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

Aerotime

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 

Aerotime

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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Ready To Help

AV Web

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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White-Knuckle Affair

Plane and Pilot

The weather briefing we had reviewed a half hour earlier promised a 20-knot headwind that would require two fuel stops on the 130-mile trip from our home airport in Kennett, Missouri (KTKX), to Little Rock Air Force Base (KLRF) in Arkansas. entered WWII, Nolde joined the CAP, ferrying cargo and personnel around the country.

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