Airline Drag Thrust 
Pilot Institute
MARCH 7, 2025
Both the turbofan and turbojet are jet engines that rely on the same principles to provide thrust. Turbofan engines are commonly found in civilian commercial airline aircraft. Turbofan engines are found in civilian commercial airline aircraft. But what makes them different from each other? Is one design better than the other?
Vintage Aviation News
MARCH 2, 2025
The groundbreaking supersonic airliner was the result of a joint effort between Sud Aviation (later Arospatiale) and the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC). By 1965, construction had begun on six prototypes, and just four years later, the worlds first supersonic airliner achieved liftoff. Concorde 001 first flight in 1969.
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Vintage Aviation News
MARCH 2, 2025
The groundbreaking supersonic airliner was the result of a joint effort between Sud Aviation (later Arospatiale) and the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC). By 1965, construction had begun on six prototypes, and just four years later, the worlds first supersonic airliner achieved liftoff. Concorde 001 first flight in 1969.
WayMan
DECEMBER 18, 2024
Commercial airliners, private jets, and military aircraft each operate at different altitudes to optimize safety, fuel efficiency, and performance. This range, also known as the stratosphere, is ideal for several reasons: Fuel Efficiency : The thinner air at high altitudes reduces drag, helping aircraft consume less fuel.
Flying Magazine
APRIL 30, 2024
[Courtesy: Douglas Aircraft Company] Undeterred, Douglas unveiled a proposal for the same twin-powerplant, pusher-propeller concept in 1945, which was applied to a conceptual airliner. While more airflow could be ducted onto the engines easily enough, this would come at the expense of significant drag.
Aerotime
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
According to Brendan Koerner, the writer of ‘The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking’, the requirement for all airline passengers to be screened only came about on January 5, 1973. Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 – November 24, 1971 FBI Mystery still surrounds the whereabouts of plane hijacker D.B.
Northstar VFR
JANUARY 8, 2024
Thrust Thrust is our forward motion. In a commercial airliner, the jet engines are creating the thrust required for the heavy plane to move forward. In your car, the engine under the hood is creating thrust for you to move forward, but you stay on the ground because you don’t have wings! Drag opposes lift.
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