Bird flight

Drones. Helicopters. Quadcopters. They all have to do with aerospace engineering. The first quadcopter was made in 2008 (Brain,2015). Aerospace engineering is a great career pathway for people who enjoy spacecraft and aircraft. Some questions people have about aerospace engineering are; “What is aerospace engineering? How can you become an aerospace engineer? What are a couple good colleges to go to for aerospace engineering? Why do people want to become aerospace engineers?” All of these…

Make Up Assignment Having lived in 4 continents and travelled to numerous others, I can safely say that from a very young age, I have spent a great deal of my life at the airport and on planes. I would always be thinking about how a plane at 3,500 feet of altitude with approximately an average weight of 877,000 lbs could manage to cruise with no worry. The curiosity was always present and just kept increasing. The four years I stayed in San Diego, CA my dad would religiously take me to the air…

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…

Did you know that some dinosaurs had wings and feather but they didn’t have any use for flight? According to “Raptors: The Bird-like Dinosaurs of Mesozoic Era” by Bob Strauss, Over 70 million years ago, there was a family of feathered dinosaurs called Raptors. Raptors were feathered Theropods that varied in size from no bigger than a large chicken, to exceeding the height of a full grown man. The time the Raptors lived mainly centered around 65-90 million years ago in the Cretaceous era. A…

Owls are a nocturnal birds of prey with large eyes, a facial disc, a hooked beak, and typically a loud hooting call. Owls belong to a group of birds that includes about 205 species.These species are sorted into two basic groups, the true owls or typical owls, Strigidae; and the barn owls, Tytonidae. There are 16 species of barn owls. Typical owls are more diverse than barn owls, with nearly 190 species in about 23 genera. Typical owl is from 5 to 28 inches tall (13 to 71 centimeters); Barn…

than any other place in the world! One might assume that a creature as simple as the pigeon can only amount to simple tasks. However, the contribution of these gentle birds to our society goes far beyond gnawing bread in parks, or leaving a nice surprise on your favourite car. Columbidae, is the scientific name for the clade of birds that the dove and pigeon belong to. The earliest account of pigeons dates all the way back to 3000 BC through images unearthed by archaeologists in Mesopotamia.…

2011). Authors studied the effect of climate change on wintering distribution of endangered migratory bird (black-faced spoonbills). Scientists have applied eight ecogeographic predictor variables…

This caused the nervous feeling to return thinking that our flight will be late and we’ll be stranded in Detroit Airport for the night. Luckily this wasn’t the case, the flight to Detroit was a little late, so we were rushed to the next flight as soon as we landed. I had been flying before, but without my parents the whole experience changed. The times I have travelled with my parents I’m so focused…

The United States military has always placed a high value on its soldiers and their survivability in conflict. We as a nation believe that our citizens deserve the best care we can offer should they become a casualty of war. Since the beginning of combat, almost all fighting forces have utilized some method to evacuate their wounded from the battlefield. Throughout history we can see different methods that nations have used to evacuate their wounded from the battlefield with varying degrees…

Reflective Essay This past summer -- 2016 – was beautiful, amazing, fantastic, and I completely loved every second of it. I say this because I did a lot of things in this long vacation like, buy shoes and wallets. Speaking of shoes, I wore yellow Adidas originals when I rode the airplane to do a parachuting activity. Meaning I jumped off a plane, which was really scary. We didn’t even plan to go parachuting, it just happened so suddenly. I hadn’t wanted to go, but I am glad that I did it…