The X-43A aircraft was a small unpiloted test vehicle with a length of 3.7 m. The vehicle had a lifting body design i.e. the aircraft body could generate a significant amount of lift, instead of being dependent on wings. The weight of the aircraft was approximately 3,000 pounds (about 1,300 kilograms). The X-43A was designed so that it could be fully controlled in high-speed flight, even while it is in the glide phase without any thrust generation. However, the aircraft was not designed for the landing phase. The test vehicles crashed into the Pacific Ocean when the test was over and nothing could be salvaged.
While traveling at very high Mach numbers, there is a lot of heat generation due to the compression shock waves involved in supersonic
After the crash, the mangled twin-engine plane rested about 75 yards from the end of the runway in a marshy area. Workers carried away badly burned bodies and laid them nearby. Pieces of the plane were strewn about the crash site.
But as the war came to an end, so did the need for a flying wing aircraft. Still, Jack Northrop was convinced that...
¨ fan blades on the engines were not bent indicating the engines were not running when the plane hit the water.
The archaeology of shipwrecks is an academic field that focuses on studying and exploring shipwrecks of the past. The shipwrecks discovered all around the world serves as a bridge to understanding the past and the lost cultural heritage, and teaching lessons on “how the environment and human error can damage each other.” One of the most famous and historic shipwrecks that helped shape the United States’ maritime warfare is the USS Monitor. Through the help of modern underwater technology, the shipwreck of the USS Monitor is an incredible discovery because of its historical impact in America’s bloodiest conflict. The USS Monitor’s shipwreck is very significant because of its innovative design, its historic role in the Civil War, and its artifacts
The light cruiser ship called the “USS Birmingham” was readied Norfolk, Va, with a wooden platform attached to it. The platform was approximately 80 feet long. The plane Eugene Ely was flying was called the Curtiss D-III Headless Pusher which was equipped with floats under the wings. Ely barely succeeded from taking off the ship. He rolled off the platform and kind of skipped on water which damaged the propeller, but he was able to pull through. Ely was able to stay airborne for 2 and a half miles to land on the nearest island called Willoughby
The Sniper Elite series first emerged on the scene in 2005 and has since proved to be a popular title. "Sniper Elite III" continues the award-winning third-person tactical shooter gameplay series. In this sequel to "Sniper Elite V2," you can choose to co-op or compete with story campaigns, survival missions, and competitive MP modes. Across both long-range and short-range combat, the game provides detailed feedback to the player so you can make precise judgments about how to deal with each mission.
1972 Title lX passed as a law, and this law allowed female athletes to play in any sport they wanted to be in. “One of the biggest advantages of participating in sports is the increase in self - esteem that girls experienced”. (Judy Mahle) Playing sports made women become more confident in themselves and helped them pay their way into school. Professional female athletes, however, make less money in there salaries, prizes and commercial endorsements than male athletes do. Mens games are often sold out while women's games are nearly empty. Women were permitted to participate in the first olympics, and were forbidden under threat of execution to even watch the games. The reason women were once forbidden or discouraged from participating
Following World War II and the jet engine technology that emerged largely toward its end, aerospace engineers knew well that the technology had great potential for use in the commercial aviation industry. The Comet was the first aircraft to utilize jet propulsion; however, its designers failed to consider the metallurgy of the aircraft’s materials under flight conditions or the consequences of their atypical window design. The aircraft was designed by Britain’s De Havilland Aircraft Company and entered service in May 1952. After a year of service, however, the design issues mentioned above resulted in the failure of several Comet aircraft. Extensive evaluations revealed that repeated pressurization stress on the aircraft’s main cabin had caused its structure to fail.
A few months ago I was chosen to be a Kamloops Ambassador for a year. At that moment my life changed to conform into what I thought people would expect from an Ambassador. Since taking this introduction to sociology I have realized how much we have discussed about has applied to my role as an Ambassador. One of the main concepts that applies is Charles Horton Cooley’s idea of looking-glass self and that a person's self grows out of society's interpersonal interactions and the perceptions of others was the first concept that I soon found myself enthralled with. Then, when we discussed Erving Goffman's concept of impression management in relation to Self-promotion; I found a connection between impression management and looking-glass self in relation to my own life as a Kamloops Ambassador. This insight made me realize that while as an Ambassador I do try to convey an image
Travelling at a speed twice that of sound might seem to be futuristic; however, this feat was already achieved almost 40 years ago by the world’s only supersonic passenger aircraft, the Concorde. Concorde brought a revolution in the aviation industry by operating transatlantic flights in less than four hours. The slick and elegant aircraft with one of the most sophisticated engineering was one of the most coveted aircraft of its time. However, this was all destined to end when Air France Flight 4590 was involved in a tragic disaster just outside the city of Paris on July 25, 2000. The crash killed 113 people, but more disastrous was its impact.
One of the Bombers was taken apart and used for measuring, one was used as a reference model and the last was used for pilot training.
Before building the vehicle, a sketch was performed to blah blah. It was made of three wheels, one in front and two in the back, a base made of Legos, and mousetrap on the base. Once the design was accepted, construction of the front axle began. The small wheel was placed on the middle of the axle followed by two legos on the outer edge to connect to the base. These Legos were held in place by blank. The two pieces were then connected to a flat rectangular Lego that was placed under a longer rectangular Lego. This was known as the base and where the mousetrap was taped to. After the base and front axle were finished, the drive axle was constructed. The drive axle had the same concept as the front one, but a longer axle and connecting Legos were used instead. The connecting Legos were outside the wheels and connected to a thin rectangular Lego that was placed under the same Lego known as the base. A white wheel was placed in the middle of the drive axle to wrap the string around, as shown in Figure 5, but soon realized it did not have enough friction with the axle to propel it, so it was removed. The vehicle was then taken to Trial 1. During trial 1, it collapsed due to the length and lack of strength of the base. The vehicle was modified because of this reason. The black connecting Legos of the drive axle were moved to inside the two wheels, and the base was shortened by placing it
Just recently, In the Months leading up to the culmination of the X-Prize there were two serious contenders for the fabled X PRIZE, A rocket known by its builders as Wild Fire, and an airplane referred to buy its builders as, Space Ship 1. "The da Vinci Project, led by Brian Feeney of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, registered as a contender for the X PRIZE on June 2, 2000." (About the da Vinci Project). Their Craft Wild Fire has a flight plan that first consists of the rocket being hoisted to 24 km. (80,000 feet) via hot air balloon, at which point the rocket slung under the balloon at an 80 degree angel, from the horizon, fires and hopefully delivers the rocket and crew into space. The manner in which the da Vinci Project went about reentry is somewhat low tech, "A reentry chute is deployed T plus 15 seconds after apogee and includes the base area high temperature cone which doubles as the landing absorption cushion to protect the engines." Unfortunately this team had some funding problems causing them to deviate slightly form their original plan of attack which did not include the hot air balloon (What happens during the Actual Flights).
Another limitation during re-entry is heating. The fiery trail of a meteor streaking across the night sky is an extremely good example to show that re-entry can get hot! This intense heat is a result of friction between the speeding meteor and the air. How hot can something get during re-entry? The Space Shuttle in orbit has a mass of 100,000 kg (220,000 lb.), an orbital veloc...
A B52 Stratofortress owned by the National Atomic Museum, similar to the one that crash off the coast of Spain in 1966.