Anti-aircraft warfare

Imagine flying a plane in complete darkness, thinking that you’re flying in one direction but you’re instead flying in a different direction. Flash Airlines Flight 604 was a Boeing 737 charter plane that crashed minutes after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh Airport, killing all one hundred and forty-eight people onboard. Although there are no clear answers as to why Flight 604 crashed into the Red Sea, the current theories are pilot disorientation, mechanical history of the airline and the lack…

Wilbur Wright was born on April 16th, 1867 in Millville, Indiana. Although Wilburs most known sibling is Orville, he actually had five other brothers and sisters. There names were Katharine, Lorin, Ida, Otis, and Reuchlin. Wilbur also grew up with a mother and father named Susan and Milton Wright. Before Wilbur grew up as a very intelligent child and excelled in school. He was planning on attending Yale University until he injured himself during an ice hockey game. After this, Wilbur became…

My clammy hands grip the seat tightly turning my knuckles white. My heart beats as if something is trying to frantically pound its way from inside my chest. Frenziedly, I search for my seatbelt. It’s across my lap. Thank god! The relief that the seatbelt gives me is short lived as I hear the plane’s engines shudder under the pressure of flying against the ferocious wind. Fire erupts from one of the wings as it is hit by an enormous bolt of lightning and I feel the plane lurch forward, plummeting…

plane they invented. It was recorded at the time that this magnificent invention which was miraculously the first man-made innovation to be able to maneuver above ground at 120 feet.The plane flew for 59 seconds, covering a distance of 852 feet. The aircraft, making the right brothers a household name, astonished people. Air travel was now possible, and this was the first step towards modern air travel causing excitement in the world. Since then, technology in the means of transportation has…

Robins are a beautiful bird and you can see them in the springtime. I wanted to write this because I have a robin’s nest in my backyard. I also like how gentle robins look. The American Robin’s size is about 9 to 11 inches long, a wingspan of about 14 to about 16 in long, and weight is 2 ⅓ to 3 ounces. The Robins communicate by usually singing to each other and other forms of communication. The bird can fly very fast at 20 to 36 miles per hour. They fly faster when they are migrating then flying…

Nebraska is an extremely diverse state full of interesting and important events that happened in the past eighty three years. The Sons of Italy is an national organization created to celebrate and continue the traditions and foster the heritage that the Italian immigrants would be bringing over to the United States, specifically to the state of Nebraska. They constructed a small community just south of downtown Omaha for the new Italian immigrants to settle; the neighborhood was created right…

In case of emergency, every animal needs a way to escape or defend themselves. Owls have better mechanisms that ostriches for defense and catching food. Owls and ostriches are two drastically different animals and they both have different ways of hunting, eating, and getting away from predators. Everything about these two creatures is different, for good reason. An ostrich is made for running fast in the deserts and plains and various places, while the owl is made for flying high and soaring to…

Aviation Airports The Rise of General Aviation In the early days of aviation, aviators were limited to flying during daylight hours, in near ideal weather conditions. Early pilots were not regulated as they are today, and would take off and land their aircraft in any flat open area, often a farmer’s grassy field, which allowed them to choose their direction relative to the prevailing winds. As aviation grew, pilots began to congregate in common areas, which allowed for ease of fueling,…

volume of world trade shipments, it is over 35% by value – meaning that goods shipped by air are very high value commodities, often times perishable or time sensitive 6. Jet aircraft in service today are over70% more fuel efficient per seat kilometer than the first jets in the 1960s. Globally, the average occupancy of aircraft is around 80%, greater than other forms of transport. 7. Around 80% of aviation CO2 emissions are emitted from flights of over 1,500 kilometres, for which there is no…

The learning curve phenomenon was first originated in the aircraft industry (Wright, 1936). This study introduced the straight line power model which states that the cumulative average time taken to finish a specific activity decreases by a constant rate whenever the number of repetitions is doubled. Later, in the 1940’s, after World War II, the learning curve received more attention. At this time, the Stanford-B model was introduced as a modification of the straight line power model (Stanford…