...An unidentified flying object, often abbreviated UFO , is an unusual apparent anomaly in the sky that is not readily identifiable to the observer as any known object. Originally referred to popularly as "flying saucers" during the late 40's, the term UFO became more widespread during the 50s at first in professional literature, but later in popular language. UFOs garnered considerable interest during the Cold War, an era associated with a hightened concern for national security. Various studies, both governmental and civilian, have concluded that the phenomenon does not represent a threat to national security nor does it contain anything worthy of scientific persuit, although there is disagreement. Culturally, the phenomenon has often been associated with extraterrestrial life or government-related conspiracy theories, and thus has become a popular theme in fiction. Studies have established that the majority of UFO observations are misidentified conventional objects or natural phenomena—most commonly aircraft, balloons, noctilucent clouds, nacreous clouds, or astronomical objects such as meteors or bright planets with a small percentage even being hoaxes.[7] After excluding incorrect reports, however, most investigators have acknowledged that between 5% and 20% of reported sightings remain unexplained, and therefore can be classified as unidentified in the strictest sense. Many reports have been made by such trained observers as pilots, police, and the military; some have involved...
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...According to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster website, Pastafarianism has been around for centuries in secrecy and has only recently come into the limelight. In 2005, Bobby Henderson wrote a letter to the Kansas School Board concerning that students learn more than one of Intelligent Design, suggesting that the belief a Flying Spaghetti Monster, also known as FSM, created the universe, and that the beliefs of this religion are valid based on scientific evidences ("Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster"). After the publication of this letter on Henderson’s website, the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster has come into the mainstream. Bobby Henderson is now accredited as the “prophet of the FSM” (Henderson, Bobby). Henderson says...
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...FLYING CAR Many people dream of having a pleasant road trips, avoid commute, and do less time on trips to arrive at the desired destination faster. Thus, giving us the idea that things would be better if we could fly. Everyday scientist, engineers, anyone in general is trying to find new and better ways for transportation, at the same time making it more economic, safe, and environment friendly. Currently, there is prototypes of flying cars, but have not been perfected in its fuel and design. Once perfected these cars would use less or a better combustible, that wont be as expensive and more sustainable. When this flying car will be available to the public, we can think of how our life would change with this kind of transportation. Not only would we save money on building roads but also in parking lots, tires, and oil. We would have less traffic since the sky has more space, we would arrive at our destination faster letting us enjoy more of our family road trips or even work events. Even the president would be able to attend more events in one day. Business would have higher production and benefits especially in business that do delivery, like UPS and FedEx. Having this flying car can even benefit the planet, reducing pollution, slowing or even stopping global worming. With flying cars people would be in happier moods. Because traffic would rarely happen, people won’t have to wait in the heat on summer days and that will avoid people to get angry or have road rage. Getting...
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...Flying Wind Generators My article is about a company “Sky WindPower Corporation” investing in a new flying electric generator. The generator is basically a wind turbine like machine that can fly, and could absorb 2 to 3 times the wind in higher elevations. The higher the elevation, the stronger the wind and the more wind it can produce in the air for the generator. My assumption for the reason of this invention is possibly saving energy by using renewable sources such as wind, instead of burning fossil fuels for energy that can’t be renewed. The invention hasn’t been fully developed because of the cost, but they do have a flying turbine called the BAT (Buoyant Airborne Turbine) in Alaska for testing. They chose Alaska because of the tough winds and the difficulties of setting up regular turbines. Within 1000 ft. above, “From a distance, the BAT looks a bit like a massive donut, except for a standard three-blade, horizontal axis turbine in the center. With four protruding fins for stability, the helium-filled outer shell, made from a highly-durable fabric, is attached to three high-tensile strength tethers that hold the turbine securely in place” (Nguyen, 2014) With a sensor that enables the turbine and position itself to a bigger wind energy location to harvest or abort from a threat of mother nature. To finish my summary are my questions. “Will there be any manual controls over the turbine if lost communications of the sensor?” “Will there be any kind of motion sensor...
