New Concorde - Dance On Air

Ladies and Gentlemen,

How could the weight of New Concorde be reduced? I think there are basically 4 ways to reduce its weight:

1) An airframe made fully out of carbon fibre plastic...

a) You don't have to be concerned over heating-up of the airframe at the very high speeds New Concorde reaches because the airplane is flying at an altitude of 18,000 meters at outer temperatures of - 57 grades Celsius...

b) If the airframe is still heating up too much then the warmth could be led away by a dynamic solution...

2) Larger wings...

a) If the fuselage is 10 meters longer then the wings could be approx. 5 meters longer, too and perhaps a little wider as well... The increased wing-area would result in an increased uplift...

b) Even holes could be designed into the wings... When an airplane is moving forward and flying the wings cover a long stripe actually - as if the wings were a band conveyor... That means you can leave away the unnecessary sheets of metal or plastic from the delta-wing... Of course, the holes created that way need a noise-reduction on their own...

3) Auxiliary Power Unit...

a) The braking parachutes in the very rear of New Concorde could be canceled... As back-up braking systems there could be more spoilers on New Concorde - for example on the vertical stabiliser, similarly to the space shuttle...

b) By steering the exhaust jet of the Auxiliary Power Unit, the flight of New Concorde could be optimised (faster flight) and the fuel-consumption could be reduced...

4) Ballooning...

a) A 10 meter longer fuselage means much more warm air in the aircraft that could contribute to the ballooning-effect in the very cold air at cruising altitudes...

b) If you don't like plastic panels that are filled by helium gas for any reason as a heat isolation then the plastic panels in the side walls of the fuselage could be filled by air as well... The cabin air could cool out in the heat isolation of the side walls and it could absorb oxygen from the outer air - and then it could be reused perhaps... Air as a heat isolation would be much lighter than rock-wool...

Best wishes, Joseph de la Mikula and Team