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AVIATION FAQ's INDEX
UP AND AWAY
How does a plane's wing generate lift?
ANSWER
What is an "air pocket" (Turbulence)
?
ANSWER
What is the Bernoulli Effect, and
is it real?
ANSWER
Making
aeroplanes fly
How can a plane fly upside
down?
ANSWER
Why do my ears pop in an aeroplane
when it is climbing and descending?
ANSWER
Why don't most planes fly faster
than the speed of sound?
ANSWER
If you were sitting in an
aeroplane that was travelling faster than the speed of sound, would you be
able to hear yourself, or anyone else, speak?
ANSWER
What causes the sonic boom when a
plane goes supersonic?
ANSWER
If a supersonic jet flies over me,
how long will I hear the sonic booms for?
ANSWER
Why does it take longer to fly from Sydney to
Perth than it does to fly from Perth to Sydney?
ANSWER
Why doesn't the earth's rotation effect
flight times?
ANSWER
HELICOPTERS
If a single engine
chopper has engine failure does it just drop to the ground or are there
manoeuvres the pilot can do to prevent this?
ANSWER
Can helicopters fly upsidedown?
ANSWER
LOOPY DE LOUP
I saw a photo in a
two dollar shop the other day of a jet "breaking the sound barrier". It
looked kind of like a donut of cloud around the centre of the aeroplane.
Can anyone explain all this to me??
ANSWER
I read that at the time jets started to break
the sound barrier, there was massive carnage as plane after plane would
disintegrate once they achieved the necessary speed to break this barrier.
1. What I want to know is why they would disintegrate like that? 2. What
did they change in the jets to make them capable of breaking the sound
barrier without the destruction?
ANSWER
Why are airplanes
pressurized?
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Why do I see jet contrails in some places and
not others?
ANSWER
Why do I get sore eyes on long
flights?
ANSWER
Considering the thousands of bird/aircraft
collisions which occur each year, and the potential for one of them to be
catastrophic, and with the millions of dollars spent in various ways to
avoid them, why is it not feasible to install some sort of dome shaped,
wire screen in front of the engines ?
ANSWER
HOW????
How does a Jet
Engine work?
[It compresses air, injects fuel, burns the
mixture, which can only escape as it expands out the back of the engine.
The reaction force sends the plane forward.] Also Propeller, Jet, Ramjet & Rocket
How Gas Turbine Engines
Work… How do Afterburners work? Also Propeller, Jet, Ramjet & Rocket
Where is the Black Box located in
an aeroplane? (And what colour is it in the dark? He he they are actually
orange!)
[Black boxes and Cockpit Voice Recorders are stored
in the tailcone, where damage following a collision is minimised.]
Black
Boxes
How Black Boxes work?
When an airplane is described as a
"stealth" aircraft, what does that mean? What is "stealth technology" and
how does it work?
What is "stealth
technology" and how does it work?
How
does Radar work?
How Radar
Works
How do
Helicopters Work?
How Helicopters
Work
FLIGHTS OF
FANCY
During the
safety spiel the plane staff always say that, in the event of
depressurisation, masks will drop from the ceiling to supply oxygen. Is
the gas supplied really just oxygen, or is it really more like compressed
air? If it is oxygen, wouldn't this increase the fire
risk?
ANSWER
I want to be a pilot so now what do I
do?
I
want to be a pilot
What makes a good
aircraft?
"The best safety device in any aircraft is a well
trained pilot." Bill Sherwood
Define
a Good Aircraft
What were the flight
numbers of the two aircraft that crashed into the WTC?
ANSWER
Were the Wright Brother the first to fly or
not?
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