Aerotime

MARCH 20, 2025

Electras EL9 combines blown lift technology and hybrid-electric propulsion to land on runways as short as 150 feet (45 meters) enabling it to rival helicopter access. Celebrating the news, Electra said that the developers order pipeline is one of the largest in the Advanced Air Mobility industry.

Payload

Aerotime

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

According to the company, Polaris is a modern, clean-sheet, hybrid-electric seaplane that can carry 9 to 12 passengers with baggage and is capable of landing on both waterways and runways. Tidal Flight Seaplanes present the opportunity to provide direct, low-infrastructure access to city centers, remote communities, and coastal destinations.

Payload

Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 1, 2024

They don’t need a long runway and can switch from flying straight up to flying horizontally. These drones have a really big advantage of being able to take off and land vertically without needing a runway. Limited Payload Capability There is a lot of hardware that goes into a VTOL drone, which tends to make them bulky and heavy.

Payload

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 30, 2025

“When I heard we were in the first wave of six planes going down the runway at 200 feet, I elected to sit on mine,” he said. After the 8 1/2 hour, 1,182-mile flight from Midway, Connolly led the first six planes down the runway at Wake in a stepped-up V-formation. But lets not forget its big advantage!

Horizontal Stabilizer

Flying Magazine

MAY 30, 2025

Pilots appreciate the 182 for its ideal blend of cruise speed, payload capacity, and runway flexibility. This 2007 model continues that legacy with a G1000 panel, clean airframe, and well-chosen upgrades. This aircraft checks all the boxes for serious VFR and IFR flying.

Transponder

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 8, 2025

manages the world’s only commercial fleet capable of sustained Mach 2 flight and high-altitude payload deployment.  Photo by Luigino Caliaro This particular flight was notable for carrying a payload mounted under the left wing—part of a program covered by proprietary or restricted information.

Payload

Pilot Institute

APRIL 12, 2025

Developments in aircraft design and engine technology have allowed us to fly farther, faster, and carry more payload. You use the rudder here to align yourself with the runway as the ailerons bank the aircraft into the wind. After returning to the Earths atmosphere, they use wings to glide back to a runway.

Torque

Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Now, you might be wondering about its payload. This aircraft is all about carrying massive payloads. The design features four pairs of contra-rotating propellers, a testament to its immense power and ability to carry heavy payloads. However, operations hit a pause in May 2019, shortly after its first flight. Its key role?

Airplanes

Flying Magazine

APRIL 29, 2025

The airport info app also supplies runway information, terminal charts, FBOs, and Garmin SafeTaxi diagrams. With the push of a button, the distance, fuel required, ETE, and ETA will then be calculated for the selected route, with the option to display fuel burn, true airspeed, winds aloft, and more at various altitude levels.

Pilot

Flying Magazine

JULY 22, 2025

Full-fuel payload is a whopping 1,150 pounds, and max landing weight is 7,600. We can’t say enough about how much we appreciate honesty in aircraft advertising when it comes to weight, because useful load matters in the utility of an aircraft.

Rudder

One Mile at a Time

JANUARY 5, 2025

However, due to strong wind shear plus the short runway, that ultimately didnt end up being the case, at least without a major payload restriction. However, the airport isnt otherwise as challenging to fly to, given the much longer runway, which means that wide body jets can fly there.

Wind Shear

Air Facts

AUGUST 1, 2025

It was noon on a clear, cold January day, and I was taxiing to the start of the grass runway at little Thiene Airport for my first solo flight. Moments before my Dolomite-facing runway pause, Giorgio and I had flown several circuits around the traffic pattern. I taxied alone to the threshold of runway 17. Can you hear me?”

Runway

Aerotime

JULY 17, 2025

The KC-390 Millennium offers superior payload capacity (26 tons) compared to other medium-sized military transport aircraft. It can operate from temporary or unpaved runways, such as packed earth, soil and gravel. This makes Portugal the launch customer for the Super Tucano variant designed to meet NATO requirements.

Payload

Aerotime

DECEMBER 28, 2024

Known as the Flogger, the MiG-23s variable wing sweep makes it capable of taking off from short, remote runways, as well as optimizing its aerodynamic profile for supersonic or cruise flight. Nevertheless, it was an extremely sophisticated jet for the late 60s and remains one of the most iconic Soviet aircraft of the Cold War.

Jet

Flying Magazine

JULY 7, 2025

Eventually, though, the 10-ton payload model could be the smallest in the Airlander family. Simultaneously, the firm is developing the even larger Airlander 50—and potentially, an Airlander 200 with a 200-ton payload. The design also boasts a 4,000 nm ferry range, dropping to 2,000 nm at full payload.

Knot

Flying Magazine

JUNE 2, 2025

The addition of vortex generators adds even more confidence when operating from smaller airports with short runways and tall obstacles. The coveted Colemill conversion, which swaps the aircrafts original engines for IO-550s while adding other upgrades, boosts short-field and climb performance.

Transponder

Flying Magazine

JUNE 23, 2025

The partners will study what that might entail—and explore what kinds of payloads it could launch to LEO. Dassault says it will be capable of runway takeoffs and landings, soaring through the atmosphere like a plane to orbit, where it could release an autonomous free-flying platform. Early specifications include a large payload bay.

Payload

Flying Magazine

MAY 12, 2025

The former Qatari 747-8 sits on the runway at Palm Beach International Airport, where Trump toured it in February. According to Boeing, its replacement VC-25Bs will offer improved range, speed, payload, and interior features while making the aircraft easier to maintain. president from a foreign power.

Clearance

Flying Magazine

JULY 11, 2025

However, the DC-6 offered airlines increased range, higher cruising speed, and cruising altitudes of up to 25,000 feet (depending upon payload and fuel load) in pressurized comfort for a full 3,000 miles, making it a versatile hauler of both passengers (DC-6B) and cargo (DC-6A).

