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    An American aviator, who made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean on May 20th-21st, 1927. Although others pilots were able to do it, Lindbergh was the first one to do it nonstop. Lindbergh has campaigned against the American involvement in World War two, before Japan attacked Pearl harbour in 1941. He has served as an adviser in the aviation industry from the days of the wood and wire to the supersonic jets. Lindbergh was born on February 4th, 1902 in Detroit. He grew up on a…

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    their quality and ever advancing technological advancements which helps establish relationships with customers and suppliers to meet demand. Proof in this statement is the 787-8 model which has progressed to the 787-9 model. The 787-9 and are larger aircrafts and can travel longer distances as opposed to the 787-8 (CNET.com, 2014). By continuing developing products to meet customer demand, Boeing has a large market share in the market, boasting 43% in the commercial airplane deliveries according…

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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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    theory. So this essay will be researching aerospace engineers what they do and how they do it. 2.Aerospace Engineers design, construct and test aircraft, not just planes but also things like jets, rockets, missiles, and satellites. This requires engineers to use a lot of applied research and able to be aware of all the different situations their aircraft could…

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    Flight 9525, LAM Mozambique Airlines Flight 470 and missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 possibly being one of them. Although an intentional crashing of an aircraft in rare and uncommon— according to National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) data base from 2003-2012 there were 2,758 fatal aviation accidents out of which only 8 were aircraft-assisted suicides (1) — it is impossible to ignore them. Therefore, in the next five years CRM will have to address the issue of aircrew mental health more…

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    Godwin, Stephen R., and Mark R. Dayton. "Airline Deregulation." Issues In Science & Technology 8.2 (1991): 78. MAS Ultra - School Edition. Web. 10 Feb. 2016. The whole pdf report serves as logos for the author to make his points valid. The article seems unbiased because it explore both the merits and demerits of the deregulation act. The graph of safety shows huge increase in safety after deregulation, it also shows how it was improving over the years before the act. The cost to consumers also…

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    Concorde The one and only supersonic passenger airplane that existed up until now was the Concorde. The Concorde belonged to both the British Airway and the Air France and was released on 21st January 1976. The Concorde flew with a speed of 2172 km/h and had a takeoff speed of 402 km/h. It used the most powerful pure jet engines flying commercially (Celebrating). Concorde was 62 m long and still increased between 15 to 25 cm due to heating of the airframe as well as a wing span of about 25 m…

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    SUMMARY 1: FREE FLIGHT AND EN ROUTE AIR SAFETY: A FIRST-ORDER ANALYSIS The United States airspace is programmed such that all aircrafts or plane does not travel on a straight line to their respective destination from their origin. They are made to follow a certain route, which is the same as what is experienced on the interstate highway system. The paths they follow were selected more than 50 years ago and navigation networks were placed along the path. The continuous advance in technology shows…

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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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    Continental Airlines flight 1065 from New York to Mexico City. “Excuse me, Mrs. Flight-Attendant Lady, I do not think that I am able to sit in the Emergency Exit Row of this airplane.” They had told us to go ahead and speak up. She looks at me like I have to be crazy, like she’d never heard this before, she looks for missing arms and says “Why are you not able?” and I say, “Because I don’t really want that responsibility. I seriously believe that in the highly unlikely event that I, or anyone…

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