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Written by OUEDRAOGO Raphaël Farid Yoann

& TOUBANGA Ouèlé Dieudonné

November 2023

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 ABOUT THE AUTHORS
OUEDRAOGO Raphaël Farid Yoann and TOUBANGA Ouèlé
Dieudonné are both mechanical engineering students at the
Ecole Polytechnique de Ouagadougou (EPO). Passionate about
aeronautics, they work together on several projects, including
this monthly magazine, which was published for the first time
at the end of August 2023.
 NEWS
DUBAÏ AIRSHOW 2023
start-ups and 20 impressive
national pavilions. Over 190
aircraft were displayed, both
static and in flight. The
biennial event was attended by
several thousand people,
including aviation industry
professionals and spectators.
The 18th Dubai Airshow 2023 Aircraft manufacturers and
was held from November 13 to airlines signed agreements and
17, 2023 at Dubai World contracts worth billions of
Central (DWC), the site of the dollars, as in the previous
Dubai Airshow. This major edition. In 2021, there were
aeronautical event showcases over 104,000 participants and
the latest technological more than $74 billion worth of
innovations. It also features contracts were signed. While
conferences and seminars on we await the figures for the
innovation, sustainability, air 2023 edition, which are sure to
traffic management and urban be higher than those for 2021,
air mobility. the following exhibitions and
This year's event brought contracts are worth noting.
together over 1,400 exhibitors
from 98 countries, more than
350 renowned international
speakers, over 90 innovative
 NEWS
DUBAÏ AIRSHOW 2023
Exhibitions *Ethiopian Airlines has
*Airbus presented its A321neo, ordered 11 A-350-900s;
A321-211 P2F, A330-800 (neo) *SMBC Aviation Capital has
and A380 aircraft; ordered 60 A320neo Family
*Boeing presented its long- aircraft;
awaited 777-(777X), as well as *Turkish Airlines had reached
the 787-9; an agreement in principle with
*Dassault Aviation presented a Airbus for an order of over 355
static RC fighter, a Rafale F4 commercial aircraft, but the
simulator and the Rafale in contract was not formalized at
flight; the show.
*Embraer presented its latest 2)ATR
"Tech Eagle" livery for the Abelo placed a firm order for
Profit Hunter E195-E2; 10 ATR 72-600s, with a further
*Exhibitions and flight 10 on option.
demonstrations of several 3) Boeing
military jets. *Emirates has ordered 90 B-
777Xs and 5 B787 Dreamliners;
Orders and contracts *Ethiopian Airlines has
1)Airbus ordered 20 B737-8 Max and 11
*AirBaltic has ordered 30 B787-9;
A220-300s; *Flydubai has ordered 30
*Egypt Air has ordered 10 B787-9s;
A350-900; *Oman Air has ordered the
*Emirates has ordered 15 A350- B737-800BCF freighter;
900;
 NEWS
DUBAÏ AIRSHOW 2023
*SCAT Airlines has ordered There were several other
seven(07) 737-8; exhibits, orders and contracts
*SunExpress has ordered 45 that we were unable to
B737-8 Max; mention.
*Royal Air Maroc has ordered At the end of the show, Boeing
two(02) B787-9; had nearly four (04) times
*Royal Jornadian has ordered more orders than its European
four(04) B787-9; rival Airbus. The next edition
*Zero Petroleum has signed a is scheduled to take place from
partnership with Boeing for November 17 to 21, 2025.
the development of Sustainable Images
Aviation Fuel (SAF).
4)CFM International
*Air Arabia ordered 240
engines from CFM
International.
*Fly Dubai signed a multi-year
agreement for 222 CFM LEAP-
1B engines.
5)Safran
Emirates signed contracts
worth over $1.2 billion with
Safran for the latest generation
of landing gear, brakes and
aircraft seats.
 NEWS
RUNWAY EXCURSIONS IN TANZANIA
On November 28, 2023, in Six(06) hours after this first
Tanzania, two aircraft went off incident, a second similar one
the runway at Kikoboga, which followed at the same Kikoboga
serves Mikumi National Park. airfield. An Embraer EMB-120
At dawn on November 28, at belonging to Sindbard Air,
around 3.40am, a Unity Air bound for Zanzibar, missed its
Zanzibar Embraer EMB-120 take-off when it ran off the
from Zanzibar went off the runway. As it accelerated for
runway after its rear landing takeoff, its nose gear collapsed,
gear collapsed on landing. sending it off the runway. In its
Images published on the "race to the bell tower", it hit a
Internet show the aircraft building with its right wing
lying on its side, its right wing before grounding a few dozen
damaged. The 33 people on metres from the first plane.
board escaped unharmed. The 34 people on board were
all as lucky as those in the first
incident. There were no
casualties.
