A pre-solo flight student struggled with managing checklists and situational awareness during landings, leading to unsafe practices and instructor interventions. Using the GUMPS mnemonic and a flow ...

Speed brakes are high-drag devices designed to help aircraft descend faster without gaining excess speed. They're especially useful when a pilot needs to increase the descent rate without shocking the ...

Stopping an airplane is no easy task, and although planes can use spoilers and thrust reversers to assist with the task, the brakes still do around 40% of the work. In simple terms, it's all about ...

Ever find yourself sitting in an aeroplane and marvelling at how something so heavy can just float high above the ground? For ...

Professor and department head for the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University Bill Crossley answers questions about airplanes and aerospace engineering from Twitter. How do ...

Sleeping on an airplane is sometimes a must, especially for business travelers or those on late-night flights. While sitting in a metal tube hurtling through the air is nobody's preferred bedtime ...

When you gotta go, you gotta go–even at 30,000 feet. The alarming noise ensues when you press the “flush” button in an airplane toilet and the bowl’s contents are magically sucked away into oblivion.