Iberia Airport Services, Iberia's airports division, has a lot at stake these days. It has presented its tender for the provision of handling operations in Spain’s 41 airports. Its...
08/03/2023
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Johannes Kepler was a key figure in the scientific revolution. A 17th-century German astronomer and mathematician, he's known primarily for his laws on the motion of the planets in...
03/03/2023
Let'Here's simple experiment: find a direct round-trip from Madrid to New York City and have a look at the duration of the outbound and the return. Under normal conditions,...
22/02/2023
With its multiplicity of liquid-crystal displays along with and joysticks and soft keys to manipulate them, EFIS offers more information than the old analogue system and at the same time makes it much more visually intuitive, easy to interpret, and with a greatly reduced margin of error.
24/01/2023
It goes without saying that the wheels of airplanes can't be like those of cars. and here we explain a little bit more about why.
20/01/2023
If you've ever flown across multiple time zones - for example, an eight-hour flight between Madrid and New York - you've no doubt experienced the jet lag and disorientation...
05/01/2023
When film directors shoot their movies, they make sure that everything is perfect: for example, actors are all in place; their lines are memorised; there's a timeline with expected...
21/12/2022
How a phenomenon first described centuries ago allows aircraft wings to generate lift
15/12/2022
The modern cockpit is of course packed with myriad buttons, switches, gauges, and screens. Recently we took a look at one, the weather radar, but another which is considered...
12/12/2022
We've written in the past about professional pilots' extensive training, both theoretical and practical, before taking the controls of an aircraft for the first time. The practical bit deals...
30/11/2022
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