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...likeable companies (Five Most Likeable…). Likeable Media commends the airline for its passion for their employees as well as their customers. This in turn creates a passionate staff that encourages Southwest’s brand and helps it to grow. Southwest has been around for thirty nine years and has used multiple marketing strategies to grow their company. Herb Kelleher and Rollin King founded Southwest Airlines in 1971, flying to San Antonio, Houston, and Dallas. The company pioneered many marketing strategies that are still used today. Southwest offered the frequent miles program is the mid 1980’s, the first airline to enact the program. Passengers were able to save up the amount of miles they flew to fly for free or a discounted ticket. Southwest was also the first to offer senior citizen discounts on airline tickets. By 1984, Southwest was ranked first in customer service for four years in a row. In 1987 the company bought out TranStar Airline, and also Morris Air in 1994. After twenty five years, the company was rated the fifth largest United States air carrier, flying over fifty million passengers a year (Southwest Airlines). Marketing is very competitive between airlines, and it is important to use product positioning to create a recognizable image. Consumers should be able to tell the difference in Southwest’s product than other airlines. There motto is, “The only low-fare, short-haul, high-frequency, point-to-point carrier in America that is fun to fly (Southwest Airlines {Marketing...
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...The Flying Shuttle The industrial revolution was a turning point for new inventions. People were finding ways to make life easier, by using machinery. A huge turning point for the industrial revolution was in cloth weaving. But cloth weaving could get difficult for people, for that they could only weave clothes and such only to the length of the weavers armspan. But one man, John Kay created this little device that was given man the power to weave wider cloths and at a faster rate (The “Flying Shuttle” 1). The device that John kay Invented is called the “Flying Shuttle.” The newly invented shuttle could be thrown across the weaving bed by a lever pulled by a single person. Originally if a designer wanted a wider cloth, it would have to be thrown and weaved by two or more people (Flying Shuttle 1). How John Kay came up with this creation is because when he was a kid, he worked in his fathers wool manufacturing mills, and soon became the manager for one of these mills. In May 1733, the Flying Shuttle was patented for use (The “Flying Shuttle” 2). Angered by the new competition, weavers wrecked Kay’s house, and destroyed his weaving machines, also known as a “Loom.” Costs of operating this new machine halved labor costs so this brought in great curiosity from other industries as well. People were quick to adopt Kay’s new invention (The “ Flying Shuttle” 2). This invention brought up a new way for mechanical looms, but in about thirty years, a power loom would be invented...
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...A flying car is hypothetical personal aircraft that provides door-to-door aerial transportation (e.g., from home to work or to the supermarket) as conveniently as a car but without the requirement for roads, runways or other specially prepared operating areas. In addition, the aircraft lacks any visible means of lift (unlike fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters), thus allowing it to be operated in urban areas and close to buildings, people and other obstructions. Fulfillment of some of these goals is being attempted by personal air vehicles being developed. The term "flying car" has also been used to refer to roadable aircraft and hovercars. The flying car has been depicted in works of fantasy and science fiction such as Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, The Jetsons, Star Wars, Blade Runner, Back to the Future Part II and The Fifth Element as well as in technology magazines such as Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, and Mechanix Illustrated.[1] The flying car was and remains a common feature of science fiction and conceptions of the future, including imagined near futures such as those of the 21st century. As an example, less than a month before the turn of the millennium the U.S. journalist Gail Collins noted: Here we are, less than a month until the turn of the millennium, and what I want to know is, what happened to the flying cars? We're about to become Americans of the 21st century. People have been predicting what we'd be like for...
