Marty tugged on the controls and tried for liftoff at 188 knots, 11 knots below normal rotation speed. “Watch the airspeed, the airspeed, the airspeed!” Marcot yelled to Marty as the airplane continued heading left, in the general direction of a taxiing Air France 747 bringing President Jacques Chirac back from a summit in Tokyo. The alarm gong sounded in the cockpit, and engines one and two, of four, lost power. As the crew fought to keep the airplane under control, it began drifting left on Runway 26R with a long sheet of flames trailing from its left wing. Paris time on July 25, 2000, with pilot Christian Marty and copilot Jean Marcot at the controls, Air France Flight 4590 blew a tire on its left main gear on takeoff from Charles de Gaulle airport. Thus the national trauma that gripped France last summer. the expression of political will, founded on a certain idea of national grandeur.” As the Paris newspaper Le Monde once noted, Concorde “was created largely to serve the prestige of France. When the airplane landed 35 minutes later after a subsonic flight, it was clear not only that aviation history had been made on March 2, 1969, but also that France had a proud new symbol. Each panel is secured to its mounting on the sidewall by screws, and contains lighting control switches.As Concorde Prototype 001 swiftly accelerated and rotated off the runway at Toulouse-Blagnac airfield, an odd scene was taking place just outside the perimeter fence: Many in the crowd were not just watching the Concorde’s maiden flight, they were cheering “Allez France! Allez France!” as if they were watching France score a goal in an international soccer game. The circuit breaker panels are located in the aft section of the flight compartment in five areas, one opposite the Flight Engineers station identified as zone 213, one each at the top inboard face of the flight compartment left-hand and right-hand racking, identified as zones 215 and 216 respectively, one on the forward face of the left-hand racking and one on the rear face of the right-hand racking.Ī left-hand and a right-hand side switch panel, zones12-211 and 5-212 respectively, are fitted to the sidewall, outboard of each pilots’ station, above the associated side console. supplies and into normal and essential services. Flexible cables and individual electrical connectors with sufficient length of flexible cable looms are provided for ease of servicing.Ĭircuit breaker panels are in general segregated into A.C. The sub-panels may be removed without removing the associated main panel. Some instruments and controls are mounted on sub-panels that are attached to the main panel by screws. Where possible, panels at the Flight Engineers station are hinged for quick rear access. In general it is possible to remove and install instruments from the front of a panel without removing the associated panel or without removing the EL panel overlay, where fitted. Instrument Lighting is provided by miniature 5V filaments contained within each instrument or control unit.Įach panel is identified by a number followed by the zone identification number, e.g., the right-hand dashboard is panel 2-212, and the left-hand console is 1-211. The general disposition of the panels consists of left-hand, right-hand and centre dashboards, left-hand, right-hand and centre glareshields, left-hand, and right-hand and centre consoles, a roof panel mounted centrally between the two pilots, a left-hand and a right-hand side switch panel mounted above the associated console, and an arrangement of system management panels located on the Flight Engineers station structure behind the co-pilot.Įlectrol luminescent (EL) panels, shaped to accommodate instruments and indicators, are fitted to those panels requiring illuminated engravings. The majority of aircraft instruments and controls are arranged on panels on the flight deck at the Captain’s, Co-pilot’s and Flight Engineers stations. You have to try and imagine the design effort that went into all of these panels. It’s a complicated little flight deck, but you have to remember that Concorde is a very complicated little aircraft. At the bottom right of the main front panel there is an indicator on which the centre of gravity is shown, this together with range permissible at the present Mach number. The standard flight instruments such as the Mach meter would for example show extra information, it has two orange-coloured ‘bugs’ which enclose the range of Mach numbers available at a current centre of gravity. At the time when Concorde was built her flight deck would have looked basically familiar to any pilot, most of the standard flight instruments would have been the same, except that they would display extra pieces of information due to Concorde’s role, and added to that there would have been a few new ones instruments.
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