Originally Posted by
Whitehorse 1
And what happens if there is a depressurization at height? Everybody would need a pressure suit !
Concorde's aircon was designed to be able to sustain an acceptable cabin pressure with, I think, two windows blown out. Acceptable as in O2 masks were usable until a safe altitude was eventually reached.
Would have been one hell of a draught blowing through the cabin!
I strongly suspect that anyone building a new high altitude super sonic airliner today would learn an awful lot about what they'd have to do by reading the Concorde thread in Tech Log.