Concorde
The one and only supersonic passenger airplane that existed up until now was the Concorde. The Concorde belonged to both the British Airway and the Air France and was released on 21st January 1976. The Concorde flew with a speed of 2172 km/h and had a takeoff speed of 402 km/h. It used the most powerful pure jet engines flying commercially (Celebrating). Concorde was 62 m long and still increased between 15 to 25 cm due to heating of the airframe as well as a wing span of about 25 m (Celebrating). Also it was painted with specially developed white paint to accommodate these changes and to reflect the heat off from the supersonic flight. Within the airplane was enough space for 100 passengers and 2.5 tons of cargo (Celebrating). In order to make the plane do all of this certain principle have to be respected. The Concorde uses the principle of Bernoulli. It states that “If the fluid’s speed is high, the pressure is low. If the fluid’s speed is low, the pressure is high”. Normally, when a plane is flying through the air, it has to push the air out of the way and fly through the space left. However, the Concorde flying at the speed of sound, so flying faster than the air cannot push the air out of the way in time. As a result, air pressure hits the wings because it cannot move away fast enough. This creates a cone of compressed air that protrudes out form the nose of the plane. Now if a person would stand close enough to where this would happen then the person could hear a loud boom. These loud noises are called “sonic booms”. They sound are the sound that a plane makes when it brakes the sound barrier, which sound like explosions. Originally they were the cause why the Concorde was not allowed to come to the United States of America (Quantum). This was to ensure the safety of the citizens because each time when a plane with sonic boom would fly over the states windows would either rattle or shatter. Naturally this is a good reason to ban sonic booms as they grew to be a nightmare (Anderson). The wings of the Concorde were a big difficulty as well, as the engineers had to face classic aerodynamic problems. Wings constructed for high speed flying did not perform as well at slow speed, including takeoff and landing. At high speed it is important for the wings to have as less as possible resistance or drag to the air flowing over the plane (Pike). As for takeoff and landing the wings had to produce as much lift as possible, to get the plane up in the air and then safely maneuver back down. The engineers finally reached the conclusion that the Concorde should have delta shaped wings, …show more content…
The Concorde belonged to both the British Airway and the Air France and was released on 21st January 1976. The Concorde flew with a speed of 2172 km/h and had a takeoff speed of 402 km/h. It used the most powerful pure jet engines flying commercially (Celebrating). Concorde was 62 m long and still increased between 15 to 25 cm due to heating of the airframe as well as a wing span of about 25 m (Celebrating). Also it was painted with specially developed white paint to accommodate these changes and to reflect the heat off from the supersonic flight. Within the airplane was enough space for 100 passengers and 2.5 tons of cargo (Celebrating). In order to make the plane do all of this certain principle have to be …show more content…
The Concorde belonged to both the British Airway and the Air France and was released on 21st January 1976. The Concorde flew with a speed of 2172 km/h and had a takeoff speed of 402 km/h. It used the most powerful pure jet engines flying commercially (Celebrating). Concorde was 62 m long and still increased between 15 to 25 cm due to heating of the airframe as well as a wing span of about 25 m (Celebrating). Also it was painted with specially developed white paint to accommodate these changes and to reflect the heat off from the supersonic flight. Within the airplane was enough space for 100 passengers and 2.5 tons of cargo (Celebrating). In order to make the plane do all of this certain principle have to be
The one and only supersonic passenger airplane that existed up until now was the Concorde. The Concorde belonged to both the British Airway and the Air France and was released on 21st January 1976. The Concorde flew with a speed of 2172 km/h and had a takeoff speed of 402 km/h. It used the most powerful pure jet engines flying commercially (Celebrating). Concorde was 62 m long and still increased between 15 to 25 cm due to heating of the airframe as well as a wing span of about 25 m (Celebrating). Also it was painted with specially developed white paint to accommodate these changes and to reflect the heat off from the supersonic flight. Within the airplane was enough space for 100 passengers and 2.5 tons of cargo (Celebrating). In order to make the plane do all of this certain principle have to be respected. The Concorde uses the principle of Bernoulli. It states that “If the fluid’s speed is high, the pressure is low. If the fluid’s speed is low, the pressure is high”. Normally, when a plane is flying through the air, it has to push the air out of the way and fly through the space left. However, the Concorde flying at the speed of sound, so flying faster than the air cannot push the air out of the way in time. As a result, air pressure hits the wings because it cannot move away fast enough. This creates a cone of compressed air that protrudes out form the nose of the plane. Now if a person would stand close enough to where this would happen then the person could hear a loud boom. These loud noises are called “sonic booms”. They sound are the sound that a plane makes when it brakes the sound barrier, which sound like explosions. Originally they were the cause why the Concorde was not allowed to come to the United States of America (Quantum). This was to ensure the safety of the citizens because each time when a plane with sonic boom would fly over the states windows would either rattle or shatter. Naturally this is a good reason to ban sonic booms as they grew to be a nightmare (Anderson). The wings of the Concorde were a big difficulty as well, as the engineers had to face classic aerodynamic problems. Wings constructed for high speed flying did not perform as well at slow speed, including takeoff and landing. At high speed it is important for the wings to have as less as possible resistance or drag to the air flowing over the plane (Pike). As for takeoff and landing the wings had to produce as much lift as possible, to get the plane up in the air and then safely maneuver back down. The engineers finally reached the conclusion that the Concorde should have delta shaped wings, …show more content…
The Concorde belonged to both the British Airway and the Air France and was released on 21st January 1976. The Concorde flew with a speed of 2172 km/h and had a takeoff speed of 402 km/h. It used the most powerful pure jet engines flying commercially (Celebrating). Concorde was 62 m long and still increased between 15 to 25 cm due to heating of the airframe as well as a wing span of about 25 m (Celebrating). Also it was painted with specially developed white paint to accommodate these changes and to reflect the heat off from the supersonic flight. Within the airplane was enough space for 100 passengers and 2.5 tons of cargo (Celebrating). In order to make the plane do all of this certain principle have to be …show more content…
The Concorde belonged to both the British Airway and the Air France and was released on 21st January 1976. The Concorde flew with a speed of 2172 km/h and had a takeoff speed of 402 km/h. It used the most powerful pure jet engines flying commercially (Celebrating). Concorde was 62 m long and still increased between 15 to 25 cm due to heating of the airframe as well as a wing span of about 25 m (Celebrating). Also it was painted with specially developed white paint to accommodate these changes and to reflect the heat off from the supersonic flight. Within the airplane was enough space for 100 passengers and 2.5 tons of cargo (Celebrating). In order to make the plane do all of this certain principle have to be