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Aeronautics is the science or art involved with the study, design, and manufacturing of air flight-capable machines, and the techniques of operating aircraft and rockets within the atmosphere. While the term originally referred solely to operating the aircraft, it has since been expanded to include technology, business, and other aspects ...
[10] The Boeing 787 , first flown in 2009, was the first commercial aircraft with 50% of its structure weight made of carbon-fiber composites, along with 20% aluminium and 15% titanium: the material allows for a lower-drag, higher wing aspect ratio and higher cabin pressurization; the competing Airbus A350 , flown in 2013, is 53% carbon-fiber ...
Aeronautics is a term sometimes used interchangeably with aviation, although aeronautics includes lighter-than-air craft such as airships and balloons, while "aviation" does not. Random page in this category
F1B Model by Stepan Stepanchuk. Free flight is the segment of model aviation involving aircraft with no active external control after launch. Free Flight is the original form of hobby aeromodeling, with the competitive objective being to build and launch a self controlling aircraft that will consistently achieve the longest flight duration over multiple competition rounds, within various class ...
Early versions merely constrained the model to fly in a circle but offered no control. This is known as round-the-pole flying.The origins of control-line flight are obscure, but the first person to use a recognizable system that manipulated the control surfaces on the model is generally considered to be Oba St. Clair, in June 1936, near Gresham, Oregon. [1]
OpenVSP Ground School is a set of comprehensive tutorials under development by Brandon Litherland at NASA. Ground school tutorials provide details on OpenVSP features and techniques, along with tutorials for beginner and advanced users, and are hosted on the Langley Research Center website. [11]
Free air temperature FATO final approach and take off FB Winds aloft: World Meteorological Organization abbrev. see also FD FBO fixed-base operator: Airfield operations FBS fixed base simulator: Flight crew training FBW fly-by-wire: FCC Flight Control Computer FC flight crew: FCF functional flight check Check functionality after maintenance FCMC
A modern aerostat used by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Tethered Aerostat Radar System (TARS). An aerostat (from Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aḗr) 'air' and στατός (statós) 'standing', via French) or lighter-than-air aircraft is an aircraft that relies on buoyancy to maintain flight.