Future of Passenger Aircraft
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The future of passenger aircraft and their manufactures has an amazing outlook. Every year the brightest minds in aviation compile the greatest technological advances towards creating the safest and most economical aircraft on the planet. No detail is over looked, and the bottom dollar is the all controlling factor. From private aircraft to public aircraft, space exploration and beyond, the future is bright for the passenger aircraft market, and everyone who purchases air travel should be excited to see how industry unfolds.
Let's kick this off! For me, this topic hits home and in my pocket. My uncle, retired Coast Guard Captain Brian Murray, fly's for Emirates Airlines out of Dubai. Growing up with aviation in our family, I've seen and heard the best stories of flight, but it seems the best are yet to come. Every new dawn breeds a new idea of some component of flight that will lead to the best experiences offered in the passenger aircraft world.
Personally, that I have been flying regularly for the last ten years. From just a few years before I joined the Navy in 2005, our family started taking their first trips by aircraft. Living on the East Coast, we could always drive to a fairly close location that would involve summer family getaway's, so passenger airline travel was unnecessary for the larger part of 16 years of my life. In fact, I had never flown on a aircraft at all until the summer of 2003, just a few weeks after completing 10th grade. My first flight was on an Air Tran operated Boeing 737, and I will never forget that experience. I gripped the armrests as if I was controlling the aircraft for most of that leg between Richmond, Virginia and Atlanta, Georgia. Remembering the smell of the aircraft not b...
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...This Commentary Are Solely Those of Bastian Schaefer. "How Cool Is the Airplane of the Future?" CNN. Cable News Network, 24 Nov. 2013. Web. 05 Dec. 2013. .
Spence, Katie. "NASA's Supersonic Passenger Planes of the Future: Coming in 2025?" NASA's Supersonic Passenger Planes of the Future: Coming in 2025? N.p., 16 Nov. 2013. Web. 30 Nov. 2013. .
Chow, Denise. "Boeing Aims to Fly Passengers to Space on New Capsule." Space.com. Space.com, 15 Sept. 2010. Web. 03 Dec. 2013. .
"Virgin Galactic Space Tourism Could Begin in 2013." BBC News. BBC, 26 Oct. 2011. Web. 09 Dec. 2013. .
In this essay, the author
- Recalls their first flight on an air tran operated boeing 737 in 2003, when they were 6 feet tall and had enough room for momma and i's legs.
- Explains that private companies produce cutting-edge private jets that are utilized by the world's most elite and prominent figures.
- Explains that the future of passenger aircraft covers a broad spectrum for private, commercial, and even aerospace designs to provide the best aircraft for the consumers of the next generations.
- Explains that airbus is banking on a radical approach to the future based on their a380 platform for the foreseeable decade.
- Opines that the aerospace industry has a hold on the future of passenger airliners. nasa awarded northrop grumman, boeing, and lockheed martin contracts to dream up these future studs of the sky.
- Explains that companies like boeing and virgin galactic have invested research and development into the idea of commercial flights onboard space based transportation systems.
- Opines that the future is bright for passenger flight, with the super airliners of the not too distant future, radical thoughts of free thinking engineers, and excitement of future super sonic travel.
- Opines that every new dawn breeds a new idea of some component of flight that will lead to the best experiences offered in the passenger aircraft world.
- Explains how the new regulations have shaped the airline industry forever, bringing stiffer policies and longer processes for everyone involved.
- Analyzes how davies, alex, and spence, katie, are promoting nasa's supersonic passenger planes of the future.
- Opines that the opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of bastian schaefer.
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- Narrates how they applied for and received a reserve officer training corps (rotc) scholarship to michigan technological university. while attending college, they had the experience of becoming wing commander, and inspector general.
- Describes how they graduated from rotc as a distinguished graduate, which helped them get accepted into the air force institute of technology (afit).
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- Explains that the f-22 is the world's only 5th generation fighter, providing superior speed, maneuverability, battle-space awareness, and weapons delivery capabilities. the robust nature of its design allows it to be forward deployed to support combat operations anywhere on the globe.
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- Describes how orville and wilbur wright made history with the invention of the first effective airplane and changed the world of aviation.
- Explains that milton and susan katherine wright raised their five children in ohio and iowa. milton's ecclesiastical career caused the family to move around frequently.
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- Describes how wilbur realized the necessary elements to make his own glider, including wings for lift, power source for propulsion, and a main system controlling it.
- Describes how orville wright was the first man to fly in an airplane. they were issued a patent for their invention in 1905 and began manufacturing airplanes and engines.
- Explains that airplanes have come a long way since the makings of the wright brothers. in 1927, lindbergh flew across the atlantic ocean to paris in 39.5 hours.
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- Describes the benefits of safety v, such as better weather information in the cockpit and on controller displays.
- Explains that aviation communications systems will be upgraded, integrating systems into a seamless network using digital technology for voice and data. the faa will continue to support analog voice communications.
