Aircraft noise

offering discounted prices and omitting unnecessary services. While other airlines found themselves declaring bankruptcy through the years, Southwest Airlines has been able to stay strong and bring in profits for over 40 years due to one type of aircraft, the use of a point routing system, and placing premium on customer service. (Schlanger, 2012) Rollin King was active on the board of directors until he retired in May 2006. He passed away in June 2014 at the age of 83. (Airlines, 2014) By 1989…

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,…

many others too. The mass production of aircraft helped our country for military reasons and civil reasons. Aviation made it to where people could see the world like never before. Makes long distance travel much easier and we could now transport goods all over the world. Aviation has aided us in many different ways but with anything, there is advantages and disadvantages. Here are two things that are interesting that we could possibly work on air pollution, noise pollution. It takes a lot of…

mechanics of airplanes improved as well as its design. However, in the design of an airplane come several different factors that must be taken into consideration. As an engineer, we pushed to come up with the finest, most creative new “thing”. For an aircraft, there are design constraints…

Orville Wright, from Dayton, Ohio, had a dream to build something that could fly, but most thought it was nothing more than a crazy idea. With the belief that the sky is the limit when it comes to what can come from imagination, they built the first aircraft in history that went airborne. In 1903 they created a man made craft made of stick and fabric that achieved what was thought in those days impossible. Wilbur and Orville did most of their research in Dayton, Ohio, but tested their plane in…

breakthroughs from radical research projects like this allowed future improvements to be made, and are seen everywhere today equipping the most advanced, efficient aircrafts ever produced. In other words, companies involved in these programs absorbed the innovations from these projects and used them in the next generation of aircrafts. General Electric adopted the carbon fiber composite fan blade and advanced blade airfoil design from the prop-fan, and made the most powerful jet engine to date,…

for military aviation, the biplane open cockpit design of WW1 aircraft were slowly being replaced with the all metal monoplane. Aircraft progressively were being designed with retractable undercarriages for streamlining, avionics and more powerful radial engines or supercharged piston engines. These created aircraft that were able to fly much further, faster and higher than the WW1 aircraft with greater manoeuvrability. Fighter aircraft such as the Supermarine Spitfire and Hawker Hurricane…

Gladwell makes a very interesting argument in chapter 7 of Outliers (2008). He claims that the flight crew and their inability to communicate effectively is the number one cause of plane crashes. He supports his argument with studies on different cultures and their ability to communicate with persons in authority or of higher ranks. This inability for the “second in command” to communicate with the pilot, leads to information not being heard or in some cases said, and can have a fatal outcome.…

Thank you for flying with us! We ensure that everyone’s safety is our priority. We make sure that all things are at check before flying. If you see any concerning issues such as slight turbulence, gas leaks, or cats hanging on their dear life while we’re flying hundreds of feet above the ground, please advise the nearest attendant in front of you. It’s a must for pilots to check each and every knickknack before lifting off. Of course, it’s for your own safety, right? You don’t want to die…

interruptions by NTS activities. At the same time the base was working on the U-2 project, Lockheed started making a reconnaissance aircraft that would become the SR-71 Blackbird, a mach-3 plane that is part of the OXCART Project. This plane is what forced the expansion of the U-2 base. They had to make a new runway that is a lot longer, housing, and buildings for the aircraft. In 1962 the airspace above and around Groom Lake was off limits to everyone except for the workers of Area 51 and a…