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In landing, an aircraft's speed is reduced and a predictable descent angle is established, the vertex being the numbers on the runway. That is to say, you aim the aircraft at the numbers. This invariably requires a decrease in the throttle and engine rpm. Pilots may choose to deploy flaps at this point on aircraft equipped with flaps. Flaps change the aircraft's wing geometry, increasing lift, increasing drag, increasing angle of descent, and lowering stall speed. To land, the aircraft must transition from Vmin (minimum speed required to maintain flight) to a lower, non-flying speed (Vstall). Using flaps helps achieve this end. However, flaps are NOT necessary to land; they're just convenient. Flaps-off landings are made all the time.

So you descend to the point where you're just about going to nose it in, then you slowly pull back on the stick, adjusting the throttle if necessary, bleeding off airspeed, watching the ground coming up. It's at this point where you get into what is called "ground effect" where the air is caught between the bottom of the wing and the ground. By and large, it's your friend. You "mush" through the ground effect, continuing to incrementally lift the nose, keeping an eye on airspeed and altitude, while maintaining the aircraft's track in the center of the runway. On high crosswind days, this can be challenging. At the appropriate instant the plane both stalls, and touches down on the runway on the main landing gear. Back pressure on the stick is then released, and you taxi off the runway to parking, using rudder and differential braking.

Helicopters use aviation turbine fuel most commonly known as "Jet A". This fuel resembles kerosene, on which other aircraft run.

Wing Loading is the details of the distribution of pressure on an aircraft wing. An aircraft flys by producing Lift by its wings. This lift force depends on the shape of the wing that produces high pressure on the bottom of the wing and low pressure on the top. The center of the lift is usually at the 1/4 chord or 25% of the width of the wing as measure from the leading edge. The Wing Loading can be designed to produce different Lift and ensure the aircraft will be easy to trim for level flight.

Aviation gasoline (Avgas) weighs 6 lb. per gallon. Jet fuel (kerosene) weighs 6.84 lb. per gallon.

It depends on the airport. You can go to http://www.airnav.com, find your local airport, and all the fuel dealers on the property will have their prices listed. I work next to Lumberton Regional Airport in North Carolina, where Jet A is $5.80 per gallon as of August 2, 2008.

The final quarter 2014, the average cost of jet fuel was about $2.85 per gallon. A Boeing 777 holds about 51,585 gallons of jet fuel.

Both the airbus a300 and the 757 have two engines. The main way you can distinguish the two is that the A300 is much wider than the 757 because it is a wide bodied aircraft. Also the Airbus A300 has a very small wiglets on the outward side of the wings. A 757 will either have no wiglets or very tall slim wing lets. the fuselage on a 757 tends to slope downwards once you begin to head for the tail. the A300 fuselage does not do that.

I run my car on jet fuel so its the same price as diesel

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Go to airnav.com to find fuel prices in your area.

According to the latest price listing (Released Jan 2014) $93.9 Million US for the base price.

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operating weight is the sum of the dry operating weight +take off fuel.

WW2 German Me-323 transport aircraft. See Link: http://www.constable.ca/me323.htm German Blohm & Voss BV-238 VI, a new very-long-range bomber that was supposed to be able to attack New York. German Blohm & Voss BV 222 - a six engine seaplane. Latécoère 521 - six-engined prototype large flying boat (France 1935) Latécoère 522 & also 523 Short S.14 Sarafand - six-engined long-range flying boat (Britian 1932) ANT-20 "Maxim Gorky" built by Russian in 1934. Barling Bomber, a six engine monster built by Wittemann Corporation, was then the largest airplane of its type in the world in 1920. ANT-16 (TB-4) built by Russia in 1933. Oh but this one had Four wing-mounted engines supplemented the two engines mounted in tandem above the fuselage. Convair's B-36 bomber. Propeller driven but turbo-prop engines. Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation XC-99 with the props mounted on trailing edge of wings was A transport version of the Convair's B-36 bomber.

The smoke trails emitted by display jet aircraft are produced by injecting diesel into the hot exhaust of the engine. Coloured smoke is produced by mixing dye with the diesel.A

The "smoke" trails that appear behind other aircraft are actually known as con-trails and are in fact water vapour. The warm moist air that comes from the jet mixes with the cold air in the sky. It creates a condensation trail or con-trail.

