The history of aviation dates to the 5th century with the invention of kites in China.
The famous artist Leonardo da Vinci created the first drafts for a rational aircraft in his paintings in the 15th century.
In 1647, Tito Livio Burattini developed a model aircraft featuring four pairs of glider wings..
How heavy is a plane? The wider and bigger the plane, the heavier it is.
The wide body aircraft, such as the Boeing 747 (183,520 kg) and Airbus A330 (120,000 kg), are heavier than the narrow body aircraft Boeing 737 (41,413 kg), Airbus A320 (42,400 kg) and Embraer 175 (21,890 kg).
Planes have a maximum take-off weight..
General aviation is civilian, non-commercial flight.
It applies to things like sport aviation, business travel, humanitarian aid, agriculture, environmental conservation, and bush flying..
Structural Limits
Normal category aircraft are designed to withstand +3.8 to -1.52 g's, or units of gravity.
This does not mean at 3.9 g's the wings will separate from the fuselage but structural damage may occur..
The modern age of powered flight began in 1903 when Orville Wright made the first sustained, powered flight on December 17 in a plane he and his brother Wilbur built..
Sir George Cayley was first called the "father of the aeroplane" in 1846.
During the last years of the previous century he had begun the first rigorous study of the physics of flight and would later design the first modern heavier-than-air craft..
GBAS is comprised of ground equipment and avionics
The ground equipment includes ,4 reference receivers, a GBAS ground facility, and a VHF data broadcast transmitter
This ground equipment is complemented by GBAS avionics installed on the aircraft
GB Airways is a former British airline; prior to its sale, it was headquartered in ' The Beehive ', a former terminal building, at City Place Gatwick, London Gatwick Airport in Crawley, West Sussex, England
The airline was originally created as 'Gibraltar Airways' in 1931, being an offshoot of Gibraltarian shipping company MH Bland
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Defunct British airline
Defunct British airline
