Air Facts

JUNE 12, 2024

Joe was just short of celebrating his 50th anniversary as an employee of Hawaiian Airlines when he was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. He asked to be taken home to Kona on his own airline, but the only aircraft available was one of our 304 seat Trans-Pacific DC-10s. But this was Hawaii, and we not the usual airline.

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Ask Captain Lim

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

United Airlines DC-10 Photo Credit: Kplastique (Wikimedia Commons) What can you do when the hydraulic system in your plane fails? On July 19, 1989, United Airlines Flight 232, a DC-10, crash-landed at Sioux City Airport after a catastrophic failure of its tail engine had caused a loss of all hydraulic control.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Welcome to my Delta Airlines 767-400ER Trip report! Introduction At this time of blogging, Delta Airlines offered 2 daily flights to GRU (Sao Paulo), I can chose either to fly to London Heathrow via Atlanta or New York JFK. Premium Select (2-2-2 seating configuration - 20 seats) This is the airline's premium economy class.

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Pilot's Life Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The elevator, situated on the horizontal tail surface, adjusts pitch, raising or lowering the nose for ascent or descent. The collective adjusts the pitch angle of all rotor blades simultaneously, controlling vertical movementraising the collective increases lift for ascent, while lowering it causes descent.

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Fly with Eva

MARCH 20, 2018

Cleared for takeoff! ‘Set thrust.’ Descent briefing, approach briefing, and down we go. ’ Quickly take off thrust, and back in the air we go, flight directors off, and time for some visual circuits. ’ There we go, rattling on runway 07R. Cleared to land! We are approaching Clark airport.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

If you are lucky, you might fly one of the airline's aircraft painted in the Pokemon special livery. As I had already flown with Starflyer and Peach, I looked the my other options and they are Solaseed Air, Jetstar Japan, Sky Airlines, Japan Airlines and it's subsidiaries and ANA. Passenger's pick up point at the ground level.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

OCTOBER 15, 2024

At this time of blogging) Air India and Vistara will be merged into one airline, with Air India branding continue to exist. Vistara's flight code, UK will no longer exist and so will the airline's website which would direct passengers to Air India's website for booking and redemption. Fortunately, my flight was not affected.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

APRIL 15, 2024

This is Hainan Airlines Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner operating on Changsha to London Heathrow route. Japan Airlines Boeing 777-300ER getting ready for departure to Tokyo Haneda Airport. The airline's Airbus A350-1000 The airline's Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner Qantas Lounge is located near our departure gate, gate 1.

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Pilot Job Central

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

A significant amount of thrust generated by the engine comes from the fan rather than the core. Image: Stages in a turbine engine Geared Turbofan – A New Class In recent years a hybrid engine has entered airline service. Descent planning can be complicated and needs to be done more than 100 miles from the destination.

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Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

From simple mechanical linkages in small aircraft to high-tech fly-by-wire systems in airliners, ailerons have evolved with aviation itself. You might be surprised to learn that tiny four-seater Cessna 172s and 140-passenger Boeing 707 airliners both use simple cables for moving the ailerons and elevators! What Is Aileron Trim?

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

MARCH 30, 2025

This is SE-RSA before it left SAS's fleet to join China Airlines to become registered as B-18919. So to avoid this situation, the airline decided to return some of the aircraft to the leasing companies, which results to the airline cutting the A350 fleet from 6 to 3 and SE-RSA was one of the A350 returned to the lessor.

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Air Facts

MAY 20, 2024

He told me we were initially directed to divert to Portland, then Vancouver, British Columbia after they closed the airspace, but since our airline was not serving Vancouver, we would have no company support when we arrived. They’re probably not getting any information from the airline on our status or where we are.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JULY 22, 2024

Introduction What a way to celebrate my first ever Indian domestic flight experience by flying on the airline's brand new Airbus A350-900. Let's say I didn't have the best first impression of this airline and I believe some of you have read about the negative reviews of the airline in almost all aspects of air travel with this airline.

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