How Fast Could Concorde Theoretically Go? #shorts

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[johnmorris]

Strangely it’s top speed was limited by….. the nose cone temperature. The original prototype had no weather radar and so had a metal nose, this meant that no such limit existed, however in order to comply with ICAO regulations a weather radar had to be fitted and to avoid interference a fibreglass/composite nose cone had to be fitted, this gave the aircraft a limiting temperature of 125 degrees C.

[MegaSuperEnrique]

For comparison, normal cruising speed for other aircraft should be about 600-650 mph, less than half the speed of the Concorde.

[deaks]

There's the famous story of how an RAF Tornado pilot took a picture of Concorde at supersonic speed. Despite being at full tilt; after-burners running and wings fully swept, the airliner had to deliberately slow down to let the aircraft catch up and then when Concorde relit it's own wick, it apparently left the Tornado for absolute dead, which was burning it's fuel at an insane rate and could only stay with Concorde for a few minutes.
In theory the Tornado could do Mach 2 and in reality did around Mach 1.6 but still couldn't hold a candle to Concorde at full chat.
To me, the more interesting, and probably unanswerable, question is not what was the paper top speed, but how fast did it accelerate and what today could actually live with Concord in a race...? Basically the airborne equivalent of a 1/4mile drag race.

[mccpcorn]

The air and space museum in Paris has two Concordes, including the prototype. The prototype was turned into an "eclipse chaser", where it flew high and fast to maintain a total solar eclipse for longer than on the ground. It holds the eclipse record, having observed totality for 70 minutes.

[cybereaper]

the concorde was a glimpse of the dream

[transientaardvark]

Instances of available technology going backwards: digital radios and tellys take many seconds to "warm up", like valve ones 50 years ago, but also to change channel, which always used to be instant. Oh the heady decades of transistors when everything was instant. And where have MDI text editors gone ? Every new IDE seems proud it can only show one window at once after multiple-windows was invented in the 70s.

[Assessed]

it can also take you from new york to the after life in 3.15 secs

[tacet]

Not so much that technology has gone backwards just went in a different direction. Concord would do about 17 litres to 100km per passenger, modern jet liners do about 2L/100km per passenger.

[PlutoProtogen]

they really should bring this kinda tech back for airliners

[alexdavies]

Fun fact the record holding Concorde the one that flew from new York to London is in display at the USA intrepid air museum in nyc

[mancroft]

It is worth going in Concorde if you ever go to Duxford.

[creeper]

The Concord (and partly Tu 144) story means the humanity is going down

[HarmanatorNYC]

It was a very comfortable short haul seat. 3 hours in that seat lole 3 hours in a conforabl car seat.
Much better than 8 hours in a big lounger.

[Rydonittelo]

A ford focus travelling at 99% the speed of light is " theoretically possible " 😁

[coconutcore]

Cool. I have no clue what those speeds mean.

[clivedonnithorne]

I think that if I were to find myself in the Pilot's seat, I would be inclined to give that beautiful plane a good run ! There's a Concord at Brooklands . Walking underneath her, she gives nothing away as to her intricacies . Her Rolls Royce engines look sizable .

[outermarker]

Yes, it's really poor wording to say we've gone 'back' to sub mach commercial speeds rather than faster than sound transport becoming commonplace as technology advanced.
We all know why that is, economics etc. But...
Maybe just maybe we'll get back to high alt/speed, this time for everyone not just the wealthy.
Given current trends, looks like that'll be when Starships also traverse the galaxy 😂

[Irish]

Air speed is measured in knots instead of miles

[cajuboy]

After glaring errors in some of the other videos I no longer believe this guy actually knows what he’s talking about. He merely seems to be reading off a script.

[geraldstiling]

Concorde🇬🇧 still flies today...🛫.Just not for fare paying members of the general public🤫