THE 05 WORDS
CABOTAGE CLEARWAY
In aviation law, cabotage refers A clearway is an area beyond
to the transport of passengers, the runway, under the control
mail and goods between two of the airport authorities,
points within a state, carried within which the terrain or
out by another state or another fixed obstacles cannot extend
state's airline. The 1944 beyond specified limits. This
Chicago Convention gives area may be required for
signatory states the right to specific operations. The
refuse cabotage (art. 7). Thus, it clearway comprises the blast
is forbidden to carry out the pad (stopway) and a defined
entirety of a private or unpaved area around it.
commercial flight on foreign
territory, unless specifically
authorized or unless the
following three(03) conditions
are met:
*No change of passengers
throughout the journey;
*Passengers must not leave the CLAMSHELL DOOR
airport in the event of a
Clamshell door is a door in
stopover;
the thrust reversal system
*All passengers must be re-
which, when activated, opens
boarded on the same aircraft
a duct and closes a normal
within 24 hours of arrival.
outlet, thereby directing
Cabotage is prohibited for
thrust forward.
reasons of economic
protectionism.
THE 05 WORDS
CAROUSEL
A luggage carousel or conveyor
belt is a device in an airport
that distributes baggage to
passengers in the baggage
reclaim area of their final
destination. Not all airports use
this type of device. Airports
Luggage on a carousel
without carousels generally
deliver baggage by placing it on
the floor or sliding it through
an opening in the wall.

RAMP
An apron or flight line or
ramp or tarmac is a defined
area on an aerodrome
designed to receive aircraft
for the purposes of
embarking or disembarking
passengers, mail or freight,
refueling, parking or
maintenance. Tarmac/ ©Wikipédia
 DID YOU KNOW?
THE TALE OF THE MAN WHO STOLE A
MILITARY JET When he returned, the runways
On July 4, 1986, Corporal were all well lit this time, and
Howard A. Foote Jr. a 21- the awake base was buzzing
year-old US Navy mechanic with activity due to his stunt,
flew an A-4M Skyhawk which didn't go unnoticed.
military jet that he stole at El Indeed, a base sentry had
Toro Marine Corps Air spotted him as he climbed. As
Station. Here's the tale of this Howard is a mechanic, and
illegal flight. routine maintenance is carried
In the early hours of July 4, out at night, the sentry did not
1986, a national holiday in the intervene until the lance-
USA, young Marine Howard corporal had left the base.
climbed a ladder and boarded Back at base, Howard was
an A-4M Skyhawk. Once in arrested and taken to court.
the cockpit, he started the Several charges were brought
plane, taxied to one of the against him, but fortunately for
runways - which was unlit at him, most of them were
the time - hit full throttle and dropped. He was nevertheless
took off. He headed for the sentenced to four and a half
island of San Clemente, months' imprisonment and
executing loops, rolls and disbarred from the Marine
high-speed maneuvers before Corps.
turning back after three This unusual story begs the
quarters of an hour. It landed following question: How could
safely after several landing an untrained mechanic fly a
attempts. military jet and perform
stunts?
 DID YOU KNOW?
THE TALE OF THE MAN WHO STOLE A
MILITARY JET
It may be a feat, but it's Behind the scenes, General
hardly surprising when you Bloomer [who commanded
discover that Howard Foote MCAS (Marine Corps Air
was no novice when it came Station) El Toro], also a
to flying. In fact, he is an gliding enthusiast, is said to
accomplished glider pilot and have influenced and
would have previously flown encouraged Foote in his
some 100 hours in the A-4 pursuit of records. In fact,
Skyhawk simulator. So, with Foote befriended him because
his knowledge of the jet as a they were both gliding
mechanic, and his piloting enthusiasts. General Bloomer
skills developed in the glider stepped down as head of
and simulator, discretion was MCAS El Toro just a few days
all he needed that night to before Foote flew the
live his dream. Howard's Skyhawk.
dream of flying a military jet If the sentence was not severe
was alive before an air for Foote, it was probably
embolism turned him down because of the general's
for the US Air Force pilot influence on him and the
recruitment test. The young injury he sustained.
marine suffered this air
embolism while attempting to
set a gliding altitude
record.He climbed to 41,000
feet without a pressure suit,
causing the embolism.
DID YOU KNOW?
BELLY LANDING
Did you know that aircraft The second reason is that a
sometimes land without preventive alarm is triggered
landing gear? That's right! In when the aircraft is about to
aviation jargon, this is known land without the landing gear
as belly landing. fully extended and locked.
A belly landing is a landing This gives the pilot the
on the belly of an aircraft opportunity to abort the
whose retractable landing landing and go around.
gear has not been deployed. It The second situation occurs
can occur when the pilot occasionally, and leaves no
forgets to extend the landing choice but to land on the
gear, or when the landing belly. In normal mode, the
gear cannot be deployed due landing gear is deployed by
to mechanical failure. an actuator, which may fail to
The first situation is rare or operate due to a hydraulic
non-existent nowadays, for failure, for example. The
two reasons. Firstly, landing landing gear can also be
gear deployment and deployed in emergency mode,
checkout is one of the by gravity. If this alternative
procedures mentioned in the doesn't work, or if the
landing checklist. One pilot landing gear is deployed
deploys the landing gear, asymmetrically (wheels
while the other checks either misaligned in relation to each
the landing gear down lights, other), there's no choice but
the aural signal or the radio to attempt a belly landing.
announcement.
