It’s the higher flier, the fastest and most slippery, it’s the Blackbird. But have you ever wondered what’s behind its records? Have you ever thought about the insane engineering behind one of those engines? The Sr-71 Blackbird, known between its pilots as Habu, is the conventional plane with higher flight roof, higher top speed and…
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What is Sustainable Aviation Fuel?
The aviation industry is a big polluter of our World, accounting for approximately 2-3% of the manmade global carbon emissions and that means we need to find ways to reduce CO2 emissions in the following years. This is an urgent situation because of the growth of air traffic in the past years and the predicted…
How airlines choose new routes?
Have you ever thought of the importance of airline routes? A great choice can lead to great profit over one single route, take as an example the route London Heathrow (LHR) to New York (JFK), which is the highest profit route in the world (€ 1.000.000.000/year) mostly due to the high first and business class…
James H. Doolittle
Today’s turn its for one of that people that deserves his own Hollywood movie, meet James H. Doolittle. Born in California in 1896, Doolittle was a short kid, such thing made him being bullied by his classmates till he started boxing, turning de odds and giving him a strong personality but his first contact with…
How do airlines afford new aircraft?
One thing is for sure, planes are expensive, so how airlines afford to own such big fleets? Some companies are buying the plane but usually, companies are leasing the aircraft from leasers all over the World. This happens for two main reasons: to operate aircraft without the financial burden of buying them and to provide…
Zeppelin, a throwback to the past
Imagine you could lift from the floor just attaching yourself to some balloons, even that this sounds fantastic, something like this was in fashion during the first third of the 20th century, let me tell you about Zeppelins. Most of you could remember these flying crafts with the dark aura of the Great War or…
Post pandemic recovery of airlines
As we know, 2020 was a tough year for the travel industry, the hospitality sector is still struggling to get back on track, cruise ships are still in harbors with very few of them starting to sail and many airplanes are still grounded due to the lack of demand. In 2020 after COVID-19 struck the…
The danger of volcanic ash in air traffic
As some of you may probably know, a volcano erupted in the Canary island of La Palma, causing its airport to be closed and many planes and routes to be redirected as the ashes reach the atmosphere. But why is it dangerous? For this article, I will be analyzing from lower hazard to higher. First,…
How is an airplane recycled
What happens to an airplane after its retirement? Well, the airplane is moved to a storage site, the biggest of them all being the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group in Tucson, Arizona. After the plane is moved here, usually it is kept for a few years and parts that can be used again are…
James Webb
James Edwin Webb was an American government official who served as undersecretary of state from 1949 to 1952. Additionally, he was also the second appointed administrator of NASA from February 14, 1961, to October 1968. He was born on October 7, 1906, in Tally Ho, North Carolina, US. Webb accepted President John F. Kennedy’s appointment…