Abstract The Concorde represented a highlight of the British-French aviation collaboration. This Mach 2+ aircraft required numerous compromises to produce a commercial aircraft with the ability to service intercontinental routes. The delta wing design provides optimal lift and drag during the high-speed cruise portion of flight. Its low-speed lift characteristics meant that higher takeoff and landing speeds would be required vs. subsonic commercial aircraft. This chapter details the takeoff accident at Paris’s Charles De Gaulle airport that resulted in the loss of a Concorde. The ultimate root cause can be traced to the landing gear impacting a small piece of runway debris, generating a breach in one of the fuel tanks and fire that affected engines and the wing.
Landing Gear Accident
2019-07-24
11 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
Concorde SST , Air France , Landing gear , Landing gear tires , Delta wing , Fuel tanks , Continental DC-10 , Air France flight 4590 , Engine fire detection Engineering , Aerospace Technology and Astronautics , Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation , Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering
Emerald Group Publishing | 1986