Aircraft ground handling

Leonardo da Vinci created masterpieces of art and sculpture. Equally remarkable, his aggregate achievements in engineering, mathematics, anatomy, geology, physics, music, military technology, aeronautics, and a wide range of other fields, not only stood without peer in his own time, but were strikingly prescient for the distant future. He recorded his forward-looking ideas in thousands of notebook pages, known as codices. He produced one codex entirely on flight in 1505-1506, the Codex on the…

Colin Powell once said, “A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work”. In the story Hatchet, 13-year old Brian Robeson truly understands the meaning of determination. Brian was on a plane to visit his father in Canada. During the flight, the pilot suffered a heart attack and the plane crashed into the Canadian wilderness. Over the course of the next month, Brian was determined to survive. He faced many obstacles, but none were able to stop him.…

On April 2007 I traveled for the first time to the Dominican Republic, and I remember every details of that trip as if it was yesterday. This trip was one of those experiences that stays with you for a long time. It was an amazing opportunity to discover the local culture several factors make this trip to the Dominican Republic a unique and unforgettable experience. First and foremost this trip has awaken in me a sense of awareness that allowed me to get a better understanding of human…

I did a post almost 3 years ago "Air Travel With Your Toddler" that I still use most of the tips for and Madison at the time was only a year old. As you know, I recently took my pre-schooler to London. It was not her first flight but it surely was one of the longest in quite some time. We have traveled to the Caribbean quite a few times, where we have had long layovers and our entire journey took over 9hrs. Now while we've been traveling since she was 3 months old, it seems like the older she…

There is some truth to statement when Greek philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus said, "You can never walk on the same river twice." Heraclitus is referring to everything in the world is changing in every aspect and nothing stay the same. As we go through the motion of life, overtime, the facts we once considered to be the absolute truth changes. As we age, our moral values and perspective changes. Our social morality changes as our culture change. Times change and the world changes, It’s…

In this case several survivors of an airplane crash on the Andes Mountains faced the problem of not being found. The cold temperature and lack of food made it hard for some to survive, however one of the survivors made it after two months, and was able to find help, that lead to the rescue of 14 people. Today I will evaluate how the leader would act, if leader member exchange, the normative model, the situational leadership theory, the contingency model, and the path-goal theory were involved as…

An Aerospatiale AS 355 Helicopter went down Oct 17 in Erwinna, PA killing pilot. The helicopter went down after the Doug Brigham, the pilot, lost control of the flight. According to a final accident report by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), Brigham intended to depart on a scheduled repositioning flight from a Helipad behind Brigham’s home to an airport located 25 nautical miles southwest. A handheld GPS device recovered from inside the helicopter shows that Brigham flew only…

One of the first courses of action that the governments of the British and United States decided on was the placement of lifeboat regulations. After the British Board of Trade and the US Senate inquiries, it was decided that for every travel liner, there is to be enough lifeboats for every passenger aboard the vessel. When the Titanic set sail, she had on board twenty lifeboats. This accommodated for only one out of three people on the ship, and yet this number was legal according to British law…

So we went back to our hotel, showered and got dressed for work. It was eleven forty-five when our squadron started for the base. We did not have a car, so we had to walk. It was only about a five minute walk though. On the way to work the rest of our squadron informed us that they had seen us trying to surf and thought in was the funniest thing they had every seen. Mike and I were quite embarrassed and quickly tried to change the subject, but they could not get over how entertaining we had been…

Airfield Repair Package (LARP). In order to conduct airfield repair and use LARP efficiently, the Army will call on Airborne and Air Assault engineer units for their capabilities, during forcible entry operations by inserting a heavy drop from the aircraft or external…