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  2. Flight envelope - Wikipedia

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    Flight envelope is one of a number of related terms that are used in a similar fashion. It is perhaps the most common term because it is the oldest, first being used in the early days of test flight. It is closely related to more modern terms known as extra power and a doghouse plot which are different ways of describing the flight envelope of ...

  3. Coffin corner (aerodynamics) - Wikipedia

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    Graph of altitude/speed region envelope for Lockheed U-2 depicting coffin corner. Coffin corner (also known as the aerodynamic ceiling [1] or Q corner) is the region of flight where a fast but subsonic fixed-wing aircraft's stall speed is near the critical Mach number, making it very difficult to keep an airplane in stable flight. Because the ...

  4. Flight envelope protection - Wikipedia

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    China Airlines Flight 006 damaged by going outside its flight envelope to gain control after a drop of 3,000 m in 20 seconds. Flight envelope protection is a human machine interface extension of an aircraft's control system that prevents the pilot of an aircraft from making control commands that would force the aircraft to exceed its structural and aerodynamic operating limits.

  5. I Have Serious Flight Anxiety, So Here Are 9 Things Aviation ...

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    "Airplanes are engineered to withstand significantly more than we would ever encounter within a normal 'flight envelope,' is kind of the term that we use," says Kyle Koukol, a commercial air pilot ...

  6. Maneuvering speed - Wikipedia

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    A flight envelope diagram showing V S (Stall speed at 1G), V C (Corner/Maneuvering speed) and V D (Dive speed) Vg diagram. Note the 1g stall speed, and the Maneuvering Speed (Corner Speed) for both positive and negative g. The maximum “never-exceed” placard dive speeds are determined for smooth air only.

  7. Fly-by-wire - Wikipedia

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    The Airbus A320 family was the first airliner to feature a full glass cockpit and digital fly-by-wire flight control system. The only analogue instruments were the radio magnetic indicator, brake pressure indicator, standby altimeter and artificial horizon, the latter two being replaced by a digital integrated standby instrument system in later production models.

  8. Mark Wahlberg Tried to 'Push the Envelope' with “Flight Risk ...

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    Wahlberg previously worked with Gibson, 69, as actors in front of the camera in movies like 2022's Father Stu and 2017's Daddy's Home 2.Flight Risk is Gibson's first movie as a director since 2016 ...

  9. After a string of incidents, some flyers are sticking with a ...

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    People’s ways of coping with flight anxiety can manifest in different forms, he added. Some people that Bricker speaks to only book flights for certain times of day or only fly nonstop. Others ...