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The Glass Cockpit Advantage

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Developed in the 1970s and implemented in the 1990s. The glass cockpit has a lot of advantages for pilots. Technically referred to as Technically Enhanced Cockpit, it refers to series of flight management computers that can be programmed to fly an aircraft A Glass cockpit for an Airbus A320. Photo credit: Airliners.net A glass cockpit for a B777. Photo credit: Airliners.net A glass cockpit for a B737-800. Photo credit: Airliners.net A glass cockpit is a new technology in an airplane that features series of electronic or digital displays on an LCD screen as opposed to an analogue cockpit that features gauges or dials. Glass cockpits are easier to read and much more accurate than their analogue counterpart. Advantages to Pilots? Though pilots still use the T formation scan to cross check. The glass cockpit makes this checks easier and reduces stress and fatigue on the part of the pilots and it is less likely that a critical gauge will be missed. Again, they have fewer bre...
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Russian MC 21 300 completes its First Test Flight

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MIAMI  – The new Russia’s MC-21-300 narrowbody completed its maiden flight at Irkutsk Aviation Plant airfield in Siberia, about 2,600 miles east of Moscow, on Sunday morning, May 28, 2017. This is the first member of a new domestically produced Russian narrowbody commercial aircraft family. The United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) and Irkut Corporation – the aircraft designer, reported the first flight took 30 minutes at an altitude of 1,000 meters at the speed of 300 km/h. The flight plan included the aircraft in-flight stability, controllability checks, powerplant operation, approaches, climbs, turns and landing. By western standards, this was a very short, low altitude first test flight – even compared to Chinese competitor Comac C919’s inaugural sortie earlier in the month. “The program incorporates the best technologies, industrial practices and design solutions to date,” said Denis Manturov, Minister of Trade and Industry, referring to the aircraft’s “uniqu...
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Aviation since 1903 On 17 December 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright made a decision that forever changed the world – to fly the first powered aircraft. On that day Orville flew an aircraft created by them in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The flight lasted 12 seconds and covered 120 feet. Three more flights were made that day with Wilbur, Orville’s brother completing the record flight lasting 59 seconds over a distance of 852 feet. That flight marked the beginning of aviation in the world. wright flyer Miracle of Aviation in the world today Since 1903, aviation has transformed the world. It has become a weapon of defence and a weapon of mass destruction in times of war. It served the military during first and Second World War in terms of logistics and mail delivery. Today, military aviation has gone beyond the use of biplanes and bombers to the use of sophisticated hi speed fighter jets and stealth bombers. Drones are now in use.  On January 1 1914, Abram C Pheil, a fo...
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