Posted:
Fri Apr 18, 2014 12:53 pmby tomkilpatrick
A visual guide to how planes take off, navigate, approach, and land., taken from Kate Ascher's book "The Way to Go: Moving by Sea, Land and Air". Quite nifty!
Posted:
Fri Apr 18, 2014 1:11 pmby Ian Warren
Good one Tom
, a dummies guide to how and why those .... those... BURP, those big metal things with those .. big silver things out each side work
Posted:
Sat Apr 19, 2014 9:31 amby Charl
Now Wing Commander, your vintage is showing...
As nicely illustrated in the article, when you are made not of metal, but carbon fibre (as all modern err-planes are) you no longer have the nice aluminium Faraday cage formed by the fuselage, to protect against lightning strike.
So you have to bond in a conductive layer on your 787 to stop the strike from removing the big silver things sticking out each side!
And interesting note on reverse thrust: sure the Pilatus Porter can stand on its prop and come down at 15,000ft/min and some Rooshins deploy RT prior to landing, but which modern Western jet does this as a matter of course??
