NickP Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 Reading this morning about the raising of the Concordia, I suddenly thought Concordia, Concordski and Concorde, all crashed what an awful and amazing coincidence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre ZFP Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 I was talking about Concordski with an East European colleague just last week. He had never heard the term 'Concordski ' but claimed that it flew before Concorde and the Concorde designers stole ideas from the Tupelov-144. I poo-pooed this idea but it seems he was correct and Concordski flew before Concorde. They look very similar but maybe there's only one shape for a supersonic airliner. So although there were 16 Concordski built, they took a big setback after the Paris airshow crash and never made many commercial flights.Just a thought but the only 2 supersonic airliners ever to crash have both been at Paris [8-)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Ceour de Lion II Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 When they build the next supersonic airliner, there must be no flights to Paris then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frecossais Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 And they shouldn't call it Concord... anything - or Titanic.[;-)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre ZFP Posted September 18, 2013 Share Posted September 18, 2013 Isn't there another Titanic being built right now? Ah yes, found it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic_II Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judith Posted September 18, 2013 Share Posted September 18, 2013 Mmmm, not my idea of fun. I don't think I'll be a passenger on that ship, especially on the New York run! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabbie Posted September 18, 2013 Share Posted September 18, 2013 [quote user="Pierre ZFP"]I was talking about Concordski with an East European colleague just last week. He had never heard the term 'Concordski ' but claimed that it flew before Concorde and the Concorde designers stole ideas from the Tupelov-144. I poo-pooed this idea but it seems he was correct and Concordski flew before Concorde. They look very similar but maybe there's only one shape for a supersonic airliner. So although there were 16 Concordski built, they took a big setback after the Paris airshow crash and never made many commercial flights.Just a thought but the only 2 supersonic airliners ever to crash have both been at Paris [8-)][/quote]Since the two aircraft were developed over roughly the same time I think it very unlikely that Concorde copied the TU-144. In fact it was the TU-144 that had the little forward stub wings that seemed like an attempt to correct design flaws. IIRC it was one of these stubs breaking that lead to the crash at the Paris airshow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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