Around 1966-7, at a time when the 747 program was burning about 5 million $ a day, the 747 engineering team led by Joe Sutter faced a sudden crisis. As they were moving towards building the first prototype, they found a major problem with their wing: the outer section was bearing too much load. An […]
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Sometime in the past, when boarding through mobile stairs or a stairs truck (otherwise known as the-only-real-way-to-board-an-aircraft) you might have noticed a distinct rattling or clicking noise coming from the engine. As strange as this might seem at first, it is normal. Ok, but what is it exactly? I wanted to know what is behind
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In 2008, while still in high school in San Francisco, Luca Iaconi-Stewart set out to build an Air India 777-300ER model using only paper, more specifically, manila folders. His building techniques are unique in many ways, like drawing the plans, cutting an endless number of tiny parts and assembling functional aircraft mechanisms. The model, that
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