Influence on the Airplane Industry My Grandfather Jim Daues’s earliest memories of airplanes go all the way back to elementary school. His first experiences with airplanes were making and flying model airplanes. After elementary school he went on to Saint Mary’s High School, an all boys, Catholic school in Saint Louis, Missouri. Recently, he had his 61st reunion; his classmates remembered him specifically for his models. Flying these models was his main hobby. After high school he went to Park’s College, now part of Saint Louis University, and got a degree in aerodynamics. After school, he went to work at Mcdonnell Douglas in 1957 then his career took off. He worked on many different types of airplanes throughout his career and helped encourage the use of Computer Aided Design. Jim had a very long career in the airplane industry. Throughout the 35 years that he worked for …show more content…
They were able to make the program function in three dimensions. This made it so the engineers would be able to design the final product in three dimensions. This was a major change in the entire design process. Before this engineers had to design everything in two dimensional drawings. Now they could do everything three dimensionally. This was supposed to make their jobs easier than in the past, but “Engineers, they don’t like change”(Daues). The engineers had been doing their jobs for years in two dimensions, and had been just fine. To them there was no reason to change the system, because if “it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” If engineers were going to use this system, they would not only have to change the way they designed, but also change the way they think. Jim’s job was to convince them to change, “The hardest job I had was to teach engineers...and train them to think in three dimensions”(Daues). It took multiple years to finally convince most engineers to go along with the new way of
Lindbergh’s passion for mechanics didn’t come as a surprise to many. As a young boy, Charles seemed to be very interested in the family’s motorized vehicles, such as the Saxon Six automobile and Excelsior motorbike. But after starting college in the fall of 1920 as a mechanical engineer, his love for aviation started to bloom. Deciding that the field of aviation was more exciting, he dropped out within 2 years. He then decided to take lessons at the Nebraska Aircraft Corporation’s flying school and was up in the air for the first time on April 9, 1922 when he was in a two seat biplane as a passenger. But his solo flight would not be until May 1923 at the Souther Field in Americus, Georgia, an old flight training field where Lindbergh came to buy a World War I Curtiss JN-4 “Jenny” biplane. It only took half an hour to practice with another pilot at the field to decide that Lindbergh was ready to fly the plane himself. After a week of practicing, Lindbergh took off on his biplane on his first solo cross country flight and few weeks after that, achieving his first nighttime flight near Arkansas, both marking huge milestones for the young pilot.
The history of flying dates back as early as the fifteenth century. A Renaissance man named Leonardo da Vinci introduced a flying machine known as the ornithopter. Da Vinci proposed the idea of a machine that had bird like flying capabilities. Today no ornithopters exist due to the restrictions of humans, and that the ornithopters just aren’t practical. During the eighteenth century a philosopher named Sir George Cayley had practical ideas of modern aircraft. Cayley never really designed any workable aircraft, but had many incredible ideas such as lift, thrust, and rigid wings to provide for lift. In the late nineteenth century the progress of aircraft picks up. Several designers such as Henson and Langley, both paved the way for the early 1900’s aircraft design. Two of the most important people in history of flight were the Wright Brothers. The Wright Brothers were given the nickname the “fathers of the heavier than air flying machine” for their numerous flights at their estate in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Orville and Wilbur Wright created a motor-powered biplane in which they established incredible feats of the time. The Wright Brothers perfected their design of the heavier than air flying ma...
During the 1970s and 80s production of single engine factory built aircraft has virtually come to a halt. With many product liability lawsuits, which led to large verdicts against the manufacturers of the single engine aircraft, manufacturers slowly dropped out the single engine aircraft business. With no more single engine aircraft being built used single engine aircraft have dramatically increased in price. These events have led to an increase in homebuilt aircraft that cost a fraction of the price of a previously owned Cessna, Beechcraft, or Piper. Another boost to homebuilt aircraft has been the FAA. In the role of promoting air commerce, the FAA has supported regulations and advisory circulars that encourage the development of homebuilt aircraft; for example Advisory Circular 20.27d. (Kolczynski, 2) According to this anybody can buy plans and parts and obtain a special airworthiness certificate to operate the aircraft in the experimental category if the amateur builder does more than 50% of the fabrication or assembly, and does solely for his own education or recreation. (Kolczynski, 2)
In 1971 at an airport in Oregon DB cooper boarded northwest airlines flight 305, a Boeing 727 -051 in route to Seattle Washington. The flight had36 passengers, and 6 crew members. The flight’s pilot, Captain William Scott, 51, had been flying Northwest for 20 years also abroad was First Officer Robert “Bob” Rataczak; flight engineer Harold E. Anderson, and three flight attendants, Alice Hancock, Tina Mucklow, 22, and Florence Schaffner, 23 (Green).
