airplane
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What Happens When A Bird Flies Into A Plane Engine?
What happens if a bird flies into a plane engine? The event is called a bird strike. Each year, bird strikes cost US airlines an estimated $1.2 billion. Only part of those costs are from actual damage. The rest comes from flight delays and cancellations. A bird strike can disable a plane’s engine. But engines…
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How does an ILS work?
by Captain Joe How does an ILS work? One of the most ask question regarding how an airplane flies towards the runway without any visual aids. So the Instrument landing system is a ground based radio navigation system giving pilots a lateral and vertical guidance towards the runway as they are in approach in IMC…
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Anti-Ice Systems at Wings and Engines
by Captain Joe All parts which are directly exposed to the aircraft’s movement through the air, are critical surfaces which are prone to icing. Such as the wing leading edges, horizontal and vertical stabilizers, engine intakes, propellers, pitot tubes and static ports and antennas. Any ice accumulation can lead to reduced controllability, increase in weight…
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British Airways Aircraft Slide Deploy
British Airways deployed an evacuation slide on a 777 aircraft to demonstrate how it works and to share some facts.
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AirAsia – Indonesia Livery
AirAsia’a new airplane paint is themed Indonesian charm ad this is the painting process. Where is your dream destination to fly with this plane?
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Why do pilots deice?
by Captain Joe Today´s video is another interesting topic regarding winter operation. Why do airplanes have to be deiced prior take-off? A lot of passengers underestimated how important it is to deice the critical surface of the airplanes, such as the wings, flight control surfaces such as ailerons, slat and flaps rudders, vertical and horizontal…
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Airbus and Bombardier’s CSeries partnership
by AircraftInteriorsInt Airbus and Bombardier are becoming partners on the C Series aircraft program, bringing together two complementary product lines. In this interview Airbus CEO Tom Enders and Bombardier CEO Alain Bellemare explain the benefits of the deal and the market potential of the aircraft category.
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How does WiFi work on Airplanes?
by Captain Joe Today’s video is about a very interesting topic, “How does WIFI work on airplanes?”
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Delivery of Qatar Airways’ Boeing 747 Freighter
It was a day of celebration at the Boeing Delivery Center, as Qatar Airways took delivery of its new Boeing 747-8 Freighter.
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British Airways | 25th Boeing 787 Dreamliner touches down
British Airways’ 25th Dreamliner, a 787-8 aircraft, touched down at its new Heathrow home on September 29, taking the total number of long-haul aircraft in the airline’s fleet to 137. The aircraft, registration G-ZBJI departed from the Boeing Seattle factory at 18:08 local Seattle time yesterday and landed at Heathrow airport at 11:26 local London…
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Water and waste system of airplanes
by Captain Joe This video is about the water and waste system of airplanes. The system consists of the following components: – toilets – meters of piping – 170-liter waste tank – couple valves – vacuum generator – drain host – servicing panels.
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Why you can’t fly a plane to space
Why can’t you fly a plane to space? Turns out, you couldn’t even make it halfway. Part of the problem is Earth’s gravity. You need to escape it in order to reach space.