Airbus A330 Airbus Industrie, a consortium of European aircraft manufacturers which had provided the first serious competition to the US with its original widebody, twin-engined A-300, had quickly concluded that its success could only be attained with an expanded product line capable of fulfilling several payload...
Our 4-Night Disney Dream Cruise We've visited Disney World in Florida more times than I can count. After so many years of driving to Florida and visiting every theme park in Orlando, it was time for a change. Our bags and passports were ready to travel...
The Boeing 777 Commercial aircraft are the result of the airline requirements which shape them, attempting to fulfill, as completely and cost-effectively as possible, the particular combination of mission goals. For airliner-type aircraft, these include two primary parameters: payload, comprised of passengers, baggage, cargo, and mail,...
Don't Get Fooled: 5 Tips For Buying A Good Used Car Cape Town - Prices of new cars are exorbitant, at least for some, but that's not the case for 36 794 fortunate South Africans who registered their new cars in January 2017.Over the last five...
The British Aerospace BAE - 146 IAircraft manufacturers had, for some four decades, attempted to design the elusive DC-3 replacement with different powerplant types, including the piston-engined Convair 240/340/440 and Martin 2-0-2/4-0-4 series and the turboprop Vickers Viscount, Fokker F.27 Friendship, and Hawker Siddeley HS.748.The latest...
The Boeing 747-400 Foundation: Powerplants were the key to commercial aircraft capability, measured by payload, range, and performance, and all were incorporated in the Boeing 747-200B when the 63,000 thrust-pound Pratt and Whitney JT9D-7Q became available.First ordered by Northwest Orient, but quickly followed by Braniff, Japan...
Focus on Fokker at Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome A pair of World War I aircraft, sharing a common manufacturer, but differing in their number of wings, took center stage at Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome's July 2012 "Meet the Fokkers" event, baking beneath the breathless blue whose still air...
Pilot Hearing Loss and Tips for Protecting Your Ears Hearing loss caused by noise is a huge problem for all pilots and flight instructors, especially those who fly small aircraft. Think about it: Day after day, flight after flight, pilots are subjected to a constant din...
All About History of Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome When the high-wing, fabric-covered Bleiriot XI, an original aircraft dating back to 1911, had arced skyward, albeit briefly, from Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome's rolling, green grass field straddled on either side by the red, orange, and yellow October-brushed trees reminiscent...
Temporary Barnstormer at Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome Tinged by the fall air and beckoned by the crystal blue dome of the sky at Cole Palen's Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome in early October, I made my way past the snack stand and the new field gift shop to the...