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Embraer releases multiple updates at FIA, includes plans for auto-takeoff system

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The system will reduce the takeoff distance and increase the takeoff weight, allowing aircraft to fly further, particularly from airports with short runways such as London-City Airport (LCY). The E-Freighter marks EmbraerĀ“s first step into the cargo market. Improvements to the E2 family aircraft include the E195-E2 becoming 12.5%

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UK bids farewell to Boeing 757 passenger flights after 42 years of service

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The aircrafts two Rolls Royce RB511 engines allowed the plane to operate from shorter runways, while it also met increasingly stringent ICAO Stage 3 noise regulations making it attractive to airlines and passengers alike. There are, however, still around 270 that continue to operate cargo-only flights.

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DHL 737 crashes short of Vilnius runway

Fear of Landing

The 31-year-old cargo aircraft, registered in Spain as EC-MFE, was operated by Swiftair on behalf of the German logistics group DHL for a routine cargo flight from Leipzig, Germany, to Vilnius, Lithuania. The airport has a single north-south asphalt runway (01/19) of 2,515 metres (8,250 feet). Descend to altitude 4,000 feet.

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The anatomy of a commercial flight ā€“ all you ever wanted to know:Ā Ā  Part twoĀ Ā Ā 

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This will generally convey information about the flight time remaining, the weather at the destination, and the flight crew thanking you for choosing their airline and wishing you a safe onward journey once on the ground. On a Boeing aircraft, this sound will be three short warning horns.

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Feeling the Heat

Ask the Pilot

On the most basic level, hot weather affects air travel the way it affects most things: it makes people uncomfortable and wears them down. Aerodynamically, warmer air is less dense than cooler air, meaning that in hot weather a wing produces less lift. How much so will vary with the temperature and runway length.

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Discovering Indigo Airbus A321neo Part 2: Hyderabad to Chennai

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

There are 2 terminals, one for cargo and the other for passengers. Soon, we entered the runway and off we go. We turned into the active runway. Once we were cleared of the gloomy weather, it was smooth for the rest of the flight. The weather was certainly better than the western part of the country at that time.

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Iā€™d yet to land on that fabled grass runway, the Augusta National of general aviation, and this would be the year. As I passed Atlanta, the skies went from sunny to cloudy, which was as advertised, but as I neared the South Carolina state line, the weather wasnā€™t lifting. Except it wasnā€™t meant to be. Three hours came and went.

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