Cranky Flier

JUNE 26, 2025

The airlines aren’t codesharing, there is no pricing or schedule coordination, and in general, they’ve followed the guidance that the judge who shot down the Northeast Alliance (NEA) between American and JetBlue gave on how to construct a legal partnership. It won the NEA fight, but it lost its own merger bid with JetBlue.

Thrust

Flying Magazine

JULY 14, 2025

The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner had just lifted off from Ahmedabad airport (VAAH) bound for London when video shows the airline barely climbing, then it began a slow descent into a building off the end of the runway. In addition, both fuel thrust levers were full forward, and the fuel control switches were found in the “RUN” position.

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Air Facts

MAY 5, 2025

The general prognosis indicated no icing in the clouds, no turbulence and a quartering headwind from the west resulting in a mere five knots of headwind component. Instead of a gentle breeze out of the west, we had over 20 knots of headwind blowing out of the south. Obviously, the winds aloft were nowhere near forecast.

VOR

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. You might be surprised to learn that tiny four-seater Cessna 172s and 140-passenger Boeing 707 airliners both use simple cables for moving the ailerons and elevators! What Is Aileron Trim?

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Fear of Landing

JUNE 27, 2025

Near Miss at Midway Flight paths for SWA2504 (orange) and ground path for LXJ560 (blue) showing The NTSB has released the preliminary report on the runway incursion which caused Southwest Airlines 2504 to perform a last-minute go-around. They will be livestreamed on the NTSB YouTube channel. seconds before touchdown.

Descent

Flying Magazine

JUNE 2, 2025

The none-too-modest aim of Boom Supersonic is to design and manufacture a supersonic airliner, which it calls Overture. Boomless cruise holds out the possibility of flight speeds 50 percent higher than those of subsonic airliners. Almost eight times as much fuel is needed to propel an airplane at 400 knots as at 200.

Drag

Flying Magazine

JULY 7, 2025

READ MORE: Airlines and Pilots Don’t See Eye to Eye on Autonomous Flights Aerodynamic lift and vectored thrust come from two pairs of ducted propellers running on kerosene-powered engines, mounted outside the main hull. But with a top speed of 70 knots indicated airspeed (IAS), its velocity is more comparable to a shipping vessel.

Knot

AV Web

APRIL 15, 2025

Airlines of all flags have shared woes recently. Business aircraft operate like quasi-airlines, blazing creative trails to folly. In a cacophony of thrust reversers and maximum braking, the Falcon overran the end of the runway onto a gravel pad where the landing gear collapsed. Thats FA tenacity. Other than that, what?

Pilot

Aerotime

MAY 16, 2025

Just some panels sliding closed – working similarly to modern flaps and slats on every commercial airliner. The aircraft also has twin-boom vertical stabilizers to the rear and a monocoque cabin that can accommodate up to six passengers, plus the operating pilot. Now we move fully onto developing our full-scale aircraft, so stay tuned!

Gross Weight

Aerotime

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Modern commercial airliners have complicated cabin air conditioning systems , as well as other electrical cabling and pipework that keep all the systems on the aircraft functioning. EQRoy / Shutterstock This is a regular source of passenger frustration on certain airlines. All of this hardware needs to be accommodated somewhere.

Cabin Crew

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. The pilot then increased acceleration with a target of seven knots ground speed. A propeller blade flew off of EPU3.

Descent

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

As an airline first officer for the better part of the past 16 years, I didn’t do much with brakes on the jet. Then on those legs I flew, I would begin the brake application on landing roll, before the captain called out “80 knots” on the rollout to signal the transition into the low-speed regime, generally followed by “I’ve got the controls.”

Rudder

AeroSavvy

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Airlines are upgrading older cockpits with newer displays, so this old indicator will soon become a relic. V MO on the 767 is between 340-360 knots (depending on aircraft serial number). Airspeed Pointer The airspeed pointer shows the indicated airspeed in knots as generated by the Air Data Computer.

Pitot Tube

Pilot's Life Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

It’s where you sharpen your skills, handle more complex systems, and prepare for real-world airline operations. They are a gateway to professional aviation careers—airlines, charters, and cargo operations all require pilots with multi-engine ratings. Tecnam P2006T : Cruise speed of around 145 knots.

Pilot

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.

Runway

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

As an airline first officer for the better part of the past 16 years, I didn’t do much with brakes on the jet. Then on those legs I flew, I would begin the brake application on landing roll, before the captain called out “80 knots” on the rollout to signal the transition into the low-speed regime, generally followed by “I’ve got the controls.”

Rudder

Fear of Landing

MAY 16, 2025

During the take-off run, the Pilot Flying will increase the thrust and then keep their hand on the thrust levers, ready to pull power back in case the take-off needs to be aborted. After V1, the Pilot Flying’s hand should be removed from the thrust levers. He pulled the thrust levers back to idle.

Thrust

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.

Density Altitude

Aerotime

JULY 19, 2024

A violent and destructive engine failure on the aircraft, one of United Airlines ’ McDonnell Douglas DC-10s, caused the loss of all standard flight controls through the fracture of all three hydraulic syst ems on the aircraft. While fatalities resulted, the majority of those onboard survived. The plane entered a descending right-hand turn.

Runway

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. The load controller also verifies whether all planned passengers are accounted for and receives the final baggage and cargo weights from the airline staff.

Tail

Plane and Pilot

JANUARY 7, 2025

Credit: Cayla McLeod] Douglas DC-3 : Todays commercial airliners dont excite me, but the airliner that changed the world certainly does. Although todays airline pilots might scoff at the DC-3, true aviators could never. Cruising around 200 knots, the Rocket is a fantastic cross-country machine or around-the-patch sunset flier.

Airplanes

Jetwhine

JULY 1, 2024

And there were plenty of accidents; a few airliner crashes a month, while tragic, were not unheard of. Nearly 50 years after NASA’s groundbreaking research, most accidents in non-airliner flights are still attributed to pilot error, indicating that much work is yet to be done in this sector. At its takeoff weight of 23,916 lbs.,

Flight Plan

Aerotime

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The pilots abandoned takeoff at 144 knots, beyond the V1 or decision speed for the Learjet 60 – 136 knots. Compounding this was an inadvertent retraction of the thrust reversers. In December, an Azerbaijan Airlines E190 crashed near Aktau, Kazakhstan, then days later, Jeju Airs 737 crashed and exploded in South Korea.

Runway