Burbank

In the cockpit, all of the instruments were destroyed and all of the levers were pushed into the cockpit panel even though the throttle quadrant was damaged in the crash. However, rescue and recovery personnel were unsure if they disturbed controls and levers, and between the fire and impact damage it was inconclusive the positions of the actuators. Tracing the flight controls cables showed that the cable had the proper integrity, but burning made actuator positions indistinguishable. In the…

Throughout the years, The Walt Disney Company has been an inspiration for children, even adults with family movies, shows, heart-warming episodes and movies of heroism and perseverance. Disney is one of the largest media corporations in the world getting 38 billion in revenue for 2010. (reference?) The Walt Disney Company started in 1923 in the rear of a small office occupied by Holly-Vermont Realty in Los Angeles. It was there that Walt Disney, and his brother Roy, produced a series of short…

There is probably no one I salute more than legitimate independent film champions. I find myself regularly seeking out those who deserve to be highlighted for their genuine dedication to telling the stories about which they are passionate while maintaining complete creative control. What some people don 't realize is that filmmakers like Rachel Amanda Bryant oftentimes are required to do more than just act, as you will see in her responses to the questions I posed to her about her beginnings in…

The U-2 case had a main contractor by the name of Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. The corporation is located in Burbank, California. The firm is very thankful to have a great engineer to design these planes by the name of C.L. (Kelly) Johnson ( Cook, 1973). Johnson invented the U-2 spy plane and handmade by Lockheed. “The U-2 was a combination of a glider and airplane…

My love of Joan Didion is lifelong and, like anyone does with heroes, always feels at such a distance. In fact, Didion was much closer to me than I could have imagined. For the last years of her life, I became a friend of Susan Sontag?s. I had known that Sontag was ?important? before I met her in 1989, but I had never read anything by her but her famous ?Notes on Camp,? which I confess bewildered me when I first read it as a teenager. After meeting her, I read ?On Photography? and realized…

his arching frame on a knee high boulder on the side of the path. He watched with passive intrigue as giant sweat droplets fell to earth. Each one making a crater in the previously undisturbed soil carpeting the seldom used trail leading up to the Burbank overlook. He wanted nothing more than to feel the wind blow across his puffy face when he got to the top. He could almost feel it already, but his attention was being pulled downward by the weight of his loss and pain. He cursed the rock, as if…

Amelia Earhart Amelia Mary Earhart was one of the most popular celebrities of her time, and one whose story still resonates with the public today. Partly because of her mysterious disappearance as well as being the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic. Earhart is also well known for her activism and being one of the earliest supporters of the equal rights movement and being a member of the National Women’s Party as well as setting many records, and even writing bestselling…

Contributed, I’m on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That to me is the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.” DeGeneres created her show in Burbank, California in 1994, its original name was “These Friends…

In 1967, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, and legendary guitarist player Peter Green formed the first Fleetwood Mac. It was numerous years before they had the awareness that Christine Perfect, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham even existed. The original band had a successful string of number one singles in Europe. Including a Peter Green classic made famous in the US by Carlos Santana, Black Magic Woman. But through the years, the band had a series of guitarist front men and back up singers that…

The movie starts out with a kid named Carl in a movie theater watching a movie about an explorer going to the Paradise Falls. The explorer name is Charles and Carl gets inspiration from Charles’s adventures. After the movie, Carl sees a house and notices a girl in there. The girl is also inspired by Charles and wants to go on an adventure. The girl’s name is Ellie and she has an Adventure Book that she wants to fill with her own adventure to Paradise Falls. Carl makes a promise to Ellie to take…