One Mile at a Time

MAY 12, 2025

I love flying the A380, and the first class cabin on this jet is comfy, with friendly service, great food, and impressive amenities. I dont know how full economy and business class were, but you couldve fit all the people in the gate area onto a regional jet, so thats quite a contrast to your typical A380 departure gate.

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Tail Approach Descent Runway 90

Plane and Pilot

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

In that configuration, it didnt depart the airplane but, instead, blocked airflow to the tail, with fatal results. Theres a whole other reason for using checklists, and that is preparing the pilot mentally for the next flight phase, such as descent or landing, among others. Checklists can also include tasks to lessen workload later.

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Airplanes Cockpit Pilot Aileron 95

One Mile at a Time

JANUARY 24, 2025

Emirates Lounge New York Kennedy Airport Emirates has a door to the jet bridge in its lounge, so in theory, boarding sometimes happens through the lounge, if your A380 is parked at the right gate. However, when I was flying, they were doing some work on the upper deck jet bridge, so boarding from the lounge wasnt possible.

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Jet Tail Runway Cabin Crew 114

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Intended to be a long-range escort fighter, the Consolidated XP-81 also represented a departure from conventional aircraft, but the rapidly evolving nature of both the Second World War and jet engines would see the XP-81 becoming nothing more than a footnote in American aviation history.

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Thrust Tail Jet Drag 52

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 11, 2024

During the early years of the jet age, between the end of World War II and the swinging ’60s, there were very few new ideas that were not worth a try. To understand the genesis of this little jet-powered hot rod, let’s understand the problem that faced the U.S. Air Force immediately following WWII.

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Jet Tail Pilot Turbulence 86

One Mile at a Time

APRIL 2, 2025

Even though the plane is new to Austrian, its not a new jet. As you can see, the plane doesnt yet have the full Austrian livery, but instead has an all-white fuselage, except for the Austrian name written across the front of the plane, and the Austrian logo on the tail. So we finally deplaned at 2:25PM, still a bit ahead of schedule.

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Approach Descent Airline Airlines 76

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

It was also the first VTOL aircraft to use a jet thrust diverter system for vertical lift. The aircraft began its descent from an altitude of 1,000 feet to land on a predetermined spot at NASA Ames Research Center, December 7, 1962. The inset in the lower right-hand corner of the photo is a close-up of the Bell X-14A during descent.

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Thrust Center of Gravity Descent Aileron 90

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

It was nice to hear the Captain making announcement before departure and he warned us of some expected turbulence during our descent towards HND. Soon we started our descent and the expected turbulence came at this timing predicted by the Captain. The remote control Exterior Camera There are 2 camera views The view from the tail.

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Airlines Airline Cabin Crew Turbulence 59

Fear of Landing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Flying in clouds of cold and warm fronts can lead to very small supercooled water droplets which build up as rime ice on the parts of the aircraft exposed to the wind: probes, antennas, and the leading edges of the wings and tail. The crew acknowledged and said that they were at the ideal point of descent and waiting for clearance.

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Knot Approach Descent Weather 104

One Mile at a Time

JUNE 11, 2025

Specifically, I was flying on F-GZNQ, Air France’s first jet with the new first class cabin ( and a tip-to-tail makeover , for that matter). Talk about an amazing jet bridge to passenger ratio. At 12:05PM, the captain announced that we’d be starting our descent shortly, and would be landing in around 35 minutes.

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Approach Airline Airlines Runway 83

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 6, 2025

Speaking of its positive qualities, they felt the cockpit layout was descent, its ground handling was good, the controls were light, the roll rate was adequate, and control and stability was generally effective. US Air Force photo) On 23 March 1944, flight trials resumed at Lambert Field in St.

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Gross Weight Cockpit Pilot Airplanes 98

Fear of Landing

MAY 30, 2025

not the accident aircraft) The Cessna Citation 560, also known as the Citation V, is a light corporate jet for seven to eight passengers with twin engines and a range of about 1,700 nautical miles. Unlike larger business jets, the Citation 560 requires only one qualified pilot. It became clear that the person was incapacitated.

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Cockpit Pilot Clearance Air Traffic Control 76

One Mile at a Time

JUNE 23, 2024

Lufthansa Airbus A350 Vancouver Airport Boarding started right on schedule, using Lufthansa’s group boarding system… Lufthansa boarding gate Vancouver Airport I can’t even begin to say how excited I was to board Lufthansa’s first Allegris jet, with the registration code D-AIXT. That’s all the entertainment I need!

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Tail Approach Airline Airlines 113

One Mile at a Time

JUNE 26, 2024

I guess it’s no surprise that the airline is starting to phase out these jets. Kuwait Airways map feature A330 Kuwait Airways map feature A330 While there’s also a nose camera, that’s not nearly as exciting as a tail camera, especially when it’s not high definition.

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Approach Descent Airline Airlines 115

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Most of the ailerons mass lies behind the hinge, making it tail-heavy. Tail-heavy ailerons droop downwards when they arent being pulled by the control system. potentially reverting the aileron back into a tail-heavy state. The resulting loss of lift leads to a rapid descent by the aircraft.

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Aileron Weight-Shift-Control Rudder Longitudinal Axis 90

Plane and Pilot

JANUARY 5, 2025

It was the tail separating from the fuselage. The roll was not checked by the pilot and continued past 60 degrees of bank and the descent rate increased. Extreme aerodynamic stresses of the out-of-control descent eventually caused the tail to separate. Fifteen seconds later, the remaining airframe impacted the water.

