I have almost 1500 hours of flight experience and almost all of them as an airline pilot….
The jet engines like any other engine requires air, fuel and a source of combustion to start….
Fuel exclusively stored in the fuselage reduces aircraft performance, crash safety, and practicality. The FAA and EASA…
An Austrian Airlines Airbus A320-271N sustained substantial damage on the ground at Vienna Airport, Austria. Photos suggest that…
No it isn’t, but… The aircraft landing gear handle is electrically locked in the down position when…
No, not airtight. Airliners always leak a bit, by design.Indeed if they did not leak, with all…
There is much to consider when answering this question. I’ll attempt to cover some of the key…
The Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT) in most airplanes is located on the tail section of the airplane….
There’s a few different ways depending on the thrust reverser in question. The first two kinds are…
The main reason why the landing gear of an airliner tilts is to make the aircraft more…