The route of the flight had been decided by company dispatchers in France and entered into the airplane’s flight-management computer at the gate: it was a direct course up the coast of Brazil, over the city of Natal, then northeast across the Atlantic. The initial cruising altitude was ...
The use of efficient computers in the early 1950s led to further 50 . It was no longer possible to use a trainer who couldn’t adapt to special environment to prepare pilots to fly anything but the 51 light planes. During the early 1960s electronic digital computers were 52 , and their...
Meantime,Americans are only getting bigger.The average weight of a female today is the equivalent of the average male in the 1960s: 166 pounds, while guys on average register 196 pounds on the scale,according tothe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The FAA is responding to an advoc...
(Image credit: U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Kevin J. Gruenwald) The F-111 Aardvark was a tactical strike aircraft developed in the 1960s by General Dynamics. The two-person plane first entered service with the U.S. Air Force in 1967, and was used for strategic bombing campaigns...
As most, if not all, technological tools have improved significantly in the last couple of decades, it’s not unreasonable to ‘expect’ commercial planes to similarly become faster, is it? So, why hasn’t commercial air travel sped up at all since the 1960s?
Hanks plays a displaced Eastern European man who has to wait at JFK until the war in his home country is over. He's smitten with a flight attendant (Catherine Zeta-Jones), and changes the lives of everyone around him. This movie is basically the equivalent of a warm hug. ...
against it. Capable of speeds of over 500 mph, the Swallow was faster than anything flying by about 100 mph. The fighter’s major shortcoming was that the engines needed replacement after about 25 hours of flight. Unfortunately for Germany, its use came too late in the war to turn the ...
Consider the rest of the world's flight activity, and the grand total is incalculable. It is easy to take the physics of flight for granted, as well as the ways in which we exploit them to achieve flight. We often glimpse a plane in the sky with no greater understanding of the ...
Etienne Dormoy, brought from France to the USA by Schmidt; his fully monocoque fuselage design was first of its kind in USA. Built for competitions, it won the $1,000 NY Times Race on 7/4/14 at Governor's Island NY (p: Harold Kantner), as well as several more subsequent races, ...
What is the Fastest Plane in the World? Fastest Single Engine Plane Since 1960, the Soviet Union’s Tu-114 has held the record for the fastest piston-engine plane. At a height of 26,000 feet (7.9 km), it has a top speed of 540 mph (870 km/h). In spite of its original design...