Aviator

“Do the impossible, because almost everyone has told me my ideas are merely fantasies.” Said the great aviator Howard Hughes. This businessman, film producer, philanthropist, and aviator just basically did everything people thought was impossible like building the biggest plane to building the fastest plane, and the best films, but also became a billionaire at the age of 40. He was also known during his lifetime as one of the most financially successful individuals of the world. What was…

to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization” (Charles Lindbergh). Lindbergh was an aviator and medical practitioner of the early 1900s. Aside his fame for flying, he was nothing more than an ordinary man. Failing as an engineer, he turned to planes he once worked around. Starting out as an airmail pilot, Lindbergh soon rose to the…

and won the Upwind Summer Scholarship. This program granted four, high preforming, high school juniors a chance to live their dreams. Upwind paid for and provided flight training, advanced ground school topics, materials, and life skills to young aviators, and my soon to be three closest friends. I am proud to have accomplished this rigorous training. Before the summer had even begun, the four of us were thrown into ground school with little to no background on the topics being discussed. Once…

the smallest gust of wind could flip a plane over (ebook). Aviators fought in flimsy “canvas and wood biplanes” that had difficulty reaching 100 miles per hour (acepilots.com). Pilots faced the constant fear of tearing a plane’s wing when diving too steep, that would result in a fatal crash (death of an air race eyewitnesshistory.com). Pilots flew in cramped cockpits so they could not fit or use parachutes,…

Earhart, seeing her first airplane at a young age, never imagined the impact it would have on her. Her career was filled with accomplishments setting a high standard for all following aviators. However, Earhart is still considered one of the greatest women aviators of all time and the legacy she left for the 1920’s will never be…

Amelia Earhart Amelia Earhart with that name brings to mind a short haired woman wearing a leather jacket, and climbing into a airplane. We all know that she flew planes into the record books as a woman and as an aviator. Until she supposedly died somewhere close to Howland Island in the Pacific (Lorenzi 3). Was she a brave, skilled woman, or is she another fame seeking woman looking to be noticed? There are many reasons to believe that Amelia Earhart was a brave woman, who was a major…

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for realistic training so the proper actions can be executed in a timely manner to be effective on the battlefield. The second point you stated on how we must truthfully assess our capabilities as well as that of the enemy is completely correct. If aviators do not train realistically and have the muscle memory to react to enemy fire bad things will occur. This does not just apply to the specific tactics but as well the execution of evasive maneuvers. If you do not train the evasive maneuvers…

The movie “The Little Prince”, is about a little girl who lives a very grown-up life with her mom. In the movie, her mother tries to prepare her for adulthood. They move into a house next to a nutty older man named the Aviator. The Aviator introduces the girl to an extraordinary world where anything is possible, which is the world of the little prince. The older man in this film is an exaggerated stereotype because he's like the crazy older man who lives on the block. All the neighbors try to…

actions taken by the brothers were scorned by fellow aviators, reporters, and the common folk alike. A lawyer of Curtiss had once said, “If someone jumped in the air and waved his arms, the Wrights would sue”. Many called their actions greedy and selfish, although some did support them with the justification of them just trying to protect their hard-fought patent. Regardless, the actions they took didn’t just drive the public away. Fellow aviator, Octave Chanute, had been a close friend of the…