Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 48 Issue 9

Maintaining Concorde on the line: A look at British Airways and Air France

Basil Clarke

Now that Concorde has been in service with two of the world's major airlines for well over half a year — and that means a lot of air‐miles for a supersonic aircraft — it is time…

Concorde in service

B.C.

THAT SUPERSONIC RIDE courtesy of British Airways I flew to Bahrain and back in Concorde G‐BOAC. This gave me the opportunity to see the very comprehensive engineering support…

The Simulator for Concorde

THIS simulator programme for the world's first supersonic airliner was jointly undertaken by that well‐known combination of flight simulator manufacturers, the Link‐Miles Division…

Flight Refuelling Limited and Concorde: The fuel system aboard is largely their work

Concorde, as is well known, has a most unusual fuel system with its own unusual conditions. It is normal for fuel transfer between tanks to take place in flight but that it should…

Concorde Brakes by Dunlop are Carbon/Carbon Composite

The outstanding performance, economic advantage and aesthetic appearance of any new vehicle of transport are the main criteria that determine its eventual success. The…

Books

B.C., K.L.

The author is one of the very few who was in an extremely senior position with BAC during the planning, developing, building and testing of Concorde. By 1975 he had become…