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, not airtight. Airliners always leak a bit, by design.Indeed if they did not leak, with all…
Pressurizing a cabin puts a lot of stress on the fuselage. Most commercial aircraft pressurize to an…
There is much to consider when answering this question. I’ll attempt to cover some of the key…
The Boeing 777X has folding wingtips to allow the aircraft to fit into the same airport gates…
Attaching an unused extra engine under the wing of a Boeing 747 would have significant consequences. The…
The main reason why the landing gear of an airliner tilts is to make the aircraft more…