Aircraft spotting is a massive hobby across the entire Earth. It is a kind of collector’s hobby where people look for aircraft at various airports and document or photograph what they find. Aircraft spotters will often visit airports whenever they travel and spend time watching aircraft movements, the information they gather is often uploaded into [...]
Aircraft Structural Components
The major aircraft structures are wings, fuselage, and empennage. The primary flight control surfaces, located on the wings and empennage, are ailerons, elevators, and rudder. These parts are connected by seams, called joints. All joints constructed using rivets, bolts, or special fasteners are lap joints. Fasteners cannot be used on joints in which the materials [...]
Aircraft Maintenance Engineers Are in Demand – What You Need to Become One
In the world of aviation there are many factors involved regarding the operation, maintenance and upkeep of aircraft. Maybe none are more important than the role of aircraft maintenance engineers. To understand an aircraft maintenance engineer’s job and responsibility, it is also important to understand the basic role and definition of an engineer as it [...]
Aircraft Brake Maintenance and Repair
The first objective is to maintain the clearance between the moving and stationary parts of a brake in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions. Disassemble and inspect the brake periodically and examine the parts for wear, cracks, warpage, corrosion, elongated holes, etc. If any of these or other faults are indicated, repair, recondition, or replace the [...]
Aircraft Interior Lighting
Aircraft Interior lighting A great many types of aircraft lighting are determined by regulations for example, NVIS-friendly lights in military aircraft. It is the passenger cabin that allows the most scope for designer lighting. Aircraft passenger cabin lighting Some Passenger Information Signs are obligatory in FAA regulations, for example, fasten seat belt signs or no [...]
Homebuilt Experimental Aircraft
In the twenties, the first aircraft plans offered for sale to the amateur market were for the Baby Ace airplane. There was limited interest for building planes at home during the 30s depression years. The 40s were all about the war, and countless thousands became pilots during World War II. When these pilots came home [...]
Aircraft Carrier Landing Training and Qualification
Landing a Fighter Plane onto a “postage stamp” in the middle of the ocean and that is exactly how the world’s best pilots, those in the United States Navy describe landing on an aircraft carrier. It is a dangerous but necessary skill to learn and not as easy as it looks as the pilot negotiates [...]