commercial flight
1Flight test — is a branch of aeronautical engineering that develops and gathers data during flight of an aircraft and then analyses the data to evaluate the flight characteristics of the aircraft and validate its design, including safety aspects. The flight… …
2Flight planning — A Tarom Boeing 737 300 and United Airlines Boeing 777 200 taxiing to depart London Heathrow Airport. Flight planning is the process of producing a flight plan to describe a proposed aircraft flight. It involves two …
3Commercial astronaut — Patricia G. Smith, Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation at the FAA, presents SpaceShipOne pilot Michael Melvill the department s first commercial astronaut wings …
4Commercial aviation — Route map of the world s scheduled commercial airline traffic, 2009 Commercial aviation is the part of civil aviation (both general aviation and scheduled airline service) that involves operating aircraft for hire to transport passengers or cargo …
5Flight number — A flight number, when combined with the name of the airline and the date, identifies a particular flight. This callsign should not be confused with the tail number of the aircraft, although both can be used as a call sign as used in general… …
6commercial — ▪ I. commercial com‧mer‧cial 1 [kəˈmɜːʆl ǁ ɜːr ] adjective 1. COMMERCE relating to business and the buying and selling of goods and services: • Oran is a large commercial city on the coast. • protests against commercial development on green… …
7Flight suit — situations, for its practicality.HistoryAs aviation developed in unheated open cockpits, the need for warm clothing quickly became apparent, as did the need for multiple pockets with closures of either buttons, snaps, or zippers to prevent loss… …
8Commercial Orbital Transportation Services — Commercial Crew and Cargov · Commercial Cargo Development 2006 2011 Commercial Space Transportation Capabilities 2007 2010 Commercial Crew Development (phase 1) …
9Flight attendant — Flight attendants or cabin crew (historically known as stewards, air hosts/hostesses, or stewardesses) are members of an aircrew employed by airlines to ensure the safety and comfort of the passengers aboard commercial flights as well as on… …
10Flight control modes (electronic) — New aircraft designs like this Boeing 777 rely on sophisticated flight computers to aid and protect the aircraft in flight. These are governed by computational laws which assign flight control modes during flight Aircraft with fly by wire flight… …
