Talk:The Concorde ... Airport '79

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[edit] Paris Concorde crash

I fail to see the relevance of mentioning the "coincidental" Paris Corcorde crash. Show me a production plane that's been in a movie that hasn't had a crash in real life. Unless there are specific circumstances about the events in the movie (which I haven't seen) that are similar to the Paris crash, it doesn't belong here. Pimlottc 08:29, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

I disagree. It's a coincidence, and probably most people know about the real disaster than the movie. I vote for keeping it.

Ricardo Monteiro 18:39, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

The aircraft heavily featured in the only Concorde air disaster film I can recall becomes the first and only real-life Concorde crash. There might not have been a great number of Concordes, but still that's a pretty big coincidence. Heightened by the fact that Concordes were so well knowm. Asa01 18:08, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Aerial acrobatics?

I take issue with the following statement:

"In The Concorde: Airport '79, the airplane flips upside down, which, among other aerial acrobatics, would destroy such an aircraft."

Although rare, commercial aircraft have been known to successfully execute all sorts of exotic maneuvers, like barrell rolls, without being destroyed. During the test phase of the Boeing 707, test pilot "Tex" Johnston successfully barrell-rolled the Dash 80 prototype at least twice (a far less advance commercial aircraft design).

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_M._Johnston, and, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash_80, and http://www.airliners.net/discussions/general_aviation/read.main/2122750

With the Concorde's delta wing shape, engine configuration, and sleek aerodynamics, it probably could execute many of the maneuvers shown in the movie without being "destroyed."

The short answer: no. As depicted in this movie, all the maneuvers take place at max speed, including when one ofthe pilots open a window and put their hand outside. The maneuvers appears to be high-g turns at mach 2....this just isn't possible, not for the Concorde, and not for a modern fighter! Bjelleklang - talk 19:16, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

That's well and good -- but please provide a source. (Not for the scene when Patroni sticks his hand out the window, but for the contention that the Concorde could not sustain high speed turns.) Jkp1187 (talk) 20:01, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Multi-engine failure

The following statement is blatantly incorrect:

"If the engines of an airplane (even a subsonic one), are voluntarily shut down (such as Captain Métrand does in the movie in order to avoid the rocket fired by the French air force plane) in such a flight status, there is almost no hope for a recovery, because the aircraft would stall and then enter into a spin, from which a recovery would not be possible. It´s a real miracle that the flight crew is able to reactivate all four engines."

There are many cases of aircraft surviving multi-engine failures and even landing un-powered, the gimli glider being a notable example, additionally an engine restart is not as implausible as suggested. 66.131.254.21 20:56, 24 June 2007 (UTC)