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AnswerFastest manmade Aircraft: (Experment Unmaned Aircraft)NASA X-43Fastest recorded speed is Mach 9.8 or 7,546 MPH or 12,144...
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Only 1. Air Force One is the designation call sign for any aircraft that is carrying the President of the US. When he departs the...
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AnswerVery good question.My guess is that the Captain of an aircraft occupies the Left seat in the cockpit. That has been...
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Blue Hawaiian Helicopters (Radio Trivia 92.3krock.listenernetwork.com) You can find the answer at www.visitmaui.com.
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It damages the environment by adding to the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Greenhouse gases are responsible for the...
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Only less than 100ml in hand luggage in plastic clear bag as with all liquids at the moment. Any higher amount has to be in...
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Charles Lindbergh. 1927. Lindbergh became a national celebrity after his flight. He and his airplane, "The Spirit of St. Louis"...
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a typical small airplane such as a Cessna 310 tops out at 200 mph depending on density altitude and a variety of other factors....
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Terminal Instrument Procedure, or procedures, are the navigational procedures aircraft use to find and land at the airport of...
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Normal letter-sized paper works the best. I say it's because, the flight of the airplane mostly depends on the thickness of the...
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No, but you need to speak English as it's the universal language of aviation. I have a feeling the question is really...
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http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Details_Kink_Fiser_airline
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Modern day commercial jets have separate Auxiliary Power Units, or APUs. These are used to supply electrical, hydraulic, and...
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Airplanes are made out of aluminum alloys because weight is such an important factor in aircraft design. Aluminum and aluminum...
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The recreational pilot certificate was created by the FAA for "weekend" pilots, retired pilots, and pilots who cannot pass the...
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Global Pilot Training Center located at the Miami international Airport offers A complete Airbus 320 Training Program including...
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65 ft on WWII carriers, except Midway class, where it was lowered to about 50 ft to make the ship less vulnerable to Japanese...
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EADS Socata TBM 850, if you've got several million to spend on a plane. Otherwise, Beechcraft Bonanzas and Mooney Acclaims are...
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Current Airbus A321 operators (including -200 variants) are; Aer Lingus, Aero Flight, Aeroflot, Aigle Azur, Air Cairo, Aer...
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The first AC-130 began as a design for a proposed L-206, but the Lockheed Vice-president and chief engineer, Hall Hibbard,...
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Often only a few bolts are used to hold the engine to the wing on large passenger aircrafts. Boeing (777 for example) only uses...
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A "Pilot" is a person who drives a plane.
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around 15 mill for a crap small used one
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B-29 Superfortress. Actually, the B-17G was equipped with a total of 13 .50 cal machineguns, vs the 10 .50 cal of the B-29. In...
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On the tarmac, there are triangular blocks that are placed in front and behind each wheel of the airplane, called wheel chocks. ...
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no i don't know why but it is not legal to land a plane on a road
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Constantly! There is never a time when aircraft aren't flying somewhere. Airplanes are used by airlines, military, corporate, air...
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On September 1, 2006, the first Boeing 737-900ER took to the skies over Washington state. Certification by American and European...
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The angle of the airplane, (or more importantly the wing) at the time of take-off depends on a few factors. While flat on the...
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There are two "black boxes" on modern day aircraft. One is the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) used to record cockpit, intercom, and...
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There are a number of aircraft that are designed without tail assemblies as we know them. As for aircraft designed with a tail...
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DO NOT PACK in your luggage or carry on board the following materials: FIREWORKS Signal flares, sparklers or other explosives...
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Commercial airplanes typically travel around 550 (five hundred and fifty) miles per hour. They are able to travel and slower or...
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It depends on the distance, but for long distance it is the plane you should go with.
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AnswerAn aircraft has what is called a stall speed. this speed is the point at witch the wings stop creating the necessary lift...
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Okay.....here ya go. If you were driving in a car...you have a better chance of crashing in a car than crashing or whatever in...
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Quoth the wiki In China, kites rather than gliders were used for military reconnaissance. However the Extensive Records of the...
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The current land speed record is held by ThrustSSC, a twin Rolls-Royce jet engine powered car. It reached a speed of 763 mph on...
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it depends...........a small airplane has three landing gears one primary and 2 secondary.............in a large airplane there...
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did someone from pentucket high school ask this question... if so or if not so, let me know when you get the...
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Concorde flew at Mach 2.2 - which is 2.2 times the speed of sound (2,162 kilometres per hour) not sure if that it fully loaded or...
