Originally Posted by
Shaggy Sheep Driver
Didn't the Caravelle use Comet systems (and nose)?
You're right about the nose....
Sud bought a Comet nose for the prototype, and manufactured the others under licence.
I wouldn't know about the systems... they weren't that far behind!
Originally Posted by CancelIFR
How do they change the colour of so much skydrol?
LOL.... blue, green and yellow were just the designations and colour codes for the systems.... as on the hydraulic selection panel top left on this photo of the overhead panels (courtesy of
CONCORDE SST - The Definitive Concorde Aircraft Site on the Internet).
The hydraulic liquid itself wasn't coloured (what for?).
And BTW, Concorde didn't use skydrol, but a special heat-resistant hydraulic fluid, known either as "Oronite" or "M2V".
CJ