In a previous article, we talked about how to help the autopilot to reduce the workload of the pilots during flight. This time we are going to emphasize the Fly-by-wire system patented by Airbus.
Solar energy in aviation
If a few years ago someone had told us that it was possible to power an airplane solely and exclusively by solar energy, we would not have believed it. Today this is already an incipient reality, at an experimental level of course, but it can mean a before and after in the history of aviation.
How to manage turbulence
Although generally not visible, in the presence of water vapor or smoke turbulence can appear in the form of eddies. They are often called ‘waves of the sky’.
Flight simulators: everything you need to know
Those who want to learn to fly, either professionally or by testing themselves with new challenges, should know that an important part of their instruction will be carried out thanks to flight simulators.
The use of flight simulators in the training programs to obtain certain qualifications, such as instrument flight (IR), allows the student’s capabilities to be exponentially expanded in extremely diverse situations and scenarios, allowing to analyze, stop or repeat the maneuvers as many times as necessary to achieve optimal technification. Next, we explain what a flight simulator consists of, and in what situations its use is essential.
The World’s Largest Aircraft Engines
Throughout the little more than one hundred years of aviation history, airplanes and their means of propulsion have evolved and adapted. From primitive internal combustion engines and propellers to today’s …
The new airlines of 2021
Despite the fact that in 2020 many airlines were forced to cease their activity due to the covid19 pandemic, investors and entrepreneurs – with government support in many cases (30,000 million euros in aid granted in the EU during the pandemic) – have shown its confidence in the aviation sector as one of the engines for the recovery of the post-covid world economy, and for this reason it has already started the appearance of new airlines and the refloating of many of the existing ones.
Future of hypersonic aviation
We are still far from flying at hypersonic speeds, but the aeronautical industry is beginning to be in a position to carry out tests that bring us closer to that future reality. In fact, the Stratolaunch company designed in the first half of the decade what could have been the first hypersonic aircraft in history, destined to launch special spacecraft and satellites in the upper atmospheric layers, but the project at the time of this writing lines is paralyzed.
EAS BARCELONA: IMPORTANT NOTICE
For a year now, the pandemic caused by COVID-19 has been affecting millions of people throughout the world. A health tragedy that directly affects the whole world economy and especially …
Fuel, the key element of emergency landings
No doubt we have heard or followed the news of an emergency landing. The last one with media repercussions occurred in Madrid in February 2020, when an Air Canada Boeing 767 declared an emergency shortly after take-off. The plane spent up to six hours orbiting the Madrid sky before landing back at Barajas airport. The main reason for this manoeuvre was to get rid of several tonnes of fuel, the weight of which would have made landing impossible.
Supersonic planes and the sound barrier
During World War II, the world of aviation underwent an impressive technological revolution. Each time the aircraft were able to fly higher and faster. But pilots and engineers ran into the so-called ‘sound barrier’ over and over again. That is, the possibility of exceeding the speed at which sonic waves are transmitted through the air. Approximately 344 m / s at 20 ° C temperature, or what is the same, 1,238.4 km / h.