Fighter aircraft

of heroism, Navy Blue Angel pilot died reportedly maneuvering his aircraft away from an apartment building before it crashed. Article: On the same day, two jets from the military's premier flight, demonstration squadrons, the Blue Angels and Thunderbirds, crashed. One pilot survived, but the other died reportedly maneuvering his aircraft away from an apartment building before it crashed. Now some are asking are these elite fighter jets a threat to safety, and should they be allowed to fly over…

airplane come several different factors that must be taken into consideration. As an engineer, we pushed to come up with the finest, most creative new “thing”. For an aircraft, there are design constraints…

the first successful airplane design. As the only sustained, controlled, heavier-than-air, human flight of the time, it was groundbreaking. Furthermore, their three-axis control became and remains the standard steering system on various fixed-wing aircrafts. Their basic design would be developed into the much-more-practical Wright Flyer III. However, large scale usage of aviation technology would not be observed until World War One. At the time, militaries around the world saw little potential…

The trim button in the F-4 was constantly used by the pilot to change the artificial feel of the system as the speed of the aircraft changed, for example. This reduced the required physical pressure that the pilot had to apply to the stick; thereby reducing the pilot’s physical fatigue…

Introduction To understand aircraft propulsion it is important to understand the term propulsion first. Propulsion is a means of producing force required for movement of object. The propulsion system has some source of mechanical power and some means of using this power to generate force such as wheels, propellers, legs, etc. Nobody can precisely tell the origin of mankind’s desire to fly as it is lost in the distant past. There are legends of people strapping birdlike wings and jumping of a…

An aviation enthusiast once said "Aviation is proof that given the will we can do the impossible" Eddie Rickenbacker. This quote comes from a man that served our country as an American Fighter Ace in World War 1. He had twenty-six aerial victories and he earned the Medal of Honor for being the best ace in the war. We still have to give credit to the first founders of aviation because without them we wouldn 't be where were are today. Aviation still consists of some of the technologies that were…

Orville Wright, from Dayton, Ohio, had a dream to build something that could fly, but most thought it was nothing more than a crazy idea. With the belief that the sky is the limit when it comes to what can come from imagination, they built the first aircraft in history that went airborne. In 1903 they created a man made craft made of stick and fabric that achieved what was thought in those days impossible. Wilbur and Orville did most of their research in Dayton, Ohio, but tested their plane in…

Patrick Conroy October 16th, 2014 Principles of Engineering Independent research project Jet Aircraft vs. Propeller Aircraft While hybrid engines and electric cars have begun to change the way we travel, the airplane still remains the fastest and most efficient way of travelling long distances. The 1903 invention of the airplane has kept relatively the same principle. During its hundred plus years the idea has only experienced several major advancements. The most notable of these being the jet…

Aircraft technology has been constantly under refinement since the first successful flight. Fly-by-wire is the complete replacement of the mechanical linkages between the pilot's stick and the control surface actuators by electrical signal wires, which offers a convenient and logical solution to many of the control system problems associated with modern high performance aircraft and aerospace vehicles. However, there exists a strong reluctance on the part of both pilots and flight control system…

air arm [the Torpedo bomber massacre] by Japanese fighter pilots which moments later led directly to the demise of Japan’s own carriers.”(Hanson, p.342) The American forces stationed at Midway consisted of B-17s bombers attacking the Japanese invasion fleet, which unfortunately failed to score a single hit on the Japanese fleet. Once positive confirmation of the Japanese aircraft carrier’s position was made, the American task forces scrambled fighters to attack the Japanese carriers.…