miles before the homing port that Concorde shear. During the descent to a height below 11.000 m, the rate sinks under Mach1.
   
Trip air speed:
2180 k.p.h in 15 kms of height - Mach 2,04
Range:
6250 km with maximal working load and fuel reserves
Service ceiling:
18.300 m
   

 

 
   

Wings that Concorde
The form of the wings - the slim Delta form - it is the result of a great number from design compromises.
1.
Best slim ones are suitable for the ultrasonic flight field - wings connected narrowly to the trunk, since they make the least air resistance at high rates. The form of the wings also has significantly with it the top speed that Concorde determine - during an increase of the rate over Mach 2,2, the wings would have to be even slimmer in order to balance the raised resistance Tragfläche. That in turn would make greater problems during the flight of the sub-sound flight field.
2.
For the sub-sound flight field, wings fitting narrowly are not completely ideal since they impair the control ability of the airplane essentially. A shaping of the ends and of the wing tips of the wings brought an improvement in the control ability and a corrected impetus shear circumstance at low rates.
 

 

 
   

The "nose" that Concorde
For improvement in viewpoint in the case of start and alighting is the "nose" that Concorde hydraulic by 12,5 degs sloped. During the ultrasonic flight, a lifted and a heat-resistant riot shield is shifted in a streamlined form they before the cockpit panes. Nevertheless heat for itself the outer skin that Concorde by friction in the case of supersonic speed on 127°C on.
Unlike the round fronts of the sub-sound airplanes, the "nose" is peaked at a supersonic aircraft in order to minimize air resistance.
 

 

 
   

Trim of the airplane through transfer the fuel
Red faces in the airplane = main tanks
Blue faces in the airplane = trimming tanks

The fuel system that Concorde passes an important role in the case of the control of the emphasis in order to adapt to the different necessities during the lower sound and ultrasonic flight At acceleration for the supersonic speed, fuel from the front trimming tanks is pumped to the back. During reduction of the rate into the sub-sound flight field, the fuel is pumped in a opposite manner by the rear trimming tanks to the front. Aerodynamic the possible at sub-sound airplanes gold trim is at supersonic aircraft because of the garbage high air resistance not possible.
 

 

 
   

Urge factory
Employing for that Concorde four turbo-engines Rolls-Royce / SNECMA Olympus 593 MK 610 those make each 17.250 kg of shear with post-combustion.

One means the 4 components which make strength together by the word "urge factory": the air intakes, the jet engine, the combustion chamber and the air outflows.

The ultrasonic flight demands some from the jet engines off:
for example
At a rate of Mach 2, the air occurs with a temperature of -60°C, one compacts at a rate of Mach 2 in the air intakes, approximately 130°C has jet engine at entry into that and leaves the high pressure compressor with 550°C. As a result, other materials must be employed as for airplanes for the sub-sound flight field.
and
At ultrasonic speed, the admission rate of air of 2.060 k.p.h except for 560 k.p.h must within the air cylinder orifice, a route of 3,6 m, one slows down.
 

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