HELICOPTER OPERATIONS AND NIGHT CAPABILITY IN INDIAN CONTEXT The helicopter is probably the most versatile instrument ever invented by man. It approaches closer than any other to fulfilment of mankind’s ancient dreams of the flying horse and the magic carpet. – Igor Ivanovitch Sikorsky CHAPTER – I INTRODUCTION Background 1. After having flown the fixed […]
Aviation 213 Mid Term What WAAS and LAAS means for the future of air travel? WAAS, the Wild Area Augmentation System is an air navigation system developed by the FAA to Augment GPS satellites. WAAS is used to track aircraft in flight to better improve its accuracy and ability to locate aircraft within 25 ft. […]
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Get startedLaunching the country’s first experimental space station, and building the ‘Beidou’ navigation system, China’s ambitious space program has made great progress in recent years. Surrounded by great triumphs, many Chinese people seem to have developed an illusion that their country is going to take the lead in space exploration. However, as the leader in space […]
When individuals think of space exploration, they think of the stars of the show such as Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon; or perhaps John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth. However; those individuals do not ponder on the fact that the behind the scenes components of NASA are […]
Private space companies have a very good effect on the space program. But not all the time it’s a good effect. Private space companies have been in the program for a long time but just recently people have made controversy over it. The main part of the controversy is if private companies are safe or […]
The year 3000 is very far away so it is hard to assume what daily life would look like, however it is likely that you could say that daily life would still be largely influenced by the inventions and discoveries of Leonardo da Vinci thousands of years prior. Most of da Vinci’s inventions were flying […]
At about 3000 feet above the moon’s surface, Neil Armstrong noticed that all across the landing site there were many scattered clumps of craters and boulders. At 300 feet, and descending the superb pilot managed to quickly maneuver his spacecraft slightly left in order to avoid the debris and gently landed his spacecraft among an […]
The famous astronomer known as Galileo made many extraordinary astronomical discoveries and his observations of the Moon were just a few of them. Galileo was the first astronomer to discover that the surface of the Moon had pits, craters, and mountains and wasn’t as smooth of a surface as everyone thought. For centuries following this […]
The Apollo Lunar Surface Journal is a record of the lunar surface operations conducted by the six pairs of astronauts who landed on the Moon from 1969 through 1972.i The Journal is intended as a resource for anyone wanting to know what happened during the missions and why. The astronauts from Apollo 11 were Neil […]
Apollo 11 Mission The Apollo Program was initiated in 1963 and was completed in 1972. The purpose of this program was to place a man on the moon, explore the surface of the moon, and develop the ability for man to work in the lunar environment (Loff, P.1). There were seventeen Apollo missions in total, […]
Apollo 11On May 25, 1961, John F. Kennedy set the goal of landing the first men on the moon. This began project Apollo. The men who served on the project were brave, determined men. The project faced many obstacles including Apollo 1, where every soul was lost. But through all the challenges, mistakes were learned […]
People are always wondering about the world outside of the atmosphere, coming up with different possibilities of the world beyond the starry sky. Stars become an incredible symbol of power. People use stars and their signs to predict personalities of people born in different months, navigate their route when they’re lost. The world outside of […]
Americans have always been competitive, and during the post World War II era, when Russia was flexing its muscle and launched Sputnik, America took notice and decided they should get started developing something that could be put into the outer atmosphere before the Russians took control of the skies. The fact that the military was […]
