Concorde Handout...

[petermcleland]

At one stage, the passengers flying in Concorde were given a rather nice little A4 sized leather folder with some nice info in it...I never flew on Concorde but I do have one of these folders and I thought that one of the pieces of paper in it would be of interest here:-



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[RobDob]

Interesting graph that, wish my RV8 had similar performance!

[Garry Russell]

EVen the graph has a droop snoot

Thanks for that Peter....interesting

Garry

[Trev Clark]

Oh nice! I cannot think many of my fellow Easy Jet flyers would appreciate somthing like that for the A320! They prefer a cheap copy of Hello! :roll: :roll:

[cstorey]

Peter : fascinating . I have been trying to work out why the distance against time segments vary so enormously ?- eg compare 1.08 to 1.18 with 1.18 to 1.32, and there are several other examples - it would require extraordinarily aberrant winds to account for this. One would have thought that above the tropopause the TAS would not vary much if at all with height ( although I did not get my computer out to check this)

By the way, Trev : easy don't have 320s but they do have 319s!

Chris

[petermcleland]

Yes Chris...The times are obviously wrong for the 1165 kts legs...assuming no wind then each 250 nms sector should take 12.8 minutes (call it 13 mins) so the times starting with the 1:08 out should be
1:08
1:21
1:34
1:47
2:00
2:13
2:26

Don't know why that wasn't spotted before

[rpjkw11]

A few years ago I had the pleasure of flying the Concorde here in the states. She was making 'familiarization' flights from Houston out into the Gulf of Mexico, where she could go supersonic, then back to Houston. Total flight time was one hour. It was the best $500 I ever spent on an 'amusement' ride. I sure wish they'd included those handouts.

Bob

[PeteP]

easy don't have 320s but they do have 319s!

I think since March this year, Chris, they operate both A320s and A321s in addition to the A319s following their acquisistion of GB Airways.
Pete

[Garry Russell]

Yep

EasyJet have A.320's and are ordering more by changing some of their 319 options to 320

I think this is a recent thing :think:

http://www.planepictures.net/netshow.php?id=748252


Garry

[PeteP]

I think this is a recent thing :think:

Yes, since the acquisition of GB Airways' fleet in March this year. To go with your picture of G-TTOJ in full easyJet colours, here it is in October last year in GB/BA colours:
http://www.airliners.net/photo/British- ... 1312114/L/

and in April this year in interim colours:
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Airbus-A ... 1346207/L/

but this is my favourite - G-TTOC showing exactly where easyJet's A320s came from.
http://www.airplane-pictures.net/image15303.html

Pete