Stopping an airplane is no easy task, and although planes can use spoilers and thrust reversers to assist with the task, the brakes still do around 40% of the work. In simple terms, it's all about ...
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Why Do Plane Engines Open When Landing?
Landing a massive passenger aircraft requires a host of different systems and procedures to work correctly, and there are many redundancies in place when conditions are less than ideal or the ...
Speculation abounds as to the cause of the Air India airplane crash on June 12. One explanation so far is that both engines of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner failed, a highly unlikely event. A list ...
Two years ago, in 2023, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced the birth of the Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) program. The goal of the effort was to ...
With their capability to fly higher, farther, and more efficiently, jet engines have transformed air travel since their introduction. From its origins in the 1930s, the jet engine was a substantial ...
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