The pause before takeoff is not hesitation, but a critical moment of engine verification and thrust stabilization.
US investigators probing a landing overrun which badly damaged a Falcon 10 have determined that the thrust-reversers did not deploy, because the jet was wrongly configured during approach. The inquiry ...
Landing a massive passenger aircraft requires a host of different systems and procedures to work correctly, and there are many redundancies in place when conditions are less than ideal or the ...
The C-17's four powerful and reliable engines make it one of the most important aircraft in the Air Force.