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The pilot of the AirAsia X aircraft, which was headed toward Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, turned around after the pilot identified an issue with the engine as the plane shook, a Perth Airport spokesperson told CNN.

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The newly designed aircraft, built partially with lightweight composite materials and powered by Pratt & Whitney's fuel - saving engines, is targeted at established carriers looking to replace older, inefficient planes, and new airlines launching in developing countries, such as China, to service the growing middle class and airport expansion.

On April 17, a fan blade broke off an engine of a Southwest Boeing 737 - 700, sending shrapnel flying that punctured the fuselage as the plane was flying above 30,000 feet.

When Bombardier Inc. spun off its recreational products division in 2003, the rationale was to separate the industrial conglomerate's consumer - driven powersports products — Ski - Doos, Sea - Doos and ATVs, as well as Rotax and Evinrude engines — from its larger - scale, institutionally driven manufacturing in aerospace and public transportation (planes and trains).

Aircraft engines have gone from an unreliable Achilles heel on planes in the 1950s to devices that can operate for millions of hours without so much as a hiccup, said Steven Wallace, the former head of accident investigation at the Federal Aviation Administration.

Keeping planes in the air is the primary goal for AirStart, an aviation company that leases, rents and sells components such as engines and landing gear to Airbus, Boeing and Bombardier aircraft.

The A380 superjumbo has struggled to make money for Airbus as the airline industry trend switched to smaller, twin - engine planes that still have the ability to fly long distances.

The piece of the plane that was found, called a «flaperon,» was most likely «broken off by the engine pod ripping off as it was dragged through the water on the initial impact,» Tracy Lamb, an aviation safety consultant and former Boeing 737 pilot, told Bloomberg.

The twin - aisle plane is coming into service as Delta phases out its last Boeing 747s, the four - engine plane that some airlines have ditched in favor of more fuel - efficient twin - engine planes.

The metals producer, more than 125 years old, makes parts for gas turbines, the engines that plane manufacturers such as Boeing and Airbus install to give planes the power to get you to your next meeting.

Prayers were said as a US passenger plane blew an engine at 32,000 ft causing a woman to be partially sucked out of a window.

If the bigger twin - engines and turboprops belong in the limousine class, then such practical workhorses as short takeoff and landing (STOL) planes and seaplanes must be likened to jeeps and dune buggies.

Keep your answers as straight and as simple as possible: «The plane crashed because something was wrong with its engine.»

As NTSB investigators in Chicago were completing their reports on the Arlington Heights crash, they were finishing their review of the crash of a single - engine plane downed by ice on its wings near Hampshire in late 1997 that also took four lives.

The Tories announced their own eight - point plan today, with demands the Royal Navy be scrambled to bring Brits home, as well as the use of chartered ships and piston engine planes.

There are more movies to watch on board than there used to be, but the basic idea — a metal tube attached to jet engines that burn modified petroleum, carrying a lot of people at around 600 mph — is much the same as it has been for all planes since then.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is conducting tests but has yet to certify ethanol as a fuel for piston - engine planes in the U.S., says Lourdes Maurice, chief scientist and technical advisor to the FAA's Office of Environment and Energy.

As the engine data is filtered from a larger ACARS report covering all the plane's critical flight systems and avionics, it could mean the airline has some useful clues about the condition of the aircraft prior to its disappearance.

Large waterfowl were the top suspects, as plane engines are designed to withstand strikes from smaller birds.

The 6 - foot - long, 45 - pound planes, called Mantas, can run for about six hours on gas - powered engines and fly as high as 16,000 feet.

In combination with other measures — such as use of lighter carbon fibre planes and more efficient engines — Iridium's move should help aviation fight its environmental corner.

Now that Beth has his attention again, Freeway is less in demand as a surrogate for the doctor's wife to pour her extraneous love on, evidenced by her boarding of the twin - engine plane after calling the search party off, leaving behind the dog to fend for himself in the Rockies.

The combat sounds great, and the planes all have individual engine sounds, but the little touches, like the way you hear air rushing past as you swoop around at regular speed, are what really drive the point home.

These tend to be moments where the film's oppressive sound design fades out, such as when the roar of a Spitfire engine goes silent as the plane glides over the sea, or when Dawson's boat putters past a retreating destroyer completely filled with evacuees who stand stock - still on deck like pigeons, gazing at the boat with thousand - yard stares.

