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Old Feb 15, 2006 | 2:54 am
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BahrainLad
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An explosive decompression would have resulted in the loss of Concorde....'explosive' being the operative word. Whether or not your blood boiled would be academic as the aircraft would probably cease to be 'a viable flying machine'.

However, a decompression in the normal sense (cabin leak, window blowout) would in all likelyhood not have been fatal, and there were procedures in place for this....oxy masks on, immediate descent (at points at a rate of 15,000ft/min), rapid pumping of fuel forwards to maintain CofG, that sort of thing.

In fact, the airconditioning system on Concorde was so sophisticated that it could maintain a liveable altitude inside the cabin whilst at 60,000ft with two windows blown out....
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