Based in Orlando, the airline has been in operation since 1986. Or, since this process is called 'alignment', you might think of them as grabbing a moment of Zen, before they're ready to help guide us across the heavens. National Airlines is a cargo operator who use the Boeing 747-400 on flights around the world. You could say that they're using this quiet time to quite literally get their bearings. One is gravity, and the other is the earth's rotation. The FDS-B747-FTD is a full scale representation of the aircraft’s flight deck layout and covers the various primary sections including: Instrument Panel, Glare Shield, Aisle Stand, Primary and Aft Overhead as well as Flight Controls, Shell/Interior and Crew/Observer Seating. Technically, they're using this stillness to sense two important things. Getty Images offers exclusive rights-ready and premium royalty-free analog, HD, and 4K video of the highest quality. Before flight, they require some time (typically a few minutes) at the gate when the aircraft is completely still. It’s not unusual for pilots to wave their wings after takeoff on special occasions, but a Boeing 747-8 freighter on a delivery flight from Paine Field recently took the maneuver. Find professional Boeing 747 Cockpit videos and stock footage available for license in film, television, advertising and corporate uses. There's something else remarkable about inertial systems. And they can sense gravity, which tell us which way is up, for example-particularly useful when flying in cloud. They can help us distinguish our own speed and direction from those of the wind that carries us. Modern inertial systems have a variety of important functions in addition to navigation. Brown explains phrases pilots use such as V1. He commentates on two flight-deck videos - a take off and a landing. Some of this technology was developed in part for the Apollo programme, and it was one of the most revolutionary technologies on board the Boeing 747-100 when it first took flight in 1969. Captain Richard Brown, CEO of Atlantic Star Airlines, provides insight. Many of their functions are less obvious than the control column, a little more subtle than the landing gear, and they're not always easy for visitors to appreciate.īut each controls an utterly ingenious bit of technology or a carefully crafted aspect of what in the wider tech world is now called 'user experience'. I point out the throttles or thrust levers, the flaps (which effectively change the wing's size and shape, to allow us to fly more slowly) and the landing gear lever (as important a lever as there could possibly be).īut there are hundreds of other buttons, controls, switches and levers in a complex airliner like the Boeing 747. When I show you around the cockpit in that book, I focus mostly on the big-ticket items of obvious importance-the control wheel (for banking left or right) the control column (to quote a Father Ted-inspired flight instructor of mine: push forward on the column, and cows get bigger pull back, and cows get smaller). In a recent book, How to Land a Plane, I talk about how planes work-how they stay up in the sky, and how pilots control them.
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