Category: Aviation

Break Horsepower, Thrust Horsepower – BHP vs THP?

Definition of Horse Power (Break Horsepower) – refer below BBC youtube footage 5:14   Read more – Be caution ! 有出入 For below video, you may hear something a bit different, but the author mentioed that the clip below are on US basis. Read More

777’s GE90 Engines?

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GE9X – The World’s Biggest Jet Engine

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Piston vs Turbofan?

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4-Stroke & 2-Stroke Engine | Its Parts & Working Explained

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How much fuel does a jet airplane need?

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B777X v.s A350

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Reliablity of B777 Electrical System – This Can Save An Airplane | Engineering Secrets

#IDG x2 – AC generator #APU #ELMS – Electrical Load Management System #Backup generator x2 #PMG x4 – Permanent Magnetic Generator #Battery #RAT -Ram Air Turbine #Emergency Battery Read More

Hurricane, Tornado, Cyclone – What’s the Difference?

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How are tornadoes formed?

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Landfall to Hong Kong East or West? 東登 v.s 西登?

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What’s Tropical Cyclone (Typhoon)?

Tropical cyclones is one of the natural hazard for aviation. How do we call them depending on the region. According to WMO (World Meteorological Organization): [Ref Tropical cyclone (wmo.int)] A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm that begins over tropical oceans, and they can vary in speed, size, and intensity. Tropical cyclones are the Read More

What’s Foehn effect 焚風效應?

Ref Foehn effect – Met Office The foehn effect describes the change from wet and cold conditions one side of a mountain, to warmer and drier conditions on the other (leeward) side. Note: Latent heating (LH) arises predominantly from the release of heat associated with the condensation of water vapor into cloud droplets in clouds Read More

What’s Lee side?

Ref Windward and leeward – Wikipedia The term “windward” has roots in both Low German and Old English. The word “lee“, which means a place without wind. Windward is upwind from the point of reference, i.e., towards the direction from which the wind is coming; Leeward is downwind from the point of reference, i.e., along the direction towards Read More

How the air pressure work in our environment?

By change, I stumble upon a series of televsion show, which use animation to explain Meteorology in a easy way. Great! Read More

FAA Pilot/Controller Glossary (Dictionary)

PILOT/CONTROLLER GLOSSARY (faa.gov) Read More

Cloud Base v.s Cloud Ceiling

A cloud base refers to the lowest visible part of the clouds over the station. A cloud ceiling refers to the distance between the ground or water and the base of the lowest layer of clouds, which must form a cloud cover that blankets more than half of the sky below 20,000 feet.   Read More – Read More

Temperature Inversion 逆溫層

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What’s Sea Breeze and Land Breeze?

NWS JetStream – The Sea Breeze (weather.gov)   Sea breeze and Land breeze are kind of convective current Day time 地球吸熱是greenhouse effect Night time 地球放熱是radiation cooling   The sea breeze circulation is composed of two opposing flows; one at the surface (called the sea breeze) and one aloft (which is a return flow). These two Read More

Summer Solstice v.s Winter Solstice (夏至 v.s 冬至); Tropic of Cancer v.s Tropic of Capricorn

Tropic of Cancer v.s Tropic of Capricorn   夏至   冬至   (2:22)   Read More

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