Why are there small spikes on the wing of jet airplanes?

You can see small metal rods extending off the back of the wings. “They help the energy of the lightning leave the aircraft safely.” Mr Maaz said the wicks provide a path for excess electrons to leave the aircraft safely and go back into the atmosphere, rather than being held in the air frame.

What are pods on airplanes?

A modular aircraft or pod plane is a design principle for an aircraft where the payload carrying section can be routinely detached from, and reattached to, the rest of the aircraft. It can be compared to the function of intermodal shipping containers.

What is the effect of deploying trailing edge flaps?

For smooth landing conditions the aircraft must again slow before the touch down on runway for which the trailing edge flap devices are deployed to produce high lift and high drag on wing surface. This arrangement also allows the pilot to have a better visibility through nose up or nose down attitude of aircraft.

What are the pods under airplane wings?

Anti-shock body is the name given by Richard T. Whitcomb to a pod positioned on the upper surface of a wing. Its purpose is to reduce wave drag while travelling at transonic speeds (Mach 0.8–1.0), which includes the typical cruising range of conventional jet airliners.

What are pods under wings?

These ‘pods’ are flap track fairings, sometimes called trailing edge fairings, and their purpose is to cover and reduce drag over the heavy duty mechanisms that extend the flaps of an aircraft wing during high-lift operating regimes.

What airlines have pods?

The pod seats are offered as an option in most first-class and above seating areas.

• Virgin Atlantic Airways. The upper class sections of Virgin Atlantic Airways Boeing 747s offer 44 flat-bed seat pods.
• Mexicana Airlines.
• Royal Brunei.
• British Airways.

Does United have sleeping pods?

It will soon become considerably more comfortable to sleep on some United Airlines flights. The nation’s third-largest airline announced Thursday that it will unveil sleep pods on long-distance international flights later this year.

What do track fairings do?

A flap track fairing is a secondary structure whose function is to provide an aerodynamic cover and so reduce drag.

Why are flaps extended from the trailing edges of aircraft wings for take off and landing?

Flaps are usually mounted on the wing trailing edges of a fixed-wing aircraft. Flaps are used to reduce the take-off distance and the landing distance. Extending the wing flaps increases the camber or curvature of the wing, raising the maximum lift coefficient or the upper limit to the lift a wing can generate.

What effect does streamlining or fairing off parts of an aircraft have?

b. Streamlining and “fairing off” all the parts of the aircraft which remain in the airflow, thus making the air flow as smoothly as possible, to reduce the size of the wake. The effective use of streamlining in reducing drag can be seen from the wind tunnel experiments shown in the diagram below.