Essays on Aeronautics

Introduction

A country’s economic and security prosperity highly relies on the aviation system that is operating efficiently. The existence of weak security poses a threat to aircraft safety and those that are boarding it. The hostile nation-states, criminals and terrorists have been viewing the aviation sector as a target for exploitation and attack. Successful airport attacks inflict grave economic damage, mass casualties and negatively affect the airline transportation system. The air transport sector should adopt appropriate ways of managing different incidents and threats. Intelligence and Threat Assessment play a significant role in mitigating numerous risks in the aviation industry. ...

1.) CLIMATE CHANGE I. Notes on the Situation According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) climate change refers to changes in the Earth’s climate that have occurred over the course of its existence. Change to the climate occur as a result of “very small variations in the Earth’s orbit that change the amount of solar energy” that reach the surface (NASA). A slight change in that energy can, for instance, result in the beginning or end of a period of extreme temperatures such as the ice age. Over the last three hundred years, and especially ...

Literature Review

Abstract Innovations and modifications that produce cost reductions and enhance performance have driven the evolution of the classic solid rocket and the liquid bipropellant rocket into hybrid models that integrate the predominant solid and liquid model features into more sensical, more economical fabrications of design. The commercial spacecraft demands for aerospace propulsion have also evolved to include a market for environmentally sustainable hybrid rocket engines that has yet to fully mature to the Technology Readiness Level (TRL). Numerical modeling has been used as a tool to test the feasibility of new solid fuel types. ABS has been considered as ...

Introduction

Apollo 11 made history as the first space craft to land at the moon with human beings on board. The astronauts on board included Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin who had fulfilled President John F. Kennedy’s national goal of pioneering a human mission to the moon. The mission of Apollo 11 included a scientific exploration of the lunar module. In this mission, the astronauts were required to deploy a television camera that could send signals from the moon to the earth. Other instruments that were installed on the moon include solar wind composition experiment, and Laser Ranging Retroreflector. ...

Neil Armstrong

Neil Armstrong created history when he became “the first man to walk on the moon” ("Biography of Neil Armstrong") in 1969. In 1961, Yuri Gagarin, a Russian, became the first man to orbit the earth in 1961, “giving the Soviet Union a big victory in its Cold War space race against the United States” ("Neil Armstrong: First Man on the Moon"). Following this, President Kennedy promised the nation, that “before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth” ("Neil Armstrong: First Man on the Moon"). Thus, Neil Armstrong’s ...

Threat not addressed

Weakness Opportunity not taken V. Strategy Formulation (Chapters 4-9)

Strategic alternatives

Alternative evaluation Alternative choice VI. Strategic Alternative Implementation (Chapters 10 - 13)

Action items

Action plan Exhibits Presentation Slides Introduction Strategic Profile & Case Analysis Brandi Barnes Upon analyzing of Lockheed Martin’s historical strategic direction it is important to take notice of a few key facts. These facts or assumptions can easily lead to the series of analyses and scenarios depicted. The assumption for Lockheed Martin’s differentiation strategy and primary product choice comes from events during WWI when the U.S. government began focusing on acquiring military aircraft, which boosted industrial growth. ...

Aircraft control surfaces are components of an aircraft used to control an aircraft. Normally, the control surfaces are movable parts in the plane wings and the tail. The surfaces help the pilot adjust attitude or plane orientation by creating differential pressure on different parts of the aircraft. The difference is pressure produces a force which then acts on the plane to produce the desired effect. Control surfaces employ the principle of lift just like the wings but in different directions. The lift forces produced by a control surface can act independently or in combination with a force from another ...

Infrared Cameras

Introduction An infrared camera is a non-contact device that detects infrared energy and converts it into a visible light display. The infrared energy is first translated into electrical impulses that are then converted into data for camera display. The image or video formed on the screen is of different colors depending on the intensity of the infrared emission. Most cameras have built-in visible light digital cameras that allow merging of infrared and visual images. There are two different types of infrared cameras; cooled cameras and uncooled cameras. The cooled infrared cameras produce superior image qualities than uncooled cameras but ...

Introduction

Project management applies techniques, knowledge, skills and expertise as well as experience to a strategic activity in an organization as shown by Bolles and Hubbard (2007). Notably, a project is a unique venture in an organization undertaken to meet its goals such as new products, venturing into new markets or cutting the product costs. Expected, in the new and unique projects, the experience is insufficient or lacking for a disciplined implementation. In other cases, the project takes up a lot of resources and staff due to its size. As such, to meet the scope and requirement while meeting the ...

