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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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.