Airports and the world of aviation as a whole have their own unique language. It’s easy to get lost in the slew of acronyms, abbreviations and other denotations. Here is a helpful list of few airport abbreviations you’ve heard, and a few you haven’t: Read more >>

The aerospace and defense industries are complex and hectic industries that require a sense of order. The various aircraft, UAVs, maintenance equipment, and testing components all amass to an enormous group of components and subcomponents that are constantly being manufactured, sourced, and shipped around the globe. Read more >>

Any vehicle traveling on the ground moves in the direction it is steered or headed to, and is relatively unaffected by wind thanks to friction between the vehicle and the ground. After all, the wind might be moving, but the ground, the medium by which the vehicle is traveling, is not. Aircraft in flight however, seldom travel in exactly the direction they are headed in because of the wind effect. Read more >>

Even the most basic aircraft trainer includes gyroscopic instruments, due to their overwhelming importance for flight and navigation. The three most critical of these instruments are the artificial horizon, heading indicator, and turn indicator. If used properly, these indicators allow a pilot to fly using instruments alone, even if the view outside the cockpit is completely obscured by weather. Read more >>

Wings provide the critical force of lift that an aircraft needs to achieve flight. They do so because the shape of the wing, or airfoil, is such that as air passes over and under it, the air traveling under it is moving faster and creating more pressure, thus generating lift. This phenomenon is called Bernoulli’s principle, after the Swiss mathematician who first described the effect. The shape of the wing depends on a variety of design factors, such as the amount of lift generated, balanced, and stability, and can be straight or swept back, rounded or squared at the tips, or tapered or not. Read more >>