From: Craig Freeman <craig@craigfreeman.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [lro] Concorde
Reply-To: lro@land-rover.team.net
>You silly boy - the Concorde uses Series IIA master cylinders and
(then experimental) Series III slave cylinders.
Given that the Concordes were all built by Aerospatiale in Toulouse,
France, it's a safer bet that the brake cylinders are from a Citroen Deux
Cheveaux, not a Series Land Rover. The reason the planes are being
withdrawn from service in October is that ridership has dropped
dramatically and Airbus (the company now supporting the Condorde) has said
that maintenance requirements will climb at a dramatically increasing rate
from here on. The Concorde is basically 1960s technology, as anyone who's
been on the flight deck will instantly realize. Preflighting a Concorde
prior to engine start takes two hours..... The plane has finally outlived
its usefullness. Too bad, as British Airways just spent 47 million pounds
upgrading theirs and installing new interiors after the Air France crash.
But it's a testament to the design and Aerospatiale's construction that the
planes served so long with only the one accident, caused by hitting debris
on the runway and not by a failure of the airplane itself.
________________________
C. Marin Faure
(original owner)
1973 Land Rover Series III-88
1991 Range Rover Vogue SE
Seattle, WA
marin.faure@boeing.com
faurecm@earthlink.net
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