Friday, January 2, 2009

Concorde




This is the most beautiful aircraft I have ever seen!

Appreciate that the French/UK can create such a pretty bird in the air... !


Note the speed of Concorde is 2,330KM/hr! From UK to NY was just 3.4 hours!
General characteristics
Crew: 3 (pilot, co -pilot and flight engineer)
Capacity: 92-120 passengers (128 in high-density layout). BA and AF Concordes had 100 seats. with AF removing a small number of seats after the safety modifications of CY2000-2001 due to weight considerations.
Length: 202 ft 4 inch (61.66 m)
Wingspan: 84 ft 0 in (25.6 m)
Height: 40 ft 0 in (12.2 m)
Fuselage internal length: 129 ft 0 in (39.32 m)
Fuselage max external width: 9 ft 5 in (2.88 m)
Fuselage max internal width: 8 ft 7 in (2.63 m)
Fuselage max external height: 10 ft 10 in (3.32 m)
Fuselage max internal height: 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m))
Wing area: 3,856 ft² (358.25 m²)
Empty weight: 173,500 lb (78,700 kg)
Useful load: 245,000 lb (111,130 kg)
Powerplant: 4× Rolls-Royce/SNECMA Olympus 593 Mk 610 afterburning turbojets
Dry thrust: 32,000 lbf (140 kN) each
Thrust with afterburner: 38,050 lbf (169 kN) each
Maximum fuel load: 210,940 lb (95,680 kg)
Maximum taxiing weight: 412,000 lb (186,880 kg)
Performance
Maximum speed: Mach 2.2(~1,450 mph, 2,330 km/h)
Cruise speed: Mach 2.02 (~1,320 mph)
Range: 3,900 nmi (4,500 mi, 7,250 km)
Service ceiling 60,000 ft (18,300 m)
Rate of climb : 5,000 ft/min. (25.41 m/s)
lift-to-drag : Low speed- 3.94, Approach- 4.35, 250 kn, 10,000 ft- 9.27, Mach 0.94- 11.47, Mach 2.04- 7.14
Fuel consumption: for max. range (max. fuel/max. range): 46.85 lb/mi (13.2 kg/km)
Thrust/weight: 0.373
Maximum nose tip temperature: 260 °F (127 °C)

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