Airplanes take advantage of four forces. Lee Dempsey/HowStuffWorks.com Drop a stone into the ocean and it will sink into the deep. Chuck a stone off the side of a mountain and it will plummet as well. Sure, steel ships can float and even very heavy airplanes can fly, but to achieve...
I gave a short crash course on Japanese for departing JETs at the Consulate-General of Japan at Chicago yesterday, and I thought I would post the handout I gave everyone and add a few links and explanations. The goal of the presentation was to prepare the JETs for schools and classrooms,...
thrust and drag airplanes take advantage of four forces. lee dempsey/howstuffworks.com drop a stone into the ocean and it will sink into the deep. chuck a stone off the side of a mountain and it will plummet as well. sure, steel ships can float and even very heavy airplanes can fly, ...
Think about it, how often is there a major, fatal plane crash? At this point, it’s less than once a year. When you see how many planes are truly up in the sky at any one time, and remember how many of them safely land back on the ground, shows you just how unlikely it is t...
Many people are scared of flying because they are frightened that the airplane they are in will crash. And yet, while airplanes do crash, it is safer to fly in an airplane than to travel on the road in a car. A survey done in the United States in 2001 found that 20% of Americans ...
As incendiaries rained down on the harbor, turning night into day, gunners aboard the anchored ships scrambled to shoot down the enemy—too late. The attacking German airplanes fled into the night. The raid lasted less than 20 minutes. ...
Reliability is the ability of a device or system to perform its function without failure when called upon to do so. Availability means the system is ready for immediate use. Airplanes, for example, must be very reliable, while in the air, but aren't expected to fly 24 hours a day....
Should you chop the power and try to set up the airplane for a steeper approach to the numbers? No. Go around and try again to set up something like the 3-degree glideslope that the big airplanes use. With the airplane flying itself to the runway, you're spending 5 percent of your...
If you tried to withdraw that amount of money from the bank, not only would it cause some serious repetitive strain injuries for the cashiers, but the dosh as a stack of $100 dollar bills would reach 175 miles high. Most commercial airplanes fly at 30,000 feet, which is 5.7 miles, so...
It’s a plane movie! Like you said, there probably aren’t many “planecrashmovies,” but there are lots of “plane movies” playing up in airplanes. Are there “lean-in” programs you would say buck that trend? Things that come back over and over again. ...