Chapter five of the textbook addresses the origin of regulatory and administrative agencies (both state and federal), specific to the aviation industry in the United States, and the roles of those agencies. It also addresses how the agencies deal with a complaint or problem, and the litigation process when such predicaments arise. Three main agencies involved in the aviation industry are the Department of Transportation (DOT), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). The DOT was created and made law by President Lyndon Johnson in 1966. Its purpose was to ensure safe and secure ...

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Introduction: The importance of the topic. Purpose, method and scope of the paper. A detailed outline of the topics to be covered in the final paper is described below:

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Chapter 1: Introduction Section 1.1: Background: Facts about Mars and about earlier missions.

Section 1.2: Goals and Objectives: Statement of goals and objectives

Chapter 2 : Mission Overview Section 2.1: Land site selection and Gale Crater: Criteria of selection and geological characteristics of gale Crater and Mount Sharp. Section 2.2: Technical Details: Details of science payload, spacecraft, rover, communication system, and rocket. Section 2.3: Mission Timeline: Shows the timeline of events from prelaunch.

Chapter 3 : Mission Detail

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The Airline Deregulation Act is a United States federal law which was enacted in 1978 to remove the control the government had over fare, the routes and entry of new airlines. This left the passenger airlines exposed to the forces of the market in the airline industry. The Civil Aeronautics Board which was responsible for controlling entry, exit, the pricing of the airline services and addressing the consumer issues was phased out. This meant that the passenger airlines were only limited to competing only for food, the quality of the cabin crew and the frequency available. This caused a ...

The Federal Aviation Act of 1958 (hereafter referred to as “the Act”) was enacted mainly to make provision for promotion and regulation of aviation in the interest of safety and development (Federal Aviation Act, 1958). It was passed in response to what was felt to be inadequate regulation. There had been calls for comprehensive legislative reform but Congress was not convinced about the necessity for such reforms. A series of accidents laid bare the inadequacies of the existing regulation. The public outcry that followed these accidents forced Congress to react by passing the Act. Flying in the 1920s, when ...

The focus on this paper mainly highlights on the field of ethics and moral values in the society we live in. The paper will draw from different incidences in the history of humanity that led to calamities that would have otherwise been avoided through discipline and active carefulness by individuals involved in the incidences. The administration of any organization should always be held responsible for any shortcomings or disasters that occur at the work place due to negligence or assumption. It is their sole responsibility to cover their working staff y properly insuring and assuring their lives.

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The glider designs of George Cayley and Otto Lilienthal were a far cry from the technological sophistication of space flight, and 19th-century designs established basic principles still present in the design of the space shuttle. Mechanization, which started with the Wright brothers, powered flight, giving substance to the age-old human dream of manned flight. War and the onset of commercial flight produced massive improvements in aeronautical design and logistical advances. In the modern era, the very concept of flight has taken mankind into space and inspired plans for manned space travel.

The Arc of Progress: Flight and the Evolution of Aeronautical Technology

In 1810, British inventor George Cayley published a paper that ...

Risk Response

Risk One The company runs the risk of delays in production resulting from the absence of Julie. Julie is scheduled to take her vacation for one week during the third month of production. Roto air can respond to this risk by getting a temporary replacement for the one week when Julie is going to be absent on vacation. The replacement can be sourced within the organization depending on how busy the other employees are or from without the organization. In this way, Roto Air will prevent the delays in work that would result from the absence of Julie. It ...

Rockets and newton’s laws of motion

Rockets and newton’s laws of motion

Introduction.

The movement of a rocket from the surface of the Earth to an arrival on the Moon can be clarified and depicted by physical principals found more than three hundred years back by Sir Isaac Newton. He worked in numerous regions of math and material science. He added to the speculations of attractive energy in 1666, when he was just twenty three years of age (Loeschnig & Zweifel, 1999). Newton's first law expresses that each item stays very still or in uniform movement in a straight line unless constrained to change its state by the ...

Introduction: Aviation plays a vital role for the economy of a nation, the industry provides millions of job opportunities, and it facilitates economic growth of an entire country through safe and efficient transportation of people and goods. After the World War II, rapid growth in air commerce, improvement in aviation technology, and unprecedented increase in the demand of air travel caused the aviation industry to reach an unexpected level of complexity, and consequently the ascending demand raised the unanimous concern about aviation safety issues. Today, air transport has become a part of America`s way of life. In the United ...

