Empty weight is the aircraft's weight without crew, payload, or usable fuel. Maximum Allowable Zero Fuel Weight (MZFW) is the maximum weight without fuel, crucial for wing stress prevention; it's ...
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F-35A Gains Speed in Maintenance With Load Cell Weighing
Innovation rooted in legacy.” The term, provided by Master Sgt. Dez Watson of the 325th Maintenance Group, succinctly sums up a subtle but significant change in how the U.S. Air Force is quantifying ...
Yes, a weight and balance issue can be more critical on smaller airplane because a even a small error accounts for a larger percentage of the total weight. A 500-lb ...
Question: Some aircraft have three seats on one side of the aisle and two seats on the other side. Does this imbalance affect aircraft performance? Shouldn't the weight be distributed evenly on each ...
National Transportation Safety Board documents, released on Wednesday, reveal a great deal about weight and balance calculations on the de Havilland DHC-3 Otter that crashed in Soldotna last July. The ...
In Part 1, we discussed how a Beech King Air 200 wound up in the frigid waters of Unalaska Bay, Alaska. It seems likely that the pilot knew the King Air was overweight. When investigators re-created ...
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