Many of those who feel passionate about commercial aviation find ourselves occasionally in doubt about identifying one or another aircraft model, so we thought you might appreciate a handful...
30/04/2014
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AvGeeks
Iberia’s primary maintenance facilities are located near Madrid’s Barajas airport in La Muñoza, whose largest hangar, 20,000 square metres (215,278 square feet), is devoted exclusively to checking and repairing the engines...
16/04/2014
If you fly with any frequency, you may well have heard a pilot say the phrase — especially in relation to a sudden delay — “we’ve lost our landing...
10/04/2014
If there’s one thing that abounds on a commercial jetliner, it’s wheels; the large airliners of Iberia and other carriers can have up to 12 of them in the...
03/04/2014
Today we hit the tarmac to learn more about the important role played by the ladies and gents you see outside your aircraft window gesticulating up a storm. They’re...
19/03/2014
Airplane travel, it's no secret, brings with it unique conditions that can require a little bit (and sometimes a little more) adjustment on the part of passengers. With that...
24/02/2014
Most of us have a fairly clear picture of the procedures passengers go through when they arrive at an airport: check-in, security, boarding, and so forth. And of course...
21/02/2014
http://youtu.be/Q8VIpYuqMJQ
Every aircraft that legitimately takes to the world’s air lanes, even before it starts its engines, is under the direction of one or another air traffic control centre, especially...
13/02/2014
http://youtu.be/mMvLuUJFHYk
Not long ago, this video went viral on YouTube, racking up more than 8½ million views. Apart from the fact that the 1,200-millimetre telephoto lens thoroughly flattens both the...
07/02/2014
There’s no doubt that landing a giant aircraft in fog is not among a pilot's favourite things. Fortunately, many airports in the second decade of the 21st century are...
31/01/2014
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