Assemblers on an old Russian-built Antonov AN-26 recently experienced a terrifying incident after the rear door malfunctioned and opened in mid-flight. Small pieces of food were sucked up in the frigid temperatures below freezing. Because of the design of airplanes and the pressure in the cabin, the possibility of a door opening during flight on a modern aircraft is impossible without causing harm. […]
Just a few seconds after the plane took off at Maui, Hawaii, on December 18, 2022, United Airlines flight 1722 lost 1,425 feet in altitude. The Boeing 777 was within seven hundred feet below sea level, but pilots could make the correct dive, avoid falling into the ocean, and then restart the climb. Utilizing information taken from FlightRadar Based on FlightRadar […]
Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 was meant to be a routine flight between Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Beijing, China. The plane was one of the Boeing 777-200ER aircraft, carried more than 227 people and 12 crew members, and was scheduled to take five hours and 34 minutes. The flight route led the plane north past Malaysia pas, to the coast of […]
Susanne Bayly-Yukawa will remember, perhaps most of all, how she and her friend would not like getting on the plane. It was the 12th of August, 1985, on a Monday, when Akihisa Yukawa was due to arrive in Osaka for a single night. The two had been in London eight years earlier when Yukawa’s job brought him to England to […]
After years of bankruptcies and mergers and a difficult time in the aviation industry, the listing of U.S.-based airlines has been reduced. In the past, the small network of regional airlines linked a large portion of the nation. Still, due to the deregulation, these smaller ones were taken over by larger airlines, and today’s monopolies have been born. Today, we think of […]
The famous Learjet first flew in October 1963; it marked the dawn of a new era of stylish, elegant, and speedy executive aircraft. Its Learjet 23 was so swift–with a top speed of 561 miles per hour and a 3G speed of climb of 6,900 feet per minute that it was the only first-line U.S. Air Force and Navy fighters that could […]
During an earnings conference held on July 25, the RTX company revealed that it would be recalling up to 1,200 units of the PW1100G Geared Turbofan engines, made by its subsidiary, engine maker Pratt & Whitney, for rapid inspection. The culprit is microscopic contaminants found within the powdered metal manufactured at a New York facility. It was used to make engines’ stage […]
The first airship era was destroyed by fire. The next starts with the entire planet in flames. With the warming climate fast melting the glaciers, animals blinking out of existence, and one-of-a-kind weather occasions often filling the forecasts for seven days, Scientists, politicians act, activists, engineers, and anyone else who loves the planet Earth are scrambling to find ways to switch from fossil fuels and […]
Shinji Suzuki met Takuo Toda in 1999 atop Mt. Yonami in the city of Jinseki-Kogen, located in the south of Jinseki-Kogen in Japan. Toda, the Japan Origami Airplane Association chairperson, was in the area to launch a vast paper plane from the tower he constructed on top of the mountain specifically for this purpose. Toda has convinced the local city […]
Has published ten science-based books, including Monsters: The Hindenburg Disaster and the Birth of Pathological Technology (Basic Books 2015). He also has logged over 1000 flying hours as a private flight pilot. IN BRIEF At a strict mathematical scale, engineers can make planes that remain at a height. However, equations do not explain why aerodynamic lift happens. Two different theories reveal the […]