This work examines the causes of airplane accidents and what private and public policies are needed to improve aviation safety. It begins by examining the safety record of the United States commuter airline industry in the post-deregulation era characterized by increased emphasis by airlines on cost...
Then it examines the three safety issues: the safety margin that allows for human error and equipment failure; the worldwide ageing of all airline fleets; and terrorism and sabotage.Clinton V. OsterJohn S. StrongC. Kurt Zorn
The airplane industry suffers from a lack of innovation. The basic design of airplanes hasn’t changed in more than 70 years. When innovation disappears, companies are incentivized to engage in exactly the kind of behavior that led to the 737 Max crash. As Sorscher wrote: “The last great ...
and that operation works best when you have one person checking the other, or both people willing to participate,” says Earl Weener, who was for many years chief engineer for safety at Boeing. “Airplanes are very unforgiving if you don’t do things right. And for a long time it’s be...
Why are cars made with bumpers that can be pushed in during a crash? Why is gravity so heavy? Why do airplanes normally take off facing the wind? Explain why airbags in cars can help to prevent injuries to the occupants during a frontal collision. ...
Why do airplanes normally take off facing the wind? When airplanes take off, why don't they become satellites and permanently circle the Earth? Why does a bicycle tire have spokes? Why can't the tire be a complete disk? Why are the mud guards used over the rotating wheel of the vehicle...
These spiralling vortices reduce efficiency because they convert useful energy being used for lift into the spiralling movement of air at the tips of the wings. How do we stop this? Simply, with a fence. Winglets on airplanes are the tiny fences; they get in the way and stop the areas of...
Computational software used by developers of airplanes do not seem to allow simulation of the dynamics of stall and so the impact of stall on aircraft design and safety assessment must be done solely by expensive and time-consuming experiments in flight, and then also the design of the apparentl...
41 Why The Boeing 727 Fell Out Of Favor 提交时间:4 年以前 In January 2019, on a domestic route in Iran operated by Iran Aseman Airlines, the Boeing 727 made its last commercial flight. (simpleflying.com)更多... MH370 87条会员评论 ...
In addition to being dangerous, shooting at aircraft – whether drones or manned airplanes – is illegal across the country. “Firing a weapon at what a person perceives to be a drone is a terrible idea for myriad reasons,”Andrew Stengel, an attorney and former New York City prosecutor, ...