Extreme temperatures cause frequent and extended delays to passenger and freight air traffic when local safe operating guidelines are exceeded. Air transport is sensitive to extreme heat because hotter air makes it more difficult for airplanes to generate lift (the force required for an airplane to take flight), especially at higher elevations, requiring weight reductions and/or longer takeoff distances that may require runway extensions. Heat impacts to airports are expected to increase in the future and, in some cases, are the most critical vulnerability for a region.
#TIL that there were two airports so close to each other but located on different sides of the Israeli–Jordanian border that a commercial pilot mistakenly landed in #Aqaba, #Jordan 🇯🇴 instead of #Eilat, #Israel 🇮🇱 in November 1986. At that time, both countries were technically at war with each other.
"As the numbers of rocket launches and commercial aircraft flights increase, the probability of a catastrophic collision between an aircraft and reentering space debris is also growing. ... From a broad economic perspective, space companies are externalizing some of their risks and costs and imposing them on the aviation industry."
It's been a dramatic few days for commercial aviation with passengers on three airlines suffering terrifying ordeals involving severe inflight turbulence. Nadine Itani, Programme Leader and Lecturer in Air Transport Management at the University of Surrey tells FRANCE24's Tom Burges Watson that for every 1% increase in average temperature there's an estimated 10% increase in the frequency of clear-air turbulence. #Travel#Aviation#Turbulence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tzKHTXcW4A
A US Navy P-3 Orion photographed at Salem, Oregon in August 1980. I just happend to be at the airport with my camera when the plane made a brief stop to drop off a passenger.