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make more than a dozen flight trips annually. Flying may be fun and fast, but at that high altitude, the body has to acclimatize and adapt to a new environment. Frequent flyers experience jet lag and fatigue, side effects of the flight experience. While these two are the most common, flying carries other health risks. Failure to address these risks in the long term eventually makes your body vulnerable to a host of health complications. This article highlights these flight associated health…

A flight attendant, known as Sarah Low’s legacy lives on with Karyn’s wings. In the article “On the Wings of memory¨ By Jon Ramirez, the story of Karyn’s wings is shared. These particular wings have been through many important events. They carry on Sarah’s legacy. Sarah Low was a flight attendant for the American Airlines flight 11 on September 11, 2001. A friend of Sarah’s, Karyn Ramsey, was at the memorial service and to display her respect, gave her flight attendant wings to Mike Low,…

The Decline of General Aviation Airports The Rise of General Aviation In the early days of aviation, aviators were limited to flying during daylight hours, in near ideal weather conditions. Early pilots were not regulated as they are today, and would take off and land their aircraft in any flat open area, often a farmer’s grassy field, which allowed them to choose their direction relative to the prevailing winds. As aviation grew, pilots began to congregate in common areas, which allowed for…

Airline industries are on the cutting edge of human accomplishment. Just over a century ago the act of flight was something humans only conceptualized, moreover imagined what soaring through the air by way of a mechanical invention felt like. Technologies both hard and soft evolved with the invention of aircraft flight. Rapid expansion in the world’s technologies allowed for the act of flight to be possible in a relatively short time span of human history. Hard and soft technologies alike…

attention to many people worldwide. On February 6, 2017, a flight attendant noticed a girl with bruises on her body. The flight attendant proceeded to tell her where the bathroom was and she left a note on the mirror for the girl. The flight attendant asked the girl if she needed help. The girl wrote she needed help. Later, many officials were waiting for them to arrive when they landed. Saving the girl's life was important for the flight attendant. However, not every person is as lucky as this…

ships, such as Flight 19 and the USS Cyclops, but most of these disappearances can be explained by natural occurrences. The Bermuda Triangle is a geographic area of the North Atlantic Ocean located off the southeast coast of the United States. The enigma of the area is its great controversy. “The enigma is that more ships and planes disappear in this area, in fair weather, more than in any other place in the world, for no readily explainable reason” (Bermuda Triangle: Introduction). Flight 19 is…

All of Rains life she has known her Genie as her guardian. Anything and everything Rain needed Genie was there, he was her “parents”. Rain didn’t recall much about her actual parents but she was told they had passed away when she was 3yrs old. Rain is now 15, she attends Bayside High School and comes home to her Genie, that’s normal life for her. Until now, everything is going in a downward spiral. Her grades were down, and Genie was not thrilled. As they argued over a algebra, Rain was furious…

the window seat and of course I won. When i look out the small window I see pine trees, airplanes and the very large airport. The airplane is very cold and everyone is talking until they hear the captain say, “We are ready for take off.” I hear he flight attendants muffled, high pitched voice telling everyone the safety rules and to buckle our seat belts. Eventually I felt the plane getting very bumpy and I hear the loud sound of the plane getting faster and faster, running against the rough…

working to inspire black aviators. Bessie Coleman was born in Atlanta, Texas; she was the tenth of thirteen children. George Coleman, her father, was three quarter Cherokee Indian. Her parents worked as sharecroppers. (Carly Courtney, Disciples of flight) When she was 12 years old, Coleman was accepted into the Missionary Baptist Church. At 18 she took all of her savings and enrolled in the Oklahoma Colored Agricultural and Normal University in Langston, Oklahoma. She only had one term…

Ocean where planes and ships have mysteriously disappeared over the years. It received it’s name from a magazine after an extremely popular disappearance known as Flight 19. Nobody knows for sure if the Bermuda Triangle is real because science cannot explain many disappearances including the USS Cyclops, Ellen Austin vessel, and Flight 19. The USS Cyclops is one of the most famous disappearances in all of the history of the Bermuda Triangle. It was a boat that went down in WW2 with no…