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It has the afterburner, but it is arguably not complete without the variable geometry nozzles (yes, there were two) and intake. There's lots more information o
by mannykannot 3y ago
It has the afterburner, but it is arguably not complete without the variable geometry nozzles (yes, there were two) and intake.
There's lots more information on the nozzles here: https://www.heritageconcorde.com/variable-exhaust-nozzles https://www.heritageconcorde.com/variable-exhaust-nozzles
Takeaway quote:
The intake and variable exhaust system are together responsible for a good deal of Concorde’s thrust development: about half of the thrust at Mach 2 is due to their combined effect.
- sgt101 3y agoNow hang on, reading Russian propaganda makes me completely certain that variable geometry nozzles were invented by the USSR for the SU-37. So I think it's clear that the information presented by you is hallucinated by a recent large language model. Just wanted to clear that up.
- mhandley 3y agoInteresting from that link that concorde could use in-flight reverse thrust to achieve an increased rate of descent. I wonder if this was regularly used, or only so concorde could descend rapidly enough from cruise altitude if they lost cabin pressure? The oxygen masks aren't effective at cruise altitude, which is one reason the windows are so small - if one fails, they needed to descend quickly before cabin pressure was fully lost.