Timeline for Could the Concorde reliably land with all engines out?
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| Jul 22, 2016 at 4:24 | vote | accept | Gus | ||
| Jul 21, 2016 at 19:53 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAviation/status/756215446714609664 | ||
| Jul 20, 2016 at 18:24 | comment | added | yankeekilo | @MichaelKjörling heh, right! Glide ratio can go figure if you start from LEO. I was only thinking about flight mechanics. Not that the shuttle had a stellar overall landing history... | |
| Jul 20, 2016 at 15:49 | answer | added | Romeo_4808N | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jul 20, 2016 at 13:01 | comment | added | rbp | If your Concorde has 4 engine failure, I promise you that ATC will move the traffic out of your way | |
| Jul 20, 2016 at 12:06 | comment | added | user | @yankeekilo The Space Shuttle had some very serious constraints during landing, though, not all of them related to the fact that it was, well, a spacecraft rather than an airplane. For example, I'm pretty sure they made very certain that there was no other competing traffic anywhere near its intended flight (glide) path toward the runway, and they initiated the landing literally half a world away. | |
| Jul 20, 2016 at 11:27 | comment | added | yankeekilo | Consider the Space Shuttle, whose only mode of landing was w/o engines. If such a brick could reliably land, the Concorde ought to have been able, too. | |
| Jul 20, 2016 at 7:38 | comment | added | Antzi | With a glide ratio of 4 to 12 depending on the flight regime, the outcome really come down to "Is there a suitable runaway close enough to land on" | |
| Jul 20, 2016 at 6:12 | comment | added | voretaq7 | I think what you're really asking is "Is it possible for a delta-wing aircraft to make a safe engine-out landing?" -- if so, the answer is yes - it's just a very poor glider that needs to maintain a rather high airspeed... | |
| Jul 20, 2016 at 5:01 | history | edited | Gus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 20, 2016 at 4:44 | history | asked | Gus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |