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resulting in a devastating fire under the left wing. From this, the engineer onboard announces that engine 2 is gone. Once the aircraft is airborne, the crew turns off the second engine and only operates on idle power. The pilot immediately calls for the landing gear to be retracted, however, they notice that it will not retract. Flying at an altitude of 200 feet, as well as being unable to gain any additional height or speed, engine one is gone as well. In a few seconds after the engine…

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…

Lizzy Peterson Robert Mancini Social Studies 5 May 4, 2018 The Life of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be president? Well in the following content we will explore the life of a memorable and loved president. From his early life to how he changed America and his assassination. John Fitzgerald Kennedy(called Jack by family and friends) had a rich father, Joseph Patrick Kennedy. John was born on May 29,1917, in Brookline, Massachusetts. John was second of nine…

Acadia 4’s atmosphere, the friction of the descent unleashed an aura of dense orange flames. Eric Nels watched out the Portside windows as the blaze extended across his view of sight. Expanding, it appeared to ignite the rockish landscape below. As the craft escaped the boundaries of the atmosphere, the flames quickly subsided, revealing an unobstructed view of the surface below. Although, the rocky terrain of Acadia 4’s surface was easily apparent from space; the distilled focus of its binary…

Joshua Hendy Iron Works was a large equipment manufacturer since the gold rush days. Among many other pieces of heavy machinery, Hendy manufactured the large water cannons and pumps that were used for hydraulic mining in the Sierras. After getting shaken out of San Francisco by the 1906 Earthquake, the company settled in Sunnyvale. The once thriving company of over a thousand employees was barely afloat by the middle of the Great Depression with about 60 people employed. That all changed…

Germans reacted too quickly, they sent troops and the “Italians surrendered [Rhodes] after light bombing.” It quickly became clear that the British operation would fail if they did not receive assistance from the Americans. They only needed “landing-craft for a single division, a few day’s assistance from the main Allied Air Force, and Rhodes would be [theirs].” The Americans however saw no value in diverting troops and resources to the Aegean. They pointed out that even if the Allies captured…

yelling and screaming. They were forming fists until Rachel, the other crew member, and I extricated them. NASA intervened as well, telling them that this issue had been settled before we even left Earth. They did not change their minds and we’re still landing manually unless something happens to our pilot Leo. I know, big surprise. This is what I mean about the psychological effects I mentioned earlier. Being in close quarters with the same few people can be dangerous. If the right group of…

I miss my utopia. My beautiful home built from memories and laughter. I miss the feel of my car, packed to the brim with sleeping bags and footlockers, bumping down the winding gravel road, the anticipation coiling tight in my stomach. The air, eternally smelling of petrichor, heavy with the combined excitement of 200 children piling their way into one space, inadvertently becoming connected, becoming a family for the time we spend together. I miss my paradise, my escape. I miss my home. I miss…

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, remains one of the most famous government funded programs in the world. This same agency put the first dozen people on the moon, brought the world together to build the International Space Station, and explored the outer reaches of the solar system. Today, the program does not hold the same respect as previous years. Combative politics plague NASA. It needs a new budget plan to end its uneconomical rocket program: the Space Launch…

before the disease killed them (Saunt, 1986). With the rapid death of many people, hierarchies began to collapse and be rebuilt. The first documented epidemic comes from the survivors of the expedition lead by Pánfilo de Narveáez in 1527. Soon after landing in Florida, most of the expedition team died from either disease or attacks from the Natives. The deaths included Pánfilo de Narveáez and there was only four survivors, one of which was Cabeza de Vaca (Saunt, 1986). Hernando de Soto began…