Last Thursday, at least seven birds hit another plane that had to return to New York’s JFK Airport, The latest accident sounded like a terrible flight for passengers. The accidents bring to mind the landing of a jet on the Hudson River three years ago. About the recent incidents, birds...
Landing occurs after descent. While inflight, the four major forces acting on the object are; lift, thrust, gravity and drag. Flying is accomplished by generating enough lift to offset gravity to stay in the air. See the picture of the wing describing the four forces. To land, the airspee...
Miracle Landing(1990) (Sarah J.) A made-for-television drama film based on an in-flight accident aboard Aloha Airlines Flight 243 in April 1988. I watched it as a 9-year-old with my mum and wasn’t allowed to tell anyone that she let me watch it. Oh, the thrill of having a secr...
fly, and pay for aircraft rentals, streamlining the experience to be as straightforward as renting a car. The company primarily served the aviation sector by helping operators increase the utilization of their fleets and enabling pilots to fly more frequently. It is based in Chicago, Illinois. ...
put on the thrust reversers, and stop in time. the other reason is if an airplane's coming into land and something goes wrong on the landing, we need a lot of extra margin to allow everything possible to stop that airplane in time. ralphie_008 asks, why don't planes have parachutes?
Chesley knew that he wouldn’t be able to get the plane to land at the nearestairport in New York, so he decided to make an emergency landing. He landedthe plane in the Hudson River, even thought there wasn’t any “thrust” (power tomove forward) in the engines. How did he do th...
We talk about autonomous aircraft with an Xwing executive. In the news, Airbus and Qatar Airways settle their dispute over A350 paint problems, a personal eVTOL, the 2019 report that explains how Boeing lost its way, a close call with a B737 taking off and a B767 landing on the same ...
ANT-40 RTs (Rayt Tsiklon) or SB:first prototype with 545kW (730hp) Wright-Cyclone engines and with 19.0m (62ft 4in) wingspan. It was completed in September 1934, making its first flight on 7 October 1934. It was damaged in a forced landing and rebuilt with 670kW (900hp) Tuman...