Instead, we get half-assed stuff like an “ace aviation journalist” tweeting with his bland assurances. Is anyone still so naive as to imagine that such a person is not wholly reliant on the good graces of those in power, who spoon-feed …
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Top Aviation Journalist Is 100% Convinced That The "Missile" Was A Jet
What many observers thought was the contrail of a missile or rocket fired off the Southern California coast Monday evening instead came from an aircraft , a Pentagon spokesman said in a statement.
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Pentagon: contrail was from aircraft – Orange County Register
A380 arrives in New York 2008 It is dramatic and it plays hell with how comfortable passengers feel with the airplane, but the short-term grounding of the super jumbo Airbus A380 was a good thing. Its not about the size of the airplane or the number of people it carries. It is about finding out what caused the apparently unprompted deconstruction of the Rolls Royce Trent 900 engine on a Qantas flight from Singapore last Thursday. New engine, new airplane, new worries about whether there’s some design flaw and the
“To take off or land on a short runway, an aircraft needs to be able to fly very slowly near the runway,” said GTRI principal research engineer Robert J. Englar. “The problem is that flying slowly decreases the lift available for taking …
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Designers rethink jet aircraft in the quest for shorter take-offs
Several of these captured aircraft were donated to the National Air and Space Museum upon completion of US Air Force testing in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and much of the supporting parts and tools came along with them. …
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Vintage Aircraft Tool Cataloging, Re-housing and Preservation …
Twenty-four hours after the A380′s first major incident, a continuing question remains around the state of the aircraft upon touchdown in Singapore and to what extent the aircraft’s systems were impacted due to the uncontained failure of engine two. Commercial jetliners for years have been designed with multiple levels of redundancy to endure even the most brutal damage. The A380′s safe return to Singapore is further evidence illustrating how the redundancy of aircraft systems provide an extra margin of designed-in safety to commercial air travel.
One video posted by Russia Today (and includes Flightglobal’s Cory Matthews footage immediately following the landing of QF32 in Singapore) shows the spoiler operation upon touchdown as filmed from the lower deck of the A380. The video shows only half of the A380′s spoilers deployed upon touchdown, further suggesting damage to the Green Hydraulic system following the engine failure. The lack of operation of the wing slats, is consistent with a failure of the Green hydraulic system as well.
Also included below (for a bit of technical background) are three slides from the Airbus Flight Deck and Systems Briefing for Pilots which describes the redundant attributes of the A380′s hydraulic system and identifies which flight controls are on which system.
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Video: Qantas Flight 32 and A380′s hydraulic system redundancy
SEATTLE — Operating as Giant 4151 late Friday afternoon, one of Boeing’s four modified 747-400 Dreamlifters operated by Atlas Air touched down at Paine Field in Everett, Washington carrying a set of wings for the 31st 787, marking the restart of structural deliveries following a two week halt.
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