Concorde Crash Conspiracy: could have been prevented

In studying the Concorde crash, investigators determined that it was caused by debris on the runway, which had fallen from a Continental Airlines plane, which fell down the same runway before the Concorde. Some thought the accident was an international terrorist attack. If the fallen debris had been known, it could have been picked up before the Concorde took off.

In fact, debris on the runways is common, I’ve seen things on the runways myself during takeoff rolls, it’s usually somewhat minor and in a plane you don’t go very fast, so a bit of direction for someone on the run. ball and problem. it’s solved. However, the Concorde takes off at 180 knots or at least that day it tried. It hit the debris, blew out a tire and that tire shredded and sent pieces to the underside of the wing and into the fuel tank along with some of the debris. The burning plane took off and then immediately crashed.

A young man of only twelve years old has created a little contraption that will prevent this from happening again. It is a small video camera in real time, which travels the runway on a runway and records the aircraft as it lands or takes off. It can also be sent alone to inspect the runway from afar, such as a room in the control tower or the ground control workstation. The British Airport Authority (BAA) is interested in possibly developing this concept. Interesting since it occurred to a 12-year-old boy. By the way, today NASA announced a spherical device to fly around the International Space Station ISS to check for damage from space debris. If this had been available, he could have inspected the space shuttle before its return and avoided the accident through a video preflight.

It is said that the youngster’s device can even detect a nut on the track, which could be picked up by a tire or sucked in by a jet engine. This is an amazing idea and I hope the US Armed Forces will put them on the catapults so that when I return they will videotape the rig. The young man developed the concept in the “Young Engineers for Great Britain” competition. This shows why it is important to get ideas from everywhere and how contests stimulate innovation. In the United States we have constant robotics contests and we all know Robot Wars. The young man wants to count on becoming a mechanical engineer if he ever grows up and I think he will do very well.