michaelharadon wrote:
In another reference to the Concorde, in the late '70's, a French aeronautical engineer told me a story similar to the one in the earlier post about Concorde tires.
He said that they became aware that the Russians were attempting to steal Concorde plans and so they let the Russians steal plans with a doctored fuel system that would never work, and that that fuel system contributed to at least one crash of the "Concordski".
Does anyone know if this is true or not?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu ... e_ConcordeAs ever, care is needed in interpreting the data. AFAIK, there's no evidence that the Russian engineers found material that (only may) have been given to them of significant use. There's no evidence that any of the many issues with the Tu 144 were cause by 'porting over'
unchecked Concorde papers / materials or ideas.
Much of the resilience of these stories are down to the fact that disinformation
was created, industrial espionage
did happen (as it does between big multi-nationals as well) and for the 'completeness of the tale' people simply make up a 'punchline/payoff' to polish off / round up the story, despite having
no evidence about that part.
Regards,
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