Understanding Takeoff Thrust Setting Technique
This well-illustrated document to help pilots to understand different takoff thrust setting techniques…. Continue Reading →
This well-illustrated document to help pilots to understand different takoff thrust setting techniques…. Continue Reading →
Since the early days of flight, angle of attack (AOA) has been a key aeronauticalengineering parameter and is fundamental to understanding many aspects of airplane performance, stability, and control. Virtually any book on these subjects, as well as basic texts and instructional material written for flight crews, defines AOA and discusses its many attributes…… Continue Reading →
This Boeing article deals again with Angle of attack (AOA) which is an aerodynamic parameter that is key to understanding the limits of airplane performance. Recent accidents and incidents have resulted in new flight crew training programs, which in turn have raised interest in AOA in commercial aviation. Awareness of AOA is vitally important as…… Continue Reading →
This Boeing document reviews the importance of V1, statistics of past Rejected Takeoff (RTO) accidents and incidents and tries to provide an appropriate education for a better… Continue Reading →
Today’s portable sensors and data-analysis techniques enable scientists worldwide to visualize dimensions, measure velocities and track positions of wake vortices generated by specific variants of large commercial jets…. Continue Reading →
Wingtip Devices: what they do and how they do it. A Boeing aerodynamist explains in very simple words what is hidden between "induced drag reduction", "vortex", "winglets" and so on…. Continue Reading →
This document reviews the philosophy of Fuel Conservation… Continue Reading →
Among the various environmental concerns, the aircraft noise item has been constantly growing in importance over the past years. Indeed, unlike a Mozart’s symphony, airplane noise is one of those sounds which are undesirable to most of the observers. Its various effects on man, especially on the people living in the vicinity of civilian and…… Continue Reading →
The maximum altitude at which an airplane can be flown is limited by three factors: 1) the maximum certified altitude 2) the buffet-limited maximum altitude 3) the thrust-limited maximum altitude. The most limiting of these three altitudes defines the maximum operating altitude…… Continue Reading →
One of the very best documents published on a very sensitive operational topic…. Continue Reading →