Ask the Captain: Delivering short-range planes a long distance (2024)

FAQs

How are short range aircraft delivered? ›

Short-range airplanes are flown to destinations by using alternate routes or by adding temporary fuel tanks for the flight.

Thank you for flying (put name of airline here) and welcome to (put name of city you're landing at here).

Ladies and gentlemen, good morning / afternoon / evening. Welcome on board (flight reference). This is Captain / Co-pilot (your name) speaking and I have some information about our flight. Our flight time today will be (flight duration) and our estimated time of arrival in (destination) is (ETA)local time.

On October 14, 1947, the Bell X-1 became the first airplane to fly faster than the speed of sound. It was piloted by U.S. Air Force Capt. Charles E. "Chuck" Yeager who named the aircraft Glamorous Glennis in tribute to his wife.

A small general aviation (GA) aircraft might be able to fly for 4–5 hours on average. Typically, pilots think in terms of hours of flight before they consider distance.

Some other pretty popular short-haul aircraft are the Embraer 175 and 190, and the Bombardier CRJ200, CRJ700, and CRJ900. The Boeing 717 and ATR 72 are also short-haul aircraft, but they're much less common in the industry.

The pilot in command of the aircraft is a designated Captain, and wears 4 stripes on their uniform jacket sleeves, and epaulets, at every airline. The Captain occupies the left seat in the co*ckpit, and is sometimes called a left-seater.

Preparation: Shout initial commands that emphasize an initial action by the passengers, such as “heads down, stay down!” or “Grab ankles, stay down!” Evaluate: Assess outside conditions while shouting passengers to stay back. Tell ABPs to help hold passengers back.

"Roger" was "phonetic" for "R" (received and understood". In radio communication, a "spelling alphabet" (often mistakenly called a "phonetic alphabet) is used to avoid confusion between similarly sounding letters. In the previously used US spelling alphabet, R was Roger, which in radio voice procedure means "Received".

“Hello, this is your captain speaking. Welcome aboard. We are presently flying at thirty-nine thousand feet on our flight from Atlanta to London. We are expecting a smooth flight and anticipate an on-time arrival in London at 10:05 PM GMT.

How do captains say hi? ›

Ahoy! Hello! Hello, my friend!

Ahoy – A pirate greeting or a way to get someone's attention, similar to “Hello” or “hey!”. Arrr, Arrgh, Yarr, Gar – Pirates slang used to emphasize a point. Avast – Pirate speak for pay attention.

Later that month, he was the recipient of the Tony Jannus Award for his achievements. On October 14, 2012, on the 65th anniversary of breaking the sound barrier, Yeager did it again at the age of 89, flying as co-pilot in a McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle piloted by Captain David Vincent out of Nellis Air Force Base.

On October 14, 1947, former US Air Force pilot General Charles E Yeager, popularly known as Chuck Yeager, became the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound aboard the rocket-powered Bell X-1 aircraft that was painted orange and resembled a 50-caliber machine gun bullet.

Seventy-five years ago, on October 14, 1947, the Bell X-1 Glamorous Glennis, piloted by U.S. Air Force Captain Charles E. “Chuck” Yeager, became the first airplane to fly faster than the speed of sound (Mach 1). The experimental purpose-built aircraft reached 1,127 kilometers (700 miles) per hour (Mach 1.06).

It is a usual practice to ship the fuselage separate from the rest of the aircraft on an open-air flatbed, while the remaining parts are wrapped and crated, then carried in a regular truck trailer.

Q: How do planes and helicopters get to Hawaii when they don't have the capability to fly over the Pacific? Are they shipped by boat and assembled there? A: Most are shipped over to Hawaii and reassembled. A few airplanes are fitted with additional ferry tanks and flown over.

First - Easy deliveries

If the plane has the range to fly direct to the airline's hub, like the new Boeing 777X business jet that can fly 21,000 KM, then it will take the shortest route. Remember these planes are actually empty of any passengers or luggage, so generally, they can fly a little bit further than normal.

It can be flown by a qualified ferry pilot or it can be dismantled (wings taken off and crated) and shipped by cargo ship. If the range of the aircraft is less than the distance from mainland airport to the island airport, then temporary ferry tanks must be fitted to make the flight.