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Boom: Is This the Resurrection of Supersonic Travel?

Flying Magazine

Concorde and the Tupolev Tu-144 cruised at Mach 2 at 60,000 feet, where their indicated airspeed was only 380 knots, but the friction of air heated their noses to 260 degrees Fahrenheit. To bring any four-engine airliner, let alone a supersonic one, from CAD screen to runway in five years would be astounding.

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Panic, And How Not To

AV Web

Knowing what to do ahead of time helps prevent the kind of in-cockpit panic that can lead to paralysis by analysis and other undesirable human factors. The base had switched runways from Runway 35 to Runway 17, so that when I came back into the base I was approaching the traffic pattern from the north. Impossible.

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How Hybrid Air Vehicles Is Making World’s Longest Aircraft Longer

Flying Magazine

The cockpit includes a dedicated trim panel, rather than a simple wheel or switches on the yoke. For example, Airlander 10 requires no runway for takeoff and landing—only a mooring mast and about 1,960 feet of flat space, whether that be tarmac, grass, sand, or even water.

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Air India 171 Crash Triggered by Fuel Cutoff

Fear of Landing

ATC asked if the aircraft required the full length of the runway and the crew confirmed that they did. The aircraft accelerated along the runway and reached V1, the take-off decision speed, of 155 knots normally. The cockpit voice recording analysis would include which microphone picked up the voices: on the left or on the right.

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Delta Connection flight received sink rate alert before Toronto Pearson crash

Aerotime

Around 13 seconds before touchdown as the aircraft was descending through 153 feet above ground level (AGL) the TSB said the CRJ900s indicated airspeed increased to 154 knots whereas the ground speed did not change appreciably, consistent with a performance-increasing wind gust. The bank angle increased to a 4.7right bank.

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The Classic Boeing Airspeed Indicator

AeroSavvy

The Honeywell SI-800 Airspeed/Mach Indicator has been a standard instrument on the Boeing 737, 747, 757, and 767 for decades. Boeing stopped installing the stand-alone indicator in favor of modern, reliable flat panel displays. Digital Data Airspeed The Indicated Airspeed (above 30 knots) is displayed in a digital format.

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Flight vision systems

Professional Pilot

Corporate pilots who had seen nothing but gray or rain outside the windshield suddenly could see the terrain, obstacles, runways, approaches, their own flightpath ahead, and even traffic in 3D. Airports and runways will be clearly marked, and could be even textured to represent asphalt, grass, and other surfaces.