The roar of an airplane during take-off is music to the ears of an aviation enthusiast. With the jet engines running on the maximum throttle, generating a huge amount of thrust,...
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Flying has been a fascination with humankind since the early days, inspiring the entrepreneurs, scientists, and common folk alike to discover new ways to touch the skies. The Wright...
For any object to attain flight, it has to overcome drag as it thrusts into the air in order to generate lift. For example, golf balls have dimples on them to create air pockets, which enables them...
Airplanes were only able to fly when Orville and Wilbur Wright discovered how to combine airframe wings and engine-powered propellers so that it was possible for airplanes to go forward and upward...
After a century of evolution, air travel has successfully established itself as one of the safest modes of transportation. This success was not attained without the reliability of commercial jet...
In 1947, when Brendan O’Regan started the world’s first duty-free shop at Shannon Airport, Ireland, he did not have the slightest idea that about fifty years later, duty-free shops would become...