What Materials Are Used In Building Aircraft?
Modern aircraft have come a long way in terms of design and building materials. Engineers have discovered new metal and carbon-based alloys that have excellent properties for uses in aviation.…
2021
Will You Feel Safer Knowing That the Crew on Your Flight Are All Vaccinated?
Since the first vaccine against COVID19 appeared, all countries around the world were managing to compete to vaccinate their citizens. Airlines too, some airlines thought about vaccinating all of their…
TBO: Trajectory-Based Operations
After the article about A-CDM (Airport Collaborative Decision Making), focussing on improving the overall airport performance at one specific airport, the next step is to focus on the bigger picture,…
What’s Behind A320-xxx Model Designation?
The Airbus A320 family has undoubtedly a wide range of members, visible at any airport. Some of us can see an Airbus and easily identify it whether it’s an A320,…
What Happens When You Flush the Toilet
Answering this question is not that challenging, actually it is very simple. However, some people are interested to know. So, what happens? Where does it go? Does it fall down…
The Pandemic is Diminishing Pilots’ Flying Abilities
Daniel Luo
Last year, thousands of airline pilots were furloughed and suspended from their jobs due to the novel coronavirus. Many of these employees went through hard times and struggled to make…
Future of A380
Airbus company wanted to respond to the B747 – queen of sky, so it tried to make a better one. On 27th of April, 2005, do you know what happened?…
The RAVN X: The World’s Largest Drone
Osman Jamil
For years NASA has dominated delivering cargo and satellites to space, and now SpaceX seems to be doing the same almost every week. Sending cargo to space or delivering a…
How Do Evacuation Slides Work?
You’ve all been familiar with the Evacuation Slides if you’ve flown before – either presented to you by the Flight Attendant’s safety briefing or the airline’s inflight safety video. But…
Longest Flights During the Pandemic
The whole world suffered and is still suffering from Corona virus. However, when it comes to the aviation industry, then it’s definitely one of the most industries that had suffered.…
The Experimental Aircraft Association
Founded by a dozen of aircraft homebuilders in 1953, the Experimental Aircraft Association became one of the most important forces in general aviation. It’s based in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States.…
ATA 100 (Aeronautical Maintenance Documentation)
As known, ATA stands for “Air Transport Association”, an American organization. But when talking about it now, ATA 100 refers to a methodology of reference for numbering the aircraft documentation.…
Lion Air: The Low Cost Airline that Operated the 747
Tantawat H
Lion Air, an Indonesian low cost airline used to operate the Boeing 747-400 until they were retired and sold in 2017. The jumbo jet was a regular sight at many…
Understanding Aviation SSR and Why Are They Important
Lukas Wopmann
When reading the title of this article, you might wonder what this article is about. SSR stands for Special Service Request and covers a wide variety of different services for…
The 3 Airline Alliances: SkyTeam, Star Alliance, Oneworld
Airline alliances have been around for a couple of decades now, and they have proven to be great marketing strategies for the aviation industry. Airline alliances bring together several different…
A-CDM: Airport Collaborative Decision Making
A-CDM stands for Airport Collaborative Decision Making and is, in contrast to most other projects or initiatives, about more than just one airport company (airport operator, air traffic control, airline,…
The Defiant X: Faster than a Black Hawk
Lockheed Martin owned Sikorsky and Boeing unveiled their brand-new assault helicopter to the world this month. It is called the Defiant X, taking the same surname as little brother Raider…
ISAGO and How It Should Work Out
A ground handler is subject of many audits. These audits are performed internally, but also from an external partner such as the regulator, the airport, syndicates, or an airline. As…
What are the Types of Drag?
First of all, what is Drag? Drag is the force that resists movement of of an aircraft through the air. It slows the aircraft in flight by limiting the forward…
What are the Best Mobile Flight Simulators?
It isn’t common to discover that being a pilot has been numerous people’s dream since they were children. The thrill of taking off within the sky and being with the clouds may be a daydream numerous still haven’t overlooked as grown-ups. This is where flight simulators can give such dreams…