Aircraft - Page 5

It’s a common question and a natural one to ask: do airplanes have keys? After all, cars need keys to start the ignition, so why not planes? Can you just walk up to any airplane, step into the cockpit, turn the ignition and take off? Interestingly enough, the answer to that question is, it depends

If you’re an airplane buff, chances are good that you’ve wondered what all of their antennas were for at some point. How do the pilots communicate with people on the ground? Where does airplane WiFi come from? Which antennas do they use for what? Some of these questions have some interesting answers, but none of

Many people never consider the possibility of an airplane suffering with corrosion, but it does happen. Like all metal objects, aircraft corrosion is bound to happen sooner or later, and the only way to know what to do about it is to recognize the reason it occurred in the first place. Corrosion doesn’t affect how

Of all the questions asked by airplane enthusiasts, one of the most basic and most interesting questions is, what type of fuel does an airplane use? After all, it can’t run on regular gasoline like cars do – or can it? If you’ve ever been curious about the type of fuel that is needed to

The backbone of air travel is the aircraft maintenance crew. The crew is responsible for ensuring that a plane is fit to fly. However, modern aircraft come with complex systems that require not only knowledge in maintenance procedures, functionalities, and policies but also mechanical skills. For example, the A380 model comes with millions of components