There are brave “hurricane hunters” who work for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Each mission lasts about ten hours, with the crews passing four to six times through the storm. Can you imagine? That just sounds crazy! The planes carry radar, sophisticated computers ...
gasoline, and natural gas). Fossil fuels are now heavily relied upon by humans to run companies, heat houses, and power cars and planes. Doing these actions
Everything You Need to Know About COVID-19 Travel this Holiday Season By dogscatsplanes|November 9th, 2021|Blog|0 Comments Ready or not, many people will see holiday travel trends returning to the pre-COVID normal in the coming weeks. As you prepare for your own holiday celebrations, it ...
1. Paper Planes How about some fun throwing designing your own planes out of paper? We’lllearn all about aerodynamicsand flight. Set up some targets across a room with a point system and make up the rules as you go. Different points for different targets is a lot of fun. ...
Fun facts: * C is the vector orthogonal to A and B. * C is the NORMAL to the plane that includes A and B. The cross-product of any two vectors can best be remembered by theCRAMERS RULEonDETERMINANTS.Thought of it while taking a bath. I'll tell you when I finish my matrix chapt...
it will be too hot to fly. It’s not necessarily that the pilots and ground crew will need extra rest, it’s that the planes’ wings themselves weren’t designed to perform under such conditions. Hotter air is thinner, and provides less lift, making it difficult for planes to take off...
He might have flown a plane into the building as was done in a calculated, multi-person, multi-year scheme set up by a worldwide terror group on 9/11/2001. But planes are intended for transport. I could go on and on. And I often hear these myriad ways that others can kill cited ...
It is difficult if not impossible to measure that speed directly, as is done for hurricanes by ground instruments and planes that fly into the storms. Continue reading“Are Tornadoes Getting Stronger? Too Soon to Tell, But…” Author greenman3610Posted on April 29, 2014Categories This is Not...
Smaller planes fly lower and have to deal with challenging weather conditions, snow-falls, white-outs and icing problems.A Basler airplane flies near the Trans-Antarctic Mountains on the way back from the South Pole - a non-commercial flightIs...
The P-47 madeits combat debut in April 1943, when a Thunderbolt with the U.S. Army’s4thFighter Groupbrought down aFocke Wulfe FW-190over France. Over the next two years, the planes would fly more than half a million sorties in Europe and the Pacific and would claim nearly 4,000 en...