Wilbur and Orville Wright spent their lives building and working with mechanical devices. They began with little toys as children and then grew up and began working with bicycles. These works lead them towards their work with airplanes. The Wright Brothers tried for many years to build a successful flying machine and succeeded. The Wright Brothers laid the foundation for aviation when they made history by being the first to create a successful flying machine.
As a young boy growing up in northern Michigan I was always obsessed with military aviation. Like many young boys, model aircraft filled my bedroom, everything from P-51 Mustangs and B-17 Flying Fortresses to F-15 Eagles and the beloved F-117 Nighthawk. It was really the latter of these aircraft that has driven my career and life thus far, and it is was the acknowledgement of this aircraft that drove me to love the Air Force.
Wiley Post is an American aviator. During his time he set a milestone record,he discovered a new way of flying faster and, he was one of the first people to fly at high altitudes. He is known as a legend in the world of aviation, but he is not very well known. The impact he made on the world of aviation is seen today.
Canadian Air Force Office of Public Affairs. (1996). The Flying Career of William Avery Bishop. [WWW Document] Retrieved May 2nd, 2001 from the World Wide Web: http://www.ukans.edu/~kansite/ww_one/comment/bishop.html
The FAA is a government agency who provides our country with the safest aerospace system in the world today. The FAA was not easily created though it was formed over many years and through the passage of many different bills and acts. The FAA started to take shape in the early 1900's. When the commercial aviation industry was first getting its start many leaders believed that without proper regulation and safety rules, that were set by the federal government, the aviation industry would not succeed. So to achieve their goal Congress passed the Air Commerce Act of 1926. This act made the Secretary of Commerce responsible for making aviation rules, regulations and certifying pilots and aircrafts. It also created an Aeronautics Branch in the Department of Commerce, which oversaw everything about aviation. This Branch of the Government was headed by William MacCracken, and it was the first predecessor to the FAA.
Planes have developed immensely through the years. The Wright brothers developed the first plane in 1903.
Flight is one of the most important achievements of mankind. We owe this achievement to the invention of the airfoil and understanding the physics that allow it to lift enormous weights into the sky.
... to anyone with a love of aircraft and designing them. I would mainly say this because your whole job is brain storming, designing, manufacturing, testing, and managing the production of planes, missiles, and helicopters. Although this isn’t the most important job in today’s society, it still plays a vital role and how we think and travel by air.
Mr. Mendoza: I am an Engineer Specialist at CESSNA. I am more in the Aero Sciences department. We focus on aerodynamics, stability and control, and computational aerodynamics. We also develop flight simulators and business jets.
Aeronautics excites me like nothing else, and I did not want to confine my education to classroom learning alone. I love challenges in life. Competitions in Aeronautics conducted by various colleges gave me the impetus, so I participated in various competitions at every opportunity that came my way. I have also participated in various workshops and this introduced me to the world of Aero modelling. This gave me an opportunity to learn the making of a basic balsa wood glider and later the basic remote controlled aircraft. With this knowledge as also the knowledge acquired from the concepts learnt in the classroom, our group participated in the Rubber Band Powered Glider competiti...
Aeronautics is the branch of aerospace technology that focuses on flight within Earth’s atmosphere. Mans’ progress in aeronautics technology began hundreds when the famous man Leonardo Da’ Vinci began studying and creating aeronautics technology. Among his many different flying-machine designs, “He designed a parachute and a model helicopter, which may have actually flown” (Yale). Many other engineers and scientist attempted to make flying machines, hundreds of years after Da’ Vinci, they made many different machines: from balloons to gliders, many of these experiments ended with poor outcomes, and many of these early engineers were forgotten with their work. It was only after the Wright Brothers made their famous flight that aeronautics took off as an industry. Most of the advancements in aeronautics technology happened during war when the need for powerful aerial weapons pushed engineers to create new technology. After the wars were over though, many airplane firms went out of business. Now the world has new planes that can be used for battle as well as commercial flight. With technology built-in to make flights safer and more efficient, making the world of flight and aeronautics a much more successful industry, and it is all thanks to those engineers and scientists that devoted their lives to make their ideas known, that we have the technology we have