For 53 years a single rule kept airliners subsonic over land. As the FAA proposes to lift it, Aviation Explained asks why the ban existed —…
Airbus is flight-testing a folding wingtip — and quietly using an indirect question to explain why. Learn how to embed a question inside a statement.
Airbus has launched a new flight-test campaign for extended, folding wingtips on an A321neo, part of its long-running Wing of Tomorrow research programme.
Routine ATC read-backs for the cruise on the Dublin to Heathrow flight: read back a climb, a direct routing, a new squawk and a speed instruction,…
A sentence-ordering dictation: a jet blast at the perimeter fence knocks over two plane spotters standing too close during a takeoff roll.
A passenger has a severe allergic reaction mid-flight. Can you catch every detail the crew got right — and correct the six that the transcript gets…
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