Aerospace

From June 1994 thru June 2004, I worked for General Motors Corporation (GM) and its subsidiary Hughes Electronics. At the time, Hughes Electronics’ primary business operations were in aerospace & defense, telecommunication satellite manufacturing and its direct-to-home satellite services company DIRECTV. From March 1999 thru June 2000, I lived and worked in Tokyo, Japan and I was a member of the DIRECTV Japan joint venture (JV). The primary shareholders of this JV were Hughes Electronics and…

What is sustainability? and How does it affect commercial air transport? Sustainability can be generally describe as ability to maintain and undergo any changes despite economic growth or recession. As part of progression of 21st century, human population are growing rapidly and in the other hand it will have been demonstrate a great impact on transportation sector. One of dominant transportation that have been used are commercial air transport. People tends to use air transport instead of other…

Angeles. Then, just twenty minutes later at 8:19 am flight attendants on Flight 11 inform American Airlines, who informs the FBI that the plan has been hijacked. Nineteen minutes later, the Federal Aviation Administration warns the North American Aerospace Defense Command’s Northeast Air Defense Sector that Flight 11 could potentially…

This air/spacecraft was designed and fabricated by Scaled Composites, owned by Burt Rutan an aerospace designer. The financial backing of this venture was mad by Paul Allen a co-founder of Microsoft. The idea of SpaceShipOne is to get average people into non-governmental private spaceflight. Burt Rutan has also contracted sought after Sir Richard…

Senthilvelana aDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Pondicherry Engineering College, Pondicherry University, Puducherry 605 014, India Abstract Friction stir welding a novel solid state welding which gains momentum in versatile applications viz., aerospace, marine, defense equipments and automobile industries. In the present work, AA 5052-H34 weldments have been prepared by FSW process. Optimization has been done by applying Taguchi’s L9 orthogonal array with three input parameters and each…

Dora Harding had many positive attributes to describe her son but one attribute she shared truly describes the essence of his character: “When he is with you, he is with you all the way.” A committed individual is a valuable and loyal individual and that individual is Troy Leon Maxey. Maxey is the seventh-born of eight children and he hails from Indianapolis, IN. After completing high school, he attended Indiana University Purdue University-Indianapolis where he studied the discipline of…

A city is divided into three parts, each part plays a role in creating a civilization that functions, adapts and advances. At the top of our political system we have politicians, and lawmakers, then we have those who guard the city and enforce the laws, then finally we have the common folk. This political pyramid has existed as long as there has been cities. In plato's republic, the protagonist Socrates Explains why this is. Although his lesson is true in the example of a literal city it can…

COMMUNICATIONS EFFECT ON OPERATION ANACONDA In any team effort communication will always be the most important factor towards success. During Operation Anaconda there were many hurdles faced in regards to communication. Multiple units and allied forces with different methods and command chains had to work in cohesion on short notice and in an extremely stressful situation. Operation Anaconda faced communication difficulties in both the execution and the planning of the mission. The planning of…

1. Cabin chat (374) If you could fill up a swimming pool with anything what would it be? Would you rather be a princess or a superhero? What was your favorite part of the week? Those were the questions I asked when leading my first cabin chat. Cabin chat includes asking silly questions or a time to talk about experiences of life with a chronic illness. Cabin chat was always one of my favorite parts of camp because we could speak without fear of judgment or not understanding, even at the age of 7…

the material(s) and the appropriate machine to fabricate the end result. AM has been used in many applications. At first, it was used in Rapid Prototyping (RP). Today, AM is used to create end-products used in many different applications, from aerospace, automotive and even biomedical prosthetics. AM can create highly customizable products, and it’s this advantage that is being exploited in today’s world of manufacturing. 3D printing and AM are almost interchangeable. AM is the broader…