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...Case Study – Flying High 1. What kind of unethical and illegal kinds of behaviors do high-tech sweatshop companies engage in? What criteria should these companies use to decide if they are treating their overseas employees fairly? Among the unethical and illegal kinds of behaviors engaged into by the high-tech sweatshop companies- * offering job positions which may not necessarily exist in actual, or * Even if the jobs exist, the positions offered may be at a location other than being promised * Jobs may be offered at a much lower pay rate without any co-relation to the cost of living index in the area where job is being offered. * Making the workers work at a place other than the place for which the visa has been granted, charging exorbitant visa fees which is against the immigration laws. * Even after paying the fees, sometimes no jobs are being offered which violates US law as an open position is supposed to be there before a visa can be applied for. * Some body shops siphon off part of their wages or charge ongoing fees, again violating US law. * Claiming that they are employing people in low-salary regions when they’re actually working in high-wage areas, in violation of rules requiring payment of the region’s prevailing wage. Avoiding any of the above activities would help decide that they are treating their overseas employees fairly. 2. How would you characterize the stance on social responsibility of companies that function...
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...Thunderstorms—Up (too) Close and Personal Submitted by Nicole Cordeiro El Centro College GEOL 1447, Section 51426, Fall 2013 Article Summary of Thunderstorms—Up (too) Close and Personal "It is intuitively obvious that thunderstorms are laden with a myriad of unacceptable environmental hazards to aviation”. While this may sound like fairly common knowledge, many are unaware of the hazards that thunderstorms present while flying. For instance, how often have you been at an airport, experiencing a flight delay due to weather, and witnessed the angry passenger who can’t seem to understand why the aircraft cannot take off in a thunderstorm. After all, it’s just a little rain and thunder, right (Miner, 1998)? To fully understand the hazards of piloting through a thunderstorm, one must first understand what a thunderstorm truly is and how it is formed. Thunderstorms, as reported to pilots through airfield weather reports, are nothing more than local storms which produce thunder – a fairly simple concept. However, often times, accompanying the thunder is also gusty winds, heavy rain, and sometimes hail. These conditions can obviously have an adverse impact on the piloting of aircraft. But, what causes these meteorological phenomena (Miner, 1998)? Quite simply, a thunderstorm is the result of converging air masses, typically warm and cold, which then produces a lifting effect. This lifting effect, or warm air rising over cold air, inherently...
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...me work the evening shift. For some reason, the majority of my coworkers decided to pick Friday of all days to call in. I was supposed to be driving to Atlanta with my at noon. “Great!”, I thought. “How was this going to work out?” I knew I needed to talk to the one person that could find resolution to most challenging problems. While dropping my daughter off at my parent’s house, I told my mom about my dilemma. She listened patiently as I told her about my problem. I watched as an impish grin spread her face and knew that I would hate her solution. My mother suggestion was to stay back so that we could fly to Atlanta together. No matter how reasonable her answer may have seemed to any other person, flying was just not something that I would have considered. Because of my fear of flying, I had completely eliminated traveling to anyplace that I was unable to drive, ride a bus or catch a train to. Since time was short, I knew that I would have to...
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...Instrumentation & Avionics (Nov 10-13, 2015) The following questions based on the knowledge of chapter 7 Pitot-static instruments Airspeed and airspeed indicator The altimeter and Altitudes Gyroscopic instruments Attitude indicator Turn Coordinator Heading indicator 1. When activated, an emergency locator transmitter (ELT) transmits on A. | 400 MHz (current models) and 121.5/243.0 MHz (older models) | B. | 406 MHz (current models) and 121.5/243.0 MHz (older models) | C. | 400 MHz (current models) and 121.5 MHz (older models) | | 1. Answer B is correct. An ELT is an Emergency Locator Transmitter. ELTs are designed to automatically activate in the event of a crash and send out a signal that can be heard by SAR (Search and Rescue) personnel. * Modern ELTs operate on 406 MHz. These encode your aircraft's identification into the signal they send, and also encode your exact location if the ELT is coupled to an appropriate GPS. 406 MHz ELTs are monitored by orbiting satellites (global coverage) which are designed to alert appropriate SAR (search and rescue) personnel. * Older generation ELTs operate on 121.5 MHz. These do not encode an aircraft identification and also for other reasons have traditionally had a high false-alarm rate. While 121.5 MHz are still installed in many GA aircraft, it is recommended that operators switch to current generation ELTs. In either case, the ELT is generally a brightly colored box (yellow, red, or orange, typically)...
