Insolvent German airline Air Berlin is cancelling all flights from October 28th. The final flight will operate on October 27th before the airline is suspending operations. Air Berlin will cancel their four remaining longhaul routes from Düsseldorf Airport on October 15th, after the airline has already suspended all longhaul operations from Berlin Tegel Airport and…
JustPlanes spent a week in Nepal to focus on one of the most extreme airports : LUKLA! On landing the end of the runway is a wall, on takeoff the end of the runway is a drop in the valley. Weather conditions are often bad and can change in minutes and the runway is very…
A dog checked as cargo by a passenger on a Japan Airlines flight from Tokyo’s Haneda airport Monday morning escaped before being loaded onto the plane, causing a runway to be shut temporarily and disrupting a total of 14 flights. The large poodle had been placed in a special basket but when JAL staff tried…
A piece of loading equipment caught fire at Hong Kong International Airport next to the plane that was due to to fly from the city to Los Angeles. The Boeing 777 was close to the terminal shortly after 5pm local time (10am GMT) when the fire started to the left of the plane. One man was injured…
As seen from behind, all the props spin anticlockwise. The wingtip vortices spin anticlockwise from the right wing, clockwise from the left. The interactions between all that spinning air are obviously complex, but the outside right propeller, at least, should enhance the right wingtip vortex, as they are spinning the same way. The wind probably…
