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Jimmy

Seattle, WA, USA

Aerospace engineer by day, knowledge seeker by night.

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38
Can a plane bank without turning?
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Is it true that cockpit doors are bulletproof?
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36
Is there an aviation career where I would help design an entire aircraft and its systems?
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32
Why don't commercial aircraft adopt a slightly more seaplane-like design to allow safer ditching in case of emergency?
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29
What is more environmentally friendly? An A320 or a car?
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25
Why is this airplane flying in circles randomly?
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24
Why can't an Airbus A330 dump fuel in an emergency?
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23
What is the maximal acceptable delay between pilot's input and flight control surface actuation?
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20
Why are the angle-of-attack sensors on most airplanes mounted on the forward fuselage rather than at the wing roots?
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18
Can a wing generate lift in excess of its aircraft's weight?
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17
Why is there a maximum landing weight limit?
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14
Could sidesticks be linked?
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13
How does an aircraft descend without its nose pointing down?
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13
Why does it take so long to develop a passenger aircraft?
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12
What could explain the fact that during 1976-80, I used to hear commercial jets make sonic booms while flying overhead?
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11
Why are highly cambered airfoils rarely used in propellers or wings?
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10
Where is the 'zone of reversed commands...'?
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9
Will computational fluid dynamics (CFD) ever be 100% correct?
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9
The relation between Euler-angle rate and body-axis rates?
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8
Why couldn’t Boeing just use the stab trim system to do MCAS job?
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8
Is lowering V1/VR (and runway length required) the only reason for flaps at take off?
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8
Does airspeed come into play with vertical speed, in terms of who will reach the ground first?
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7
Why don't bypass ducts in jet engines narrow down the flow to accelerate it?
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7
What are the forces present in a coordinated turn?
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7
How do linear actuators for flight controls work in fighter jets?
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7
On the 737 MAX, can the pilots switch to the backup MCAS, or switch active MCAS input to another AoA probe during flight?
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7
How do aircraft manufacturers determine the elevator size?
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Why is a rectangular wing planform less efficient than others?
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Why can't Centre of pressure and Centre of Gravity coincide?
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Does ground effect scale 1:1 with wingpsan?
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