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Quiz: Understanding Aircraft Performance

Flight Training Central

Airplane performance can be defined as the capability of an airplane to operate effectively while serving a specific purpose. Among the performance elements are takeoff and landing distances, rate of climb, ceiling, speed, payload, and fuel economy. What is ground effect? a higher-than-normal angle of attack.

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A Life in Aviation: Building a Legacy Through Books and Artifacts

Air Facts

By the time I was in my late teens, I had built a set of floor-to-ceiling shelves and had begun immediately to fill them with aviation books and magazines at a rate throttled solely by my wallet. One of the several rows of shelves holding the collections approximately 10,000 volumes.

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Nothing Small About It

Plane and Pilot

Precisely what the single-engine ceiling is, the team can’t say. “We We just fly the thing around at 1000 feet, so the ceiling, we don’t know. We didn’t do any single-engine work in the time we had, but the team says the single-engine service ceiling is probably around 5000 feet. The plane will fly itself off.