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The Concorde's design was finished in 1960, when almost all computers still used vacuum tubes. Computational aerodynamics definitely made a huge improvement in
by hwillis 9y ago
The Concorde's design was finished in 1960, when almost all computers still used vacuum tubes. Computational aerodynamics definitely made a huge improvement in design, especially for supersonic flight.
- Svip 9y agoI think most of the computers used were actually humans back then.
- pjc50 9y agoConcorde had analogue fly-by-wire, including autostabilisation and autothrottle. Information about it is scattered all over this pprune megathread: http://www.pprune.org/tech-log/423988-concorde-question-78.html http://www.pprune.org/tech-log/423988-concorde-question-78.h...