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Flying Broken Airplanes: The Substantial Risks Of Deferring Maintenance
Ideally, everything that’s part of our plane is supposed to be working before we go flying. Planes are designed with a minimum of extras to increase reliability and save weight. In the design of an...
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CubCrafters NX Cub: Revolutionary…& Polarizing
The NX Cub, which is still in Market Survey by manufacturer CubCrafters, features landing gear that is reconfigurable to conventional (tailwheel) or nosewheel arrangement. CubCrafters makes a...
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NX Cub: Something New To Love/Hate
Well-known backcountry flyer Mark Patey flew the NX Cub and discussed its remarkable performance, and the controversy surrounding it. Here, in a popular YouTube video, Patey asks the big question....
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This Incredible Plane: North American XB-70 Valkyrie
North American XB-70 Valkyrie. Photo courtesy of NASA Loaded up, the XB-70 was more than a half-million pounds of pure sex appeal. With a six-pack of afterburning GE YJ-93 engines, wingtips and snout...
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Why Bother With Retractable Gear?
The introduction of the Cirrus SR20 and SR22 fast, fixed-gear singles starting in 1999, raised the question, is the extra speed a plane gets from tucking the gear worth the tradeoffs? The marketplace...
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Flight Into Known Icing (FIKI) Approval Is Not Enough
Stills from NASA showing the accretion of ice on the landing edge of a plane wing. So your plane is equipped for flight into “known-icing”— no need to worry, right? Think again! When we endeavor as...
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This Incredible Plane: Scaled Composites Proteus
Proteus, another otherworldy creation of Burt Rutan and Scaled Composites is, believe it or not, still flying up a storm. There aren’t many aircraft that can literally stop traffic, but the praying...
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Helping Your Airplane Shelter in Place
Photo by LightField Studios/Shutterstock Whether you’re affected by a shelter-in-place order, or as in some countries where pleasure flight is prohibited for the moment, there are some special...
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This Incredible Plane: Cessna 152 Aerobat: Spin Cycle!
Cessna 152 Aerobat. Photo by Orlando Jose Suarez Garcia Overshadowed by Concorde where it sits, a Cessna 152 Aerobat occupies a spot in the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Air and Space Museum. One might wonder...
View ArticleBOEING 737 200–900
STANDARD DATA: (737-200) Seats 115-130. Gross wt. 115,500-150,000. Empty wt. 60,210-138,500. Fuel capacity 5,151-5,311. Engines two 14,500-lb. s.t. Pratt & Whitney turbofans. PERFORMANCE: Top mph …...
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