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    killing 49 persons on board and 1 on the ground. The airplane that crashed in this accident was a Bombardier Aerospace Q400. The Q400 is a twin-engine airliner designed and manufactured by Bombardier Aerospace in Canada. The operator of the crashed aircraft was Colgan Air. In 2009, Colgan Air was a small carrier operating regional flights for the major carriers. The Flight 3407 was a code-shared flight operated…

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    Assignment 10 1. Explain the results of the Chicago and Bermuda Conferences. In the early period, each state “owns” the air above its territory for an infinite distance into space and the air space of each country is restricted for usage to other countries. This rule was not manipulated in the Chicago conference. It still remained the same. This conference was held in order to eliminate restrictions and open the air to traffic. Two agreements were set forth to eliminate restrictions and bring…

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    January 15 ,2009 the morning of my big flight from La Guardia Airport to Charlotte Douglas airport. I woke up this morning getting ready for my flight and said goodbye to my wife and kids.¨Goodbye Kyle and Lindsey I love you!¨ Once I got to Laguardia I sat down at the food market and had breakfast. When my flight was soon to leave I went to the plane and got into the cockpit ready to fly. My Copilot Jeff Skiles boarded the plane and we were ready for takeoff. My passengers and Flight Attendants…

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    You know when you go on a family trip somewhere and you're so excited that you get to fly there even though you have to get to the airport really early but have fun on the way to your terminal and area thing then you're stuck in the airport for two hours just to find out you're in the wrong terminal because either the person holding the tickets read it wrong or the people just decided to change the area the plane will land in (it’s usually the first one). So you have to run to the other side and…

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    United Airlines Shaped by Moments Formally known as “Varney Air Lines in 1926…, [an airline] that would eventually become United Airlines” founded by Walter T. Varney ("United Airlines," 2016). Throughout history UA has been a leader in the aviation sector, being the first to make benchmark accomplishments. Notable points of reference were: “[i]n 1955 united became the first U.S. airline to order jetliners with an order for 30 DC-8s… [In addition, in] 1984 United became the first airline to…

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    “Republic Airlines was a publicly-held, Minneapolis-based carrier providing air transportation to the traveling and shipping public. It was created in 1979 by the merger of North Central Airlines and Southern Airways; in 1980 it acquired Hughes Airwest. North Central Airlines was established in December, 1952, when Wisconsin Central Airlines officially changed its name to North Central Airlines. Wisconsin Central was founded in 1944 and served communities in Wisconsin, Illinois, upper Michigan,…

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    Flight 592 Essay

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    the McDonell-Douglas DC-9 operating the route crashed into the Everglades after shortly taking off from the airport. It crashed as a result of a fire in the cargo compartment caused by improperly stored cargo, killing all 110 people on board. The aircraft had suffered a number of incidents in the past two years prior to the crash, which included aborted takeoffs and emergency landings. On the afternoon of May 11, 1996 Flight…

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    Scale Model Parachutes

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    is silk and nylon. Another, thing is there are also a many different types of parachutes designed for many different specific applications. Also, parachutes are used for both people and cargo to deliver things to areas which can only be reached by aircraft. In addition a parachute works by slowing down a falling object, sometimes the object is a human skydiving. Additionally using many different vocabulary words such as gravity, scientists can explain how a parachute works.…

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    Nervously, I walked into the airport and I was going insane! It was going to be my first time on a plane. I had lots of mixed emotions that day. I was excited that we were going to Orlando, Florida to visit Disney World, but I was also terrified of riding that plane. I had no idea on how I was going to survive a two hour plane trip! With my luck, our flight was delayed, meaning that my nervous anticipation would last longer. A part of me wanted to get it over with, but the other part was…

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    Dash 80 Research Paper

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    These aircraft were used as prototypes for the “Dash 80” which was in turn the prototype of the commercial 707. The B-47 Stratojet was a turbojet engine strategic bomber aircraft that first flew in 1947. Many elements of its design formed the foundation for a large scale jet transport aircraft (Boeing 367-80 Jet Transport). While most planes at the time were straight wing, both of these military aircraft had a swept wing and tail angle design of 35 degrees…

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