- Explains that nas will provide increased coverage in non-radar areas and includes aircraft-to-air capabilities for greater situation awareness. the architecture calls for gradual transition from current radar systems to digital radar and automatic dependent surveillance.
- Explains that the nas architecture contains improved ways to collect, process, transmit, and display weather information to users and providers, during flight planning and in flight.
- Explains that deregulation of the u.s. airline industry has resulted in ticket prices dropping by a third.
- Explains that the nas architecture is essential to the faa and the aviation community because it provides the most detailed guide ever for planning operations. the blueprint and version 4.0 will be updated in response to changing needs, research results, new technology, and funding
- Explains the transition to satellite-based navigation consists of using the global positioning system (gps) as a supplemental system for en route navigation and non-precision approaches.
- Explains that avionics will evolve to take advantage of new communications, navigation, and surveillance-related technologies in the nas architecture.
- Describes the free flight phase 1 select capability/limited deployment program, which gives controllers, planners and service operators complete information about air traffic control and flight operations.
- Argues that a not-for-profit user-controlled corporation is the best way to address the atc system's fundamental problems.
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In this essay, the author
- Describes the factors that contributed to the summary.
- Explains that the first airlines include the pan american, ford transport services and the western air express.
- Describes the objectives of the 1958 administration with the objective to manage and establish safety operation.
- Narrates how he became the chairman of the civil aeronautics board.
- Explains that air traffic controller's strike in 1981 increased the number of aircraft in the air.
- Explains that some of the air travel had conquered the skies during this period had to collapse.
- Narrates how the other surviving airlines galloped out the recession in the 1990s and gulf war.
- Explains the constant fare cost that could not be expensive to passengers and cheap to airline carriers.
- Explains that air travel has been a crucial means of transport for people and goods since 1903, but there have been significant uprisings in the way.
- Explains that millions of people have been able to earn from the business and shaping their way of living.
- Explains that after the trade unions that linked many parts of the world together, there was a need to transport goods and services from one place to the other.
- Opines that air travel evolved marking its new regime, and it is imperative to look at the scopes that it underwent till today to improve its services.
- Explains that in the early 20th century, airlines were few, but flying in a plane was risky endeavour as many could lose live. people's perception to resist changes and the associated risks was the situation at hand till 1925.
- Explains that the air business act was mainly used for mailing purposes at the very beginning.
- Explains the need for aeronautics board to settle issues that hindered air travels, such as establishing airline routes and regulating passenger’s fares.
- Explains that it was established that passengers were many in other routes as opposed to others. the act could allow other airlines to begin.
- Explains that massive acts led to establishment of deregulation act of 1978 that ushered an era of imaginative of free.
- Explains that the post-deregulation period was marked as the period of the new carriers rushing into the market of airline business. this meant extra routes were established to enhance air travel.
- Explains that declining customers led to higher operating costs, which resulted in losses that continued over the years. the industry did not resume its state until 2006.
- Explains that the us department of transport came up with rules to be followed as far as airlines were concerned. this provided modifications that looked into problems raised by passengers.
- Describes the new era of air travel as it was now safe and passengers were assured of reaching their destination.
- Explains the need to improve the us air travel industry as many people were eager to use these services.
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In this essay, the author
- Explains that warm clothing was essential for flight, especially with open cockpits.
- Explains that scarfs were warned not for the ability to make any man look dashing, but for withstand the wind.
- Explains that flyers in fleets did not prefer to wear goggles or scarfs because they felt they were more alert.
- Explains that after world war i, planes were tested and used as observers.
- Explains that pilots would even wave to one another. once a machine was placed on an airplane were planes.
- Explains that twenty years later, the world was involved in an even larger, more intense war.
- Narrates how wilbur and orville wright were about to make history on december 17, 1903. the invention of the airplane changed the world.
- Narrates how wilbur and orville's interest in flight was sparked by a toy rubber band helicopter their father gave them.
- Describes the invention of the wright brothers plane, which gave the world the features of flying with control.
- Explains that wilbur and orville found that the invention was not as popular in america as in europe. they moved to europe where they did flight.
- Explains that by 1913 planes could reach over 120 miles per hour, but it wasn't until 1919 when airplanes finally exceeded the fastest birds.
- Explains that when a plane engaged in combat it was known as dogfights hundreds of men lost their lives in these fights.
- Explains that the red baron shot down 80 ally planes a wwi high, but even as good of flier was he.
- Explains that eddie rickenbaker shot down 26 germans with the trademark red fokker triplane.
- Explains that planes played a less important role during the war in vietnam. the war was fought mainly in tactical gorilla warfare.
- Narrates how the north vietnamese negotiated to end the war until two massive bombing raids were dropped on the capitol.
- Compares the f-117 and the sr-71, stating that planes today have made leaps and bounds compared to the old ones.
- Explains that the boeing 737 weighs in at one hundred fifty thousand pounds and allows people to fly from long areas instead of driving or riding in a train.
- Opines that airplanes have changed the world in so many good ways that can't be expressed in words. the worst is remembered the best like 9/11 or the planes that go down with passengers aboard.
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