Airliner. A slang term for a transport aeroplane.
Airplane. Americans derivative of 'aeroplane'.
Air Pocket. An erroneous term describing the effect of vertical currents which cause 'bumps' to a flying machine passing through them.
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Airliners typically have a fuel fraction between 25 to 45 percent, so less than half their takeoff weight is fuel. The Boeing 777-200-IGW very long range airliner has a fuel fraction of 47 percent.
Airliners all have electronic traffic-detection / collision-avoidance systems. Probably the day will come when even the simplest light aircraft will have them too. In the meantime, your eyes are your primary defense. You must use them wisely.
Airliners and other heavy, fast movers have charts and graphs (now contained in a calculator) that give them exact rotation speeds. We have POH’s that also give us rough guidelines, but they almost never include any of the above factors.
An airliner that has just landed and is waiting for its gate to clear before the passengers can leave the plane would not be parked right next to the gate, because this would congest the terminal and other airplanes would not be able to leave.
Larger airliner aircraft are de-iced on the airport during winter time just before the flight commences, from that point on the aircrafts de-icing equipment can keep the aircraft clean. Until the ice accretion is higher than the system can handle.
Commercial airliners usually use the airline's name followed by the flight number. For example, "United Airlines Flight 1291" would be listed as UAL 1291 on the routing strip used by controllers while spoken as "United - one - two - niner - one".
The First Modern Airliners
Boeing built what generally is considered the first modern passenger airliner, the Boeing Model 247. It was unveiled in 1933 and United Air Lines promptly bought 60 of them.
Some aircraft, like airliners and cargo planes, spend most of their life in a cruise condition. For these airplanes, excess thrust is not as important as high engine efficiency and low fuel usage.
Then again, really poor weather means no time enroute because that's when you hop on an airliner and let the heavy metal folks (and I don't mean rock musicians) get you there.
An airstair is a passenger staircase that is built in to an airliner - often, though not always, on the inside of a clamshell-style door.
A majority of general aviation airplanes today have a GPS in the panel, and they're being added to business jets and airliners. By providing a link between the GPS on the airplane and controllers on the ground, dependence on radar can be broken.
In the early days of airliners, because there were no runways long enough for really big airplanes, large seaplanes were built to cross the ocean. The Boeing 314 and Martin Clipper are two of these neat airplanes called "flying boats.
Generally considered to be any airliner with more than one aisle in the passenger cabin. Examples of widebody aircraft include the Boeing 747 767, and 777, the Lockheed L-1011, the McDonnell Douglas DC-10, and Airbus Industries' A300 and A310.
those of commercial airliners) are designed to withstand enormous side forces so that if the plane touches down with a significant crab angle, it won't necessarily be damaged.
Flight schools have begun to polarize, with academies designed to get you to an airliner fast on one end of the scale and mom-and-pop operations on the other.
Renowned as an airliner, general transport and perhaps most significantly for the vital part it played in the Normandy landings and the Berlin airlift. Still in service as a passenger aircraft, general transport and in maritime pollution control.
One seat flown one mile. An airliner with 100 passenger seats, flown a distance of 100 miles, represents 10,000 available seat miles (ASMs).
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There were many elements of the design of the Ariel (as Henson called it) that proved to be prophetic of later aircraft, and a simple glance at the design makes one feel as if one is looking at a cartoon prototype of the modern airliner.
The Boeing 707 was the United States' first production jet airliner, and the aircraft with which the US first gained the lead in commercial jet manufacture.
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ETOPS - extended range twin operations, usually long over water flights by airliners.
ETPS - Empire Test Pilots School, based at the Aircraft & Armament Experimental Establishment, Boscombe Down.
The Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde supersonic transport (SST) was the more successful of the only two supersonic passenger airliners to have ever operated commercially (the Tupolev Tu-144 being the other).
Just on the far side of the pass, we flew past Palm Springs. It's hard to see in this picture, but Palm Springs International Airport is right there, and they were departing airliners as we flew past, so we didn't get too close.
COCKPIT - Compartment, originally open to the air, for accommodation of pilot'and crew/passengers. Nowadays used informally by laymen to describe the forward part of the cabin, especially of an airliner, which is off-limits to passengers, ...
They are not part of the wing structure, but are usually mounted on the fuselage. Military jets most often have speed brakes, which fold out of the fuselage. Some airliners use spoilers as speed brakes when at altitude.
These accidents typically occur near airports while aircraft are maneuvering at lower altitudes and result from a loss of situational awareness. CFIT is the most common type of commercial airliner accidents ...
Of all the myriad planforms used, they can typically be grouped into those used for low-speed flight, found on general aviation aircraft, and those used for high-speed flight, found on many military aircraft and airliners.
 See also: Airline, Aircraft, Aviation, Flight, Plane
  
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