Additionally, flying too high can lead to a high-speed buffet when the aircraft moves through the air so quickly that shockwaves form around the wings, leading to turbulent airflows. These shockwaves can disrupt the aircraft's controls, making it difficult for pilots to maneuver and maintain s...
Sudden exposure to the summit of Mount Everest (8848 m) would be akin to loss of pressure in a commercial aircraft at a cruising altitude. Consciousness would be lost within a few minutes, followed rapidly by death. Yet, some people have managed to reach the summit of Mount Everest without...
a twin turboprop aircraft which is being designed specifically for overnight package carriers. A full-scale mock-up of the aircraft's 19.5m-long cargo compartment, sized to accommodate standard LD3 containers, has been completed. A pre-production prototype is due to be completed by December...
Aircraft ground handling, or also referred to as turnaround, is a fundamental part of commercial aircraft operations and describes all operations for preparing an aircraft for flight. From: Progress in Aerospace Sciences, 2017 About this pageSet alert ...
THE high and economical cruising speed already mentioned depends on the aerodynamic "fineness" of the aeroplane (low drag, high airscrew efficiency) and on the horse-power per unit wing area.doi:10.1108/eb029740Alfred Richard WeylAircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology...
flight path, the company says it plans to fly its passenger aircraft at supersonic speeds over the ocean, and will fly at just below the speed of sound when over land. That's still significantly faster than the cruising speed of traditional jetliners, however, which is about 550 to 600 ...
The aircraft has a wingspan of 3.48m, a range of 500 km, and has an unloaded weight of less than 40kg. With a single 17.5 BHP petrol-driven engine and a cruising speed of 70 knots (around 80mph), the journey took around half an hour each way. The aircraft has a top speed of ...
I'm also wondering if a microburst hitting a plane at cruising speed could cause enough of a vertical (negative) g-force to rip off the wings. Microbursts don't rely stress the airframe like that. If a bunch of air the plane is sitting in suddenly accelrates downwards the airf...
Some aircraft fuel systems cease to function in inverted flight, for example, and some airframes are not designed to handle the kinds of stresses imposed by certain aerobatic maneuvers. Never attempt such exercises in actual aviation without certified instruction and without careful adherence to the ...
A high‐performance, three‐cngined, low‐wing, twin‐float seaplane, it carries twelve passengers and a crew of four in normal service, and has a range of 1,300 kilometres (800 miles) at cruising speed of 320 k.p.h. (200 m.p.h.)....