Fear of Landing

JANUARY 17, 2025

On the 29th of December 2024, a Boeing 737-800 operated by a low-cost South Korean airline crashed after an emergency landing and overshooting the runway at Muan International Airport in South Korea. The 737 does not use Weight on Wheels (WoW) to enable the thrust reversers.

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Aerotime

JULY 26, 2024

Some of Britain’s greatest aviation feats include the evolution of the jet engine, the first aircraft with an enclosed cabin, the development of Concorde and the de Havilland Comet – the first commercial jet airliner to enter service.

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Pilot Institute

JUNE 4, 2025

A tailless airplane is one where everything needed to fly, like lift, control, and stability, is built into the main wing. In level flight, the aircraft is adjusted so that the wingtips dont add lift. Lift is reduced, and the nose pitches downward. This creates an increase in lift, and the nose pitches up.

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Fear of Landing

MAY 3, 2024

They already have orders for up to 1,000 aircraft, with customers including American Airlines, Virgin Atlantic and AirAsia. The prototype lifted off, hovered and flew at a speed of 40 knots before landing. G-EVTL lifted off with all EPUs operating. This caused a loss of thrust from motors 4 and 7.

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Northstar VFR

JANUARY 8, 2024

Lift We’ll start with my personal favorite — lift. Weight Now let’s talk about the flip side of lift — weight. To maintain level flight, we would need to have enough air flowing over the wings to match the amount of weight we’re lifting — the plane itself, fuel, passengers, baggage and, of course, that cup of coffee.

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Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

If you dream of flying small airplanes on weekends or piloting commercial airliners with hundreds of passengers, you need certain pilot licenses to reach your aviation goals. If you want to take your friends and family flying or become an airline pilot, start your aviation journey with this license. Which License(s) Should You Get?

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JUNE 3, 2025

For Air France, this is the primary airport for both regional and international flights and is popular with international airlines from all continents. Skyteam Airlines are assigned 2E for international routes and 2F for Schengen routes. We lifted off with raindrops showering on our aircraft. We were out of the rainy clouds.

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Airspeed Junkie

AUGUST 27, 2024

We’ll explore its design, performance features, and what makes it a top choice for airlines. The A350 enhances passenger experience through its spacious Airspace™ cabin, premium seating options, and superior air quality features, making it a popular choice among airlines, evidenced by over 1,300 confirmed orders.

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Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The Douglas Aircraft Company was exploring various designs for a short-range airliner to complement their long-range airliners during the late 1950s. The initial idea was that of a four-engine aircraft, which was scrapped due to a lack of interest from the airlines. With a modified wing having a span of 28.44 meters Wingspan 28.44

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Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The Douglas Aircraft Company were exploring various designs for a short-range airliner to complement their long-range airliners during the late 1950s. The initial idea was that of a four-engine aircraft, which was scrapped due to a lack of interest from the airlines. DC-9 in service with Delta Airlines. meters Height 8.38

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Pilot's Life Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Aerodynamic Differences Fixed-Wing Aircraft (Airplanes) Airplanes , or fixed-wing aircraft, generate lift through their stationary wings as they move forward. This pressure difference produces lift, allowing the aircraft to ascend. Each rotor blade acts as an airfoil, and as it rotates, it moves air over its surface, generating lift.

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Pilot's Life Blog

MARCH 15, 2024

Generate Lift With Airplane Wings One of the most valuable airplane parts that connect to the fuselage is the wings. The wings work with other sections of an aircraft to increase lift and adjust stalling speed. The engine creates thrust by burning fuel.

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Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

From simple mechanical linkages in small aircraft to high-tech fly-by-wire systems in airliners, ailerons have evolved with aviation itself. Key Takeaways Ailerons control the aircrafts roll by adjusting lift on each wing. The aircrafts wing is able to generate lift due to its shape. Why does this increase the lift?

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Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Bennett, who focused on incorporating a rotor-driven lift system with conventional wings and engines for forward thrust. Both commercial airlines and military organizations started paying attention to what the Rotodyne could offer. The project was led by one of their top engineers, Dr. J.A.J. Rotodyne’s first flight 1958.

