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HondaJet nears delivery

Here’s a video that describes the HondaJet and its progress towards full certification. Although the plane made its’ first flight over ten years ago, it’s only now near the point where it will receive full FAA certification and be available to customers.

Try to answer the following questions about the video and come back on Monday for the answers.

Suggested ICAO level for video: 5+

  1. How many flight hours have been logged in testing for this plane?
  2. Why has it taken so long for this plane to get full FAA certification?
  3. Why could the timing of this jet’s availability be an advantage for Honda?
  4. What technologically advanced features does the jet have?
  5. What is the cruising speed and service ceiling for this plane?

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https://youtu.be/Wx4IhCqIfnI

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Runway leak

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

Enjoy!!

A flight with 213 people on board was descending into its destination when the crew began to suspect that they had a fuel leak. They reported it to ATC but continued their approach as normal. After landing ATC confirmed a liquid, most likely fuel, was leaking from engine no.1. The pilots shut down the engine and continued to taxi to the apron. The passengers disembarked and mechanics investigated the problem. The runway had to be cleaned before other flights could land.

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Runway leak

Listen to this recording and try to write what your understand. You should try to write everything that is said.

You can listen as many times as you want.

Check below the recording for some of the difficult words and come back and check the full text from this recording tomorrow.

Suggested ICAO level: 3+

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Difficult words: suspect (v.), most likely (adv.), disembark (v.)

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Aviation Week flies the A350 answers

Here are the answers to last Friday’s video, enjoy!

Suggested ICAO level for video: 5+

  1. It’s the fastest, highest flying, largest capacity and longest range twin-engine plane they have ever built.
  2. It has about 2 degrees more sweep than the A330 and with the curved winglet and other features, it keeps the aircraft flying very smoothly at .85 Mach.
  3. It’s the preferred cruise speed for long-range aircraft.
  4. Each engine produces 84,200lbs of thrust.
  5. To name a few things, It has six displays in the panel, optional head-up displays, left and right side-sticks (which don’t provide tactile or visual feedback of the other pilot’s inputs). It has centrally located thrust levers and keyboard and cursor control devices.
  6. The plane was at 75% of its maximum takeoff weight so they used reduced thrust to save engine wear.
  7. It’s going to give Boeing’s best planes some tough competition.

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Aviation Week flies the A350

Here’s an interesting video from Aviation Week which shows their chief aircraft evaluation editor flying the left seat of the A350.

Suggested ICAO level for video: 5+

  1. What’s unique about the A350 for Airbus?
  2. What’s special about the wing on the A350?
  3. What’s significant about .85 Mach?
  4. How much thrust can each A350-900 engine produce?
  5. Describe the layout of the A350’s cockpit?
  6. Why did they use reduced thrust for takeoff?
  7. What’s the final verdict on the plane?

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Aviation Week Pilot Report: Airbus A350

Aviation Week chief aircraft evaluation editor Fred George flew left seat in Airbus’s new big twin, the A350, with Airbus chief test pilot Peter Chandler in the right seat and Christian Norden on the jump seat as safety pilot.

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Take care of my explosives

Here’s the text to the listening from yesterday.

Enjoy!!

A flight landed at its destination as expected without any unusual occurrences. When the baggage handlers were unloading the baggage they found a suitcase with a note on the outside. It said, ‘take care of my explosives’. Security was alerted and the plane was moved to a remote area. The bomb disposal experts were called in to examine the suitcase. After 30 minutes examining the suitcase they discovered it had no explosives inside and it was safe. The plane was released and was able to perform the return flight, a little later than scheduled. Police are now investigating who put the note on the luggage.

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