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Giant Parachute For Planes
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We have huge parachutes for space shuttle rockets and for returning astronauts.
Would it not be a viable idea to have huge chutes on planes for when engines malfunction etc?
Would it not be a viable idea to have huge chutes on planes for when engines malfunction etc?
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On the Concorde thing...
The Concorde was accelerating on its take-off run. One of the tyres hit a piece of debris on the runway that had dropped off an earlier aircraft.
The tyre disintegrated, and a large piece of reinforced rubber flew upwards into a fuel tank.
That released fuel, which ignited while the engines were on full power.
That caused more fires in the engines and elsewhere.
Because Concorde was designed for supersonic cruise, it is not especially aerodynamically efficient at low speeds and low altitudes. The take off relies more on very powerful engines than sub-sonic airliners, which rely on aerodynamic lift and much less powerful engines.
With two of the engines out, it could not gain sufficient height to get into supersonic cruise and, despite heroic efforts by the pilot, it crashed.
Since then, the tyres on most aircraft have been converted to aramid-reinforce radials (Michelin's trade name is NZG - Near zero growth), and fuel tnks are reinforced and have been re-located to less vulnerable areas of the airframe.
I reported heavily on that terrible accident back when it happened and those details are ingrained on my mind.
The Concorde was accelerating on its take-off run. One of the tyres hit a piece of debris on the runway that had dropped off an earlier aircraft.
The tyre disintegrated, and a large piece of reinforced rubber flew upwards into a fuel tank.
That released fuel, which ignited while the engines were on full power.
That caused more fires in the engines and elsewhere.
Because Concorde was designed for supersonic cruise, it is not especially aerodynamically efficient at low speeds and low altitudes. The take off relies more on very powerful engines than sub-sonic airliners, which rely on aerodynamic lift and much less powerful engines.
With two of the engines out, it could not gain sufficient height to get into supersonic cruise and, despite heroic efforts by the pilot, it crashed.
Since then, the tyres on most aircraft have been converted to aramid-reinforce radials (Michelin's trade name is NZG - Near zero growth), and fuel tnks are reinforced and have been re-located to less vulnerable areas of the airframe.
I reported heavily on that terrible accident back when it happened and those details are ingrained on my mind.
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