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Concorde and safety: design, testing and certification

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

R. Chevalier
R. Chevalier*
Affiliation:
Aerospatiale
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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
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 78 , Issue 762 , June 1974 , pp. 277 - 283
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1974 

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