Crash - To bed down for the night. What every pilot hopes to do once he has found a suitable landing site (also see "Suitable Landing Site").
Cuban 8 - A family of political refugees in Miami.
Dead Reckoning - You reckon correctly, or you are.
A crash in February 1927, due to blade root failure, led to an improvement in rotor hub design.
Post-crash fires are more dangerous than the crash itself. Most deaths come from some and carbon monoxide inhalation. Fill the cockpit with Halogen before exiting. Good maintenance is still the best fire insurance.
Did they crash “because” of the obstacles? If they had been flying somewhere with more benign topography, they wouldn't have gotten into trouble.
Did they crash “because” they made a wrong turn?
When five airline crashes occurred in December the government initiated a well financed airport modernization program. In 1938 the first passenger-carrying airline landed at Pittsburg, PA using the ILS in actual conditions.
If you can disable Crash Detect in your version, do so for this and the following scenario, otherwise you may get a CRASH message when landing on Goat Island, or anywhere else in the vicinity of Niagara Falls.
It would be bad to crash and find you couldn't egress because you had left the door locked closed! Check that the door is latched - if it is not latched it can whip open when you are hovering.
Door Hinge Safety Pin: Installed ...
Factors that Cause Crashes: Spatial Disorientation
Most problems related to disorientation can be traced to the inner ear, a sensory organ about the size of an eraser on a pencil.
Auger (in): Slang for crashing an aircraft, sometimes referring to death.
Authenticate: Secret code challenges and answers, usually changed daily.
Auxiliary: Secondary
AV or Avn: Aviation ...
The test procedure requires "crash testing" the seat (i.e., rapidly decelerating the seat in accordance with the criteria in Sec. 25.562(b)). For the 16g test, this means deceleration must go from a minimum of 44ft/sec to 0 ft/sec in not more than 0.
This time the craft simply crashed and was destroyed. A more serious effort was made by the French engineer Felix Du Temple and his brother Louis in 1857.
From the beginning fatal crashes, caused by wing failure, occurred, and extra bracing wires were added to remedy wing flutter.
A well-designed sheet-metal aircraft also provides superior crashworthiness, as an impact's energy is absorbed by progressively collapsing (deforming) the metal structure, as opposed to splintering or shattering upon impact.
ELTs that activate automatically use a 'G-Switch' (gravity switch) that triggers the ELT when it senses that a crash has occurred. ELT makes it easier for rescue teams to get the exact location of a downed aircraft.
The prototype, which first flew in January 1915, was difficult to fly, lacking in structural integrity, dangerous to the crew in the event of a crash landing, and underpowered.
COCKPIT VOICE RECORDER (CVR) — A crash-resistant device featuring a very sensitive microphone to digitally record sounds heard in the cockpit of an airplane: pilot-to-pilot conversation and comments, warning horns and signals, slipstream, ...
if the runway is Black, then its not useable due to a crash or mishap etc.
Black-out - In a high Gravity turn, an aviators blood is sucked out of the brain, into the lower body. Can cause unconsciousness. Also "G-lock".
The Rider's construction features a fuselage cockpit cage of chrome-moly steel in a triangulated design for max crash protection. Tubes are laser cut and TIG welded into a framework made up of 150 triangles.
and must be timed perfectly-if the pilot turns too soon, the plane will be blown off the runway, but if he turns too late, the landing gear will not be aligned with the runway and he risks seriously damaging or breaking it and possibly crashing the ...
The team spends whatever time is necessary at the crash scene. Attention then shifts to the NTSB laboratory where, among other things, ...
17 JAN 2008 - A British Airways Boeing 777 has crashed at Heathrow Airport, London, U.K. It is the first crash of Boeing newest airliner. All of the 136 passengers and crew survived the mishap. 19 were injured, many suffering minor injuries.
This is used to give model pilots a feel for flying, without the risk of a crash.
The Aerodrome crashed soon after leaving the launch pad on the Potomac River. The front wing was badly damaged but this was repaired and a second attempt was made on 9th December.
As already discussed in a previous article, pilot comfort, crashworthiness and an easy-to-build, long lasting airframe are simply routine items required when designing a new generation aircraft, ...
SHOT DOWN
A "hit" that results in a crash landing. Sometimes caused by radios miles away.
SHOW
unless the context otherwise requires, means to show to the satisfaction of the Administrator ...
The problem that Juan encountered was that as his gyroplane would start to fly, it would invariable roll to the left and crash. Models he built using lightweight rotors did not experience this.
ELT - Emergency locator transmitter; emits a homing signal from a crashed aircraft to simplify location for rescue services.
ENVELOPE - Container, usually flexible, or the lifting gas or hot air of an airship or balloon.
When a student begins landing practice, they will conclude that landings are a controlled crash with mother earth followed by rapid-fire mutterings from the flight instructor.
These durable aircraft are usually designed with simplicity in mind, utilizing forgiving components that let you get away with a crash or two without so much as a scratch; however, accidents do happen.
A small radio transmitter fixed to an aircraft's structure which is automatically activated by impact or water immersion and transmits a code on emergency frequencies enabling SAR satellites or search units equipped with DF to locate the crash or ...
Like a cockpit voice recorder (CVR), a flight data recorder is designed to withstand the forces of a crash so that its information may be used to reconstruct the circumstances leading up to the accident (in some cases, a digital flight data recorder, ...
In between, you've got a wide range of FBO-based schools of different sizes and levels of sophistication featuring everything from a we'll-work-with-your-schedule philosophy to a three-day crash-course approach to your next rating or endorsement.
Pylon: The support or mast for the rotors of a gyroplane or helicopter. Pylons are also occasionally used to brace, from above, the wings of a wire-braced monoplane or to protect the pilot from injury in a crash should the aeroplane overturn.
Flying is not dangerous; crashing is dangerous. Flying is the perfect vocation for a man who wants to feel like a boy, but not for one who still is.
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