Showing posts with label speed. Show all posts
Showing posts with label speed. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 18, 2026

At what speed do planes usually take off?

 Boeing 737 usually takes off right around 150 MPH. It's also interesting that the acceleration rate is actually quite slow. It picks up speed more gradually than you'd think. Takeoff speeds vary tremendously from one aircraft to the next, and also can change for the same aircraft from one flight to the next based on such factors as the density altitude and the aircraft's weight.

Takeoff speed is determined by a number of factors including the specific type of aircraft, how heavily the aircraft is loaded, flap settings, length of the runway, and altitude of the takeoff airport. The weather can also have an impact as pilots may wish to take off at a higher speed in case of a sudden change of wind direction and resulting tailwind.

For smaller regional jets, takeoff is in the range of 115 to 130 knots. For aircraft such as Boeing 737 and Airbus A320 family, takeoff is in the range of 130 to 150 knots. For mid-size aircraft such as Airbus A330 and Boeing 757/767/777/787, takeoff is in the range of 140 to 165 knots. For larger double deckers such as Boeing 747 and Airbus A380, takeoff is in the range of 145 to 175 knots. Just as a sidenote, Concorde took off at around 200 knots with no flaps when fully loaded.

Most of the time, commercial aircraft with passengers on them will take off around 5 to 10 knots faster than the absolute lower limit for that configuration. This is just to allow the pilot to correct an excessive pitch up or incorrect power setting before it results in a classic departure stall. Takeoffs are broken down into several different speeds called V1, Vr, and V2. V1 is known as the decision speed because this is the speed at which you must commit to takeoff because there isn't enough runway to stop in time. Vr is the rotation speed and is the speed at which the pilot should begin to pull up off the runway. V2 is the safe takeoff speed, and once in the air V2 is the speed that means if an engine failure is suffered the aircraft can continue to climb.

Weight alone has little to do with takeoff speed. The design of the wing doing the lifting is much more important. That's why both an Airbus A340 and a Boeing 747 weighing half again as much take off at about 155 knots under normal conditions from a near-sea level airport.

Monday, March 16, 2026

How does an aircraft reduce its speed for landing?

 Drag is what slows an airplane in the air. One thing that surprises many people is that when you reduce engine power, you don't actually slow down. Instead, when you pull the throttles back, the plane descends, but at basically the same speed. The real way to slow an airplane down is to increase angle of attack.

Essentially, pull the nose up, and the plane slows down. In an airplane, every control input always effects the others, so you must coordinate reducing power, increasing angle of attack, and adjusting trim.

The real job of wing flaps isn't to slow down the airplane, although they do slow you down in some cases by a whole lot. Instead, it's to keep the plane both flying and controllable once you do slow down. Every airplane's wing is designed with a certain goal in mind. In the case of a typical airliner, it's to fly really fast and high, with an eye towards fuel savings. Unfortunately, fast high-flying wings are really bad at flying low and slow. Since every successful flight ends low and slow, we need the flaps to essentially change the shape of the wing to one that will allow us to approach the runway at a safe speed. As a bonus, flaps allow us to point the nose of the airplane more downwards, giving a better view of the runway on approach.

Spoilers are almost cheating. What spoilers do is to stick up into the airflow, spoiling the lift generated by the wing, essentially making it quite inefficient. The spoilers will create some drag of their own, but really, they're making the plane descend quicker. Extending landing gear also provides more drag and helps slow the aircraft.

Once on the runway, airliners primarily use wheel brakes to decelerate after landing. Wing spoilers extend on the top of the wings which add aerodynamic drag, but they primarily kill the lift on the wings which places more weight on the wheels and improves braking. Thrust reversers are deployed on touchdown to both attenuate the thrust and to direct the thrust forward for deceleration purposes. Once the airspeed decelerates to about 60 knots, the reverse thrust is reduced to idle because that's when the possibility of the reverse exhaust flow could ingest foreign objects into the inlet of the engines.

Thursday, November 7, 2013

Tricks To Increase Internet Speed In Android Mobile




Today we need to access internet most of the time, in whichever sectors or field you are working in. Internet is used by student to get more information on different topic, for business purpose to get the latest detail of the market and many more.

But in this most of the people use internet in their mobile and uses 2G services. In the beginning 2G gives good speed but after that it gives a very bad speed. Sometimes we just get irritated by using the bad speed internet.
The bad speed of mobile internet may occur due to several reasons like bad signal strength, congestion and load in network etc. None of the mobile company will guaranty you the plan with full speed. All mobile internet speed decreases after few time of usage.
In this article you’ll find out How to increase internet speed in Android mobile. The different tips and tricks to speed up your Internet in Android mobile are given in under given lines.

  1. Clear the cache memory of your mobile. Never fill the cache memory of your mobile. Always remove the data, apps and information from your mobile which is no longer useful. This can increase the speed of internet in your mobile.
  2. Never install too much of software in your mobile it will decrease the speed of internet in your mobile. Always uninstall the software which is no longer useful.
  3. To increase the speed of internet in your mobile you can change the internet setting to load maximum KB data.
  4. To increase the speed of internet in your mobile, if you are using it only for text then you should block images in your mobile. By this you can increase the mobile internet speed and will decrease the charge too. Like some provide charge per KG. And if you want to load then load low quality image.
  5. Never download other applications while surfing.
  6. Before using internet always make sure that you are using mobile internet in good network coverage, for good speed of internet in your mobile.
  7. If you want good speed it your mobile then always load mobile view in opera mini.
I think that after reading this article you’ll be able to increase internet speed in your android mobile.