Civil Aviation

There is pretty good evidence that turbulence is on the rise, and this is especially the case with Clear Air Turbulence (CAT). University of Reading reported that “the total annual duration of severe turbulence increased by 55% from 17.7 hours in 1979 to 27.4 hours in 2020.” Any passenger who is seated in an aircraft…

In a country such as Nepal, which houses some of the most dangerous STOLports and altiports such as the Tenzing Hillary Airport, bike accidents accounted for 68 percent of those killed or injured in road accidents. In a survey cited in the Kathmandu Post, “there were 1,102 deaths and injuries for every 100,000 people due…

In a few circles, it has been said that maybe there are six colors in the rainbow instead of seven- eliding “indigo” from VIBGYOR is one of them. It has been said that Issac Newton’s religious connotations with the number 7 coerced him to add in indigo to the list. We’ve all heard of the…

Nepal is a land of many distinctions in aviation – it is a nation where almost a third of the airports are either abandoned/ non- functional, it houses what is labelled as the most dangerous airport in the world, it has a long-forgotten airport that was more dangerous than Lukla Airport, an airport that could…

The tales of the airports in Nepal are quite fascinating. It houses what, often wrongly, is dubbed to be the most dangerous airport in the world. It still houses remnants of an airport so dangerous that when a personnel from the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal went for a test flight, he “staggered out of…

It is unsurprising that the most produced planes in the world aren’t the giant passenger planes such as the Airbus A380. A handful of these aircraft took part in the numerous battles of the world war, and were highly revered in nations such as the USSR, and a few of these are extremely popular with…

The X-15 was the first aircraft to cross the boundaries of outer space. It was also the first airplane to reach hypersonic speed. Neil A. Armstrong, a NASA pilot and the first person to moon, has been documented at the contracted flight test program.  A modified B-52 Strat fortress, a massive bomber, was used as…

Just because an aircraft takes off (or lands in) from a certain stretch of land, one cannot deem the area an ‘airport’. After all, aircraft are capable of landing on a highway too. During an emergency, a Piper PA-28 landed on a New York City interstate highway, reported the BBC. Various nations have flight test…

In the early days, cattle would often graze on Lukla’s runway while children played nearby. Whenever an aircraft was about to land, a siren would sound, prompting people to clear the runway before the aircraft approached. Photo: BBLBobby | Wikimedia Commons Lukla (IATA: LUA, ICAO: VNLK) is recognized, maybe falsely, as the world’s most dangerous…