Man has long desired to conquer the skies due to his incapacity to take flight like birds and reach unimaginable speeds possible while in flight. This desire had led man to creating machines that mimicked flight, leading to the development of aviation and air transportation. With human flight now made possible through aviation, the desire to reach the speed that exceeds the speed of sound had fueled research even further to understand how it could be attained through aircrafts, automobiles and artillery. For years, several attempts have been done to reach this speed of sound or break the so-called “ ...

Discussing the Apollo 11 Moon-landing in 1969

INTRODUCTION Neil Armstrong once said, “That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” (qtd in National Aeronautics and Space Administration 1). There are many events throughout history, both positive and negative, that are remarked as significant and most impactful, which has changed the perspectives on humanity and what they are capable of. The 1969 mission and moon-landing of the manned Apollo 11 shuttle is one of these events. People all across the county and around the world were in awe of the idea that human beings could leave this planet and visit another celestial body ...

(Author Name) (Institute) - Briefly summarize the history of Air Traffic Control / NAS. Include an explanation of some key players and events. (1-2 pages) The evolution of Air Traffic Control began with the Post Office scheduling regular flights in 1918. The commercial air industry encouraged and supported the Air Commerce Act of 1926, which lent Federal support to the aviation industry. Subsequent to the act, which charged the Secretary of Commerce with key tasks such as fostering air commerce, issuing and enforcing air traffic rules, licensing pilots, certificating aircraft, establishing airways, and operating and maintaining ...

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In Stephen Gardiner’s work A Perfect Moral Storm (2011), there are several critical elements that hinder society from being ethical in our conduct related to climate change, as well as theoretical aspects that combine spatial, theoretical and generational factors that expose people to “moral corruption.” Gardiner explains that the main conflict with regards to climate change is a failure to recognize the ethical dimensions of the issue of climate change (Vladimirova, 2013, par. 1). Many climate analysts are in accord that the main cause of the prevailing global warming movement is the widening and expansion of human ...

Lander Project: Life on Jupiter’s Europa Moon

Water is life, and scientific research has long proven this fact. Water is the most important substance that living things need in order to survive. So far, scientists have been excited to find the possibility of life on some of the planetary moons. They have used the fact that evidence of the existence of life-supporting elements such as water and oxygen to other parts of the solar system has been presented through previous research to end up with this possibility. There could be alien life on Jupiter as shown by promising discoveries so far. The problem is that ...

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Abstract The focal purpose of the Voyager Interstellar Mission has been to broaden the NASA exploration of the solar system further than the quarter of the outer planets and extend to the limits of the sphere of influence on the sun and even beyond. This expansive mission has been continued to characterize the environment of the outer solar system and has also assisted in search for heliopause boundary i.e. the outward flow of solar wind and the outer limits of solar magnetic field. Heliopause boundary penetration between the interstellar medium and the solar wind allows in measuring interstellar ...

Introduction

Human beings started the space missions in mid 20th century as they sought to understand what makes up the earth and other parts of the solar system. The space missions have been mostly concerned with the exploration of the space components and their environs. This has helped astronomers as they seek out to know what the solar system is composed of together with what they can do to these processes. The first space exploration to be analyzed is the Mercury which took place from the 20th February 1962. Several astronauts used the Atlas rocket to make orbits around ...

“The weather seems unusual these days here in Hong Kong, and there is a 3 degree increase in the temperature as compared to the temperature in the same period a few years ago. I can feel how hot this autumn wind is blowing on my face It is too hot for me to go outdoors; I rather stay at home with my air-conditioner. I wonder what would happen if one day the land is not covered with ice and snow anymore in Christmas. Can you imagine how terrible it is? Would it still be Christmas?” This is what I wrote about ...

Technology has been in the brink of advancement in different aspects. Technology can be considered as all the practical knowledge and skills that have been accumulated over the past by human in the attempt to make life and world a better place while also improving the environments in which human beings and other organisms live. Human beings have frequently attempted to enhance the life and their productivity based on the skills they have acquired over the years to make them more productive and enable them improve them skills that have been constructed over the years among different people. The ...

