Category: Aviation

Click here to read the CNN story on this strange new design for airplanes.

Man flies around the Statue of Liberty in a jetpack.

Fuselage Terminology

frames = cadres
stringers = longerons
skin = fuselage

There was actually once a plane that had square windows: the De Havilland Comet. After a few fatal crashes resulting from breakups in midair, the aircraft had its certificate of airworthiness removed. A thorough investigation revealed that the crashes were caused by increased stress especially at the corners of the windows. As a result, the fatigue on the aircraft over many flights resulted in the stress points at the corners of the windows to give way. All windows on airplanes are structural weak points, even round ones. Each additional window is decreasing the structural integrity of the body of the aircraft.

This is the Crew Rest Area on an Emirates Boeing 777 aircraft used for long-haul flights. What do you think?

What are the technical difficulties of air-lifting?
Have you ever needed to be air-lifted?
Do you know anyone who was air-lifted?
Have you ever needed a regular ambulance?

1) Trailing edge
2) Face
3) Fillet area
4) Hub or Boss
5) Hub or Boss Cap
6) Leading edge
7) Back
8) Propeller shaft
9) Stern tube bearing
10) Stern tube

UPDATE: This was NOT caused by an oxygen tank but by a bomb smuggled inside of a laptop. Are the authorities going to forbid laptops in the cabin now?
Accident: Daallo A321 near Mogadishu on Feb 2nd 2016, explosion rips fuselage open.

A Daallo Airlines Airbus A321-100, performing flight from Mogadishu (Somalia) to Djibouti with 74 passengers and 7 crew, was climbing out of Mogadishu about 5 minutes into the flight when an explosion was heard. The crew stopped the climb and returned the aircraft to Mogadishu for a safe landing about 20 minutes after departure. A large hole was seen at the right hand side of the fuselage above the wing.

The airline confirmed an explosion on board, the cause is under investigation, an oxygen bottle is being suspected. Passengers report at least one person was blown out of the aircraft. One passenger was missing after landing, the body was recovered near Balad about 21nm northnortheast of Mogadishu.

One passenger reported he saw the explosion occur inside the aircraft a couple of seat rows ahead of him followed by an air rush and sudden drop of cabin pressure, the seat belt held him in his seat. He saw two injured people around him, one an elderly man from Finland and another one being a young Italian. The elderly man was severly burned.

This is probably a movie set under water and not an actual crash site, but can you recognize some of the airplane parts?

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• What is this?
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This is called a glory or broken specter. It happens when the sun is behind you and creates a rainbow on the clouds (or mist) around your shadow.

• What are some things that you find in a military airplane that never appears in a commercial aircraft?
• Can you also name parts of this aircraft that are common with commercial airliners?

Here are all the services that must happen for successful commercial flights.

• Do you like to look at airplane services when you are waiting for your flight to depart?
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• What do you think about airline food?
• What’s your favorite airport in the world? Why?

Basic Parts of an Airplane

• When is the last time you flew in an airplane?
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