Many modern aircraft feature retractable landing gear, which pull up into fuselage during flight, but others still feature fixed landing gear that remain extended all the time. But what if your plane is prevented from making a conventional landing? That's next. Ejection Seats, Escape Pods and...
Many modern aircraft feature retractable landing gear, which pull up into fuselage during flight, but others still feature fixed landing gear that remain extended all the time. But what if your plane is prevented from making a conventional landing? That's next. Ejection Seats, Escape Pods and...
Manyairlinescontinued to treat air travel as a luxury, however. Free meals and drinks, expansive and comfortable seats, personal attention from flight attendants and other amenities kept the price of plane tickets relatively high. Airline deregulation and the changing economics of the airline industry ...
Okay, truth be told there aren’t a lot of these planes flying anymore, so there aren’t many situations where you’ll have to do that. But still… The A340-200/300 has engines that looks disproportionately small (like, are these things gonna propel us through the sky at 500 miles per...
Whether you booked a flight on American Airlines or Alaska, Delta or United, you can use this guide to figure out what type of plane you will be flying in.
Boeing corrected many of the B-47’s problems by improving the wing and engines in its next heavy bomber design, which could have fit the intelligent design theory had it led to a commercial jet or transport. But its conceptual design phase encompassed a weekend marked by an atmosphere of ...
Although it’s not the fastest Wi-Fi available, it is the most consistent, with hundreds of Ku-Band satellites orbiting the earth, meaning that the airplane’s antenna will be more likely to maintain a signal.This bandwidth, when potentially split across many users, is generally not up to ...
A year ago as the pandemic tore around the world, it was anyone’s guess when North American airlines would bounce back. At the beginning of a cataclysmic global crisis, passenger carriers cut routes, retired aircraft and shed staff. Now, optimism has returned, with major airlines reporting...