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Cracked windshield

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

Enjoy!!

A 767, was performing a flight from Los Angeles (USA) to Chicago. While it was enroute at FL330, a crack suddenly started to develop in the windshield. It continued to develop until it formed a large spider web across the windshield. The crew decided to divert to Denver for a safe landing about 25 minutes after the crack started to develop. After landing, the passengers were disembarked and waited 4 hours for another plane to continue their journey.

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Cracked windshield

Listen to this recording and try to write what your understand. You don’t need to understand every word, just the most important ideas. Use your own words to write what happened.

You can listen as many times as you like.

Check below the recording for some of the difficult words and come back and check the full text from this recording tomorrow.

Suggested ICAO level: 3+

Have a great day!

Difficult words: crack (n.), cracked (adj.), windshield (n.), spider web (n.)

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Aircraft interiors answers

Here are the answers to last Friday’s video, enjoy!

Suggested ICAO level for video: 5+

1) The largest aircraft interior exhibition in the world.
2) He thinks they should be more like hotel lobbies and not hotel kitchens, “with little features that make you have a sense of upgrade”.
3) The seats.
4) They believe that an extra inch (18 in total) can help passengers sleep for longer and increase the quality of that sleep.
5) $10,000
6) They replicate aircraft interiors for clients and allow them to interact with those interiors using 3D technology.
7) It will make the design and engineering processes faster.

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Aircraft interiors

Here’s an interesting video of new possibilities in aircraft interiors, making seats lighter, mood lighting and more luxurios possibilities.

Suggested ICAO level: 5+

Try to answer some of these questions as you watch the video and come back on Monday for the answers.
1) What is held in Hamburg, Germany every year?
2) What does Luke Hawes think aircraft interiors should be like?
3) What is the cabin’s “most essential bit of kit”?
4) Why did Airbus add an extra inch to its seats?
5) What is the average cost of an economy class seat?
6) What happens at Lufthansa Technik?
7) What difference will this technology make to interior design for aircraft.

Have a great weekend!

http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/international/2014/05/15/spc-business-traveller-great-design-b.cnn.html

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Smoke in the cockpit

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

Enjoy!!

A Boeing 737-800, en route from Milan (Italy) to Barcelona (Spain), was cruising at FL380 and was about 70nm northeast of Marseille (France) when the crew noticed smoke coming from the flight management computer. They decided to divert to Marseille while continuing to follow their checklist to try to stop the smoke. They landed safely on runway 32L approximately 15 minutes after they first saw the smoke.
The plane stayed on the ground while maintenance tried to solve the problem. The passengers were moved on to other flights.

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Smoke in the cockpit

Listen to this recording and try to write what your understand. You can listen as many times as you like.

Check below the recording for some of the difficult words and come back and check the full text from this recording tomorrow.

Suggested ICAO level: 3+

Have a great day!

Difficult words: notice (v.), flight management computer, checklist (n.).