ChristiaanJ
September 19, 2010, 23:25:00 GMT
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Originally Posted by Shaft109

1/ What were the wind limits on Concorde?

You are presumably talking about landing and take-off.
Head winds... I doubt there was much of a limit, they would have made for both a shorter landing and a shorter take-off.
Tail winds... more of an issue... at max take-off weight in particular they would increase your take-off roll.
Cross winds.... not funny... and there are very definite cross wind limits in the manual.. I can look them up, but the pilots here can probably tell you far more about them than I can.

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2/ What was the minimum runway length they could use?

Nice one.... With nearly half of the take-off weight being fuel and payload, the allowed runway length varied hugely , and it was carefully calculated for every flight.
Sorry, I have no figures.
But with only a few passengers and little fuel, Concorde did some pretty spectacular take-offs from some pretty short runways.
St Maarten in the Dutch Antilles comes to mind.

CJ

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