Aircraft

the two Wright brothers, Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright; who taught the world that humans could fly too by inventing the first flying aircraft. Though the book narrates a bit on their personal life and incidents in family, the main emphasis of the book is to explain the struggles faced by the two brothers for a period of 10 years on developing a functioning aircraft. On 17th December of 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, The Wright Brothers unveiled the world that they had invented an…

By being a "good" inventor you have to design, plan, test, and make your invention perfect. Some scientists ultimately fail, but Orville and Wilbur Wright definitely didn't- they invented the first motor aircraft that we still use almost 100 years later! They were obviously good scientists! When the Wright brothers were building and testing their new airplane, they had people helping them throughout the process. At a time when the Wright brother's propeller shafts, the part of the airplane…

the jet stream. In 1935, he began to construct a new aircraft that would allow for takeoff and landing on bodies of water. The plane was completed by July 1935 and ready for takeoff. Post wanted to give it a long distance test run. Accompanying him was Will Rogers, an American humorist and friend. Rogers and Post departed in August. After a short stop in Alaska, they prepared for takeoff. Shortly after departure, Post lost control of the aircraft and crashed in the pond near Point Barrow, Alaska…

aviation. The Wright brothers began building new airplanes until 1915 under the company name of Wright Company ("Wright, Wilbur 1867-1912 and Wright, Orville 1871-1948"). The Wrights made great success with being the first in America to have a flying aircraft, and society is better for it. The airplane rendered previous modes of air travel almost obsolete: “Before the Wright brothers took to the air in their powered airplane, the only means of air transportation was the hot air balloon”…

Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), in Cleveland, Ohio. One year later he married Janet Shearon. Shortly afterwards Armstrong transferred to Edwards Air Force Base in California. He became a skilled test pilot and flew early models of many jet aircrafts. Armstrong was selected as one of the first three NACA pilots to fly the X-17 rocket-engine plane, which he made seven flights in. It was kind of an early model for a future spacecraft. He once set a record altitude of 207,500 feet…

of naval aviation. I personally chose Hill Godspeed’s article “Doyle’s Dauntless Dory: USS Nassau and the Evolution of Carrier-based Close Air Support” because the topic of close air support caught my attention. I had heard and read stories about aircraft carriers, but never about amphibious assault ships so I figured I could learn something interesting. In this article, Godspeed supports and argues the role that the U.S.S. Nassau, and…

A crew of African American pilots in the Tuskegee training program, having faced segregation while kept mostly on the ground during World War II, are called into duty under the guidance of Col. A.J. Bullard. Red Tails, the Tuskegee Airmen in World War II. The Tuskegee airmen once shot down three German jets in a single day. (according to movie review summary) On March 24, 1944, a fleet of P-51 Mustangs led by Colonel Benjamin O. Davis, commander of the Tuskegee airmen, set out on the longest…

The Night Witches where a group of all female bomber pilots. They ranged in age from late teens to early twenties. This group made the Soviet Union the first nation to allow women to fly combat missions for the war efforts. The name “Night Witches” is a nickname that was given to them by the Nazi soldiers. This nickname was due to the fact that when they went near their target they would cut off their plane engines, the only sound heard was the “swooshing” of the planes; similar to that of a…

Collision avoidance for manned aircraft relies on the pilot’s judgment and use of his available instruments which include visual awareness. Since there is no pilot on board, there is no means of visual scanning in UAVs to detect aircraft in the vicinity. The operator of the Global Hawk is limited to only instrumentation for detection. This poses an increased risk of collision, when…

Did you know that retired Ironman triathlete Peter Reid now flies seaplanes for a living? If you’re a plane enthusiast who desires to fly a real plane in the future, you might want to consider pursuing triathlon as a hobby first before you make the giant leap. Why? It’s because pilots and athletes share the same “adventure factor,” and several athletes routinely fly. For example, Tony Stewart, Greg Biffle and Matt Kenseth all work the cockpit in the Nextel Cup circuit. But since triatheletes…