Aircraft technology
Boeing 747 Heavy Maintenance
In this video Boeing 747 Aircraft going for D check at british Airways maintenance hangar.
Aircraft maintenance checks
Aircraft maintenance checks are periodic inspections that have to be done on all commercial/civil aircraft after a certain amount of time or usage. (military aircraft normally follow specific maintenance programmes which may or may not be similar to those of commercial/civil operators). Airlines and other commercial operators of large or turbine-powered aircraft follow a continuous … Read more
Line maitenance, base maintenance and workshop
Line maintenance: The maintenance is done on the flight line, basically on the apron out in the open. Line maintenance can be up to A check. Base maintenance: The maintenance work is done in a hangar, with appropriate platforms perform access aircraft components.Special tools and equipments are used. Third-party just means that someone else than the … Read more
Pitot-static system
A pitot-static system is a system of pressure-sensitive instruments that is used on aircraft to determine an Aircrafts airspeed, Mach number, altitude, and altitude trend. A pitot-static system generally consists of a pitot tube, a static port, and the pitot-static instruments.This equipment is used to measure the forces acting on a vehicle as a function … Read more
PITOT TUBE
A pitot tube is a pressure measurement instrument used to measure fluid flow velocity. It is widely used to determine the airspeed of an aircraft, water speed of a boat, and to measure liquid, air and gas flow velocities in industrial applications. The pitot tube is used to measure the local flow velocity at a … Read more