I bet it'll end up like the Conchord. Take a few thousand lives and retire it's service
Edit: oops, wrong info lol
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I bet it'll end up like the Conchord. Take a few thousand lives and retire it's service
Edit: oops, wrong info lol
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Thousand? .Originally Posted by EJKDDORAI
I bet it'll end up like the Conchord. Take a few thousand lives and retire it's service
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How many concords have crashed during its service? Ummm... I don't know.
I was just guessing...
200 each plane, 5 crash = 1000 people write-offs ?
Just guessin'
Edit: oops, I was way wrong lol There was only one concord bin
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It's Concord.
One crashed because another plane left debris on the runway which was flicked up by a tyre and punctured a fuel tank and spread debris about, some going into the engines.
The Concord's safety record is unbelievably good, given the technology it was built with and it's operating envelope. A Concord carries around 120 passengers and crew. It wasn't retired because of safety, it was retired because it was always a loss leader and it was getting long in the tooth. 120 people in 40 years is better than just about any other form of public transport you can think of in terms of deaths vs time.
Boeing aircraft have killed 1000s of people, even excluding the ones that drop bombs.
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Must be a really slow news day if they're dragging this sort of story out again.
An A380 has a maximum fuel capacity of 310,000 litres. Don't know what a litre of Kero weighs but I'm betting it isn't light. Besides, the maximum take off weight of an A380 is 560 tonnes. It's a big bitch.
http://www.airbus.com/en/aircraftfam...fications.html
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It's actually Concorde.
Carried 100 passengers maximum, and is really bloody small inside (I can attest to that)!
They were actually making a nice little profit for BA in the latter years. All the knobs wanted to get over the Atlantic for business, business, getting an award, more business or pleasure.
Bloody DC-10, dropping crap on the runway!
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810 grammes. So, a 251 tonnes of Kerosene. A lot, in other words.
I had no idea it was that much. No wonder they get so obsessive about fuel efficiency.
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Anyone remember HOTOL? Development ditched twenty years ago...
Only a homo puts an engine back together WITHOUT making it go faster.
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Plus check-in 3 hours before take off, with your baggage arriving two days later in Moscow
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Most definately! I still have some of the info from back then.
Unfortunately the HOTOL followed the trend of brilliant inventions developed in England...
Project CANCELLED by the British gubbinment. Just like TSR2...
I guess this new proposal will follow in the same way.
BTW, Does anyone else look at the new proposal and think of the "Swallow" designed by Barnes Wallace?
A lot of similarities between the two, especially with the engines mounted at the end of the wings.
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1,000 liters of water is a metric ton or tonne so the fuel weight of an A380 would be somewhere around 250 tonnes
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The idea seems great to me. Its about time someone got on to making a proper successor to the concorde.
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Exactly. If you're of a geeky, techy frame of mind like me, you tend to notice the tech stories in the press. And then you notice the same bullshit getting recycled every couple of years.
Stories written by gullible new journos, with the ink still drying on their liberal arts degrees, who have barely managed to work out that gravity pulls things downwards, who swallow any old bullshit that a PR company feeds them.
Just before the Segway was released, there were a whole bunch of carefully planted stories in the press about an amazing new transportation device.
Some over-exitable journos swallowed the whole thing hook line and sinker, and started banging on about anti-gravity and teleportation. Was a bit of a disappointment when the sinclair C5 mk 2 was finally released....
Worked on the 380 in my old life. Still have a promo CD-ROM somewhere. Gym and swimming pool in the hold, cocktail lounge on the top deck, shopping mall in the tail (ok I made the last one up).
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