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Why do control towers have tilted glass panels?

air-traffic-control airport-design asked Oct 25, 2017 at 16:03

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Is a firm landing an indication of the pilot inexperience?

commercial-aviation landing pilot-technique asked Jun 28, 2016 at 6:12

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How are brakes cooled on heavy aircraft?

aircraft-design landing-gear aircraft-heavy asked Dec 7, 2016 at 7:45

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Why does the SpaceX reusable launcher use vertical rather than horizontal landing?

spacex landing falcon9-r asked Jan 27, 2015 at 8:17

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How dissimilar are redundant flight control computers?

safety flight-controls avionics software redundancy asked Oct 3, 2017 at 21:24

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Why are many jet aircraft designed to cruise around FL350-370?

aircraft-design engine cruise flight-level asked Feb 8, 2015 at 22:27

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Where do I land if I fly from KLAX with a constant east heading, crossing the US and the Atlantic ocean?

navigation magnetic-variation heading route asked Mar 14, 2015 at 11:28

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Jet engines: are they owned by the airline or just rented?

jet-engine asked Feb 8, 2015 at 14:13

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On which point(s) in a jet engine does the reaction force act?

jet-engine asked Nov 8, 2016 at 23:14

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What is the use of this jet aircraft with tanks between biplane wings?

aircraft-design aircraft-identification asked Dec 5, 2016 at 19:49

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Why did this FedEx flight (FDX1311) take such an indirect route multiple times?

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What is this aircraft with elaborate folding wings?

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How can pilots fly inside a cloud?

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What is this white smoke like thing, seen inside the cabin before takeoff?

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What is the difference between Type and Class?

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Why is the range of transponder digits 0 to 7 rather than 0 to 9?

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Can experts identify the model using this part (FOD prevention purposes)?

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What is the purpose of the "Mirror-Thing" over the Mig-29 Cockpit?

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Why don't most planes fly in a straight path?

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How does a commercial airliner measure its weight/mass?

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How does TACAN work?

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Why do digital flight instruments seem to fluctuate/flicker during landing or takeoff?

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What material is used to make the hot sections of jet engines?

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Can these vortices be dangerous?

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Why evacuate upwind?

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What's the greatest height at which a bird has collided with an aircraft?

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What are satellite time, GPS time, and UTC time?

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Why does IRS alignment take so much time?

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Has there ever been a plane not controlled from the nose?

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What are these indicators at the front of the 737 passenger cabin?

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Could the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft do a transatlantic flight with a Space Shuttle orbiter on its back?

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Why is cabin pressure increased above ambient pressure on the ground?

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When are black boxes used?

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What does "CC (Charlie Charlie)" mean when pilots reply to ATC?

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Why is there a strip of uncontrolled airspace between Russia and Norway?

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How is varying modulation depth achieved by localizer ground transmitters?

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Is it possible to take off backwards using reverse thrust?

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Were the Apollo lunar activities observed from Earth?

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Do today's aircraft still have INS (inertial navigation system)?

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What is that decommissioned plane near Nadirgul Airfield?

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