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Concorde and safety: design, testing and certification

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

R. Chevalier*
Affiliation:
Aerospatiale

Extract

For the engineer, the “Concorde challenge” could be defined as follows:

A passenger carrying aircraft twice as fast as the existing aircraft and at least as safe.

When the jets came out 20 years ago, there was a sudden increase of the speeds used up to then, but their envelope stopped at the limit where the difficulties associated with very high speeds start

Type
Supplementary Paper
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1974 

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