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Clearance Pilot Cockpit Descent 97

Pilot Institute

APRIL 12, 2025

The principle is the same whether the aircraft gets thrust from propellers or jet engines. A propeller forces air backward, while a jet engine ignites a mixture of air and fuel to generate hot gases that eject backward. In jet engines, increasing throttle increases the fuel flow, producing more exhaust gases that can be flung backward.

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Lift Torque Thrust Aileron 52

Aerotime

MAY 30, 2025

According to reports, Delta Air Lines is now facing 11 separate lawsuits arising from a landing accident involving a CRJ regional jet operating on its behalf in Toronto on February 17, 2025. These include examining the wing structure of the jet, as well as landing techniques, pilot training, and certification of the landing gear.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Stability Runway Descent 213

Pilot Institute

JUNE 2, 2025

Thats why, for a passenger, phugoid motion feels like a series of slow climbs and descents instead of pitching up and down. The Vertical Speed Indicator (VSI) will show a cycle of shallow climbs and descents. Meanwhile, the Airspeed Indicator moves the opposite way: decreasing during the climbs and increasing during descents.

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Stability Tail Pilot Turbulence 52

Vintage Aviation News

DECEMBER 13, 2024

It was also fitted with a laundry list of then-state of the art electronic equipment, and was fitted with a unique internal bomb bay between the two engines that would have the Vigilante shoot out a free-fall nuclear bomb (ranging from the B27, B28, and B43 bombs) from its tail, also with jettisoning two disposable fuel tanks and its tail cone.

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Payload Tail Descent Lift 98

Professional Pilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

It is based on the pilot’s judgment of certain visual clues, and depends on the maintenance of a constant final descent airspeed and configuration. The destination is a couple thousand feet above sea level, with an RNAV approach that depicts a higher-than-normal descent gradient to a down-sloping runway. The ceiling is 800 ft overcast.

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Approach Descent Visual Meteorological Conditions (VMC) Runway 105

Fear of Landing

JUNE 7, 2024

The controller cleared the flight and said their descent clearance was being processed. The engines had torn off in the final descent, landing some distance away. But the tail and the left wing were found even further away, four to six miles from the main wreckage. One woman found a body near her barn.

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Cabin Crew Weather Turbulence Descent 105

Fear of Landing

JUNE 13, 2025

Contaminated fuel is another potential cause, but no other aircraft suffered issues and the airport re-opened just a few hours later, which means that they did not believe there was any issue with their jet fuel. For now, though, there’s no definitive explanation and we shall have to await further updates.

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Runway Lift UTC Crosswind 121

Ask the Pilot

JANUARY 9, 2024

There they were, leisurely mulling the finer points of their merger with Hawaiian, wondering which visage to paint on the tail, when the 737 MAX-9 stole the show. Pop went a fuselage plug on flight 1282, decompressing the jet and scaring the daylights out of everyone on board. January 8, 2024 POOR ALASKA Airlines.

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Descent Air Traffic Control Tail Pilot 52

Vintage Aviation News

AUGUST 22, 2024

“Load’s” relatively safe haven high in the tail section left him hanging upside down on steel-wire control cables, emulating a tree sloth. Descent check!” That meant balancing aerodynamic forces on the flight controls with a large “trim wheel” linked by cables to tabs on the aft edge of our horizontal tail. I was dragging tail.

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Weight-Shift-Control Tail Cargo Airplanes 52

Air Facts

AUGUST 21, 2024

Below, the boats and jet skis stream across the lake—people enjoying their own adventure this evening as I fly overhead. Descent and landing is smooth and calm this evening, and I make a wheel landing for the fun of it. As I watch the white dashes flash past beneath the nostrils of the Sonex, the tail comes up.

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Groundspeed Runway Approach Crosswind 98

Chess In the Air

JUNE 24, 2022

After we decided this, we heard a Challenger jet announce “Taxiing to 26 for takeoff”. It’s worth noting that Shmulik had a close call in the past: a jet pulled onto the runway in front of him with no radio call. This near miss was avoided only by the jet taking off immediately in front of him. He tried again, with no reply.

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Pilot AGL Wind Shear Runway 52

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

The jet slammed into the ground six thousand feet short of the runway, taking the lives of 134 people. In seconds, an aircraft can be forced into an uncontrollable descent, leaving you with barely any time to react. If you dont act immediately, you could be forced into an uncontrollable descent before you even reach the runway.

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Wind Shear Weather Descent Approach 66

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JANUARY 8, 2024

ATR-72-500 9M-FYG (Route: SZB-XSP) My photo Economy Class For my trip report, click here My thoughts The turboprop aircraft may travel at a slower speed and fly at a lower altitude than the jet aircraft, it is a cheaper aircraft to operate and is more cost efficent on routes that has lesser demand and better suited for shorter runways.

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Airline Airlines Cabin Crew Runway 52

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

True, a slightly higher aspect ratio wing was desired, which in turn required a larger vertical tail and thus a little extra mass, but the size, approximately 20% larger than a Widgeon, was set. The Mallard—it’s a trike—has a tail stinger because it otherwise falls on its tail when loading.”

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Airplanes Rudder Knot Aileron 79

Aerotime

MARCH 16, 2025

A Chinese J-15 fighter jet from the Peoples Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) crashed during a training exercise in Hainan province. Initial reports and video footage from the scene suggest that the fighter jet was in a slow descent with its landing gear extended at the time of the crash. The incident occurred at around 1.30

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Jet Descent Tail Pilot 301

One Mile at a Time

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Unfortunately yesterday wasnt one of those days, as an Azerbaijan Airlines jet bound for Russia diverted to Kazakhstan, where it crashed, killing dozens. While it has only been around 36 hours since the tragedy, a lot of details are emerging, with Reuters now reporting that the jet was downed by a Russian air defense system.

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Jet Airline Airlines Descent 62