ANN Daily Touch-And-Go: 09.23.09 (ANN's
Short-Form Daily News Program)
ANN Daily Aero-Briefing: 09.23.09 (ANN's Long-Form
Daily News Program)
ANN Special Feature: Bryan Neville, FAASTeam - Pilot Stress -
09.23.09 (ANN Special Report, with the FAA's
Bryan Neville)
“The new system, called Wide-Area Multilateration,
lets us see aircraft we couldn’t see before due to the rugged
terrain. It improves the safety and efficiency of those flights and
saves time and money for passengers and operators.”
Source: FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt.
The theoretical height above the runway threshold at which the
aircraft's glideslope antenna would be if the aircraft maintains
the trajectory established by the mean ILS glideslope or MLS
glidepath.
Aero-Linx: Air And Space Museum
- Winglets
Have you ever wondered why something that looks as simple as
winglets are always cited as improving aerodynamics, efficiency,
and fuel economy in aircraft? We went looking for an explanation
today, and found a good one from The Smithsonian Institution's Air
and Space Museum.
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