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Flying Fighter Jet is as easy as to fly airplanes

Flying Fighter Jet is as easy as to fly airplanes

Being able to fly airplanes and feel like a bird is a dream many people share. However, there’s a different class of aircraft available to fly. Many people think to fly airplanes ends at single-engine piston-engine aircraft. This widespread belief couldn’t be more wrong: Everybody can fly a true military aircraft and fly a jet fighter. Flying fighter jet isn’t harder than flying piston engine aircraft, but it’s surely much more of a thrill as G-Forces push your body to the limits while you fly a jet fighter.

Also, actually flying fighter jets isn’t hard – the hardest part in a jet flight is surely starting and landing. Since people who intend to fly military aircraft as civilians will be flying fighter jets used for training, they won’t fly a jet fighter alone but will be accompanied by an instructor who is flying fighter jets daily. Together with him, civilians fly in a two-cockpit jet fighter for 20 minutes or so. Therefore, the instructor is with them throughout the flight. This instructor will safely start and land the airplane and instruct the passenger how to fly airplanes – or, to be more precise, how to fly a jet fighter. After the instruction, the adventure in the flying fighter begins: the instructor starts the fighter, the jet taxies to the runway and eventually, the jet fighter takes off.

During the fighter flight, control will be handed over to the passenger who will fly the military aircraft by himself and perform rolls, loops, immelman and more maneuvers with the jet fighter. That’s the point of ultimate freedom, where the unparalleled power of a military aircraft lay in the hands of a single man.

An example to illustrate the difference between flying fighters alone or in extreme situations are display teams: To fly fighters in formation with a minimal distance of only a few feet between jets requires a lot of skill, no doubt. However, if a jet fighter of a is flying alone, the jet flight is much less demanding to the pilot as he can only concentrate on his own jets without worrying about the other military aircraft nearby.

In short: Military pilots go through a very hard selection not because the actual jet fighter flight is hard to perform, but because the stress situation in an aerial battle, flying fighter in severe weather conditions or to fly military aircraft at night requires high skill. To fly fighters in the blue sky in times of peace is easy enough even for civilians to control the jet – under the guidance, of course, of an instructor who knows how to fly military aircraft.

Vyacheslav Spiridonov graduated the journalistic faculty of MGIMO (MSIIR) in Moscow. He’s an observer of the Soviet / Russian Air Force and the military-industrial complex and observes civilians flying fighter jets since 2002. He did a jet fighter ride himself in 2004.


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Question by Francesc: What is the likely impact of easy Jet’s style on pricing when applied to cinemas?
Could a similar pricing approach apply in other circumstances when price and demand do not match, such as major sporting events, rock concerts and inner-city parking?

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Answer by Edward Fox
All I know about Easy Jet’s “style on pricing” is that they offer a very basic service at a low price.
It could not work at sporting events and concerts because the people who make the sporting event possible and the performers doing the concert are not going to suddenly reduce their fees. Even an Easy Jet style company wouldn’t take a hit (operate at a loss) simply to brag about low prices

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Posted by Wetaskiwin Airport - April 16, 2011 at 12:59 pm

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Flying from Gatwick: Stay at the Airport the Night Before

Flying from Gatwick: Stay at the Airport the Night Before

Gatwick is considered the capital’s second airport after Heathrow, but unlike its illustrious sister, it has only one runway making it the busiest single runway airport in the world. The airport handles a very large proportion of passengers every year and offers a wide range of on-site parking spaces. What’s more, over 80 airlines operate from Gatwick and during the summer months many charter airlines use the airport to fly holidaymakers to Europe and farther flung destinations.

Although billed as a London airport, Gatwick is situated in rural Sussex, almost 30 miles from the centre of London. On paper, its location is ideal for anyone using the airport situated just off the M23, which in turn is just off the M25 – London’s orbital motorway.

So, in theory from whatever part of the UK travellers descend upon Gatwick, by using the M25 they can by-pass London and quickly arrive at their destination. However, in reality traffic delays – especially during rush hour – can cause a few problems and reliance upon the M25 running smoothly to get to Gatwick on time can at times prove a risky strategy for many passengers.

As a consequence rather than risk missing their flight, many holidaymakers – especially those on early morning departures – prefer to drive to the airport at their leisure the day before departure. Therefore, they can start their holiday with an overnight stay at one of the hotels situated in the Gatwick grounds, or one very close to it.

One of the major reasons for spending the first night of a holiday at Gatwick airport hotels is that parking for the entire duration of your holiday can be included as part of the accommodation. In some cases, the cost of accommodation and parking at a hotel can be as cheap as just paying to park at one of the Gatwick car parks.

Furthermore, such hotels often provide Gatwick shuttle buses to transport guests directly from the hotel to the airport terminal and back again upon their return. That certainly takes a lot of the worry out of getting to the airport on time, which also allows travellers to concentrate on the flight ahead and arrival at their ultimate destination.

Of course, if you are going on holiday then it always proves worthwhile to perform some research into your preparations beforehand. And it can certainly be worthwhile considering an overnight stay at Gatwick, if you are departing from the airport on holiday in the near future.

Adam Singleton writes for a digital marketing agency. This article has been commissioned by a client of said agency. This article is not designed to promote, but should be considered professional content.

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Small Aircraft Control Surfaces

Anyone who has held their hand out of a car into the wind to play airplane already has a fundamental impression of control surfaces on the airplane.

When the heel of the palm went down, the airpressure under the hand pushed the hand up. That’s called lift. The airflow over/under the hand changes with the shape of the hand or airfoil. If you had little cut-outs near your wrist, there wouldn’t be as much lift.

The tail section contains control surfaces for keeping the plane stable and controllable.

1) Horizontal: The horizontal, non-moving part is called the stabilizer, and it prevents uncontrolled up-and-down motion of the nose. The small hinged sections on each side are called elevators, which work in unison. It is controlled by the cockpit control wheel/stick and increases or decreases lift. When forward pressure is applied on the wheel, the elevators move downward, which increases the length of the tail causing more lift, which forces the tail upward, causing the nose to drop. There is also a small hinged section in the elevator which is controlled by a small vertical wheel on the cockpit console which is used to finetune the elebator trim. Hense the name trim tab.

2) Vertical: The vertical non-moving part which prevents the nose from uncontrolled swinging side to side. The large hinged section is the rudder. The rudder is controlled by the foot pedals in the cockpit, and deflects the tail to the right or left.

The wings generate most of the lift to hold the plane in the air. Different models of aircraft will have wings of different shapes and in different vertical locations. On a Cessna, the wing is high, and on a Piper, it is low. On an F14, the can change from a forward angle to “swept back”.

On most small planes, the wings also carry the fuel.

There are many control surfaces on a wing:

1) The aileron is the hinged part of the back of the wing towards the tip which is used to roll the wings from side to side. There is one on each side of the plane and they work opposite of each other. When one moves up, the other moves down.

2) Flaps are the hinged sections on the back of the wing near the fuselage. Flaps are deployed downward on takeoff and landing to increase the lift produced by the wing and allows the plane to fly at slower speeds.

3) Spoilers and Slats are used on high performance/commercial aircraft and also changed the aerodynamics of the wing.

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Posted by Wetaskiwin Airport - April 4, 2010 at 12:25 pm

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