Originally Posted by
Shaft109
1/ What were the wind limits on Concorde?
You are presumably talking about landing and take-off.
Head winds... I doubt there was much of a limit, they would have made for both a shorter landing and a shorter take-off.
Tail winds... more of an issue... at max take-off weight in particular they would increase your take-off roll.
Cross winds.... not funny... and there are very definite cross wind limits in the manual.. I can look them up, but the pilots here can probably tell you far more about them than I can.
2/ What was the minimum runway length they could use?
Nice one.... With nearly half of the take-off weight being fuel and payload, the allowed runway length varied
hugely, and it was carefully calculated for every flight.
Sorry, I have no figures.
But with only a few passengers and little fuel, Concorde did some pretty spectacular take-offs from some pretty short runways.
St Maarten in the Dutch Antilles comes to mind.
CJ