Airplanes Ceiling Wind Shear 
Plane and Pilot
JANUARY 8, 2025
Dawn had broken bright and clear, and while icing , ceiling, and visibility had been my preoccupationrightfully so, given our arrival into Portlandthe actual threat of the day was wind. As we walked from the wharf to breakfast, I saw that peak wind gusts were tickling the 40-knot mark. It doesnt have any limits for wind.
Vintage Aviation News
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
With carrier aviation still in its infancy, airships could fly further than many airplanes of the day and remain in the air for days on end without the need to land to refuel and replenish their supplies. While flying high over West Texas, the sun heated and expanded the helium lifting gas, forcing the Macon to rise up.
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Plane and Pilot
OCTOBER 2, 2024
While instructors idly watch, airplanes go off the runway, landings become too harsh, structure gets overstressed, and tolerances are exceeded. No flying in winds exceeding 10 knots, no chance of obscuring precipitation, no use of runways shorter than 5,000 feet, no risk of encountering darkness or lowering ceilings.
Plane and Pilot
OCTOBER 2, 2024
While instructors idly watch, airplanes go off the runway, landings become too harsh, structure gets overstressed, and tolerances are exceeded. No flying in winds exceeding 10 knots, no chance of obscuring precipitation, no use of runways shorter than 5,000 feet, no risk of encountering darkness or lowering ceilings.
Pilot Institute
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Cloud ceilings below 1,500 feet or cumulonimbus clouds can trigger a SPECI. A sudden wind shift, a 10-knot or greater speed increase, a 45-degree or more direction change, or gusts exceeding limits may also cause a SPECI. Thunderstorms can also bring wind shear and lightning.
Photographic Logbook
APRIL 19, 2024
I expected to manage some cloud layers during the New York portion of the flight, but the forecast called for a high ceiling at Northeast Philadelphia Airport. hours I had already put on the airplane since the repair increased my confidence that the issue was suitably managed. Famous last words.) Wilkes-Barre Departure, Air Force One."
Air Facts
APRIL 24, 2024
We had light winds, good visibility, full cloud cover, and ample ceiling heights. What was changing, however, wasn’t the visibility, or ceiling heights, or wind—at least not perceivably. There’s no way in hell I was going to climb back into that airplane, not that day, not in those conditions. We weren’t.
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