A private plane carrying world champion boxer Gervonta Davis headed for Las Vegas aborted its takeoff out of Florida’s Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport on Saturday afternoon sometime before 2 ET. The plane, which was carrying between four and 10 passengers, experienced nose gear failure as it was heading down the runway, leading the pilots to […]
August 2021
Bermuda Triangle mystery: Australian expert tries to solve fate of ‘lost flight’ after 75 years
Seventy-five years after the disappearance of five aircraft and their entire crews over the notorious Bermuda Triangle, an Australian researcher has thrown new light on the mystery.On December 5, 1945, five US Navy torpedo bombers, known as Flight 19, took off from their Florida base on a routine training mission.But within hours all the 14 […]
Passenger jet damaged after ‘hard landing’
“An indication of a hard landing on the main landing gear is a peak recorded vertical acceleration that exceeds 2.2 G (incremental 1.2 G). This vertical accelerometer data must be measured by the flight data recorder accelerometer at a data sampling rate of at least sixteen (16) samples per second. This vertical acceleration G-level threshold […]
REAR PRESSURE BULKHEAD
The rear pressure bulkhead, installed at Fr 80/82,divides the pressurized rear fuselage from the cone / rear fuselage, which is not pressurized. It is a monolithic composite panel, made from carbon fiber and stiffened by nine stiffeners integrated to the front face (carbon fiber skin laminated on a foam core). The bulkhead is attached to […]