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The main function of a shoulder harness or five-point restraint (as opposed to a simple lap belt) is to provide upper-body restraint and keep the occupant's head and upper torso from flailing about du …

Braking parachutes were standard on first-generation jetliners, but have since fallen almost entirely out of use except on military aircraft; essentially the only civilian aircraft nowadays to still c …

The commonly-used jet fuels fall into two main categories: Straight kerosenes (Jet A, Jet A-1, JP-8, JP-5, plus, historically, JP-1), which are used in most situations because their high flashpoints …

Not on board the aircraft as of yet, no (unless, as @Gerry said, you count the radio that lets you hear about the person ahead of you running into CAT). There are ways of detecting CAT, however, whic …

According to reddit, the amount of fuel transferred when refuelling a car is generally too small to generate a dangerous amount of static charge, and you actually do ground your car when you …

Because if you do try to go around after the reversers deploy, you run the risk of them failing to retract - or, much worse, of just one of them failing to retract. As happened on 11 February 1978, w …

According to Wikipedia, only single-engine aircraft with an MTOW no greater than 12500 pounds are required to demonstrate the ability to recover from a spin, and not large or multi-engine aircraft. T …

Most aircraft have high-lift devices on the wings (such as flaps, slats, droops, whatevs) to allow them to take off and climb out at a reasonable speed instead of having to accelerate to near cruisin …

Most, if not all, new airplanes are required to have stall warning systems to (as the name should make clear) provide the pilots with a warning when the airplane is about to stall. Most stall warning …

Given that a properly-functioning pitot-static system is absolutely essential for flight (a plane cannot be flown without valid airspeed data, or at least not for long), are there aircraft that automa …

the (widebody, and, thus, reversion-free) 767, and thereby possibly jeopardising the common type rating pilots can obtain for the two - but how can operational convenience possibly justify skimping on safety …

ILS installations have a critical area extending some distance back from the glideslope antenna (primarily due to most glideslope transmitters’ needing to bounce one of their two beams off the ground …

On aircraft with flaps, a general certification requirement is that it must not be possible for the aircraft to suffer a loss of lateral control secondary to an asymmetric-flap condition. This requir …

V1, officially the takeoff decision speed, has, somewhat infamously, two separate definitions: It is defined as the minimum speed at which, if one engine fails, the pilots can press to liftoff and st …

(Disclaimer: Please do not take the below as an endorsement of scud-running.) Scud-running is when a pilot flying in poor weather operates their aircraft at a lower-than-normal height above terrain in …