...by our ancestors who . . . looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space . . . on the infinite highway of the air´´ (Wright n.p.). The unexplainable human desire to fly like birds is rooted from ancient myths to what is now the development of the international space station. The desire of flight is been there since ancient history but the reality of human powered flight, the aerospace industry, was just born in 1903; almost 400 years had to pass before the idea became reality (NASA n.p.). Since the flight of the first airplane in 1903, the aerospace industry has had an impressive advancement that is now affecting our lives substantially; aircraft and spacecraft is being used for mail delivery, research, security, army purposes, transportation, commerce, mail delivery and many other purposes. It is certainly surprising the progress that has been achieved in the aerospace field since 1903. What is the secret of such amazing progress? How could the aerospace industry start modestly and then turn into a multibillion global industry? The drastic evolution of the aerospace industry is accredited to past engineering achievements and the impact of the interests of society. The first real studies of flight were made in the 1480s by the famous Florentine Italian renaissance polymath, Leonardo Da Vinci. Da Vinci is responsible for the engineering advancements that served as the foundation of the aerospace industry. Inspired by the flight of birds, Da Vinci illustrated his imagination...
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...Extended Writing Project By Kyler Brennan Melba Beals, Feng Ru, Jackie Robinson are the people I will be writing about. I chose these people because they changed their country. Feng Ru changed his country by going to California and building airplanes after he figured out how to build them he brought them to China. That's why China has airplanes. Jackie Robinson was the first black person to play baseball in the major leagues. That's why today there is black people playing baseball. Melba Beals was one of nine black people to go to a white persons high school. These are really important people. Jackie Robinson is the first black baseball player to baseball with white people. Mr. Rickey was the person who brought Jackie from the black leagues...
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...William Boeing From a family of an owner of a lumber mill, William Boeing is a person who changed the world. After having a ride on a rickety airplane in Seattle in 1915, William Boeing became fascinated with an aviation. Once he remarked - “[people] will someday regard airplane travel to be as commonplace and incidental as train travel...” And he was right. In the 21st century our life is impossible without planes - they let us travel between the cities, countries and even continents. Such mobility let people work faster, improve their businesses and make connections all around the world. However, one may ask, how William Boeing invented the plane and how he became one of the most famous entrepreneurs in the world. Well, today we have an answer. Firstly, William Boeing born in a very right time and in a very right place. When he was in his middle 20s, Wright Brothers made their first flight and people all around the globe became to be passioned about the planes. Of course, it influenced on Boeing’s life and William “surrounded himself with other man who also was passioned about the planes - Conrad Westervalt.” Conrad was an U.S. Navy engineer who created the company ‘Pacific Aero Products Co.’ together with William Boeing in 1916. However, the same year, the former, left the company and the next year William changed the name of the company to the ‘Boeing Airplane Company’. After that, William Boeing became famous for what we know for him know. His first plane called...
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...operational goal has changed little, but the way they carry out those operational goals has changed in numerous ways designed to make the Marine Corps a more effective fighting force. It can be argued that the largest innovation in the way that the Marine Corps wages w ar is the development of Marine Corps aviation....
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...Airplane is an invention of mankind that let the people to make the dream of flying come true. From ancient times people were dreaming of flying like the birds. In different periods of time, inventors were trying to achieve how to make it happen by the different means. The first draft of the flying machine was created by Leonardo da Vinci in 15th century, but in 1903 the first real flight was achieved by Wright Brothers. The dream of mankind was finally achieved to fly as a bird. In first years of the twentieth century, airplane industry was developing very quickly. Different countries started to engineer their own planes. Airplane industry was divided into two directions: it became civil, and defensive. In process of two world wars aviation was playing a big role. In 50’s of the last century aviation had changed dramatically. Airplanes started to fly hypersonic speed. There have been invented civil aircrafts and military fighters. Aviation was generating a huge profit. New corporation were founded, such as Boeing, Airbus, European Space Corporation, and Russian soviet State Aircraft Industry. Civil aviation made it possible for people to travel faster and plan long distance voyages all around the world. Air cargo carriage has increased quantities of the products that have been moved and decreased the time of the process, in result economies of the different countries have experienced an unseen before development, and increased an employment all around the world...
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...Hays | How the development of Aviation shaped our early twentieth Century Military | On 17 December 1903, just outside of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright made a major impact on history when they successfully launched the first motorized airplane; not only on our society as a whole but also the United States military and the way wars would be fought forever. Because of this one specific day in history the Wright brothers are accredited for the first of countless days in our history that we contribute what we know today as aviation. On that one day, the brothers sustained a total of four flights with only a small twelve horse power engine with the longest flight lasting a mere fifty-nine seconds at a distance of 852 feet. On the fourth flight of the day, Flyer 1 tumbled and crashed. Obviously not all was lost, history was made and inventions in the aviation industry began to grow. The historical first flight by Orville and Wilbert Wright did not make the front page news; it was very trivial headlines at the time. For instance, page ten of the Washington Times article dated 19 December 1903 in column four, High Gale No Bar to Flying Machine. The article described the flying machine and how the brothers got off the ground. The New York Tribune 19 December 1903 also had a small article but not until page five; Flying Machine Works Successful Trial by Ohio Men with Machine on Box Kite Plan. By 1909 The Wright brothers had set up an Airplane factory...
