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    1) For this assignment, I watched the first episode of Narcos, a Netflix series based on Pablo Escobar, the drug tycoon of Colombia, with the sound turned off. In the first ten minutes, I could see a plane flying over the capital city Bogota. Three telephone tappers were trying to get connected with a phone call of a drug lord. They were wearing casual dress. They were constantly moving their headphones which was likely to show that they were not able to hear the conversation properly. They…

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    Train Derailment

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    The most important factor that caused the derailment of the train is, when Lac-Megantic was testing its mandatory hand brakes test, the hand brakes and air brakes were left together, so during the test, the freight train were held by the hand brakes and air brakes, which gave the impression that the train was held only by the hand brakes, so the engineer and the rail traffic controller thought that the train was secure. Before the accident, the locomotive was reviewed by MMA’s repair shop eight…

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    Abbie Robinson passed away on August 31, 2017. She was born on June 5, 2003 in Des Moines, Iowa and lived with her mom, dad, and two brothers. She died doing what she has always dreamed of doing, skydiving. When Abbie was just a child, she had always wanted to skydive. She traveled to Kauai, Hawaii on a family vacation to complete this dream of hers. Sadly, the parachute didn’t open and she landed breaking almost every bone in her body. When Robinson was a child, she lived in Denver, Colorado…

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    Brazil Mission Trip

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    “Ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats and fasten your seatbelts, we will be departing shortly.” I find myself clutching my seat's armrests as the plane begins to move down the runway. I await the turbulence signaling the plane’s flight, my eyes glued to the window on my left, witnessing the ground getting further and further away. The thrill finally comes, the adrenaline coursing through my body as the plane takes off into the sky, and soon my surroundings are nothing but clouds, pure…

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    Ball Turret Gunner Essay

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    (There are 3 messages to “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” The Reason for the ball turret, young people are the victims, no neutral thought.) The ball turret gunner is one of the most important gunner, that was on a bomber. The bomber was a big jumbo like plane. That was able to carry stuff and drop bombs on its targets. The biggest problem with these type of planes are that they are too big and too slow. Which made it easier for the enemy fighter jets to take them down. The germans came…

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    In the short story, “The Setting Sun and the Rolling World”, the author used the airplane to symbolize modernity, and portray the new modern life will be better than the old traditions. He also used the symbol to support his theme, that every people have their rights and the freedom to choose their future and path, rather than trapped in their family’s old traditional way. Musoni’s dislike of the modern technology is shown through his thoughts and actions at the first paragraph, which he…

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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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    “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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