Jet aircraft

Association’s (IATA), annual Maintenance Cost Task Force (2015) reported carriers paid $1,000 per flight hour and $2,637 per departure with an average cost of $3.5 million per aircraft. Direct maintenance costs only make up a portion of all maintenance expenses. On average carriers will employ 12 mechanics and 5 maintenance staff per aircraft (Cros, 2015). Additionally, to facilitate rapid maintenance carriers must stock spare parts. The cost of spares total $1.10 per dollar spent on direct…

How do airplanes fly? What inventions led to the modern airplanes and jets we have now? We all have these questions in our head but not everyone is curious enough to find out. The dream of flying is as old as mankind itself. However, the concept of the airplane hasn’t been around for that long. Before that time, men and women tried to navigate the air by trying different things I’m stating birds. They built wings to strap onto their arm or machines with flapping wings called ornithopters. On the…

An airline’s business model is a description of the value the company delivers to targeted customers and of how it configures resources internally and externally to achieve this (Holloway (2012). Tretheway (2004) states that from 1945 to end of the 20th century, the world’s airline industry built a product that offers passengers to fly seamlessly to almost any other part of the world by purchasing a single ticket. However, to develop this product, airlines had to invest costly systems and…

EGLINAFBI11-201. The memorandum states, “All military aircraft operating in airspace delegated to the Eglin Radar Control Facility (ERCF) shall adhere to the following procedures to the maximum extent possible unless established on a published approach/departure procedure or deviations are dictated by Air Traffic Control (ATC), safety, or mission constraints/ requirements… Turbojet, Propeller, and Tiltrotor Aircraft. All turbojet, propeller, and tiltrotor aircraft shall maintain at or above…

carry weapons on board the aircraft in which they control. Questions were asked from both sides of the debate in hopes of determining the safest options for passengers and the airline companies. One can only ponder the thought of “what could have been” if the pilots during the 9/11 attacks had weapons with them. At the same…

United States economic activity and currently provides more than 11 million jobs (Airlines.org, 2016). Flight schools across the country continually work with airline companies to teach, train and employ the next generation of pilots and flight crews. Aircraft parts manufacturing facilities offer opportunities in highly skilled positions. Investors elect to expand tourist attractions…

airborne supremacy. Early uses of close air support, during World War II and Korea, utilized fixed forward weapon systems, primarily through strafing roles. While these aircraft were very effective during their conflicts, a new issue arose out of the dense foliage jungle canopies of Vietnam. Many of these newer aircraft utilized jet engine propulsion, which led to pilots struggling to identify targets, especially during multiple engagement on the same target (Ballard, 1982). Given the vital…

INTRODUCTION Air India was launched as a private airline in 1932 under the name of Tata Airlines by industrialist J. R. D. Tata. It was the only national carrier which flew in various international destinations at that time. In 1946, Tata Airlines became a public limited company under the name of Air India. Since then, Air India has been a source of national pride because it is regarded as one of the finest airlines which is at par with the leading airlines like Pan Am and British Airways. Air…

Can you imagine sitting in an airplane that’s been stripped of every non-essential part to reduce its weight? Extra fuel tanks added to extend its range to absolute maximum, sitting on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier, which It’s never taken off from before. General James Doolittle not only volunteered but also led a Group of 80 airmen on this very dangerous mission that changed the course of the Pacific theater of World War 2 called the “Doolittle Raid” (Nelson, C, 2002). The purpose…

to another. The Douglas DC-3 became the first passenger airplane and could fly from New York to Los Angeles in 16 hours and hold 21 people. In the 1950s, airplanes began using jet engines, which allowed the airplanes to go farther and fly faster. The Boeing 707 and the Douglas DC-8 revolutionized air travel by using jet engines and airplanes…