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  2. Boeing 757 - Wikipedia

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    757-100 was a 150-seat, short fuselage version intended to offer similar capacity to a 727-200 but with greater range. Both the 757-100 and -200 were announced at the product launch on August 31, 1978, however the large wing and landing gear common with the 757-200 were found to be excessively heavy for an aircraft of that capacity. [65]

  3. Flight length - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... and its transoceanic Boeing 757, 767, 777 and Airbus A330 as long-haul. ... Flight-time and -distance ...

  4. Aircraft flight manual - Wikipedia

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    Title of the Boeing T-43A Flight Manual. An aircraft flight manual (AFM) is a paper book or electronic information set containing information required to operate an aircraft of certain type or particular aircraft of that type (each AFM is tailored for a specific aircraft, though aircraft of the same type naturally have very similar AFMs).

  5. Landing performance - Wikipedia

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    The performance data for landing an aircraft can be obtained from the aircraft's flight manual or pilot's operating handbook. It will state the distance required to bring the aircraft to a stop under ideal conditions, assuming the aircraft crosses the runway threshold at a height of 50 ft, at the correct speed.

  6. Britannia Airways Flight 226A - Wikipedia

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    Britannia Airways Flight 226A was an international passenger flight from Cardiff, Wales to Girona, Spain, operated by charter airliner Britannia Airways.On 14 September 1999, the Boeing 757-204 aircraft suffered a crash landing and broke apart during a thunderstorm in Girona-Costa Brava Airport.

  7. Aircraft approach category - Wikipedia

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    Threshold speed is calculated as 1.3 times stall speed V s0 or 1.23 times stall speed V s1g in the landing configuration at maximum certificated landing mass. [1]: Table II-5-1-2 Aircraft approach categories do not change during day-to-day operation.

  8. Continental Airlines Flight 1883 - Wikipedia

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    Continental Airlines Flight 1883 was a Boeing 757 that mistakenly landed on a taxiway at Newark Liberty International Airport on the evening of October 28, 2006. There were no reported injuries or damage, but the narrowly averted disaster was investigated by the National Transportation Safety Board, and caused the Federal Aviation Administration to reevaluate and modify air and ground safety ...

  9. Air data inertial reference unit - Wikipedia

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    An Air Data Inertial Reference Unit (ADIRU) is a key component of the integrated Air Data Inertial Reference System (ADIRS), which supplies air data (airspeed, angle of attack and altitude) and inertial reference (position and altitude) information to the pilots' electronic flight instrument system displays as well as other systems on the aircraft such as the engines, autopilot, aircraft ...