The winglets of an airplane are the fins, they are usually vertical, and are located at the tip of the wing. These make it possible to reduce the induced resistance. In other words, they serve to prevent the air flow from the soffit from mixing with that from the extrados due to the difference in pressure between them.
How are contrails left by airplanes generated and affected?
What are airplane contrails?
The white trails that aircraft sometimes leave in their wake are produced as a consequence of the high temperature of the gas jets that come out of the engines (often at temperatures above 500º C) in contrast to the low temperatures – of the order of minus 56ºC – which prevail at the heights at which commercial flights normally take place, which causes condensation and subsequent freezing of the water vapor they contain. These condensation trails – popularly known as “contrails”, a word derived from the English “condensation trails” – can turn into clouds, depending on the prevailing humidity, temperature and wind conditions at all times.
Super Guppy: The plane that transports spaceships
Large aircraft such as the Antonov 124, the Airbus Beluga, or the Super Guppy are always in the spotlight due to their large wingspan and their ability to carry extremely large loads, such as parts of other aircraft, components of spaceships, or even other whole planes.
The aircraft fuels of the future
Respect for the environment and the implementation of cleaner engines and fuels have occupied and concerned the aeronautical sector for decades.
Aircraft that have reached records
Since the beginnings of aviation, there have been many aircraft that have gone down in history, be it for their size, capabilities or broken records. We present the most outstanding ones.
This is the way for management of the aerial trance at world level
At weighing that the derivative pandemia of the Covid19 has produced a drastic descent of the daily number of flights at world level, at a day can give thousands of simultaneous flights. In fact, in July of 2019 it reached achieve the figure of 230.000 at only day. The management of the aerial trance at precise world level of some determinate procedures that permit to standardise all the operation of flight since the takeoff at the flight of cruise, or the landing.
What mean the numbers that appear at the pitches of landing?
If we observe a pitch of landing will be able to view that at both letterheads appear big numeric inscriptions painted of white at the paviment. His meaning offers a valuable information at the pilots, so much on shore how at the air. This same numbering is what figure at the cards of approach at the airports that have the crews to schedule and execute the navigation.
The painting of the airliners. It affects at the flight?
Colours, images, logos… the aerial companies blend extravagant or minimalist combinations to give him main personality or simply to make more corporate his aircraft. But, this affects at the moment of the flight?
The most dangerous weather phenomena by plane
When we rise in height in an aircraft, we cannot accurately predict what type of meteorological phenomena we are going to encounter on the way.
World’s busiest air routes
Thousands of planes fly over our cities, towns and landscapes on air routes or in the air. We explain to you which are the most important and most transited in the world!