All modern aircraft are comprised of various sophisticated systems which work together to ensure safety and efficiency. And a plane’s transponder is a critical component without which it couldn’t...
04/08/2023
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These are something familiar to most of us, whether or not you know the ins and outs of the aviation world. You’ve seen isobar lines every time you see...
24/07/2023
One of the greatest revolutions in the world of air navigation came with the shift from analog to electronic technology, which is much more precise, and the mechanism that...
11/07/2023
There are a number of mechanisms on every aircraft which enable the pilot to control it. These flight controls are divided into primary and secondary control surfaces.
The primaries direct...
29/05/2023
Iberia Airport Services and Repsol are carrying out for the first time in Spain, the handling activities at Bilbao airport with 100-percent renewable fuel. Over the next month, both...
25/05/2023
If you've ever flown at night or in low visibility conditions (fog, rain, etc.), you will no doubt have noticed the lights which follow the markings on an airport’s...
22/05/2023
If we go to the thesaurus and look up "course", "course" will certainly appear among the words with the same meaning. However, in aviation there is an important difference....
17/05/2023
There are two basic route types in air navigation, the “great circle” and the “rhumb line” – what’s the difference between the two? First of all, we should point...
19/04/2023
Have you noticed that, for the most part, all commercial aircraft have a very similar shape? Despite design differences, the curvature and especially the wings, (which we will talk...
13/04/2023
As we’ve discussed previously in this blog, velocity is what creates the airflow which in passing across the fuselage wings generates the lift needed to propel a passenger-filled machine...
10/03/2023
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