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...The Wright Brothers Invent the Airplane About one hundred years ago the planet earth was a much smaller place. On December 17, 1903 the Wright brothers, Wilbur and Orville, made history when they took off in flight and invented the first airplane. This is how the planet earth began shrinking geographically making it easier and quicker to travel over long distances. Wilbur was the older of the two brothers by four years. Wilbur was born in 1867 on a farm near Millville, Indiana and Orville was born in 1871 near Dayton, Indiana. As youngsters, Wilbur and Orville looked to their mother for mechanical expertise and their father for intellectual challenge. Milton, their father, brought them various souvenirs and trinkets he found during his travels for the church. One such trinket, a toy helicopter-like top, sparked the boys' interest in flying. In school, Wilbur excelled, and would have graduated from high school if his family had not moved during his senior year. A skating accident and his mother's illness and subsequent death kept him from attending college. Orville was an average student, known for his mischievous behavior. He quit school before his senior year to start a printing business. The two brothers were very intellectual and smart, but both did not ever get their high school diplomas. It just goes to show that even two of the best minds in our history didn’t have to go to college or even finish high school to become these great minds. The first time Wilbur and...
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...pointlessly because military leaders were too slow to adapt their old fashioned strategies and tactics, to the new weapons of World War One. Out of all the new weapons in World War One. Three of the most fatal were poison gas, aircrafts, and tanks. Poison gas was created by chemist Fritz Haber. This can be seen in the following quote. “During the war Haber threw his energies and those of his institute into further support for the German side. He developed a new weapon—poison gas, the first example of which was chlorine gas”...
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... 9 6 background 10 6.1 Why they attacked 10 6.1.2 A list of attacks aiming at the USA 10 6.2 Why they attacked the World Trade Center 11 7 My conclusions and results 13 8 Appendix 14 A list of pictures of the occurences on CD 9 Bibliography 15 9.1 Quotes 15 1 Introduction It was September, 11th 2001, and I was preparing myself for lunch, when the telephone rang. It was one of my friends. He wanted me to switch on the TV, so I asked him which channel he meant and he just said “It makes no difference, just switch it on! You can see it on every channel . It’s unbelievable!“, and then he rang off. I switched on the TV and got to see those horrible pictures on every channel(p.40). One tower of the World Trade Center in New York was in flames. Before I could realize what was happening I got to see a shocking picture...
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...Supply and Demand Simulation “Supply and demand is perhaps one of the most fundamental concepts of economics and it is the backbone of a market economy.” (Heakal, 2015). Businesses today need to pay close attention to the market and the supply and demand curves to stay ahead of their competition. By watching the prices of goods and services a business can attain profits and know how to lay out their business goals. The simulation of the Good Life Management Company is a property management firm that has seven apartment complexes in the city of Atlantis. Atlantis is a well maintained city that has the picture perfect area similar to Mayberry. It has nice parks, living areas, and low crime rates. The Good Life Management Company is the only property management firm in Atlantis and has over 2,000 two-bedroom apartments and a 28% vacancy rate. They use the supply and demand curve to determine the equilibrium in the market and continue to watch the movement as the curves shift and move. Some of the microeconomic principles that the simulation showed, included supply and demand. To maximize revenue for the Good Life management company the plan was to decrease the rent amount in order to lower the percentage of vacancy to 15%. A different company arrived in town called Lintech which increased population and jobs. This in turn, made the demand for housing rise and less vacancy as well as more lease renewals. Some of the macroeconomics involved with the simulation was the...
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...Contemporary World Issues Biography Paper Boaz 3B By: Jerome Bircumshaw Even to this day some people believe women are not capable of achieving what the male can do. However one women in 1928 changed the image of the face of women forever. Soon to be an American aviator, Amelia Earhart was born on July 24, 1897, in Atchison, Kansas. She was the daughter of a successful railroad attorney. Because of her father’s occupation, Amelia spent her childhood growing up in many different towns. Her fascination for adventure and thrill seeking started off at a young age where Amelia and her big sister Muriel decided one day that they wanted to make a plane. There was a lack in material, so they decided to make a rollercoaster instead. Even though neither one of the girls knew how to make a roller coaster, they got some wood from an old wooden fence they tore down. First, they made the “car” by placing the bottoms of roller skates under a big piece of wood and the rest of the wood was used to make a slide that went from the top of a woodshed to the ground. With Amelia and her bravery, she went first and rolled quickly down the unstable slide. The “car” hit the ground and Amelia bounced into the air and turned into a somersault, luckily escaping injury. Years after the family moved to Des Moines, Iowa where they attended a state fair. That is when Amelia got to see her first airplane which did not impress Amelia. The airplane was made of wood...
