Originally Posted by
msbbarratt
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.
That's interesting to know. Was this ever practically tested? Or was it all done with computer (or slide rule calcs) at the time?
Concorde was a wonderful aircraft which I viewed many times at LHR and CDG but never had the good fortune to ride myself. One of my few regrets in life but if I can go supersonic in another pax jet I would be interested.