“All the unintended delays like having to load and cater planes in atrocious conditions are yet to come.” 10.33pm A KLM Boeing 747 lands at the airport, more or less in the eye of the storm. The winds are parallel to the runway. They’re too stron...
The honoured guests were treated to something akin to a plane-side limo experience, being brought by air-conditioned trucks to Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport. They were then gently loaded on to one of our Boeing 747 freighters. This type of aircraft is well designed for such purpose,...
A Boeing 747-8 passenger airliner, for instance, has a maximum takeoff weight of 487.5 tons (442 metric tons), the force with which the weighty plane is drawn toward the Earth. Weight's opposing force is lift, which holds an airplane in the air. This feat is accomplished through the ...
Lufthansa Boeing 747-8 Boeing 767 characteristics (wide body) From a distance, it’s not unreasonable to think that a 767 and 777 look alike. I even sometimes make that mistake. It’s especially tricky since there’s the 767-300 and 767-400, and they’re roughly proportional to the 777...
familiar and low-cost. Though a new Boeing 747-8, for example, costs around $350 million, fuel and operations are much less expensive by comparison. Once a passenger flight lands, the plane can be rapidly prepared for its next trip and it can make thousands of flights over its lifetime....
The Enterprise separates from a Boeing 747 to begin one of its flight and landing tests Photo courtesy NASA Near the end of the Apollo space program, NASA officials were looking at the future of the American space program. They were using one-shot, disposable rockets. What they needed...
ARGUING THAT LIFE EVOLVED WITHOUT INTELLIGENT GUIDANCE, say the people who believe in “intelligent design theory,” is akin to arguing that a tornado hitting a junkyard could create a Boeing 747. So, I ask them, why does the 747 have an upstairs cabin? Because Boeing planned it that way,...
Final Thoughts: How to Make the Best Choice Step 3: Secure Funding for Training The Cost of Flight Training and Why It Matters Funding Options for Flight Training 1. Aviation-Specific Student Loans 2. Scholarships and Grants 4. GI Bill and Military Benefits 5. Work-Study and Pay-As-You-Go...
The prize winner built a 1/20th scale Boeing 747 which was able to fly for the comparative length of 1 football pitch, with a glide ratio of 1/15, comparable with a full scale glider. The winner of the scale competition was a high performance model Mirage III CZ, also with a very lo...
because they didn't make it on time. United also like to upgrade people before they board the plane (it makes less obvious to those in cattle that someone has got lucky), so hang around the gate until its clear the airbridge is about to be removed, because again its clear to the cle...