When discussing aircraft and their standard equipment pieces, most people would recognize the black box. As the term reaches public ears most often during the discussion of aviation accidents, many have strong negative associations with such devices. Despite their grand importance during accident investigations, black boxes serve a great role in improving the safety of flight and aircraft operations. To best understand how black boxes benefit the aviation industry, one first must be aware of their functionality and capabilities...

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Tungsten carbide coatings, known for their hardness and resistance to corrosion, high temperatures, and abrasion, are widely used throughout industries such as machinery, metallurgy, oil & gas, and aerospace. For use in other, more general industries throughout the world, protective coatings are formed by the use of raw material tungsten carbide sprayed onto iron-based materials or nickel surfaces...

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Aircraft accidents and crashes, while extremely rare, are always tragic occurrences. While weather, damaged hardware, and other such conditions may lead to an accident, one of the most common causes is due to human error. By thoroughly understanding and analyzing the causes of human error and its relation to aviation accidents, the industry can better improve upon the safety of flight. Through such endeavors, the risk of accidents in aviation has been steadily declining, and the United States has seen fewer average fatal crashes by the year. Despite this, crashes due to human error still occur, and thus should be well understood.

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From the air conditioning system to onboard wifi, aircraft have greatly advanced their capabilities to increase the comfort of passengers throughout a flight. Although many may feel they could never go without such modern amenities, some may take for granted the more conventional features of passenger flight. The aircraft toilet is a robust and advanced apparatus, though not without its fair share of theories and misunderstandings. As an integral facet of passenger aircraft that many may find themselves relying on at some point of a flight, understanding the functionality of the most underrated room of the aircraft can alleviate the longstanding questions that many may have always had.

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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is estimated that more than 16,000 passenger jets around the world are grounded. The number of passenger jets currently in service is the lowest it’s been in more than 25 years, and some airlines have had to slash their flight schedules by as much as 90%. To give you another example of the drastic drop-off in air travel, on January 22, 2020, there were nearly 114,000 passenger flights. Just three months later, on April 20, there were less than 27,000. This has undoubtedly caused a great deal of financial strain on the industry, but has also presented a second problem: where can these aircraft be stored, and how can they be kept airworthy during their downtime?

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The importance of aircraft wheels and tires cannot be overstated. They are critical in ensuring safety and are consistently subject to the punishment of takeoff and landing. Additionally, aircraft tires must endure extreme temperatures. While airborne, they experience temperatures below -40 degrees celsius, and at touchdown, tires briefly withstand temperatures in excess of 200 degrees celsius. This blog will provide a look into the details of aircraft wheels and how they are able to withstand the forces resulting from their operation...

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An RF connector is an electrical connector intended to work at radio frequencies in the multi-megahertz range. RF connectors are ordinarily utilized with coaxial links and are intended to keep up the protection that the coaxial plan offers. In this article, we provide a more detailed look at RF connectors and their functions. To get right to it, RF connectors are the most usually utilized and incorporate sort. While they appear to be unique from one another, these fittings are a similar principal connector. A male sort N will fit into a female BNC and TNC with no trouble, and work effectively.

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When an aircraft lands in an airport and passengers disembark, there are many operations that are quickly completed to ensure that the aircraft is ready for its next passengers and flight. This turnaround time (TAT) of aircraft includes the time between the landing of an aircraft to the moment it takes off once again. From cleanliness to establishing security, multiple operations are quickly completed by teams of personnel. In this blog, we will discuss the various tasks that are done during the turnaround time of an aircraft....

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Any piece of machinery will feature moving parts that facilitate relative sliding or rolling motion. For instance, machine tools exhibit linear sliding motion, and automobile wheels provide an example of rotational motion. In most cases, the moving parts used to help these motions occur are either bearings or bushings. This blog will explain the basics of bearings and bushings, what they do, and how they differ...

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A turn coordinator in aviation (known as also the TC) is an additional add-on to the turn and slip indicator (also known as T/S) with a major difference being the axis and the display whereupon the gimbal is to be placed. Basically it can be used alongside with or as an alternative to the turn and slip indicator. The only difference between the turn coordinator and the turn and slip is that the gimbal is ranked up at least 30 degrees higher, which causes the instrument to yaw, as well as to roll. Overall this causes the turn coordinator instrument to display a change more quickly and react to the change in roll before the aircraft has even begun to yaw. Although this instrument reacts to changes in the aircraft's roll, it does not display the roll attitude...

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