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Concorde An Inside Story

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Concorde An Inside Story

Who am I and where do I fit in?

The story starts in 1642………..

1642

Born Christmas Day

Sir Isaac Newton

Newton Joined The King’s School, Grantham

5th Sept 1655

Gravity making

things fall led to

Newton’s

Principia

Mathematica

First hot air balloon flight

c 200 AD

The Kongming Lantern

The Montgolfier Brothers

Joseph and Jacques

November 1782

First hot air balloon flight

carrying passengers

A Duck, a Sheep and a Cockerel !!

19th September 1783

15th Oct 1783

First Manned

Flight in a hot

air balloon

Oct 1890

First flight in powered machine

by Clement Ader

Oct 1947

First

Supersonic

flight

Chuck Yeager

X-1

May 1952

First commercial jet service

5th Sept 1955

Exactly 300 years after Sir Isaac Newton

I started at The Kings School, Grantham

and my brush with science began

including differential calculus

and the attraction of bodies!

1962

First issue of the Design Specification

for the Anglo- French SST

1962

Leeds University

John Glen -

Just about to

leave earth

for the first

time

1962

1965

My first job in Luton

- BBC OB links

Nov 1972

Joined BAC, Stevenage and began

37 years in the Aerospace industry

primarily in Radar with specialisation

in antennas and radomes

The Design Phase

Concord

Concord e

Concord e

Concord e

Concorde

2” (50.8)

English Design

2” (50.8) 50mm (1.97”)

English Design French Design

AU2GN

XB70 - too big and heavy

TU144 - Concordeski - Wrong material

Tall people should always have chosen to fly

by Concorde.

Why?

Seat spacing when flying at Mach 2

increases to 37.2”

Tornado Subsonic Configuration

Tornado Supersonic Configuration

Concorde’s Compromise Wing

Fuel Storage - 30,000 Gallons in the Wings

Olympus 593

Afterburners light up the night sky

The Droop Snoop

High Altitude Temperatures

-50

0

50

100

150

200

250

0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3

Speed (Mach No)

Tem

pera

ture

(C

)

Skin

Nose

AU2GN

CIBA Resin System MY750

• High Temperature Transmission Capability

• Excellent in Compression

• Poor in Tension

Pilkington Woven E-Glass

• High Temperature Transmission Capability

• Excellent in Tension

• Poor in Compression

The Resin Transfer Moulding Process

Male Mould Female Mould

The Resin Transfer Moulding Process

Fitting The Stockings

The Resin Transfer Moulding Process

Fitting The Stockings

The Resin Transfer Moulding Process

Fitting The Stockings

The Resin Transfer Moulding Process

Fitting The Stockings

The Resin Transfer Moulding Process

Fitting The Stockings

The Resin Transfer Moulding Process

Fitting The Stockings

The Resin Transfer Moulding Process

Mating The Moulds

The Resin Transfer Moulding Process

The Moulds are Inverted

The Resin Transfer Moulding Process

Resin is Pumped in through the Bottom

The Resin Transfer Moulding Process

Resin is Pumped in through the Bottom

The Resin Transfer Moulding Process

Resin is Pumped in through the Bottom

The Resin Transfer Moulding Process

Resin is Pumped in through the nose

Mould Tool

and

Moulding

Special

Curing Oven

Test Tower

Radar and Radome Test System

Installation

at

Filton

The beginning of the end

Tragedy strikes in 2000 – a loss of 113 lives

The Last Farewell 24th October 2003

The Last Journey from JFK to New York’s Museum

The Nose Radome at Christie’s Auction in Paris

Auction Reserve

€ 11,000

All money raised

went to a French

children’s charity

The Nose Radome at Christie’s Auction in Paris

Auction Reserve

€ 11,000

Actual Sale Price

€480,099 !!

All money raised

went to a French

children’s charity

Into Eternity

French Super Etendard Sold to Argentina

Anglo- French Jaguar

Indian Jaguar and Sea Eagle Missile

Type 42 Destroyer

Feet Air Arm Jetstream

Sea Harrier (Mk1)

Sea Harrier (Mk2)

Skyflash Missile leaves a Tornado ADV

Nimrod - a variant of the Comet

Eurofigther

The new radome technologies researched

towards the end of my career in 2009 will be

in service in the year 2020 and

Newtonian Mathematics is still being used !

Who’s going to look in at 60,000ft?

…… and finally…..

Why do they fit frosted glass in

aircraft loo windows?

Into Eternity

‘Concorde’

Good-Bye

The end of a story

I am proud to have been

part of the team

Compiled by

Colin McCartney BSc CEng