Some Interesting Facts About Aircraft
2.If the engine stops, the helicopter's rotors continues to spin, allowing the machine to land slowly, generally without crashing to the ground.
3.The helicopter is only aircraft that has save more lives than it has lost.
4. The concorde burns about 500 lb of fuel per passenger per hour. The Boeing 777 burns only about 40 lb per passenger seat per hour.
10. For a typical international flight, one Boeing 747 operator uses no fewer than 5.5 tons of food and more than 50000 in flight service items.
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| Concorde Of British Airways |
5. The Boeing B-314 flying boats were so large that there was a catwalk in the wings so that mechanics could service the engines in flight.
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| Boeing B-314 |
6. The projected lifetime of a commercial airplane design is 70 years.
7. In 1991 the very first Boeing 727, the spirit of Seattle, was retired after 64,492 flight hours, which is equivalent to 7.4 years in the air.
8. The wright brothers' first engine produced 12 hp and weighed 180 lb. Modern aircraft piston engines weigh approximately 2 lb/hp.
9. To remain stable, the flight control system on the X-29 has to make 40 corrections per second.
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| X-29 |
- 11. During Gulf war, U.S airplane loss rates were roughly the same as during normal training.
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| World War 1 Fighter Aircraft |
- 12. The radial engines in first world war fighter planes actually rotated with the propeller.
14. In 1997, the pathfinder set an altitude record for a propeller driven airplane of 71,490 ft.
15. A commercial jet can glide for about 160 km if it loses its engine at crushing altitude.
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