Flight Deck

Flying Magazine

JULY 17, 2025

Anyone contemplating buying one should be ready to pay what we consider to be substantial maintenance bills, with the reward being fast cruise speeds above the weather in pressurized comfort and with reasonable payload. One place it’s not at home is taking off from short runways.

Knot

Flying Magazine

JULY 28, 2025

Another OTV-8 payload is described as the “highest performing quantum inertial sensor ever tested in space.” The X-37B’s inaugural mission completed the first autonomous orbital landing onto a runway in U.S. The spaceplane makes runway landings at Kennedy in Florida and Vandenberg Space Force Base (KVBG) in California.

Payload

Flying Magazine

JUNE 19, 2025

The extent of the damage is unclear, but any repairs will necessitate a longer runway to Flight 10. Notably, the mishaps coincide with SpaceX’s introduction of its Block 2 Starship, which features larger propellant tanks, greater payload capacity, and upgraded flaps and heat shield compared to the iteration that flew in 2023 and 2024.

Payload

Aerotime

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Air traffic controllers then vectored the aircraft towards Schiphol where the aircraft landed on runway 18C at 15:14 local time. The aircraft offers a total capacity of 50,500 kg (111,333 lb) payload and can carry outsized and other unusual cargoes on short and medium-length flights. It has been a busy week for the BelugaXL fleet.

Air Traffic Control

Simple Flying

APRIL 1, 2025

Media outlets have also reported that the airports runway is too short for the aircraft to operate with a full payload. Only after ordering the jet was it discovered that the Bombardier Global 7500 does NOT fit into the existing building in Bern-Belp - the airport where the Swiss Federal Council would typically store such an aircraft.

Runway

Aerotime

MAY 16, 2025

Horizon Aircraft More about the Cavorite X7 Capable of carrying out stage lengths of up to 500 miles (800km) while cruising at a speed of up to 250 knots (450 km/h), the Cavorite X7 can carry payloads up to 680kg (1500 lbs) if operating in vertical flight mode.

Gross Weight

AV Web

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The two flights, the airframe’s seventh and eighth, were a dress rehearsal for an operational life of taking off from a runway and climbing to the edge of space at about 60 miles (100 km.) Dawn has already lined up customers to take payloads to the edge of space. in altitude twice a day.

Payload

Flight Training Central

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Among the performance elements are takeoff and landing distances, rate of climb, ceiling, speed, payload, and fuel economy. What is the headwind component for a landing on Runway 18 if the tower reports the wind as 215° at 30 knots? What is ground effect? What effect does high density altitude have on aircraft performance?

Density Altitude

AV Web

JANUARY 8, 2025

It wasnt until I started flying professionally that I needed to balance realistic fuel planning with payload and just a dash of bargain hunting. Obviously, the number one priority when preflight planning is a safe fuel load, but being able to extract a useful payload out of the aircraft is part of why we play the game.

Payload

Planes.com

AUGUST 7, 2024

The automation concept Embraer Enhanced Takeoff System (E2TS) is expected to lead to much-enhanced range capabilities from short runways to increasing fuel capacity, range, and payload. In a groundbreaking development, Embraer has launched a cutting-edge automatic takeoff feature for its E2 family of passenger jets.

Payload

World Airline News

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Natilus’s regional cargo aircraft, KONA, is capable of navigating extreme weather conditions and landing on short, gravel runways in the Arctic North. Nolinor is the world’s largest operator of the B737-200 aircraft, which are equipped to land on dirt, gravel, or ice runways. Learn more at natilus.co.

Cargo

World Airline News

MAY 7, 2024

Distinctively, the Boeing 737-200 is the only model certified by Boeing for gravel runway operations, offering unmatched flexibility in payload capacity and featuring an expanded cargo door to accommodate a broad spectrum of cargo sizes.

Cargo

AV Web

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Continuing to operate in this challenging environment with janky communications wasn’t the greatest idea to begin with, and as I studied the ramp it was apparent that my Mooney was outclassed in terms of payload, and there was certainly no shortage of pilots participating.

Airplanes

Aviation Bussiness News

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The Kona, currently in development, is engineered to operate on gravel and unpaved runways, making it a game-changer for cargo transportation to remote and underserved regions. metric-tonne payload capacity and the ability to take off from runways as short as 800 metres.

Cargo

Professional Pilot

MARCH 6, 2025

For VIP and executive transport, parapublic, EMS, SAR, and energy services, it will carry 9 pax, up to 6000-lb payload, 1000 nm at 270 kt cruise. It can carry up to 882 lb of payload. The Albatross V400 heavy-lift air cargo eVTOL or hybrid-electric aircraft has a max payload of 220 lb. Payload is 900 lb.

Lift

Pilot Institute

AUGUST 9, 2024

It has night vision, an integrated loudspeaker, a glass breaker tool, a payload deployment and delivery system, and the ability to generate and transmit floor plans in real time. With a payload capacity of almost 16 kg, the AltaX offers a suite of payload options for mapping, lighting, and cinema-grade filmmaking.

Payload

Latatuide 33 Aviation

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Here are a few reasons why private jets are faster: Reduced payload: Light private aircraft are smaller to accommodate fewer travelers per flight. Faster ascension: The reduced payload on private jets allows the aircraft to ascend faster than a commercial flight since there is reduced drag.

Drag

NYC Aviation

JANUARY 19, 2022

Though an older type with its last airframe rolling off of the line in 2004, the 757 can still give new aircraft like the 737 MAX 10 and the Airbus A321XLR a run for their money in terms of range, payload capacity, and even outpacing them in terms of takeoff performance and operations on wet runways.

Payload