- •Construction of aircrafts Active Vocabulary to Text a
- •Text a Airplane
- •Questions to Text a
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- •Text b Helicopter
- •Active Vocabulary to Text b
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- •Text c Flight Deck
- •Instruments that, with the autopilot, control the engine power and guide the
- •Right seat occupied by the copilot, who is second in command;
- •Text a airport
- •Flight behaviour of aircraft
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- •Instruments Concerned with Information about the Aircraft's
- •Active Vocabulary to Text b
- •Questions to Text b
- •Airport infrastructure Active Vocabulary to Text a
- •Text a airports
- •Questions to Text a
- •Text b Main Airports
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- •Questions to Text b
- •Pre-flight
- •Pre-flight
- •Aircraft taxiing and takeoff Active Vocabulary to Text a
- •Text a Taxiing
- •Questions to Text a
- •Text b Takeoff
- •Active Vocabulary to Text b
- •Questions to Text b
- •The work of air traffic controller Active Vocabulary to Text a
- •Text a Air Traffic Control
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Questions to Text a
Where must be an airport?
What are the main two parts of the airport?
Is there a third part of the airport? What is it?
What factors influence the number of runways, their length and location?
Are the aprons required for aircraft to make final checks prior to departure?
What is the main function of the terminal building?
Is the weather observation among the airport services ?
What supplementary services are there at the airport?
Where is the carousel situated?
What is used for quick passenger handling?
Text b Main Airports
There are many airports in our country. There are some international airports.
There is an aerodrome, a terminal, some buildings and offices at the airport; on the aerodrome there are some taxiways and runways. Runways are 2000 m long and more. Some taxiways are long, other taxiways are short. There are hangars there. There are beacons, too. At the terminal there is an apron, on it there are many stands for aircraft and there are pads for helicopters. At every aerodrome, there is a meteorological office, a tower and a fire station. There is a settlement for the personnel and a hotel for passengers and crews at every airport. The airport is not far from the city. It doesn’t take much time to get to the airport. It may be a 20 – 40 minute drive by bus or train.
Sheremetyevo
The capacity of Sheremetyevo Airport has increased. The terminal can receive up to 2100 passengers every hour; the total capacity of the complex is 15 mil passengers a year. Sheremetyevo II is the centre of international air traffic of Russia. Sheremetyevo II was inaugurated in 1980. It’s a 9-storey building with 19 telescopic ladders (fingers). It has been assembled by the West German firm. It has the most up-to-date equipment for handling passengers. There is a new runway which can handle all types of aircraft. Radio navigation equipment and the traffic control system have been modernized. The new check-in counters, computers and 10 automatic luggage conveyors cut the time needed for receiving passengers and handling luggage down to 5 minutes. The automatic baggage conveyors reduce luggage waiting time after arrival to 7 minutes. There are halls for passengers, 4 restaurants, a banquet hall, bars, snack bars to cater for 1600 passengers at a time. There’s a conference hall for 500 seats. There’s a hotel for 500 transit passengers, a modern complex for centralized fueling of aircraft, engineering communications and other facilities. There are arrivals, departures, transit and waiting halls in the terminal. The terminal has all the latest equipment to handle numerous passengers, much cargo and baggage. Boarding is done through one of the 19 passages (telescopic gangways). There are foreign airline offices, on the upper floors. There is a parking place for 1200 cars. It takes only 35 minutes to get to the centre of the city.
Heathrow airport
The UK is in a global race for trade, jobs and economic growth. The international economy is changing with the rise of emerging markets like Brazil, Russia, India and China. UK businesses trade 20 times more with emerging markets that have daily flights than those with less frequent or no direct service.
There are 8 major airports in Britain – Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted Southampton,
Prestwick, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen. But Heathrow is slipping out of the Premier League of Europe’s international hub airports.
Heathrow is the UK’s only hub airport. A hub airport is uniquely important to establishing flights to growth destinations. It is an airport where local passengers combine with transfer passengers to allow airlines to fly to more destinations more frequently than could be supported by local demand alone. Transfer passengers allow the UK to connect to countries where it couldn’t sustain a direct daily flight itself. Many routes would not exist without transfer passengers. Passengers can fly to 75 destinations from Heathrow that aren’t served by any other UK airport.
Heathrow is 24 km west of London center. There are 125 parking stands. There’re 3 terminals. Terminal I and Terminal II are for short haul routes, Terminal III is for long haul routes. A new 4-th terminal is planned, it can handle 2000 passengers an hour and its capacity is 8 mil passengers a year. It can receive the biggest aircraft. There are 22 stands. Heathrow services about 27 mil passengers a year. 45000 people work at Heathrow, in its 260 offices. There’re 74 airlines offices with cargo agents, salesmen, charwomen, typists, mechanics, medical personnel, policemen, Customs officers, Passport Control officers, etc.