Fixed-wing aircraft

According to the industry group Airlines for America, 14.2 million people are expected to travel during the 2015 Labor holiday weekend. With that number increasingly on the rise, air travel is booming and has just piqued business titan Warren Buffett’s interests. Warren Buffett’s illustrious Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has recently acquired Precision Castparts in an estimated 32 billion dollar deal that can only be written in the stars. In what is said to be the company’s largest merger,…

primary, basic, advanced and transition. Pilots began with primary training at Tuskegee Institute’s Moton Field, where they flew PT-17 and PT-19 training aircrafts. Basic, advanced and transition training were all conducted at Tuskegee Army Air Field.2 During basic flying training, pilots participated in both ground school and training on military aircrafts.3 In this phase of flight training the pilots learned meteorology and radio communication, along with flight instruction on BT-13…

On December 14, 1945, Paul VanSteenbergen, my uncle, boarded a troop carrying liberty ship. He went inside and placed his standard issue backpack on his cot and then returned to the top deck to wave goodbye to his family and friends, who were waiting in the wooden pier below. Men leaned over railings, climbed on lifeboats, and perched midway up the masts to catch a last glimpse of their families. Now, at age eighty­nine he retells the story in his Guilford home. He verbalizes how he managed…

If you go to China, you see Chinese people. If you go to Egypt, you see Egyptians. But, when you walk through the streets of Boston or Los Angeles, you see a mix of people with different ethnic backgrounds. At some point, their grandfather, or father, or even themselves immigrated here to live the “American Dream”. My story all starts with my grandfathers. My grandfather were born and raised in India they were not very wealthy, but they were considered well off in India. At the time, India…

Have you ever confronted with any unpredictable problem? If we confront with an unpredictable problem, we usually can't meet the problem and even stop thinking. However, some people who have a great ability to react solve the situation calmly and rationally. 'SULLY' is the best example of it, and the movie impacted me in powerful ways. This movie is referring about 'Miracle of the Hudson' that occurred in 2009. In the movie, the captain of the airplane fell on the Hudson Lake saved his…

situations to reflect current industry knowledge based on research and lessons learned from past relevant accidents Require Boeing to establish an appropriate replacement interval for air turbine starter valve-air filters installed on all MD-80 series aircraft. American Airlines was recommended to evaluate their CASS program to determine why it failed to identify deficiencies in its maintenance program associated with the MD-80 engine no-start failure and to also discover the lack of compliance…

the status, background and issues faced by the program. The Department of Defense (DoD) recognized, that now more than ever, the services need to consolidate resources and jointly tackle the shared issues of high acquisition and operational cost of aircraft. From its conception the F-35 emerged as a result of defense contractor competition. The U.S. government for the first time in history witnesses a direct engineering battle between Lockheed Martin and Boeing, a well-known commercial airline…

on the beach, automobiles raced. The beach was a relatively clean surface for anything that had wheels and speed, and also had a smooth and hard surface. Pilots then caught on to the idea and used the beach as a runway. Hangers were built for an aircraft service to be established on the beach. The first flight on the beach was in 1906 using Israel Ludlow’s glider. In 1930, the airport moved to a 740-acre piece of land, which was a few hundred…

One of my duties was to review and update the DHS air surveillance requirements. The document in question was from 2012 and was general in nature. To accomplish and to understand the complexities of the task, I needed to familiarize myself with how the original DHS air surveillance requirements were generated and were each line item originated. I discussed the origination of the current requirements with the Director of Air and Marine Operations (AMO) Domain Awareness (DA) and members from…

The following disaster summary includes information from The NTSB’s Official Aircraft Accident Report (1973). On June 12, 1972 Flight 96 departed from Detroit at 18:36 and began ascending to cruising altitude. Meteorological information was reported to be very good with light winds and cool temperatures. A post-incident interview with a ramp service agent who loaded baggage on the plane was conducted, and the agent described mild difficulties in closing the aft cargo door. The interview revealed…