Con-trails are also generated on the aircraft's wingtips. Again, this is simply moisture that is generated. When the air flows OVER the wing, it has to travel further and therefore it speed up. Since it speed us, the pressure drops. The drop in the air pressure will cause any water vapour suspended in the air to condensate and form into a cloud.

The effect is dependent largely on environmental conditions. The air temperature, dewpoint, and humidity all have to fall into a certain range for the conditions to be right for contrail formation. Since these conditions change from altitude to altitude and from place to place, it is not uncommon for aircraft to generate a very definite trail at one altitude, and none at all at a slightly lower or higher altitude.

There have been many hoaxes and conspiracy theories relating to contrails over the years. Some have claimed that contrails are a secret method of controlling weather, while others have claimed that contrails are used to spread diseases and such. None of these claims has ever been proven, nor has a shred of evidence ever been discovered to validate these claims. Many studies have been made regarding the environmental effects of contrails with most showing the effects to be negligible if not completely unmeasurable.

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Smoke trail is the trail of smoke left behind by an aircraft as it flies in the sky.

Decision Making is the core of planning, managers must make choices of action among alternatives. Managers must make choices on the basis of limited or bounded rationality. That is, they must make decisions in light of everything they can learn about the situation, which may not be everything they should know.

The white line you see in the sky behind an airplane is water- water vapor. Known as a contrail (for conensation trail), this is visible when the very large amount of water vapor created by burning jet fuel meets the VERY cold air at high altitudes. Just as you can see your breath on a cold day, you can see the "breath" of the airplane engine. Jet aircraft may fly at 30,000 to 40,000 feet of altitude- where the air is -70 degrees F.

Decision making is the key aspect of management. There are lots of decisions that needs to be made by an organization's management in order to move the organization forward.

Typically, car dealers (in their parts department) have access to diagrams for all sorts of systems (including fuel, wiring, ignition, brake, driveline, etc.). Usually it's as easy as pulling it up on the computer programs they have. They can even do this for older vehicles, though some dealers have limits for how far back they'll go. You should also be able to find one, with some extensive Googling.

At the time of answering this question (in August 2013), there has just been one A380 delivery to British Airways.

Only certain people are allowed to travel to Cuba, I know of professors, religious and humanitarian organizations. Since Puerto Rico belongs to the U.S. the embargo is enforced here too. Because no airplane flies from San Juan to Cuba, most people who go there usually take a flight to some Central or South American country like Panama and then fly to Cuba from there.

The standard economy configuration of an Airbus A340-300 is 2-4-2.

Business class, if provided, is 2-2-2.

First class is 1-2-1

Emirates' discounts ranged form 50-60% on the A380's list price at time of ordering. If they eventually take delivery of the 54+ aircraft they have ordered or plan to order (ie excluding leased-in aircraft), they will receive upwards of $1.5bn in extra discounts -- equal to five free aircraft.

In the search for the speed of the fastest airplane in air speed, the first problem was to find the difference between regular speed and air speed. Air speed is defined as the speed of an airplane with relation to the air, as compared to regular speed, which is the speed relative to the earth.

In 1968, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, a record airspeed of 2,070.102 mph (925 m/s) was achieved by a Lockheed YF-12A. The 1989 Guinness Book states that a record airspeed of 2,193.167 mph (980 m/s) was achieved by a Lockheed SR-71-A, which is a newer version of the YF-12A. The online source from the AFAM web page agrees with this number to the thousandths place, and it was recorded 7 years later. As it says, this plane has held this record speed for 24 years. The 1996 World Book Encyclopedia has a different answer of 4,520 mph (2020 m/s). This difference in opinion can be explained by the fact that this record speed was performed by a rocket plane, which differs from the type of plane mentioned in the other sources.

The source from 1968 differs from the more recent data because since 1968, engines and designs of planes have been advanced due to technological advances so that planes can fly faster. Of course there are other faster speeds. The US Space Shuttle flew at a record 16,000 mph (7153 m/s). These machines aren't planes and they achieve these high speeds only during reentry.

As of April 2010, Emirates had a total non-cargo fleet of 137 aircraft, split 83/54 between Boeing and Airbus.