Reginald Mitchell (1895 -1937)
Introduction
Reginald Joseph Mitchell was an English aeronautical engineer born on May 20, 1895 in Talke, Staffordshire and died of cancer on June 11, 1937 in Portswood, Hampshire. He was married to Florence Dayson in 1918. They had a child called Gordon Mitchell who later wrote two books about his father titled “R.J. Mitchell: World Famous Aircraft Designer” and “R.J.Mitchell: Schooldays to Spitfire”.
Early life and Career
Reginald Mitchell went to Queensberry Road Higher Elementary School before moving to Hanley High School which is where his interest in first in aviation was piqued, the designing aspect more so than piloting. When he was 16 years old he worked as an apprentice with a locomotive engineering …show more content…
This was a British racing seaplane and it was made to compete for the Schneider trophy in 1931. This was a competition created to encourage seaplane development. At 30 years, R.J Mitchell submitted the Supermarine S4 monoplane for the competition but it didn’t make the cut. After this he created the S5 which was a better contender but he went even further and made his first aircraft of all metal which was the S6. The final improvement to his design was the supermarine S6B and was the last in the line of racing seaplanes developed by Supermarine. This was Mitchell’s final attempt to "perfect the design of the racing seaplane" It set a speed record which was about twice the speed of Britains fastest service fighter aircraft at that …show more content…
The most major being World War II. Aircrafts gave one side an unfair advantage in the sense that they could get an aerial view showing what the other side was planning. But the technology also wasn’t so developed then that one would have to take into account that crews on the aircraft weren’t adequately equipped. They could die from hypothermia at such high altitudes, the equipment being used for attack weren’t stored appropriately and the deafening sounds of guns being shot could cause ear deficiencies for the pilot and the crew. Nowadays, aircrafts are mostly used in a commercial sense. To make travel time shorter and make traveling long distances more comfortable so ethical issues related to why it’s being used aren’t a big factor anymore.
Pollution: The two main types of pollution associated with aviation are air pollution and sound/noise pollution. Air pollution is the release of harmful substances into the atmosphere and there are large amounts of carbon emissions (about 705 million tonnes a year), Noise pollution is when sound that may offset the balance of human or animal life is emitted. The major sources of noise pollution are by machines and transportation systems for example
Introduction
Reginald Joseph Mitchell was an English aeronautical engineer born on May 20, 1895 in Talke, Staffordshire and died of cancer on June 11, 1937 in Portswood, Hampshire. He was married to Florence Dayson in 1918. They had a child called Gordon Mitchell who later wrote two books about his father titled “R.J. Mitchell: World Famous Aircraft Designer” and “R.J.Mitchell: Schooldays to Spitfire”.
Early life and Career
Reginald Mitchell went to Queensberry Road Higher Elementary School before moving to Hanley High School which is where his interest in first in aviation was piqued, the designing aspect more so than piloting. When he was 16 years old he worked as an apprentice with a locomotive engineering …show more content…
This was a British racing seaplane and it was made to compete for the Schneider trophy in 1931. This was a competition created to encourage seaplane development. At 30 years, R.J Mitchell submitted the Supermarine S4 monoplane for the competition but it didn’t make the cut. After this he created the S5 which was a better contender but he went even further and made his first aircraft of all metal which was the S6. The final improvement to his design was the supermarine S6B and was the last in the line of racing seaplanes developed by Supermarine. This was Mitchell’s final attempt to "perfect the design of the racing seaplane" It set a speed record which was about twice the speed of Britains fastest service fighter aircraft at that …show more content…
The most major being World War II. Aircrafts gave one side an unfair advantage in the sense that they could get an aerial view showing what the other side was planning. But the technology also wasn’t so developed then that one would have to take into account that crews on the aircraft weren’t adequately equipped. They could die from hypothermia at such high altitudes, the equipment being used for attack weren’t stored appropriately and the deafening sounds of guns being shot could cause ear deficiencies for the pilot and the crew. Nowadays, aircrafts are mostly used in a commercial sense. To make travel time shorter and make traveling long distances more comfortable so ethical issues related to why it’s being used aren’t a big factor anymore.
Pollution: The two main types of pollution associated with aviation are air pollution and sound/noise pollution. Air pollution is the release of harmful substances into the atmosphere and there are large amounts of carbon emissions (about 705 million tonnes a year), Noise pollution is when sound that may offset the balance of human or animal life is emitted. The major sources of noise pollution are by machines and transportation systems for example