Flying the First Air France Concorde route from Dakar to Rio | X-Plane 12 (youtube.com)

Love this ac! Walks all over the DC Designs one for MSFS.. Some issues with balancing fuel sometimes though. 

Great video presentation on the Concorde and flying it anywheres. This is a very different beast indeed. Looked at the amount of work one needed to engage in to understand this aeroplane and then get it going - wore me out. Think it is one for the affecionados appreciating the high quality work of Colimata on this one. Enjoyed checking it out though - leave to others to pursue. 

"THIS STREAM IS NOT TO BE USED FOR REAL WORLD FLIGHT TRAINING"

good to know, considering there are no Concordes flying, and haven't for exactly 20 years, and never will.

with better pilot training and CRM, the deadly outcome of Air France 4590 Concorde crash in Paris in 2000 could most likely have been avoided though, according to Mike Bannister, BA's training captain of Concorde, expert witness and lead technical advisor in the 'Air France Concorde Trial.

"cruising at mach 2 at fl 580, when we saw a B747 below us, if looked like they were flying backwards". 🤣

he also says in his book there were rumours back then that the Russian spies were given false construction details so their counterfeit Tu-144 "Concordski" could never fly properly, let alone at mach 2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-144

Edited December 22, 20232 yr by turbomax

5 hours ago, turbomax said:

he also says in his book there were rumours back then that the Russian spies were given false construction details so their counterfeit Tu-144 "Concordski" could never fly properly, let alone at mach 2

I don't buy that. While there were some cases of espionage, as per the Wiki article, most of the documents had no effect on the 144s design because they arrived too late (per the german equivalent of aforementioned article) to influence the 144's design and initial building process. What I think is much more plausible is that the Soviet Ministry of Aviation was a keen reader of western aviation magazines and these usually are chock full of images and information about present and future projects, at least on the civilian side which are not subject to security classification. So some committee saw a design drawing of Concorde, the 2707 or 2000, shoved it over to TSaGi to run the numbers on it, got too enthusiastic over the ensuing "Yep, these could work" and wanted to score another first for soviet scientific and industrial might within a very narrow time frame. The result was a principally workable design with some shoddy manufacturing and too many cut corners to fulfil the schedule.

The entire motive for feeding false information would have implied a race between both designs, but there never was one as proven by a leasurely eight years of development testing for Concorde vs one and a half or so for the Tu-144. Also, purposefully feeding false information to a competitor that would endanger the lives of innocents kind of violates unwritten rules of an industry very much intent of serving the benefit of everybody, no matter what side of a curtain one is on.

Case in point: Buran vs Shuttle Orbiter. Superficially, they were carbon copies, but very different underneath the skin. The good thing about that project was that there was no need to score a first, so the entire scheme just may have worked out as well for them as the shuttle had for NASA.

Edited December 22, 20232 yr by Bjoern