Aircraft

2007-06-30 17:05:29 · 24 answers · asked by MD-11 2

In the link below you can see the "fins". I am talking about the ones above and below the "m" in "Thomas Cook." What purpose do they serve, what are they really called and why are the top ones white, and the bottom ones red.
http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=0380863&size=L&width=1024&height=713&sok=JURER%20%20%28%20cubgb_vq%20%3D%20%271110283%27%20BE%20cubgb_vq%20%3D%20%27634339%27%20BE%20cubgb_vq%20%3D%20%27571703%27%20BE%20cubgb_vq%20%3D%20%27380863%27%20BE%20cubgb_vq%20%3D%20%273865%27%29%20%20beqre%20ol%20&photo_nr=4&prev_id=0571703&next_id=0003865

2007-06-30 15:45:04 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

I can see one plane hitting WTC without being intercepted, but every plane that crashed after that seemed increasingly inexplicable given our decades of developing air defenses, the density of military installations on the East Coast, and a plane hitting the Pentagon, which should be within the most protected airspace in the country.

I grew up next to an interceptor base. Even when I was a kid and they had F-101s, those planes could be to altitude in a couple of minutes and fly supersonic for short bursts.

F-15 & 16s can scramble and get to altitude in probably under two minutes from brake release, and they can fly over Mach 2 for short bursts. After one plane hit the WTC, you would think the normal restraints about going supersonic would have been rescinded. Instead, the first stories about the interceptors sent after the hijacked planes had them traveling at below 500 mph, at least 100 mph slower than an airliner can travel.

2007-06-30 09:15:32 · 13 answers · asked by yurbud 3

Thanks.

2007-06-29 16:07:05 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

I just came off a bad trip through the South with some serious miss-handling of weather issues from another Airline (nameless) but that is another story. After sitting on the ground for 1.5 hours with no communications from the front office I started thinking. As a pilot in charge of 150 lives behind him what was the Jet Blue pilot thinking? After about hour 3 I think I would have been on my cell to the home office demanding a solution for these poor people. What are the details as to why he didn't request busses/airstairs, or take off and get these people to either Cancuun or a hub (like Atlanta) so they could find another carrier? I know being a pilot you are ultimatly responsible for these peoples lives.

If anyone has the details that would great.
If you were the pilot what would you have done?
If you were a passanger how long do you wait.. Then what?

2007-06-29 03:29:31 · 7 answers · asked by Drewpie 5

2007-06-29 02:30:43 · 2 answers · asked by Revster 1

Or at all for that matter? What's the science behind that (in regular people terms)?

2007-06-29 01:22:21 · 14 answers · asked by limallama 4

2007-06-28 06:56:05 · 14 answers · asked by sj 1

2007-06-28 06:39:40 · 13 answers · asked by I dont know 4

Does anyoe know any websites? Any program that i can download or something?

2007-06-28 04:15:58 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

Aeroplanes usually fly at high altitudes where surounding atmospheric temperature is in the range of minus 30 degree Centigrade. Why do ice do not form on body, wings of the plane at such temperatures?

2007-06-28 00:04:37 · 7 answers · asked by mnkarimiindia 1

i made a helicopter using popcicle sticks.. but now the problem is that when i turn on the main motor (that rotates on the top.) the hole helicopter starts to spin in left. so i just want to know how to stop the rotations and the helicopter is hand held helicopter..... i didn't add the back rotor which is attached to the tail of the helicopter.. and please tell me what does the rotor in the tail of the helicopter does??. (sorry for the bad grammar.)

2007-06-27 10:14:19 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

I got a some commercial jet and some crows

2007-06-27 09:08:57 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-27 07:43:45 · 3 answers · asked by samoo 1

Modern airliners, such as the new model of the Boeing 747, only produce 75g of CO2 per passenger Km. Most modern cars produce over 150g of CO2 per passenger Km. How is flying worse than driving? I do realise that cars can carry more than 1 passenger, but most of the time I don't think they do.

2007-06-27 07:22:22 · 16 answers · asked by mash4t 2

1)What us Gyroscopic action and gyroscopic precession and how is it related to the aircraft's propeller?

2) Why in tail wheel aircraft is the magnitude of this force dependent on how abruptly the tail is raised?

Thanks in advance

2007-06-27 06:31:16 · 7 answers · asked by Charles 5

i thought it was funny, i was on a plane going to spain and while listening to the flight safty briefing they said in case of an emergency, put on your oxygen mask and bend forward placing your head to your knees. why is that, if your going to crash from an altitude of 20000 feet, what is the point?

2007-06-27 00:42:44 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

theres a lot of people making their own ultralite air craft using jets
and for the most part i dont like the look of most what i want to do
is build my own jet from the ground up using a homemade jet engine i will build

the model i have in mind is a bvm BANDIT to use as a large scale jet i want to make it out of fiber glass if any one can help
me getting started it is very appreciated

what need help on 4 the most part is what demensions should i use for the jet by trying to upscale the origanal size

and making a turbine powered engine with enough thrust to support it

2007-06-26 19:22:56 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-26 17:01:43 · 6 answers · asked by ScottsdaleBlessed 2

I heard they really don't but it's just a safety precautionary measure to turn them off during flight.

2007-06-26 15:15:13 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-26 10:23:26 · 20 answers · asked by eddie 2

For what purposes softwares are used in commercial aircraft industries. Will the need for softwares in this industry grow in future?

2007-06-26 08:24:46 · 3 answers · asked by raja 2

2007-06-26 08:18:21 · 33 answers · asked by simon_cowell17 1

2007-06-26 06:16:52 · 7 answers · asked by gabriel nicole 2

2007-06-26 05:43:08 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Do they wash it and seal it in another bag?

2007-06-25 15:29:00 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Do you have to be flying over a state, like MS or NV, ect. for it to be legal?

2007-06-25 14:48:46 · 4 answers · asked by deirdrefaith 4

What additive is used to raise the boiling pt. of this fuel to counter vapor lock conditions and how is this fuel inspected to insure operational quality after delivery to the field?

2007-06-25 14:33:24 · 7 answers · asked by deirdrefaith 4

2007-06-25 07:31:04 · 5 answers · asked by 1 2

when the helicopter is running .

2007-06-25 04:56:39 · 20 answers · asked by john2035217 1