Aviation
A glass-cockpit corner of the site: field notes on aircraft, engines, and flight.
Primary Flight Display
Wings level, heading west.
Writing about the machines that fly: how the engines breathe, why the wings hold, and what the cockpit is really telling you. Cleared for the approach.
Logbook
- 001 Airbus vs Boeing Two airframers, two philosophies: wide-body tech versus the workhorse single-aisle.
- 002 Jet engine Newton's third law turned into thrust: how a turbofan breathes, burns, and pushes.
- 003 Propellers and blade count Why adding blades is not free lift: efficiency, noise, and the tradeoffs.
- 004 Pilot license From student certificate to ATPL: the ratings ladder, in plain language.
- 005 A typical flight at 6:00 AM A window-seat log of an A320 hop from Cam Ranh to HCMC, phase by phase.
- 006 Bombers A short history of the heavy lifters: from the first raids to the modern fleet.
- 007 Apollo 11 The flight that left the atmosphere: the engineering behind the first Moon landing.
- 008 NATO phonetic alphabet Alpha, Bravo, Charlie: the spelling alphabet that keeps the radio unambiguous.
Field log
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Dawn A320 hop, Cam Ranh to HCMC
A window-seat log of a 6:00 AM A320 leg, phase by phase from pushback to short final. Notes from that flight seeded the aviation world’s write-up.