A few days ago (this past Tuesday), Boeing had to once again delay the maiden flight of the much-anticipated Boeing 787 Dreamliner. It is no surprise that it has harmed the company’s public image stock price as well as had damaging effects on deals with Qantas and Virgin, for example.
According to the Wall Street Journal:
Despite the [...]
This is a modest part 2 of Airport Runway Design from last week. Last time, I explained a little about the nomenclature of runways, from the 10-degree approximated angles in the direction they are pointed. As review, the “09″ marker below indicates 90 degrees (which we know as pointing to the right). Note that the [...]
Understanding airport runway design is probably unnecessary if you aren’t in the business or industry of caring about it, but it is actually pretty cool stuff. (It’s not likely that you’ll be running around on the tarmac anyway.)
What’s a runway for? It is for airplanes to take off and land. That one’s easy. But what [...]