Federal Aviation Administration

Summary Before the Wright Brothers by Don Berliner tells how 13 scientists experiment with flight. From jumping off a hill and gliding to the bottom, to flying over 600 feet all within about 100 years. Most of the scientists provided good information of flight but then Otto Lilienthal built gliders that improve to fly better. Later in 1896 he flew his glider then crashed and died. None of the scientists could figure out how to control the aircraft. Until Gustave Whitehead who had the first…

These are the words every aviation enthusiast wants to hear. The ability to soar into the sky at lightning fast speeds is an incredible feat. To me aviation is not just a hobby, but instead aviation has been what I have dedicated my life to. Aviation has been both a passion and an interest of mine for the better half of 12 years. Stemming from these enthusiasms is how my personality has formed and has molded into the person I am today. My premier exposure to aviation was through my…

Introduction “United Breaks Guitars” illustrates the power of social media in company’s incidents with customers today. On July 2009, United Airlines, one of the largest international airline based in the US knew a negative worldwide buzz made by an unsatisfied customer. This situation is interesting because it also shows an important reversal of power between a big company and customer. What happened? What were the consequences for both? How could the problem have been sold? And finally, what…

17, 1903, their airplane soared for 12 seconds, traveling 120 feet [...] before landing” (Nelson). The Wright brothers created a whole new business for aviation for America when they “achieved the first manned flight of a power-driven, heavier-than-air machine” (“The Airplane”). This made all of America open their eyes up to business in aviation. The Wright brothers began building new airplanes until 1915 under the company name of Wright Company ("Wright, Wilbur 1867-1912 and Wright, Orville…

Airplane Mechanic Training Schools | How to Become a Mechanic OnlineAttending an airplane mechanic school and becoming a certified airplane technician can be a very interesting career path to be on. This is mostly because of the fact that you are going to do something that is highly specialized and different than what most other mechanics do. However, because of this you need to take into account job prospects. The reality is that, if you are a good mechanic, it is a guarantee that you will…

The Airline industry is characterized by strategic management and competitiveness. The paper seeks to provide information concerning the impacts of the changes in technology and globalization on the airline industry. Furthermore, the paper would also integrate the resource based model and the industrial organization model to try and determine the above average returns witnessed in the Airline industry. The paper seeks to analyze a case involving the Southwest Airlines. The globalization process…

The crash of the United Airlines Flight 232 is a devastating event and is considered an engineering disaster for two main reasons. The failure of a fan disk in the engine which caused the plane to crash, and the high number of human fatalities due to the crash of the airplane on the runway. The United Airlines Flight 232 took off from Stapleton International Airport, Denver, Colorado, and was scheduled to land in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with a layover in Chicago, Illinois. It was a passenger…

According to the encyclopedia, the airline industry is “the business of transporting paying passengers and freight by air along regularly scheduled routes, typically by airplanes but also by helicopter.” (Airline, 2016). The airline industry is constantly growing and is central to the expansion of other industries taking place (The Airline Industry, 2016). It is a major industry that many people rely on. The recent changes in the airline industry have greatly impacted our economy and our…

I remember that exact moment. The moment where my life would change with the next step I took. Looking out the window of the airplane, I wondered how my new home, Hong Kong, would be like. So many questions were whizzing around in my head. “Will the kids at my school be nice?” “How are the teachers going to be like?” “How will I communicate with the locals there? I don’t even speak Chinese!” As the thundering roar of the plane began to fill the cabin and the safety announcements began to play, I…

The passenger pigeon was once the most abundant birds in North America. They travel in large flocks. The flocks are so large they darkened the sky. Hunting and habitat destruction is what led to the extinction of the passenger pigeons. Martha was the name of the last known living passenger pigeon that died in 1914. There are plans to bring back the passenger pigeon by using a process called de extinction. The process will consist of reconstructing a genome; insert it into a band tailed pigeon…