DID YOU KNOW?
BELLY LANDING
Charlotte airport on June 27,
Another very rare situation is
2023. All 96 passengers and
an emergency landing with
five(05) crew members were
the landing gear retracted on
evacuated unharmed.
soft ground or water (an
emergency landing like the
Images
one on the Hudson River in
2009).
A landing with the landing
gear retracted can be made
on a bare or foam-covered
runway, depending on the
emergency and/or the size of
the aircraft. The foam
sprayed on the runway by the
emergency services prevents Belly landing of thebB717 of
a fire from breaking out as Delta Airlines/©WSB-TV
the fuselage rubs against the
runway asphalt.
There have been several cases
of belly landing in aviation
history, most of them without
major human damage. The
most recent was the landing
of a Delta Airlines Boeing 717 ©Aviationfile
without nose gear at
 HISTORY
HELICOPTER HISTORY
The history of helicopters experimental design that
and other rotary-wing caricatures a vertically-flying
aircraft began in the 20th propeller-driven aircraft. It
century. This is the "real is recognized as one of the
helicopter", otherwise the earliest prototypes for the
concept of the helicopter study and inspiration of
dates back to the 320s in the aeronautical propellers and
form of the bamboo-copter, helicopters. However, the
an ancestral toy in the history Italian inventor's ingenious
of science and technology in ideas remained at the
China. It was this conceptual stage for a long
rudimentary helicopter that time, due to the lack of
partly inspired Italian motorization and the problem
inventor Leonardo da Vinci to of torque - a real headache in
invent the aerial screw in the history of the helicopter.
1487. Leonardo da Vinci is It was not until 1754 that the
also said to have been Russian Mikhail Lomonossov
inspired by Archimedes' 3rd- experimented with his
century BC screw, and by the counter-rotating rotor driven
De ingeneis notebooks of by a clockwork mechanism,
Taccola, who designed and concluded that a lifting
vertical-axis mills and had force existed. It was a
already sketched a helicopter significant breakthrough that
in 1430. Da Vinci's aerial undoubtedly inspired many
screw, also known as the inventors, including
flying propeller, is an Frenchmen Claude Launoy
 HISTORY
HELICOPTER HISTORY
and François Bienvenu, Gustave on to build and test ever
de Ponton d'Amécourt (credited better and more efficient
with inventing the word prototypes. These included
"helicopter") and Guillaume George de Bothezat, Raúl
Joseph Gabriel de La Landelle, Pateras Pescara, Étienne
Gustave Trouvé, Italian Enrico Œhmichen, Marinello Nelli,
Forlanini, Maurice Léger, Henri Nicolas Florine, the pairing
and Armand Dufaux. These and of Louis Charles Breguet and
many other inventors René Dorand, Maurice
contributed to improving the Claisse, Henrich Focke,
shape of the helicopter and James Weir, Igor Sikorsky,
developing engines suitable for the pioneer of the "main
lift and hovering. Frenchman rotor and tail rotor"
Paul Cornu's flight of less than configuration...
30 seconds is considered by With the advent of
some to be the first free flight. technological developments
Unfortunately, his aircraft and the Second World War,
broke up on landing and his the aeronautical industry
achievement was not followed took off, and numerous
up. Other attempts of a similar helicopter manufacturers
nature were successful, leading sprang up in the USA,
to the construction of the very France, the UK and Russia.
first helicopters worthy of the Since then, several helicopter
name as early as the 1920s. models have been designed
Adventurers and designers went around the world for civilian
and, above all, military use.
 FLIGHT MECHANICS
THRUST REVERSERS
Among the braking devices reduce the braking distance
found on aircraft, one in required, which can be
particular catches our attention: crucial in certain situations.
thrust reversers. Thrust reversers are a
Thrust reversers are very fascinating example of how
interesting devices used in technology can be used to
aviation. When you're on board improve flight safety and
an aircraft and it lands, you may efficiency.
notice that the engines make a Now you know how and why
peculiar noise and that the it works. See you next time
plane slows down. That's thanks for a new topic on the
to the thrust reversers! mechanics of flight!!!!
Thrust reversers are located at
the rear of an aircraft's engines.
When the plane lands, pilots
activate the thrust reversers to
redirect the airflow forward
instead of backward. This
creates an opposing thrust
force, slowing the aircraft down
more quickly.
This is particularly useful when
landing on short runways, or
when the aircraft has to stop
quickly. Thrust reversers
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