While Boneyard very strictly and traditionally meant a cemetery or a place for collection of dead animals, it is also used in the sense of a collection place for items like cars, ships and airplanes. Airplanes or Aircrafts are stored in aircraft boneyards prior to retrieval of some parts or complete demolition. Airplanes are retired […]
Crosswind is the effect of the winds on a airplane from the perpendicular side of the direction of travel. Any wind can be broken down into 2 components, one in the direction of the travel (or against the direction of travel) known as tailwind / headwind and the other the perpendicular component, known as the […]
Airframe is the aircraft body excluding it’s engine or power plant. It is equivalent to the autobody of a car. Airframe is a distinct field of aerospace or aeronautical engineering which involves a great deal of usage of concepts from material science, strength of materials, stress analysis and more.
Altimeters are used in aircrafts (airplanes, helicopters and other flying objects) to measure the height of the aircraft above a reference level, When the reference point is sea level, it is called altitude. When the reference point is land or a water body, the distance of the aircraft above the reference point is called “height”. […]