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For those that miss the legend
strapping young lad:
ive seen the airport program and they have people in discos driving up and down the runways checking for such debris?
or is this something they did following the concorde crash?
WishIhadaLandy:
The problem was the french engineers (it was an air france concorde) as they didn't put the guard back on the wheel assembly, this guard is designed to stop pieces of debris damaging the tyres. If this guard had been put on:
no punctured tyre, so
no blown fuel tank, so
no fuel leak, so
no fire and explosion, so
no crash, so
no taking concorde out of service :evil:
Good old french people.
WishIhadaLandy:
--- Quote from: "strapping young lad" ---ive seen the airport program and they have people in discos driving up and down the runways checking for such debris?
or is this something they did following the concorde crash?
--- End quote ---
no they've done that for years
DaveS:
They were modified, and put back into service after the crash -but costs were stated as the reason for withdrawing ! Concorde use pure jet with afterburner so are real gas guzzlers!
These days the fuel bill would probably make it uneconomic.
They are looking at bigger jets like the A380 to give a higher return and being turbofan are more efficient.
I agree a sad day when they were withdrawn after spending all that money on the mods. :twisted:
barmiebrumie:
At the last place where I worked we were right at the end of the runway here in Brum, & whenConcord flew its last flight out of Brum we stood on top of our recovery truck as it went over our heads, all I can say is -
WOW
John.
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