Aviation News — September 2017

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I nnovations gradually recede into obsolescence but Concorde is that rare thing, a benchmark that remains unequalled and unsurpa ...

FLIGHT DECK The  ight deck is accessed down a long tunnel, the port side occupied by a wall of avionics and circuit breakers. F ...

was maintained by pumping fuel between tanks along the fuselage, particularly into the tail. In practice, the pressure centre mo ...

So perfect was the design there was no need for slats and flaps, unthinkable on an airliner in normal operation. Despite British ...

clocked up 20,000  ight hours (about half the design life) but were also monitored by a ‘reference  ight’ index that factored ...

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W hen the Avro Shackleton AEW.2 entered service with 8 Squadron on April 11, 1972, most were already 20 years old and had been o ...

David described a number of differences between Shackleton variants. “I’d  own MR.3s for some years, which were lovely to handl ...

208 Squadrons’ maritime attack Buccaneers ‘against’ NATO navies exercising around the UK coast. The squadron also had a limited ...

was later reduced to nine [after it was deemed a second navigator was not required]. It consisted of two pilots, two navigators ...

The aircraft was unpressurised but could climb to higher altitudes with the crew on oxygen. “As we were  ying towards our barri ...

to be able to even hear all the important transmissions, as the aircraft microphones picked up every sound. “During my second to ...

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S ince the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, Ben Gurion Airport has played an important role in the country’s history, su ...

BEN GURIO N AIRPORT ISRAEL’S INTERNA TIONAL GATEWAY and supplies to Israel. Over 32 days the USAF’s Military Airlift Command  e ...

with twice that number forecast in seven to ten years’ time. In 1994, with planning under way to expand Terminal 1, the authorit ...

The new building featured 24 airbridges and six ground gates from which buses take passengers to aircraft on one of the 33 addit ...

the increasing numbers of  ights and new aircraft types, additional regulations, technology and procedures for safety were need ...