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Re:Boom has orders for 76 of its future supersonic passenger... by hwillis on Sunday October 22, 2017 @10:40PM (#15530301)
The Concorde's design was finished in 1960, when almost all computers still used vacuum tubes. Computational aerodynamics definitely made a huge improvement in design, especially for supersonic flight.
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Re:Boom has orders for 76 of its future supersonic passenger... by Svip on Monday October 23, 2017 @01:39AM (#15530957)
I think most of the computers used were actually humans back then.
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Re:Boom has orders for 76 of its future supersonic passenger... by pjc50 on Monday October 23, 2017 @05:26AM (#15531840)
Concorde had analogue fly-by-wire, including autostabilisation and autothrottle. Information about it is scattered all over this pprune megathread: http://www.pprune.org/tech-log/423988-concorde-question-78.h...
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