Airport infrastructure

Stepping off the Avensa flight onto the bright and cool gray terminal, Maria Venegas, accompanied by her husband and one-year old baby, drops her bags to the floor and shouts, “Hello Miami, we are here and we are going to stay!” This was the scene on a warm May day in 1996 as my parents and I arrived to the United States with three months’ worth of money and an incomparable determination to build a new life. I do not remember the moment, nor was I even remotely aware of what was going on in my…

As I stepped off the airplane into the warm Haitian airport, my brain was filled with a whirlwind of emotions. I was excited, ecstatic to see the sweet Haitian children and their smiles again. My heart had been missing the country of Haiti since I left the summer before. As we departed the airport and stepped softly onto Haitian soil, I became anxious. I looked around at all the mountains surrounding the airport and was reminded of the beautiful brokenness of this country. I was flooded with…

The Houston runway was quickly disappearing beneath me, the plane ascending, leaving my stomach dismantled on the tarmac. I couldn’t believe what was happening. I was truly on a plane, by myself, headed to Buenos Aires, Argentina. My mother laughed at the thought of me living abroad; consistently making it known my ideas were childish, financially unstable, and unattainable. With a slight grin pulling at my lips, I close my eyes and begin to wonder what the world will look like on the other side…

As we accessed the airplane, we got greeted by radiant stewardesses. Since Lillian ordered first-class tickets, our elegant seating place was at the front of the airplane. The airplane eventually got filled by people from various cultures, so we started to buckle our seats as assigned by the radio and off we flew to Cairo, Egypt. It was early in the morning, which then I decided to take a tranquil nap. In a few minutes, I rose from the alarms of “delightful” stewardesses and the cries of babies.…

The Strange Case of Mole Airlines At 6:02 am, our team was called on-site to the crash of Mole Airlines, Flight 1023, in a remote location. The plane was showing evidence of a pre-crash explosion, determined to be caused by trinitrotoluene explosive, also known as TNT dynamite. We were able to conclude the cause due to an elemental analysis of the residue found: 37.01% carbon, 2.22% hydrogen, 18.5% nitrogen, and 42.27% oxygen. Eight victims were found at the scene, and one was determined to be…

With the development trend of wireless communication, the main application scenarios of D2D communication in 5G network are as follows: Local service Local service generally can be understood as the user side of the business data is not through the network side (such as the core network) and directly for the local transmission. A typical case of local business is the application of social, social characteristics can be regarded as the application of adjacent D2D technology application based on…

communications network and precursor to Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (Army). General Dynamics Mission Systems built Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T), a voice and data services that can function without the using a fixed infrastructure (Army). The 10th Mountain Division was the first to use the…

COME 582-Cellular Communications Assignment 1 Due Monday October 17, in class Notes: You MUST work individually on the assignment. Piazza can be used to ask questions (without requesting a solution) !! Try to work on as many questions as possible. Grade will mostly be based on the effort spent. Problem 1 Cellular Architecture Consider a city of 10 square kilometers. A macrocellular system design divides the city up into square cells of 1 square kilometer, where each cell can accommodate 100…

Airports are categorized by their ownership, but their management is determined through its governance structure. The governance structure defines how an airport will be managed, operated, and developed. For example, an airport can be owned by a municipality, but operated by a regional or city-controlled airport authority. The majority of public airports in the United States are governed by airport authority. For instance, Dulles and Reagan Nation Airport are both owned by the federal government…

the ATSA to institute new security measures as quick as possible. In 2002 the TSA was moved from the DOT to the newly created Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The TSA began to operate the screen procedures of more than 425 airports nationwide. Eighteen airports however applied for the Screening Partnership Program (SPP) with five being selected as part of the 2 year pilot program. It is this Authors opinion that the creation…