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...farmhouses that are embraced by a river on their front. At the rear of my village as well as my house, there are an immense number of rice fields spreading thoroughly to the horizon. These rice fields are believed to be the places where our village’s farmers work at. Seasonally, when it is time for harvest, the rice fields carpet turn into yellowish. Also, flying nest builders work hard to build their temporary homes by combinations of leaves and branches. Day after day, everything keeps going on at my homeland, but I decided to leave from that dreamy village to America which is considered as the “Land of Hope” in mind imagination when I got the interview letter, and I was prepared for new journey. Being the first time to travel by airplane, it is the most adventurous experience have I ever had. I could hear the engines start humming like hundreds of tigers roaring in their...
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...The History of Aircraft design By: David Roberts Imagine yourself at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The year is 1903. You and your brother our about to make the first powered flight in history. The wind was right and you recorded a 59 second flight over a distance of 852 feet. You have just made history, in successfully flying the first powered aircraft. This is probably how the Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur Wright felt that day. They successfully flew an airplane with a 75 horse power engine. I will be talking on how aircraft design and power plants have evolved since 1903. From the Wright brothers era, the golden age, to the jet era, to what we use today. It going to be an accelerating time so let's get started with the Wright Brothers. The Wright Brothers were known as the first people to achieve the first powered heavier than air flight. This was a huge accomplishment, but believe it or not, they were not the first to fly. According to Aviation 1890-1939 The Pioneering Years, "the Montgolfier Brothers were even earlier pioneers when they took to the sky in a hot air balloon over Paris in 1783. In 1853, in Yorkshire, England, an employee of Sir George Cayley, flew across a valley in the first, heavier than air glider (http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/kenanderson/aviation/index.html)." These early pioneers helped pave the way for the Wright Brothers. The Wright Brothers started off as bike builders, and it wasn't till December of 1900, that the Wright Brothers...
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...tragedies occurred. In this tragedy, around three thousand people were killed, with a total of six thousand injured. On this day four planes were hijacked; two of them hit the Twin towers in New York city, one hit the Pentagon in Arlington Virginia just outside Washington D.C., and a fourth one crashed in Pennsylvania, the intended destination of that plane is unknown. What happened on this day completely changed the world forever.(September11.archive.org.)The people who have been said to be responsible was a terrorist group called Al-Qaeda. The United States citizens have been told to believe that there were 19 hijackers from Al-Qaeda who hijacked four United States commercial jets, and purposefully crashed them into The Twin Towers, and The Pentagon. After the attack happened, the United States responded with launching “The War on Terror” and invaded Afghanistan to eliminate the Al-Qaeda. The leader in charge of the attack was Osama Bin Ladin. This war is still going on to this day, and we still have not found Osama Bin Ladin. ("Formal Analysis, September 11 2001.")The world, specifically the United states, believe that this planned attack was unknown to the United States government.. Many conspirators believe that the government knew about the plans to attack The Twin Towers and The Pentagon, and still allowed it to happen. The main proof that people point at to this theory is that there was what looked like to be insider trading. On the Thursday before September 11, 2001, over...
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...and global products • Almost 5,000 daily flights with a current mainline fleet of 700+ aircraft • Current stock price $10.99/share with a market cap of 9.23B Singapore Airlines • • • • • Operates a fleet of over 100 airplanes 22,000+ employees Fly the most modern fleet and are the world’s largest operator of Boeing 747s Company has been profitable every year since 1948 Current share price $10.86 with a market cap of 12.98B Case Overview • • Delta and Singapore Airlines use base their depreciation methods on very different assumptions Entire airline industry struggling in the 1990s • • • • Competition from low cost carriers such as Southwest Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait and the corresponding oil crisis American recession From 1990-1993 the airline industry loses 12.8B and Delta is particularly hard hit. Singapore takes a hit as well but still manages to make 1.6B during the downturn Case Overview • • • • The average age of Delta’s aircraft was 8.8yrs at this time (low compared to its US competitors) while Sing air was operating the youngest fleet in the world 5.1yrs In 1993 Delta has approx. 412m more in total assets than Sing Air Delta is the 3rd largest carrier in the world and Singapore is the 7th * In 1993 Delta significantly changes its assumptions underlying its depreciation method. Sing Air does not modify their depreciation method Delta Specific Info Owns 296 planes and leases 268...
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