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Aerotime

JUNE 1, 2025

In 1923, Spanish engineer Juan de la Cierva came up with a rather revolutionary idea: an aircraft that could use an unpowered rotor at the top to generate lift, while relying on an engine-driven propeller for thrust. He called it an autogiro, later anglicized to autogyro (and also often referred to as gyroplane).

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Lift Thrust Cockpit Runway 171

Aerotime

MAY 29, 2025

The start of the year also saw Vertical Aerospace complete its first piloted thrustborne flight maneuvers and become only the second company in the world, after Joby Aviation, to achieve the step using a full-scale vectored thrust eVTOL aircraft. Aircraft Three recently arrived safely at its home base, the Vertical Flight Test Centre.

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AeroSavvy

AUGUST 20, 2021

Cherokee Six instrument panel Like my airline job, I fly nearly paperless using an iPad Mini and the ForeFlight app for navigation charts. Although not a problem for airliners, flying at high altitude airports presents challenges for pilots of small piston aircraft. Santa Fe is located 6,349 feet above sea level.

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Density Altitude OAT Airplanes Fixed Base Operator 52

Pilot Job Central

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

A significant amount of thrust generated by the engine comes from the fan rather than the core. Image: Stages in a turbine engine Geared Turbofan – A New Class In recent years a hybrid engine has entered airline service. In particular, new hire airline pilot training is equated to trying to get a drink of water from a fire hose.

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Pilot Institute

JUNE 2, 2025

This means pitchingmoment changes are small, but lift still rises and falls with airspeed. Airliners may take a couple of minutes for a single oscillation. In 1985, Japan Airlines Flight 123s tail section blew out from explosive decompression, cutting all the aircrafts hydraulic lines. Why is that important?

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Ask the Pilot

AUGUST 5, 2024

Workers are subject to overheating, and so is their ground equipment: all of those myriad tugs, tractors, carts and lifts that Airplanes themselves, meanwhile, have a lot of internal machinery, both electronic and mechanical, and much of it runs hot to begin with. Jet engines don’t like this low-density air either, producing less thrust.

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Fear of Landing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

On the 9th of July 2024, flight LA8073, operated by the Chilean airline LATAM, departed from Milano Malpensa for a passenger flight to São Paulo, Brazil. This transition of lifting off is called rotation. I still can’t watch the video without wincing. In the left seat was a captain-in-training who was the Pilot Monitoring.

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Ask the Pilot

JUNE 14, 2025

That being said, evidence suggests the Boeing 787 suffered either a loss of thrust in both engines, or an inadvertent retraction of the plane’s flaps and slats before reaching sufficient speed. The loss of thrust theory is evidenced a few different ways. All they could do was glide straight ahead. Then we have the landing gear.

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Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 9, 2024

We learn all about aerodynamics, thrust, drag, lift, and gravity, study flight manuals, emergency procedures, and FARs, take oral exams and check rides, and constantly review everything we can find about flying. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of any carelessness, incapacity or neglect.”

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One Mile at a Time

JUNE 14, 2025

No thrust, no power, and/or no lift? When an experienced captain says that a plane has no thrust and is losing power, what can we really conclude from that? If one were to take that at face value, that would suggest that the plane was actually losing engine power and thrust, meaning there was some sort of issue with engines.

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Aerotime

DECEMBER 27, 2024

As 2024 draws to a close, there can be little doubt that, over the course of the year, airline safety has continued to reach new levels, with fewer accidents, fewer aircraft being written off, and fewer fatalities. This list is not exhaustive, however.

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AV Web

APRIL 15, 2025

With lateral options dwindling, the Bell 47D went into a vertical lift. After one full revolution, the helicopter lifted rapidly from the ground and climbed immediately. Airlines of all flags have shared woes recently. Business aircraft operate like quasi-airlines, blazing creative trails to folly. Feliz ao nuevo!

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JULY 22, 2024

Introduction What a way to celebrate my first ever Indian domestic flight experience by flying on the airline's brand new Airbus A350-900. Let's say I didn't have the best first impression of this airline and I believe some of you have read about the negative reviews of the airline in almost all aspects of air travel with this airline.

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Vintage Aviation News

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Developed to compete against the Anglo-French airliner Concorde, which flew some two months later, the Tu-144 was built to both cut travel times across the vast width of the Soviet Union and surpass its Western rivals. On this day in aviation history, December 31, 1968, the Tupolev Tu-144 made its first flight.

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