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8th Mar 2012, 15:28

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El_Presidente

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Their lawyers claim that Concorde had design flaws that made it vulnerable and that its owners should never have let it take off.

This kind of grips me a bit...I expect most aircraft have some form of design flaw - especially those that 'push the design envelope'... Dreamliner anyone?

As for fuel tank protection for the wing tanks, why on earth this would have been deemed necessary prior to this tragic incident i can not fathom... Even the RAF were happy to take at risk not fitting ESF to the C130 fleet prior to XV179. Of course, that was a tactical transporter where it would make sense to protect the fuel tanks... Concorde was not.

Do we have Kevlar coated tanks or ESF on other passenger airframes? I honestly don't know but I would be very surprised...

Hindsight ... currently on special offer.

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