Typically pertains to the study of aircraft. Can relate to the theories, design, construction, behavior and use of such craft.
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Were flight reservations centrally managed on wall boards in huge halls in the pre-computer era?
For the first fifty years of scheudled air travel, agents' bookings were done over the telephone. At first, charts recording space on particular flights were sheets of paper. Eventually, for large airlines, space boards covered the walls in a large…
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Can Lithium Ion batteries explode or self ignite?
Transport Canada treat lithium batteries as dangerous goods:
While most lithium batteries are safe, some have overheated and caught fire. Once ignited, they can cause any nearby batteries to overheat and catch fire, as well. These fires are…
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Did an MH370 passenger text a claim of hijacking?
A recent spreading rumour about the missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 (MH370) is that a passenger sent a message claiming to be hijacked:
"I have been held hostage by unknown military personal after my flight was hijacked (blindfolded). I work…
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Is it possible to survive a plane crash on water?
Is a scenario like the one in LOST possible? Is there a possibility of finding a significant number of survivors from a plane crash in the sea? Is there evidence of anything like this having ever happened in our world's history?
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Did the Wright brothers fly 105 times in 1904?
According to the Wright brothers, the two inventors flew 105 times in 1904 (near a streetcar station called Simms, situated at the outskirts of Dayton, Ohio).
O. Wright, “Letter to Carl Dienstbach”, Dayton, Dec. 21, 1904.
“Through the courtesy of…
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Is paramotoring the safest form of personal aviation?
Paramotoring is the of sport of powered paragliding, where participants strap a 2 stroke motor to their back and a parachute, which they dub a wing, in order to fly.
Blackhawk Paramotor, America's (self proclaimed) largest paramotoring company…
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Do airliners use single physical network for both avionics and passenger wifi access?
BBC reports (emphasis mine):
Planes including the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and the Airbus 350 and A380
have a single network that is used by both pilots to fly the plane and
by passengers for their wi-fi connections.
Do these airlines actually…
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Can a sandpaper-thick layer of ice reduce lift by 30 percent and increase drag up to 40 percent?
This is a quote listed everywhere in aviation safety publications, but not in a consistent form.
From http://www.aopa.org/-/media/Files/AOPA/Home/Pilot%20Resources/ASI/Safety%20Advisors/sa11.pdf:
Frost, snow, and ice accumulations (on the leading…
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Do commercial airliners go into flat spins if they lose electronics?
In movies and television, commercial airliners that have lost electronics often go into flat spins and inevitably crash. Is this what would really happen? Would the plane be able to glide to a (possibly survivable) crash landing? Would it dive nose…
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Does aviation benefit from Daylight Savings Time?
In Europe, we have Daylight Saving Time, but a few years ago, the European Commission decided that must stop and instructed their members to choose a permanent time zone. For various reasons that hasn't happened yet, and this night we moved from…
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Are flight attendants exempt from COVID-19 quarantine restrictions when leaving New York or entering Canada?
Are the posts below true?
fathrowaway7. 2020 Mar 27 23:54 GMT.
I’m a flight attendant.
We are still flying because we are considered “essential.” You heard about those orders to quarantine for 14 days after traveling from New York? We’re exempt.…
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Is there any evidence that laptops in airplanes might be used for terrorist attack?
For some airports in the Middle East passengers are not allowed to bring electronic devices bigger than smartphones into the cabins. According to some news pages (e.g. this article) this ban should be extended to European airports within the next…
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Why 'every' electrical devices in an airplane are prohibited during landing and departing?
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Are personal electronics a risk to commercial aviation?
Not only the electrical devices using EM wave (ex: Cellphone, RC car, ...), but other electrical devices (ex: MP3, Nintendo DS, ...) are also prohibited in airplane, when…
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Can the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter be detected by WW2 era radar?
According to Pierre Sprey, the technology to detect stealth aircraft (e.g. the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter in air by radar has been around ever since the Battle of Britain (i.e. 1940, early World War II).
Source: Interview with Pierre…
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Did NATO Air Forces start shooting down Russian fighter jets?
In the beginning of October, several news appeared claiming that Russian fighter jets intruded the air space of Turkey. They have been intercepted and escorted away from Turkish air space, but no fire was open.
On October, 10, British news agency…
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