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What is the exact responsibility of the Landing Signal Officer on an aircraft carrier?
Awarded Aug 11 at 3:23
What is the structure of the crew documentation used in flight for a commercial aircraft?
Awarded Apr 5 at 4:21
What is a Cruise Captain?
Awarded Mar 25 at 3:56
Is it possible to tilt a propeller for attitude control, similarly to jet thrust vectoring?
Awarded Nov 23, 2023 at 8:15
For routes over oceans, are slide rafts fitted with first-aid items, food, water, radio, etc?
Awarded Oct 24, 2023 at 9:11
What is the relation between throttle position and engine thrust for a turbofan?
Awarded Oct 18, 2023 at 2:08
What is this aircraft with wings seemingly fixed the wrong way?
Awarded Nov 29, 2022 at 17:56
LPV/LP approach (RNAV with WAAS): What is actually the "channel number"?
Awarded Nov 22, 2022 at 13:25
How are wood and canvas wings able to sustain damp and bad weather?
Awarded Oct 11, 2022 at 0:28
What prevents a Machmeter from being the standard airspeed indicator?
Awarded May 17, 2022 at 13:27
Where do I land if I fly from KLAX with a constant east heading, crossing the US and the Atlantic ocean?
Awarded Jan 22, 2022 at 21:41
What are these engine inlet devices used for?
Awarded Nov 2, 2021 at 15:04
How much air is recirculated (vs. bleed air injected) in modern airliners cabin?
Awarded Oct 25, 2021 at 7:47
What was the first commercial scheduled flight to Australia from another continent (except Asia)?
Awarded Oct 4, 2021 at 9:26
Is « Shepherd One » really used internationally by air traffic control for Pope's flight?
Awarded Sep 12, 2021 at 11:02
What is the shape of the power required curve?
Awarded Jun 11, 2021 at 17:41
How to read representations of pressure around an airfoil?
Awarded Jun 2, 2021 at 12:33
What are the correct names for the two faces of an airfoil?
Awarded May 14, 2021 at 13:40
What is the purpose of wide area multilateration?
Awarded May 3, 2021 at 19:22
Does the expression "stall speed" have a definition?
Awarded Apr 8, 2021 at 7:25
Which air stream pressure / speed is measured by the pitot?
Awarded Mar 19, 2021 at 2:20
Why is "NoPT" indicated on this KYKM approach?
Awarded Nov 19, 2020 at 0:20
Can spatial disorientation in low visibility situations lead a pilot to fly upside down?
Awarded Oct 15, 2020 at 1:05
How are electronic systems locked and connected in the electronic bay?
Awarded Oct 13, 2020 at 12:04
Is it possible to fly a tandem-rotor helicopter after a single rotor failure?
Awarded May 6, 2020 at 22:41
Which was the first pressurized aircraft?
Awarded Mar 12, 2020 at 12:55
What are these sensors on the Night Stalkers' Chinook MH-47G?
Awarded Feb 29, 2020 at 9:30
Can lift be created without air downwash?
Awarded Feb 19, 2020 at 6:50
What is the physical meaning of circulation found in Kutta condition?
Awarded Dec 23, 2019 at 13:55
How does the cabin pressure controller work in a large commercial airliner?
Awarded Nov 22, 2019 at 13:15
Could fly-by-wire protect against a takeoff tail strike?
Awarded Nov 13, 2019 at 14:25
How is the emergency locator transmitter of the A320 fixed, activated and carried away?
Awarded Oct 4, 2019 at 20:35
What is the geoid undulation used for in aviation?
Awarded Oct 4, 2019 at 19:45
How does contrail formation differ from turbofan to turbojet?
Awarded Sep 20, 2019 at 20:35
Why the dynamic pressure is not mentioned in the explanation of lift by Bernoulli's principle?
Awarded Sep 13, 2019 at 16:30
Does a secondary surveillance radar need the support of a primary surveillance radar?
Awarded Aug 31, 2019 at 4:35
How to land the aircraft when the flight deck is full of smoke?
Awarded Apr 10, 2019 at 23:00
What is the role of the flight dispatcher? How do the dispatcher and the flight crew interact?
Awarded Apr 6, 2019 at 0:40
Where does turbine vane and blade cooling air come from?
Awarded Mar 18, 2019 at 13:05
What is the reason for the pressure drop in the combustion section of a jet engine?
Awarded Mar 2, 2019 at 12:45
How is the correct air speed for fuel combustion obtained at the inlet of the combustor? [duplicate]
Awarded Feb 22, 2019 at 20:45
Is airflow ever laminar in the boundary layer, near the wing leading edge?
Awarded Jan 21, 2019 at 15:50
Why is there an ETOPS marking on the nosewheel door?
Awarded Jan 21, 2019 at 1:20
Why five touchdown zone markings for only one aiming point?
Awarded Jan 14, 2019 at 18:50
Why is the horizontal stabilizer root interface designed this way?
Awarded Jan 8, 2019 at 0:45
How are aircraft separated at high altitude?
Awarded Nov 17, 2018 at 23:45
What is this aircraft with pipes at the flight deck windows?
Awarded Nov 9, 2018 at 6:40
How are aircraft wings protected against flutter - aerodynamic oscillations that can break bridges?
Awarded Oct 18, 2018 at 14:15
What's the meaning of "straight and level"?
Awarded Oct 16, 2018 at 17:15
How can a pitot tube freeze when it's heated?
Awarded Sep 14, 2018 at 10:10
How are large cargo aircraft loaded at airports?
Awarded Aug 9, 2018 at 20:25
For the elliptical wing, which property is actually elliptically distributed?
Awarded Jul 3, 2018 at 20:50
How does the slotted flap work?
Awarded Jun 15, 2018 at 4:42
What are the uses of gyroplanes?
Awarded May 31, 2018 at 7:18
In what circumstances do passengers or flight attendants have to take their shoes off?
Awarded May 2, 2018 at 0:36
How is the central hub / shaft casing of a two-spool jet engine assembled?
Awarded Apr 5, 2018 at 6:21
What does the actual path of air within a turbojet engine look like?
Awarded Mar 16, 2018 at 9:08
How do pilots use stopway, EMAS, clearway and displaced threshold?
Awarded Mar 2, 2018 at 17:40
Are there any Boeing 747 still flying for commercial use?
Awarded Jan 11, 2018 at 5:01
How thick is the skin of an aircraft like the Airbus A350 or Boeing B777?
Awarded Nov 10, 2017 at 17:38
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