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A few of you may have had the privilege of visiting the flight deck of a commercial airliner, and found yourself fascinated by the myriad levers, buttons, and other mechanisms surrounding the captain and co-pilot. After seeing that instrume
The cockpits of old – with a bewildering multiplicity of levers, buttons and analogue displays – are long gone, phased out beginning in the 1980s in favour of digitised systems known as EFIS, comprising a bewildering multiplicity of liquid-crys
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Have you ever wondered what is the maximum distance an aircraft can fly? The most obvious answer is of course "as far as its fuel reserves will take it". That's certainly the case - but what are the factors that determine an aircraft's flight range?
Read more…Did you think a pilot’s license and training are at least some kind of a guarantee for a safe journey?
Think again.
Nobody could guess the dark secret of Swedish pilot Thomas Salme: He had no pilot’s license. But for thirteen years, he navigated the sk
