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Did The Concorde Have Any Speed Brakes?

Aak777 From Qatar, joined Apr 2001, 284 posts, RR: 0
Posted (7 years 8 months 4 weeks 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 4182 times:

I think in modern airliners, speed brakes are important things.
Did the Concorde have them as well?

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Luisca From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 1, posted (7 years 8 months 4 weeks 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 4169 times:

No, but i understand that you could use the thrust reversers in flight, can somebody corroborate this?

FrancoBlanco From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 2, posted (7 years 8 months 4 weeks 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 4072 times:

AFAIK you could engage the inboard (or outboard?) reversers in flight in order to loose speed/increase descent rate but only in idle.

Sebastian

Starlionblue From Hong Kong, joined Feb 2004, 15866 posts, RR: 66
Reply 3, posted (7 years 8 months 4 weeks 1 day 3 hours ago) and read 4040 times:

I'm sure the Concorde experts will jump on soon. But IIRC the wings on Concorde were shaped so that simply lifting the nose was a pretty effective speedbrake.

[Edited 2005-08-24 01:21:43]

"There are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of inquisitive idiots." - from Citadel by John Ringo

Bellerophon From United Kingdom, joined May 2002, 574 posts, RR: 60
Reply 4, posted (7 years 8 months 4 weeks 11 hours ago) and read 3915 times:

Aak777

...speed brakes are important...did the Concorde have them...

No.

Concorde didn't have flaps, slats, speedbrakes or an APU.

She didn't have a "the" either! Big grin

Subject to various limitations, reverse idle thrust, on the inboard engines only, could be used whilst in subsonic flight.

Best regards

Bellerophon

Gmidy From United Kingdom, joined Jun 2005, 48 posts, RR: 0
Reply 5, posted (7 years 8 months 3 weeks 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 3793 times:

The only thing Concorde had in terms of flight surfaces, was the rudder and elevons which are a cross between aileron and the elevator, the ones on Concorde work in the same way as they do on Fighter jets. On landing Concorde opens the muskets over the engines providing reverse thrust but other than that Concorde had no other form of slowing down with exception to brakes.

Lawrence

GDB From United Kingdom, joined May 2001, 12701 posts, RR: 80
Reply 6, posted (7 years 8 months 3 weeks 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 3715 times:

Well we called them 'Buckets' not 'muskets', but yes, them and brakes (Concorde was the first airliner to have carbon brakes).
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