Even before disaster strikes, as the engines rumble, the plane reaching speed before taking off, tension is exploited to induce cold sweats and white knuckles.

Metaphorically, debaters discover the fire, make internal combustion engines which bang and eventually act as two co-pilots of a plane: they switch on gases, engines begin to buzz, making together the synchronized operations allowing the take - off until the plane reaches its cruising speed: The rhythm and logic fueling each other.

Line observed as the students dragged images of matching plane parts together — yellow wings with yellow engines, for example — to «build» the largest number of airplanes in the shortest period of time.

That means the GT350R will be louder and should produce a teensy bit more horsepower, though Pericak says Ford won't recertify the 5.2 - liter flat - plane V - 8 engine so it will get the same horsepower and torque rating as the non-R.

Like the non-R GT350, this Mustang is equipped with a naturally aspirated 5.2 - litre V8 with a flat - plane - crank; not the same engine as the 5 - litre, cross-plane-crank V8 that you find in the standard Mustang.

Some sleuthing dug up the details of the next Shelby GT500's engine; it's expected to be a supercharged, 5.2 - liter V8 with a traditional cross-plane crankshaft (as opposed to the Shelby GT350http: / / fordauthority.com/ford/mustang/shelby-gt350r/‘s flat - plane crank).

A straight - three engine, [1] also known as an inline - triple, [2][3][4][5] or inline - three [6][7](abbreviated I3 or L3), is a reciprocating piston internal combustion engine with three cylinders arranged in a straight line or plane, side by side.

If an overweight, cigarette smoking, single - engine plane flyer paid the same premiums as a marathon running schoolteacher, then one of two things would need to happen.

Viral stories like that of an easyJet engineer allegedly patching up a plane's engine with duct tape don't hold up: According to the Civil Aviation Authority, the tape seen being used in the photos is actually aluminum tape (also known as speed tape or metallic tape) which is very durable, expensive, and regularly used on aircrafts (budget or not) to make minor repairs.

Use the plane as a weapon or shoot your way through the aisles as one of the last surviving passengers as you to fight to stay in the air against hordes of zombies at 30,000 ft.. As captain in control, players must maintain the health of vital key parts, such as the engines and rudder, by knocking the zombies off the planas a weapon or shoot your way through the aisles as one of the last surviving passengers as you to fight to stay in the air against hordes of zombies at 30,000 ft.. As captain in control, players must maintain the health of vital key parts, such as the engines and rudder, by knocking the zombies off the planas one of the last surviving passengers as you to fight to stay in the air against hordes of zombies at 30,000 ft.. As captain in control, players must maintain the health of vital key parts, such as the engines and rudder, by knocking the zombies off the planas you to fight to stay in the air against hordes of zombies at 30,000 ft.. As captain in control, players must maintain the health of vital key parts, such as the engines and rudder, by knocking the zombies off the planAs captain in control, players must maintain the health of vital key parts, such as the engines and rudder, by knocking the zombies off the planas the engines and rudder, by knocking the zombies off the plane.

Escape Engine considers the multiple forms of the desktop — from physical surface to virtual plane — and its overlap as a site of escape and a space of production.

Demand for cleaner fuels from airlines has dropped as the price of kerosene, which is burned in plane engines, has more than halved since June 2014.

Even if the entire global fleet of planes is fueled by non food - grade coconut and babassu oil - as one engine was for a much publicized crew - only Virgin flight in 2008 - the industry would have to contract a lot of farmers to grow a lot of babassu on a lot of land that we just might want to keep for food crops.

Engine 2 is characterized by innovation and rapid adaptation, what one law firm partner described as «building the plane while trying to fly it».

For example, while Insurance Company A decided that an applicant who flies single - engine planes as a hobby is just too risky to insure, Insurance Company B decided that they are OK with insuring that client as long as they pay a little extra.

I don't mean just pilots for commercial airlines, but people who flew their own single - engine planes as well.

Whether you fly private single - engine planes or large commercial planes, you shouldn't have too much of an issue getting coverage as long as other factors are positive such as your health and family history.

If an overweight, cigarette smoking, single - engine plane flyer paid the same premiums as a marathon running schoolteacher, then one of two things would need to happen.