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Aircraft noise is noise pollution produced by an aircraft or its components, whether on the ground while parked such as auxiliary power units, while taxiing, on run-up from propeller and jet exhaust, during takeoff, underneath and lateral to departure and arrival paths, over-flying while en route, or during landing.
Shock wave. The sound barrier or sonic barrier is the large increase in aerodynamic drag and other undesirable effects experienced by an aircraft or other object when it approaches the speed of sound. When aircraft first approached the speed of sound, these effects were seen as constituting a barrier, making faster speeds very difficult or ...
Trans World Airlines Flight 800(TW800/TWA800) was a scheduled international passenger flight from New York (John F. Kennedy International Airport) to Rome, with a stopover in Paris. On July 17, 1996, at approximately 8:31 p.m. EDT, 12 minutes after takeoff, the Boeing 747-100serving the flight exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Oceannear ...
The Tenerife airport disaster occurred on 27 March 1977, when two Boeing 747 passenger jets collided on the runway at Los Rodeos Airport [ 1 ] (now Tenerife North Airport) on the Spanish island of Tenerife. [ 2 ][ 3 ] The accident occurred when KLM Flight 4805 initiated its takeoff run in dense fog, colliding with the rear of Pan Am Flight 1736 ...
Aircraft. [edit] The aircraft was a Boeing 727-200 Advanced, MSN 20750, registered as N473DA[ 5 ], a three-engine narrow-body jet aircraft. It was delivered to Delta Air Lines in November 1973, and was the 992nd Boeing 727 to be manufactured. The aircraft had logged around 43,023 airframe hours and was powered by three Pratt & Whitney JT8D-15 ...
The first aircraft to fly supersonic in level flight was the American Bell X-1 experimental plane which was powered by a 6,000-pound (2,700 kg) thrust rocket powered by liquid oxygen and ethyl alcohol. Most supersonic aircraft have been military or experimental aircraft. Aviation research during World War II led to the creation of the first ...
Wake turbulence is a type of clear-air turbulence. In the case of wake turbulence created by the wings of a heavy aircraft, the rotating vortex-pair lingers for a significant amount of time after the passage of the aircraft, sometimes more than a minute. One of these rotating vortices can seriously upset or even invert a smaller aircraft that ...
The plane lifted off the runway at 170 kn (200 mph; 310 km/h), and began to roll from side to side [1]: 4 just under 50 ft (15 m) above the ground. The MD-82's rate of climb was greatly reduced as a result of the flaps not being extended, [ 1 ] : 67 and about 2,760 ft (840 m) past the end of runway 3C, the plane's left wing struck a light pole ...