Concorde Owners' Workshop Manual

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		Concorde Owners' Workshop Manual
		Concorde Owners' Workshop Manual

Written by two of British Airways' most experienced Concorde flight crew, the Concorde Manual is the latest aircraft manual from Haynes, following on from the acclaim received by the Spitfire Manual. Concentrating on the technical and engineering aspects of Concorde, this manual gives rare insights into owning, operating, servicing and flying the supersonic airliner. Although the British and French Concorde fleets were prematurely retired in 2003, interest in this marvel of design and technology remains undiminished and all who admire Concorde will relish the unique information provided in this innovative title.

Between them the co-authors, Dave Leney (pilot) and David Macdonald (flight engineer) have more than 35 years of flying experience on Concorde. For the Haynes Concorde Manual the authors were given special access to the Concorde flight simulator at Brooklands, Surrey, and to the preserved Concorde, G-BOAF, at Filton in Bristol, to recreate and photograph aspects of Concorde engineering and flight deck operations. The pictorial coverage of flight deck procedures is particularly comprehensive, providing an impressive level of detail hitherto unseen in print.

The Anglo-French Concorde supersonic passenger transport is probably the most famous airliner in history. Its glamour was exceeded only by its speed of more than Mach 2 - twice the speed of sound. Concorde was able to cross the Atlantic from London to New York in little more than three hours, cutting the journey time of conventional subsonic airliners by more than half.

In 2003, when the British and French Concorde fleets were prematurely retired from service, so ended a unique era in passenger travel and supersonic passenger aircraft design. Although the futuristic shape of Concorde no longer graces the skies, popular interest in this marvel of aeronautical design is undiminished.

作者简介

Captain David Leney is a former pilot and Flight Manager (Technical) for BA's Concorde Division.Senior Engineer Officer David Macdonald is a former flight engineer and Flight Engineer Superintendent (Concorde).

网友对Concorde Owners' Workshop Manual的评论

I enjoyed the book, some great items on the Concorde's history and development, I was just hoping for some more detailed blueprints and analysis, just me I suppose.

Firstly I must congratulate Haynes and Messrs. Leney and Macdonald in publishing this excellent book on Concorde. As Concorde Captain and Flight Engineer respectively, David Leney and David Macdonald are authorities on this subject.

This 160-page book is organized into seven major sections. "The Concorde Story" gives a short history of Concorde and sets the context for the technical sections to follow. "Anatomy of Concorde" deals with the division of responsibility between the British and the French and the major structural components of the aircraft. "The Power to Move - Rolls-Royce Olympus 593" is on the powerplant - meaning the intake, the engine proper, the nozzle as well as necessary coordination between the airframe and the powerplant. "Flightdeck" describes the major panels in Concorde flightdeck, and that of course includes the flight engineer's panel. The next three sections describe the operation of Concorde from the points of view of the pilots, the flight engineer and the ground support crew.

Having flown Concorde on flight simulators (at various levels of sophistication) for years and been collecting technical papers and books on Concorde (of course, not forgetting the much heralded ITVV Concorde videos by Captain David Rowland et al.), I find the contents predictable. Yet it is refreshing, in that Messrs. Leney and Macdonald put the various bits of information into one coherent whole, not to forget their witty remarks! The various demonstration pictures (for instance, on starting procedures), were probably taken very recently, as the flags are over the gauges (implying that the aircraft is unpowered). However, these should not diminish the quality of the work in that they are amply supplemented by liberal amounts of fine pictures of the aircraft flying and in operation. In addition, not many books describe the maintenance of Concorde in such a fine fashion as this book (barring, of course, the technical papers and the literally real manual).

This book should find its position among all the Concorde fans though it means different things to different people. For the uninitiated, it provides a very good introduction on the historical, technical and operational aspects of the aircraft. For the serious enthusiasts, the book is an anchor of the Concorde collection - just as multiplication table is to mathematics students. For those who had worked on Concorde, the nice memories this book bring should give them a smile day after day!

If you would like to know more about Concorde, I suggest that you look out of various papers written by those involved in the Concorde project and published in various journals - BSEL/Rolls-Royce Technical Papers, Aircraft Engineering, etc. - or as books.

I highly recommend any Concorde fans or those who simply like to find out more about Concorde to get the book!

Like most of the Owners workshop manuals this one about the Concorde does a fantastic job of giving you insight into one of the most amazing commercial aircraft made. It tells you some general history and then of course some diagrams of the aircraft. I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in learning about such an incredible craft and why it isn't around today.

Great background book for fuller umderstanding

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