These same four forces help an airplane fly. The four forces are lift, thrust, drag, and weight.

Explanation: Thrust is the force that is applied to the fuselage and air surfaces of an aircraft by the engine(s). When the plane needs to go down, the pilot reduces the thrust and gravity can overcome some of the lift the plane had resulting in a lower altitude for the plane.

A plane’s engines are designed to move it forward at high speed. The force of the hot exhaust gas shooting backward from the jet engine pushes the plane forward. That creates a moving current of air over the wings. The wings force the air downward and that pushes the plane upward.

Thrust is generated by the engines of the aircraft through some kind of propulsion system. Thrust is a mechanical force, so the propulsion system must be in physical contact with a working fluid to produce thrust. Thrust is generated most often through the reaction of accelerating a mass of gas.

The ailerons, elevator (or stabilator), and rudder constitute the primary control system and are required to control an aircraft safely during flight.

Principles of Flying. (1) Lift, (2) Gravity force or Weight, (3) Thrust, and (4) Drag. Lift and Drag are considered aerodynamics forces because they exist due to the movement of the Airplane through the Air.

Without the rudder the aircraft can still be controlled using ailerons. The tail-plane helps provide stability and the elevator controls the ‘pitch’ of the aircraft (up and down). Without these the aircraft cannot be controlled.

Increased drag slows the airplane. Also, in a turn, there’s less area of lift under a wing, causing it to lose altitude. However, to compensate, pilots angle the airplane up as well as increase thrust (speed) to maintain a constant altitude during a turn. You’ll probably feel those changes in your stomach.

Jet fuel

There are three types of fossil fuels which can all be used for energy provision; coal, oil and natural gas. Coal is a solid fossil fuel formed over millions of years by decay of land vegetation. When layers are compacted and heated over time, deposits are turned into coal.

The octane ratings of AVGAS, a gasoline-based fuel, are usually either 91 or 100 (lean mixture) and 96 or 130 (rich mixture). The octane rating of jet fuel is much lower, around 15 – this is much more like automotive diesel and thus much more resistant to detonating due to sparks or compression.

In addition to a lower freezing point, kerosene has a higher flash point than gasoline. With its higher flash point, kerosene offers higher octane ratings to achieve greater power and efficiency when compared to its gasoline counterpart. In fact, this is the main reason kerosene fuel is used in airplanes.

Aviation fuels are petroleum-based fuels, or petroleum and synthetic fuel blends, used to power aircraft. They are kerosene-based (JP-8 and Jet A-1) for gas turbine-powered aircraft. Piston-engined aircraft use gasoline and those with diesel engines may use jet fuel (kerosene).

Jet fuel can actually be used in cars, but only in diesel engines. Kerosene jet fuel and diesel are actually similar enough to allow for cross-functionality and would provide a similar performance.

Jet fuel is very similar to diesel fuel, and in some cases, may be used in diesel engines. A diesel engine may be more fuel-efficient than an avgas engine. However, very few diesel aircraft engines have been certified by aviation authorities.

As of Monday afternoon, Jet-A is selling to corporate jets for an average of $5.21 per gallon. (Fuel is usually more expensive on the coasts and cheaper in the Midwest.) Because the cost of Jet-A closely tracks the price of a barrel of oil, fuel costs for private jets have quadrupled since 2000.

yes you can but it doesn’t have the same lubricants as diesel. You could use say half and half to give you a slightly better degree of protection, and don’t do it on a regular basis. A diesel will run on virtually any oil, even chip pan oil, if strained/filtered correctly.

The smell of jet fuel is fairly common in the passenger cabin when your plane is preparing to taxi. Far less so is the aroma of dirty socks, rancid cheese, or a wet dog—the typical unpleasant notice that engine oil vapors have seeped in, too.

A: In round numbers, a 737 will burn 5,000 pounds (750 gallons) an hour.

They are generally colorless liquids and smell like kerosene. JP-4, the first wide cut standardized jet fuel came into use in 1951 and an improved version called JP-8 was developed in 1978.

The specific fuel involved is called Jet A, a derivative of kerosene and a sluggish explosive. To explode, it must mix with air, an indication that one or more of the eight fuel cells in the jumbo jet’s wings were breached–either by violent engine or mechanical failure, by a well- bomb or possibly by a missile.

Chlorine Trifluoride

Often times planes do not actually explode on impact. They just break apart and throw debris everywhere. The way a jet engine works is by taking in air via a turbine, compressing it, adding fuel, and igniting the fuel and high pressure air mixture to form a very powerful “jet”. Planes rarely explode in flames.

Jet A fuel has such a low volatility that at normal temperatures it gives off very little vapor and does not form flammable or explosive fuel/air mixtures.

The Top 6 Easiest Planes to Fly

• J-3 Piper Cub.
• Diamond DA40 Star.
• Cessna 152.
• Piper Pa28.
• Cirrus SR22.
• Cessna 172 Skyhawk.

Jet fuels are primarily derived from crude oil, the common name for liquid petroleum. These jet fuels can be referred to as petroleum-derived jet fuels. Jet fuels can also originate from an organic material found in shale, called kerogen or petroleum solids: that can be converted by heat to shale oil.

Burning jet fuel releases greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide into Earth’s atmosphere and oceans. Greenhouse gases block heat from escaping from the atmosphere, causing temperatures to rise just like in a greenhouse.

Over all, air travel accounts for about 2.5 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions — a far smaller share than emissions from passenger cars or power plants.

Still, planes remain among the most polluting means of transport, together with cars. On a journey of, for example, 500 hundred kilometers, a plane pollutes 10 to 50 times more than a high-speed electric train and 5 to 10 times more than a bus.

A prototype jet engine can propel itself without using any fossil fuels, potentially paving the way for carbon-neutral air travel. The device compresses air and ionizes it with microwaves, generating plasma that thrusts it forward, according to research published Tuesday in the journal AIP Advances.