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
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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
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
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
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