Glider aircraft

running their bicycle shop, engineers across the country were experimenting with the idea of flight. A Smithsonian Secretary made an unmanned-steam-powered-fixed-wing model airplane, a Chicago engineer tested a glider over the sand dunes of Lake Michigan, and a man died in Germany testing his glider. The Wright brothers didn’t let this scare them off. They continued putting money aside with hopes of one day starting their own…

brought to the surface by Lawrence Sperry, we would not have been able to advance in our knowledge of aviation–or fly once it became dark outside. Autopilot, as defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, is “a device for automatically steering ships, aircraft, and spacecraft”. Mr. Sperry is the man who brought this device–made by his father and improved by him–into the aviation world, which was an enormous leap in the process of improving airplanes. He had reduced the number of workers on an…

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…

Airplane; a powered flying vehicle with fixed wings and a weight greater than that of the air it displaces. Airplanes to many are just aircrafts able to get them from point A to point B. They are also known to fly through the air for military uses. We all know what they are, but do we ever take the time to think about how they ever came around and who was able to invent such a great invention? On December 17, 1903, Orville and Wilber Wright were the first people ever to fly a gasoline powered,…

mathematics professor for the U.S. Naval Academy. Langley constantly engaged in expanding his knowledge and through this he met many different colleagues led him to inventors and scientist that pursued heavier than air flight. Langley worked with gliders for a little bit but then shifted his focus to completing a machine that could sustain flight and prove that a manned flight was possible. He created the “Aerodromes” which after the first four test flights which were all failures, but he…

airline pilot. Often this kind of error happens when the plane is on the runway. Taking off and landing the aircraft are some of the more difficult maneuvers that a pilot must do. Failure to get enough speed to get the aircraft off the ground will result in the plane running out runway and crashing into barriers, like trees. When Pilots try to land the plane they must position the aircraft in a specific heading, and decrease in altitude at a certain rate. If they don’t, they can overshoot the…

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Godwin, Stephen R., and Mark R. Dayton. "Airline Deregulation." Issues In Science & Technology 8.2 (1991): 78. MAS Ultra - School Edition. Web. 10 Feb. 2016. The whole pdf report serves as logos for the author to make his points valid. The article seems unbiased because it explore both the merits and demerits of the deregulation act. The graph of safety shows huge increase in safety after deregulation, it also shows how it was improving over the years before the act. The cost to consumers also…

A Wing and a Prayer Small northern communities are tight knit. It’s not that everybody knows everybody else’s business, but everybody is conscious who has not come back from the trap line come dark, whose boats are out on the lake on a windy day, and what flying conditions are like as they listen for that unmistakable drone of a returning Otter or Beaver. Often people will gather and go out to wistfully search the horizon for comforting signs of their loved ones. Such was the case one heavily…