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The anatomy of a commercial flight – all you ever wanted to know:   Part two   

Aerotime

At every cabin crew station, where crew members sit during take-off, landing, and during bouts of turbulence, interphones are available for cabin crew members to communicate with each other, as well as with the pilots on the flight deck. Of course, they also double up to act as the PA system for announcements to the passengers.

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Dream Aircraft: What Can You Fly?

Flying Magazine

The latest version of the nonturbocharged SR22, the recently unveiled G7, boasts a top cruise speed of 181 knots, 1,169 nm range, and useful load of 1,326 pounds. The Cub is little and light—two good-sized people can overload it, and it’s just not built for carrying much cargo. Get to know the specific model you’ll be flying.

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Air Atlanta 747 freighter rejects takeoff from taxiway at Riyadh Airport 

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Data from Flightradar24 shows that the aircraft taxied from the cargo apron located at the northwestern end of the airfield at 00:28 before taxying down to the taxiway leading to runway 33R. This runway has a total length of 13,796 feet (4,205 meters).

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Rotation Gone Wrong: The Critical Error Behind LATAM’s Milan Tail Strike

Fear of Landing

Then 383 passengers boarded for the flight, making for a total of 398 people on board. On the flight deck, an instructor pilot sat in the right seat and was Pilot Flying for the first leg. The loadsheet is then generated from this information and passed to the flight crew. The Boeing 777 became airborne at 180 knots.

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LEOs and FAMs and FFDOs oh my!

Adventures of Cap'n Aux

LEOs: Law Enforcement Officers While passengers are prohibited from carrying firearms in the cabin of an airliner, there are procedures for them to be able to check unloaded weapons (such as for a hunting trip) in the cargo hold. Find it on eBay On another flight, I got a glimpse of the 777’s fabled Electronics Bay.

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Randy’s Warbird Profiles: Hughes H-4 Hercules, AKA the “Spruce Goose”

Vintage Aviation News

Written specifications indicate it was designed to be flown by a crew of three, but the only flight had a crew of more like 17. The hull consisted of a flight deck, cargo deck, and below that, fuel tank compartments or bays separated by watertight bulkheads.