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An airliner is a large, commercial aircraft operated by an airline for transporting people and/or cargo.

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What does the letter/number on the nose wheel door means?

Easy ID the specific airframe by ground crew. The whole registration ID is way at the back, likely way up on the tail. What may be on the nose gear door is just the last few numbers/characters of the …
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What information is recorded in aircraft sensor and maintenance logs?

For the F-35, it captures possibly too much. Not just every aspect of the physical operation of the jet, but all the other things the jet can do. Capturing details on all the radar and sensors that ma …
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Why are many parts of an airliner required to be triplicated, but not the "parts" most likel...

Some systems are "redundant" only two deep, or not redundant at all. One or two engines. Two wings. One rudder. One nose gear. Why aren't there "3" pilots? Because many decades of commercial airline o …
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