Flight

to feel the cold on my body. and also the pain. I had removed my helmet in the flight for more comfort, My head had started to bleed I dressed my wound with the proper gauze then took the helmet off of my comrade and took his m16A-7 I made sure I was not bleeding and searched for A radio. I opened pilots compartment in the cab but nothing, I looked behind the seat and found A geographical map of the area and the flight plan, by the looks of it I was right outside of the map. I go through and…

Drones. Helicopters. Quadcopters. They all have to do with aerospace engineering. The first quadcopter was made in 2008 (Brain,2015). Aerospace engineering is a great career pathway for people who enjoy spacecraft and aircraft. Some questions people have about aerospace engineering are; “What is aerospace engineering? How can you become an aerospace engineer? What are a couple good colleges to go to for aerospace engineering? Why do people want to become aerospace engineers?” All of these…

Make Up Assignment Having lived in 4 continents and travelled to numerous others, I can safely say that from a very young age, I have spent a great deal of my life at the airport and on planes. I would always be thinking about how a plane at 3,500 feet of altitude with approximately an average weight of 877,000 lbs could manage to cruise with no worry. The curiosity was always present and just kept increasing. The four years I stayed in San Diego, CA my dad would religiously take me to the air…

Did you know that retired Ironman triathlete Peter Reid now flies seaplanes for a living? If you’re a plane enthusiast who desires to fly a real plane in the future, you might want to consider pursuing triathlon as a hobby first before you make the giant leap. Why? It’s because pilots and athletes share the same “adventure factor,” and several athletes routinely fly. For example, Tony Stewart, Greg Biffle and Matt Kenseth all work the cockpit in the Nextel Cup circuit. But since triatheletes…

Reflective Essay This past summer -- 2016 – was beautiful, amazing, fantastic, and I completely loved every second of it. I say this because I did a lot of things in this long vacation like, buy shoes and wallets. Speaking of shoes, I wore yellow Adidas originals when I rode the airplane to do a parachuting activity. Meaning I jumped off a plane, which was really scary. We didn’t even plan to go parachuting, it just happened so suddenly. I hadn’t wanted to go, but I am glad that I did it…

If I could choose any career that I wanted to be when I grow up I would like to be a trashman. I would also like to be a stunt plane driver. One more thing I would like to do is be a professional wingsuit flyer. It would be a lot of fun to do these things. I think it would be a lot of fun to be a trashman. I have always to ride around holding on to the back of a truck. It would be fun to go around saying,” skrrrrrrrt skrrrrt” to everyone that I pass. I would always be outside being active and…

1) For this assignment, I watched the first episode of Narcos, a Netflix series based on Pablo Escobar, the drug tycoon of Colombia, with the sound turned off. In the first ten minutes, I could see a plane flying over the capital city Bogota. Three telephone tappers were trying to get connected with a phone call of a drug lord. They were wearing casual dress. They were constantly moving their headphones which was likely to show that they were not able to hear the conversation properly. They…

As we accessed the airplane, we got greeted by radiant stewardesses. Since Lillian ordered first-class tickets, our elegant seating place was at the front of the airplane. The airplane eventually got filled by people from various cultures, so we started to buckle our seats as assigned by the radio and off we flew to Cairo, Egypt. It was early in the morning, which then I decided to take a tranquil nap. In a few minutes, I rose from the alarms of “delightful” stewardesses and the cries of babies.…

to buy the cheapest flight ticket. They have the experience and by flying regularly they have come to learn the little tricks of obtaining the cheapest flights. What if you're not a regular traveller and your budget is limited? As many travellers that have bought flight tickets has found, buying the cheap flights can be quite the gamble. Buying a ticket too soon you might miss out on the specials that airline carriers announce before your flight date. If you buy your flight ticket too late,…

This essay compares and contrasts the theme of flight in three different time periods and cultures through the following research question: In which ways is the theme of flight similarly and differently channeled through the Roman “Icarus”, the French Le Petit Prince, and the African American Song of Solomon, and what does this explain about how the ancient Romans, the 20th century French, and the 20th century African Americans viewed the future? As this is a very specific question pertaining to…