Airlines Gross Weight Runway 
Flying Magazine
JUNE 10, 2025
My airline uses it both internally and as a pilot-facing app on our iPad EFBs. Participating airlines equip their aircraft with quick access recorders to harvest and regularly uplink detailed flight data. I took off from Runway 34L at 169,800 pounds gross weight, rotated at 1.8 What changed?
Air Facts
MAY 7, 2025
Its maximum takeoff weight of 9,300 pounds and large cabin space made it suitable for cargo, passengers, or specialized equipment. After the war, many surplus aircraft were repurposed for civilian use in business aviation, regional airlines, and bush operations. Such it was in those days.
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Plane and Pilot
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
In the airline world, descent planning and execution receives a lot of attention. To cope with these challenges, airline glass flight decks contain a vertical navigation function (VNAV) that keeps the autopilot, and the crew, on the right path to arrive at the final approach fix, or downwind leg, at speed and on altitude.
Vintage Aviation News
JUNE 18, 2025
Hughes also gained experience with the fledgling airlines when he assumed an alias and flew for American Airways (now American Airlines) until his true identity was discovered. The aircraft sped down the runway and into the overcast skies above Los Angeles. Note the added fuel tanks mounted between the wing spars.
Flying Magazine
JULY 11, 2025
I was inspired by Ernest Gantt’s seminal work, Fate Is the Hunter , which chronicles his adventures of flying the line when round-engined DC-2s, -3s, -4s, -6s, Boeing 307s, and Lockheed Constellations were the primary people movers during the golden age of airliners. Gantt would not have been impressed.
AV Web
JULY 25, 2025
I missed the show for quite a few years when I was an airline pilot because the last thing I wanted to do during my vacation from flying a thousand hours a year in airplanes was to hang around airplanes. For example, most career fliers (especially junior ones without summer vacations) miss the shindig because they are flying.
Aerotime
MAY 16, 2025
Just some panels sliding closed – working similarly to modern flaps and slats on every commercial airliner. This increases to 815kg (1,800 lbs) if flying purely in conventional flight mode, using runways to take off and land.The maximum gross weight of the aircraft is stated as 2,500kg (5,500 lbs). No altitude loss.
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