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Safe-Life & Fail-Safe Design
Aircraft Structural Components Design Philosophy – Safe-Life & Fail-Safe Design An aircraft structural components is the main load carrying member….
Maximum Brake Energy Speed VMBE
An airplane’s wheel brakes are simply friction devices that are usedby the pilotto deceleratean airplane. By pressingon the brake pedals…
Belly Landing – Beechcraft G58 Baron
A Beechcraft G58 Baron aircraft (LV-JWX) did a belly landing at the San Fernando International Airport (SADF), Argentina resulting Runway…
Azul Airlines received damages to Nose Radom
Azul Linhas Aéreas received damages to Nose Radomes of two of its A320 aircraft (PR-YRB and PR-YRO) in flight owing…
Use of speed tapes
Dont stress – it is as good as new paint. Speed tape is an aluminium pressure-sensitive tape used to perform…
AILERONS (Basic)
Ailerons are the primary flight control surfaces that move the aircraft about the longitudinal axis.In other words, the movement of…
Helicopter Principles of flight and operation
Unlike fixed-wing aircraft, the helicopter’s main so is the rotating blade assembly (rotor) mounted atop its fuselage on a hinged…
Prior to departure, what data is typically entered into the Flight Management System (FMS) as part of the pre-flight setup?
In the Airbus A320, pilots adhere to a mnemonic known as “DIFSRIPP” to systematically set up the Flight Management and…
What is “Sonic Boom”
Many of us have heard a loud explosion when a supersonic aircraft breaks the sound barrier. That explosion is nothing…
𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐬 – Aircraft basics structures
𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐬 Sometimes confused with, and referred to interchangeably as 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐬 are spar-like structures that run lengthwise of the airplane’s…