Anti-aircraft warfare

In 1838 Charles Wheatstone’s research demonstrated that the brain processes the different two-dimensional images from each eye into a single object of three dimensions. Viewing two side by side stereoscopic images or photos through a stereoscope. In 1929 Edward Link created the “Link trainer” probably the first example of a commercial flight simulator. US military bought six of these devices for $3500. In 2015 money this was just shy of $50 000. In the mid 1950s cinematographer Morton Heilig…

Chesley Sullenberger “Chesley Sullenberger. I chose this one because at first glance I thought it said "Cheesy Cheeseburger".”-Chase Pyne 2/15/2017 “I went from living my life anonymously for 58 years to being a public figure known globally in a matter of minutes.”-Chesley Sullenberger (Quote Source). Chelsey Sullenberger was born in Denison, Texas on January 23, 1951. His main college education came from the US Air Force Academy when he enrolled in 1969, which he graduated as an officer in…

In Roald Dahl’s short story, Beware of the Dog, a pilot wakes up in a hospital in France. Prior to this, Peter Williamson, the pilot, gets shot down and hesitates asking for help because he is delirious. He then ejects from the plane going unconscious and waking up in the hospital, not remembering what had happened. A nurse then comes in and tells Peter that he is in Brighton, England and tells him how he got to the hospital. Not long after the nurse left she came back, but holding the door for…

The airplane is the safest way to travel; everyone knows this fact. But many people are still scared of flying and are super vigilant during the trip. The shadow of this fear partially comes from the 9/11 attacks, which caused almost 3,000 death and a vast of structures into ruins on September 11, 2001. Four passenger airliners were hijacked by nineteen al-Qaeda terrorists and crashed into buildings as suicide attacks, and the incident made a tremendous fear among the U.S. citizens and the U.S.…

On December 21, 1988, New York bound Pan Am flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland. Investigators later found fragments of plastic explosives and a Toshiba laptop (Verdict in the Trial of the Lockerbie Bombing Suspect). Only two people were ever charged: Libyans Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi and Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah. The CIA and FBI accused both men of being Libyan Intelligence Agents. Al Megrahi was the only suspect charged with bombing of Pan Am flight 103. The biggest motive for…

Throughout his childhood, he had longed to be involved with the young and growing aviation industry. With very little to no experience in designing aircraft or understanding the science behind flight, he began to do incredible feats of courage and motivation. From testing the use of machine guns on airplanes to winning race with an airplane with three working pistons instead of four, Tony Jannus’ reputation…

protecting had been bombed, left with only craters in the earth. Charles impulsively moved over to the other equipment and checked the radar. No sign of Turkish or Iraqi jets. That was good. Before being sent on this mission, he had practiced chemical warfare, once every quarter, or once every 3 months. After the first Gulf War in 1991 when Iraq invaded Kuwait, the U.S. sided with the…

Can you imagine sitting in an airplane that’s been stripped of every non-essential part to reduce its weight? Extra fuel tanks added to extend its range to absolute maximum, sitting on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier, which It’s never taken off from before. General James Doolittle not only volunteered but also led a Group of 80 airmen on this very dangerous mission that changed the course of the Pacific theater of World War 2 called the “Doolittle Raid” (Nelson, C, 2002). The purpose…

experienced by the aircrew in flight was given the name aerodontalgia. As this tooth-related pain was also observed in divers, more appropriate term, barodontalgia, was subsequently given to this phenomenon. Barodontalgia, not only affects aircrew and aircraft passengers but the underwater divers as well. The pain or injury that affects teeth due to changes in pressure gradients can be explained via Boyle’s Law “at a given temperature, the volume of a gas is inversely proportional to the ambient…

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…