A video showing a passenger tracking the speed of an airplane in real time using a smartphone app during takeoff has gone viral on TikTok. The video was posted by @bevis999 and has amassed over 5.3 ...
One of the most influential cockpit levers on a jet’s take-off is the flap handle. Hinged panels at the wing’s trailing and leading edges transform a sleek airfoil into a low-speed lift sail.
A commercial airliner can weigh anywhere from 100,000 pounds to over a million pounds. It is astonishing how such gargantuan weight can not only take off from the ground, but also routinely fly long ...
The crash was caused by a "deep stall during take-off because of abnormally rapid pitch rate commanded at a lower-than-optimal rotation speed", the report submitted to the government said. Aviation ...
An Etihad Airways flight was forced to abort a high-speed take-off that led to two tyres bursting, as “high exhaust gas temperatures” in the engine caused an emergency halt of the Boeing plane. During ...