Top Four Types of Commercial Wide-body Airlines

Posted on October 24, 2011 by admin

The lists below are the top and popular airliner designs with wide body for long journey from its own hub to the major cities around the world carrying numbers of passengers.

  1. Airbus A380. The pride of the European manufacturer-Airbus to have the world’s largest commercial airliner in 2010—the Airbus A380. It is a wide body double-decker plane that can house more than 500 passengers. Ninety-seven of them can occupy the business class seats with lots of services such as massages; and 471 passengers in economy seats. It has 12 cabins for passengers who want to nap and have some seclusion during the travel. Though it only has the configuration seats of 525 passengers, the jumbo plane can even carry about more than 800 people.
  2. Airbus A340. Another commercial jet airline of Airbus is this long-range four-engine design. It is a wide-body plane that can carry up to or more than 375 passengers. Its first flight was in October 25, 1991. It has the same design with its twin A330 that feature 4 high-bypass turbofan engines and three bogie gears for landing.
  3. Boeing 787 Dreamliner. A wide body with twin engine airliner manufactured by Being Commercial Airlines. According to Boeing Company, this airline is the most fuel-efficient plane their company had and the first airliner that uses composite materials in the construction which consumes only 20% behind of what its equal-sized Being 767 had consumed. It can house 210 to 330 passengers.
  4. Boeing 747. Another wide body airliner of Boeing Commercial Airplanes of United State is not only for commercial passengers but also in cargo transport. It is called the “Queen of the Skies” or “Jumbo Jet” which is one of the world’s most appreciated aircraft in terms of great service and production.

 

 

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The narrow-body airliners and its features

Posted on September 17, 2011 by admin

Narrow body aircraft commercial planes or a single aisle airplane is the common term for the smaller airplanes. It can only travel at a medium distance and can only carry limited number of passengers.

Let’s take a look at what these narrow-body one can do and what are their limitations.

These include:

  1. McDonnell Douglas DC-9. This twin engine, single aisle jet airliner is manufactured by Douglas Aircraft McDonnell Douglas for commercial services. Its first flight was on February 25, 1965. It was design for short or medium routes which only need a small space for runways in a single aisle air port. It has the capacity to carry 80 to 135 passengers depending on the version they want to sit.
  2. Airbus A320 family. A narrow-bodied jet, commercial airplane manufactured by Airbus Company. It was shown to the public in March 1984 and flew for the first time in February 22, 1987. Later, its lineup was extended including A318, A319, A320, A321 and the ACJ business jet as well. The family airplanes can carry up to 22 passengers but it depends on the type of the model of the plane.
  3. Tupolev Tu-240. The two-engine narrow plane design for local tour only. It is produced by Tupolev Russia. The plane is capable of carrying a maximum of 210 passengers. It was first introduced to the public in 1989 which is they said it has the capacity of what the Boeing 757 have in terms of the excellent performances and the use of fuel.
  4. Embraer E-Jet family. This design is manufactured by the Brazilian aircrafts company that produces mostly commercial and military aircrafts.  Embraer E-jets belong to the series of two-engine in a medium range narrow-body airliner which composed of two main commercial airplanes and business jet.
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The First Successful Commercial Flight

Posted on August 21, 2011 by admin

After American aviation inventors, Frederick Marriott and Rufus Porter failed to realize the first commercial airlines, DELAG (Deutsche Luftschiffahrts-Aktiengesellschaft, a German Airship Travel Corporation was the world’s first commercial flight manufactured by Zeppelin Corporation. It came into being in November 16, 1909 with the full assistance of German government. DELAG’s main base is in Frankfurt, Germany housing an array of different sizes of Zeppelin planes.

The total amount spent in making DELAG a success is worth three million Marks where the main foundation capital of DELAG came from the cities of both Frankfurt and Dusseldorf worth (around Mk2, 600,000) while the remaining Mk400, 000 are from the airlines of Zeppelin in Friedrichshafen.

Its first general director of the plane was Alfred Colsman together with Dr. Love and the Frankfurt mayor Dr. Franz Adickes. Several airships are made in DELAG Zeppelin such as LZ7 in year 1910 that routed Frankfurt to Baden-Baden to Dusseldorf but unfortunately crashed in June 28, 1910 in its nine days maiden voyage. After a year the company produces another plane – LZ10 Schwaben.

