Category: Navigation

GSE – Ground Service Equipment is all equipment designed for ground handling. Some of this equipment has already been discussed in other chapters. Among them, airport tractors, platform buses, airport aggregates, fire brigade vehicles, fuel dispensers. Here we will discuss luggage carts and gangways.

Boeing planes have fuel tanks with a capacity of: B-767-200 and B-767-300 – 63,216 liters. B-767-200 ER – 77,412 liters, B-767-300 ER – 91,039 liters, B-787-8 – 124,700 – 126,920 liters, B-787-9 – 138,700 liters. Before the flight, the Boeing B.767 airplane takes an average of 55,000 liters of aviation kerosene into its tanks. More…

Modern airplanes take on board even over 400 passengers and at the same time huge amounts of fuel. At the end of the 1940s, the largest aircraft took no more than several thousand liters of fuel on board. Modern large airplanes, both civil and military, take 180-230 thousand liters of fuel. For example, Antonov An-124…

The name of the platform bus is little known in society. The problem is, when we talk about the airport bus, most people mean the bus that takes you to the airport (airport). We will therefore use the term platform bus. In the 60s, this name was common. In world literature, the term freight bus…

Airport aggregates is a very broad concept. However, in this article we want to present this type of equipment that is located close to the aircraft standing on the stator or in the gate and is used to service the aircraft before and after the flight. And it is a very specialized service; supply of…

At the dawn of aviation, rolling planes, for example from a hangar to an landing area, was not a big problem. There are many archival photos in which several people roll a small plane. As most planes had a tail skid, not a wheel, a trolley was often placed under the tail of the plane…

In 1889, the Aeronautical Congress was organized at the Universal International Exhibition in Paris. This congress was the first attempt to regulate the rules of air traffic, then represented only by aerostats. The arrangements made at that time drew on the experience gained so far from the concept of "freedom of the seas" by Hugo…

In the 1950s, the term fighter aircraft operating in all weather conditions appeared. The fact that the above statement is not true we will try to present in this text, although we want to draw attention to commercial flights more. This is because airmen in combat aircraft must show impeccable health, and in addition they…

This article is not intended to compare the Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 postal airliner with the Anglo-French Concorde commercial plane, because these planes cannot be compared. Concorde was designed to carry 100 passengers at a speed of 2 Ma across the Atlantic Ocean. This plane still arouses admiration and respect today. The Tu-144 aircraft, on the…

The landing support system is described in detail in the article – "Outline of the history of air navigation. Radiolocation at the airport during landing. " In this part, we will only provide additional information on what such a punk looks like in Poland, compared to the flood of photos of such objects in the…