The 1960s decade is known by its huge amount of new inventions. A lot of them belong to the space racing. Period when the US and USSR were competing by taking control over the space. Many different spacecraft companies which were specialized in launching and rocket engineering started forming mostly when the second World War has started and after it. The main reason was a need of producing new weapons like for example rocket-powered guns. The war brought a lot of new technical inventions that caused the increasing number of aircraft companies. After the Second World War, the Defense Department started a ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Prior to the first space missions that enabled the world to see beyond the planet, the public had many misconceptions over what is out there in the universe. There were a few mentions of space people that are bent in destroying mankind or even technologies that could only be seen in the future. Some also speculated that there is a different kind of world out there that is waiting to be discovered, and there were also a few who believed that once man sees the world outside Earth, a lot of unanswered questions would be brought to light such as the beginning of ...

Airline Deregulation Act of 1978

In the field of aviation and transport, airline regulations had been a cause for debate considering the nature of its policies and restrictions. In the past, airlines were seen as regulated utilities, putting them in harsh conditions that prevents them from practicing flexible competition and providing service that would not hamper their service to their clients. Requests for reform and approval were either rejected or refuted by advisory boards that would stop all reform, believing it would be detrimental to the industry. The United States aviation sector had longed felt this sentiment from the 1930s up to the late 1970s ...

Introduction

Public relation of NASA has effectively expressed a posture indicating that the agency has actually learn more in the overview that seeks to highlight how the management of the crises in the public domain means. The two great tragedies including the space shuttle in Columbia, that have happened and the agency got engaged in the rescue program, brings out the issue that helps explain how the approaches to the crisis should be handled. The first lesson learnt is the importance of safety. This is a reflection from the tragedy in which the space shuttle called “the challenger” crashed killing the ...

NEXTGEN is the appellation of a newly introduced National Airspace System that is due to implemented in the United States between the years of 2012 to the year 2025. The Federal Aviation Administration is responsible for the implementation and administering g of this service. The main reason for the introduction of NextGen is that it would aid the decongestion of the American Airspace via use of improved GPS technology satellites to aid in the shortening of travel routes. It is responsible for the replacement of the National Airspace system due to the transformation in the name, that is to ...

Dear Sir/ Madam,

Personal Statement As part of my application for scholarship at your esteemed institution, I would hereby like to furnish my personal statement. I am 28 years of age, am married and have two precious children. I have had a lifelong passion towards aeronautics and aviation at large. As such, I have chosen to pursue my education in this field and eventually build a successful and meaningful career in the same. Setting of tangible and achievable short term and long term goals is vital for the fulfillment of one’s dreams. As such, I have identified a string of milestones that I ...

Fluid mechanics is one of the major disciplines of physics applied in the design of airplane wings. Out of the many things considered is the relationship between angle of attack, airspeed, and lift. The angle of attack is measured in degrees between the chord and the direction of flight. Lift is an artificial force generated by the wings and can be manipulated by a pilot. Lift has varying characteristics during different times of the flight for instance during a level cruise it equals weight, its greater than weight during a climb and during descent its less than weight.

The parameters under consideration ...

In aeronautics, the static stability of an aircraft is highly dependent on the neutral point and the center of gravity of the craft. The general concept of moments is applied since the tippling off of the craft usually applies the principle of moments (free-online-private-pilot-ground-school.com). The center of gravity has the greatest effect on the flight of any aircraft including missiles. The main aspect to consider in any case is the distance between the neutral point of aircraft and its neutral point and the distance between the missile centre of gravity and its neutral pressure point (free-online-private-pilot-ground-school.com). This shows ...

The Historical Causes of the US Lunar Projects

The United States and the Soviet Unions at this period in history were the world Super Powers. The two countries were engaged in the Cold War trying to dominate each other. There were three events that occurred that caused the United States to launch into lunar projects. In the year 157, the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik 1 which was the first artificial satellite in the outer space. The launch of the satellite caused quite uproar in the United States as it felt that the Soviet Union was advancing in technology at a higher speed (Spudis, 2010). The event was ...

Every commercial aircraft is fundamentally designed for safety, passenger acceptance, fuel efficiency and airport compatibility among other important features. Numerous challenges face all current passenger aircrafts, for instance the conventional wing consists of a number of moving parts which increase the weight of the plane and are difficult to adjust and maintain. The current control surfaces also increase turbulence and drag since the smooth flow of air is disrupted, and the aircraft cannot adapt to different flight stages and conditions. Design architectures such as the vertical and horizontal stabilizer surfaces increase the overall drag of the plane, for example, the ...