DELAG’s first commercial route is from Frankfurt, Dusseldorf, Baden-Baden, Gotha, Hamburg, Leipzig, Dresden and others in the year 1913. It supposed to expand through other European capitals but due to the outbreak of World War I, the planned extensions stopped.

Even a month before of the World War I, DELAG airlines had achieved 1, 588 commercial flights transporting more than 34 thousands of passengers flown far away to 172, 535 kilometers in just more or less 3,100 hours of flying. All of the Zeppelin’s DELAG aircrafts are responsible for its passengers’ safety. Some of them were in service in WWI in order to serve the German armies during the war including LZ11, LZ13 and LZ17.

After the war, DELAG operates again and continue to make several aircrafts and expansions of routes not only in European countries but around the world.

 

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The List of Models and Designs of Airplanes

Posted on July 31, 2011 by admin

Most of the manufacturers or owners wanted their airplanes to be modeled and designed with its unique identity as well as popularity. In fact, airliners and associates ordered a huge number of their aircraft models and supply to some travel agencies to promote their unique designs and models of the airplanes.

Here are the lists of Airplane’s designs:

  1. Sailplanes and Glider model planes. Most gliders type is unpowered. So they just sustain their flights in the momentum of its natural lift from the heights or cliffs in order to produce thermals or wind to provide energy to gliders to fly.
  2. Radio-controlled aircraft or RC plane. RC plane is a remote-controlled and carries transmitter and receiver installed in the plane for many different purposes such as aerodynamic, modeling or testing, gathering weather device as well as spy planes or drones for special operations.
  3. Helicopter (A radio-controlled helicopters). Its model is somewhat similar in RC aircrafts but a little more different in their construction, flight training, and aerodynamics.   Some of radio-controlled helicopters have a built-in photo and video cameras used in surveillance and aerial photo imaging. The latest model is a 3D radio control helicopters that can fly upside-down and vice versa with advanced blade head and servo linkage where pilot can directly quash the blades to form a reverse fly.
  4. Jet. Jet planes are usually use micro turbines or a fan to power the jet but it is somewhat expensive since it is usually constructed with carbon fiber and fiber glass.  It has also fuel tanks to sustain the jet’s flight.
  5. Pylon Racers. It is a small propeller-driven airplane that can go more than 240 km/h at around 3 to 4 pylon track when it is in the race together with some racer aircrafts in the US namely; Q500, Q40.424 and others.
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Brief History of Airplanes

Posted on July 19, 2011 by admin

Before, people can wonder how they too, like birds, can fly. No matter how impossible it would seem people looked for lot of ways to make all things possible. Their first attempt to flying failed when they invented something that looks like a bird and use feathers, attached it to their arms and flap to fly. It was not successful since it cannot lift man into the air.

The second one is in 1783 where man used an air balloon and was indeed successful. Several people during that time invented the first ever flying object in a form of hot air balloon and made the first air flight ever since. However, it was not so impressive since they cannot make the balloon to fly anywhere they want. If the wind blows to the east that means your destination would be east also.

Then later, George Cayel made his first non-powered flying airplane called a glider. At first he flew the glider without anyone on it and launched it from the high places such as on the cliffs or mountains. It was too small but it does really fly. The second time it flew, it was manned by a single person, proving once again that man can fly.

A millennium later, Wright brothers Oville and Wilbur, who worked in a bicycle shop in the year 1890 got interested in flying. They know that bicycles are faster in the ground and thought this could be used for flying. They begin to build gliders in their own. They made their first gliders somewhere in North California and improved it. They made a two winged kite and experimented on it by putting a rudder in order for the pilot to control the plane in it flight. In 189, Wright brothers fully realized flying. They attached the rudder or the tail of the plane as well as flaps at its wings. With the rudder and the flaps in the wings, pilot can successfully control the direction of flight of the plane in the air; thanks to brilliant minds of the Wright brothers.

Modern airplanes now are more sophisticated, larger and faster. Commercial jetliners are the most common used plane today to transport people from one country to the other, and before you travel abroad make sure you secure a travel insurance.

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