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That should be carbon dioxide. What can be done is to produce engines that burn fuel more cleanly than exisiting ones and that...
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Hangar and there are HAS, hardened aircraft shelter The Brits have a word: aerodrome.
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A UFO is an object which flies and you cannot identify it (ie. you don't know what it is). I think it is safe to say that if you...
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The Ta-152 was designed with a longer wingspan (or high aspect ratio) than compared to the Fw-190 which it was dervied from. The...
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Skyfox Aviation Ltd. based out of Australia is the manufacturer.
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I want to ask a question, not answer one
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The mixture control of a piston powered engine enables you to vary the amount of fuel being used in your specific fuel/air...
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The combination of the words turbine and propeller in techno jargon will give you the word "turboprop". A turboprop engine is a...
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The Fokker Dr.1 was limited in its airspeed to 103mph. This was due to the additional drag from the 3 wings that were close to...
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If you're only interested in learning to fly for your own pleasure, you can go to almost any airport and find a flying service...
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See: Looks like 22 Hours 43 Minutes! USAF E-4 Command Post For comparison, the USAF installed an In-Flight Refueling...
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1- USA - Best technology, largest airforce, all type of support, surveillance, reconnaissance, bombers, fighters aircrafts, armed...
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There are generally two types of fuel pumps in aircraft. Low pressure pumps which bring fuel from the tank to the engine and...
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A Glider or sailplane. Schweitzer has a virtual monopoly on these in the Us at present, there were other makes such as Bowlus in...
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Airplanes are able to fly because of Bernulli's principle. The wings are shaped so that when they are moving fast enough they...
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The first airplane was built by the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, USA.
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The Airbus A320 is normally configured with three seats either side of the aisle, with 164 seats in 1-class configuration or 150...
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Aircraft prices fluctuate per current economic conditions. Current list price: US$33m Current range for used aircraft: US$12-23m
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Around 40,000 feet depending on wind and gross weight
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It is the Cessena-406 Microlight aircraft which is only four seated.
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quadrants
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Yes if you can afford it.
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Approximately 5 hours. Hope i helped!
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Any plane flies by the lift enduced by the air being pulled over its wings, the cross section of the wing is biased so that the...
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Numerous airlines in the United States have planes from the airbus family in their fleet, check on the airline websites.
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It isn't legal to do so at this point in time. They have to be pumped away at the airport upon landing.
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Aircraft wings produce lift by a principle discovered by Bernoulli. The air above the wing is at a lower pressure that the air...
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The A36 Bonanza.
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You may be confusing call signs with registration. Each aircraft has a unique number identifying it (usually based on sequence of...
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I believe the designer's name was Tupalov, hence the TU. I am not sure of his front name, but believe it started with an A.
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if you have a commercial licence, and can find a customer who is willing to pay, yes. with the price of avgas these days, I wish...
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That depends on the air force and airplne in question.
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10 Passenger entry doors, 2 emergency passenger escape doors on the upper deck, 4 escape doors over the wings, 1 small escape...
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Depending on the size of the jet, the amount of engines may vary between 2 and 4 (on most commercial aircraft) The engines can...
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The UH-60 is indeed flown by the U.S. Marines and by all other branches of the service. It has a number of modified forms to...
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The flight deck is the name given to the area from which the aircraft is actually controlled, as in, pilot, copilot, flight...
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Commercial Airplanes are mostly built in aluminum alloys. Newer planes may be built with composite materials. Jet engines often...
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AnswerDifficult to answer for all aircraft types and conditions.A crack in the window of something like an passenger airliner...
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That depends on the airplane. Most are done in an assembly line fashion. What particuar one do you mean?
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American Airlines.
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When the aircraft is flying above supersonic speed the engine is actually producing more than 100.000 horsepower.
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A "Learjet" is a smaller corporate jet aircraft designed by William Powell Lear Jr. The Learjet was originally designed to be a...
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i could give you some funny answers but, the straight answer is, "yes". I am a pilot and I have a friend that has flown with...
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here is a link to known locations of B-47's but as you may notice NB-47E doesnt have a known current...
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No. At least, I'm not sure what they have in their windshield. The windshields of modern fighters do have a reflective gold...
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There are no operational scramjets in existence as yet. Scramjet engines have been tested but the problems associated with...
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Flight requires Lift plus Thrust. Lift is derived from the wind passing under the wings[ birds and planes alike ] .
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The three basic control surfaces of an airplane are the ailerons, rudder and elevators. Ailerons are on the trailing edges toward...
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For a passenger plane, approx. 430mph
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