“If you're a passenger on a commercial aircraft, rest assured that will probably be the safest thing you do all day,” licensed civil engineer and aviation expert Sarah Hubbard, Ph.D., an assistant professor at Purdue University’s Polytechnic Institute, tells SELF. Commercial plane crashes ...
a prolific journalist and author, has painstakingly documented every death in the Grand Canyon up until 2012. This includes airplane and helicopter crashes, which were historically the park’s largest cause of death. In one crash in 1956, two passenger planes crashed into each other above the ca...
The world of flight attendants has also changed significantly since the beginning of commercial air travel. The first airliners were actually mail planes with a few extra spaces for passengers. On these flights, you had to take care of yourself: The plane crew included only pilots, and they we...
After being embarrassed by the rest of the family at a company picnic, Homer becomes obsessed with improving their behavior towards each other. Bart the General (1990) After being beaten up by Nelson Muntz one too many times, Bart turns to Grampa for help, and soon leads a rebellion again...
Many larger prop-driven aircraft boast propellers with adjustable pitch mechanisms. These mechanisms let the pilot adjust the propeller's angle of attack depending on air speed and altitude. There are, of course, variations. For example, in turbo prop planes, a gas turbine spins the propeller, ...
Fear of flying can be caused by a number of factors, including claustrophobia or a fear of heights. Many nervous flyers feel irrational anxiety that their plane will malfunction and crash, no matter how many times they hear the statistics abouthow safe flying iscompared to driving. Other travel...
A soft launch is performed to test new features. Usually, the game is launched on a limited territory — a single state or country — to test the waters. Will people pick it up? Can it hold their attention? What will be day 1 retention? How many users will return to play after a ...
How Long Gone is a bi-coastal elite podcast from old friends and podcast professionals, Chris Black and Jason Stewart. CB and TJ deliver their takes on pop culture, fashion, music, and more.
Crazy as it is to think about now, many people believed Nintendo‘s attempt at bringing a home gaming console to the masses would be a failure. Much of the apprehension stemmed from the 1983 video game crash, where low-quality products and an oversaturated market put many gaming companies ou...
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