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...Admissible Reparations The truth, however masked or denied, is as TS Elliot puts it, “hell is oneself, hell is alone, and the other figures in it are merely projections”. Each and every person has the ability to choose his own actions, and therefore must be responsible for their consequences. Of course, the others in this ‘personal hell’ may have physically or mentally injured us; but that does not mean that we should, in this, result living in hell, but can rather choose to live in paradise. Take injustice, the easiest way to allow our lives to turn into sheer nightmare. Inequality, or discrimination happens in our society, purely because that one is of a different nationality, different status, different abilities and talents; to the point even when appearance could be taken in and laughed at. Injustice is everywhere, and there is nothing that can be done to prevent it entirely; as Kino from The Pearl (Stein) and Santiago from The Old Man and The Sea (Hem), the two protagonists from the respective novellas experiences. The former lives in poverty, right next to palaces; and the other has not, being a fisherman, caught any fish for a continuous eighty four days. These unfortunate events, however, is only the basis for their undeserved discrimination. Such happenings contribute to creating a ‘living hell’ towards the both men; it is only a place among internal conflict, pain and hardship that makes the protagonists who they are in the end. Both Kino and Santiago, strive for...
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...Igor Sikorsky’s Flying Empire I am Russian-Ukrainian, from an Eastern Ukrainian city of Ivano-Frankovks. My grandparents from my father’s side are from Russia, and my mother’s side of the family is Ukrainian, thus making me a combination of both. Being Russian in the Eastern part of Ukraine is pretty uncommon, as the eastern part closer to Poland speaks Ukrainian, and the Western part of the country mostly speaks Russian. Ukraine was occupied by Poland and Lithuania in the 14th century. Ukrainian peasants who fled the Polish who forced them into slavery came to be known as Cossacks. The Cossacks created their own colonies and led several uprisings against Polish rule, but ultimately they turned to the Russians for security. The country became one of the republics within the Soviet Union in 1922. Ukraine gained independence after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. From the nine years that I lived in Ukraine, and the many summers that I’ve spend there after coming to United States, I’ve come to realize that it’s a very beautiful country, with breath taking Carpathian mountains, and the cold Black Sea. Both Ukrainian, and Russian cosines are delicious, with the cultural menus ranging from borsch to the famous pirogues, and my favorite being blini (also known as crepes). Although Ukraine is a wonderful country to spend summers in, but economically and politically the country is currently not doing very well, especially with the ongoing protests that began last...
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...30 St Mary Axe, also known as the “Gherkin,” is one of Norman Foster’s works that has sparked London’s new architectural movement. This movement consists of structures with steel and glass, a round-shape, and unused designs. I chose this structure because of its odd-shape and towering height; it’s not very common to see this specific design in major cities around the world. The Gherkin is a missile-shaped skyscraper that incorporates Foster’s combination of steel and glass; its height and shape draws the eyes of every Londoner. The building tends to stand out to many due to its surrounding of outdated, smaller structures. While there are many older buildings surrounding it, the Gherkin is also located in one of the more updated parts of the...
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...Vaulting Kimberly Gottschalk In the 11th century, we see the development of a new vaulting type. This vault is called the barrel vault and is perched by a mount, making it an irregular shape. This type of vaulting can be found in the church of St. Martin in Pyrenees. Barrel vaults are typically very narrow because of how the arches are formed at the roof. St. Martin’s church vault is made of stone and contains transverse arches, which go across the roof of the vault, and piers, that run vertical up the arches, to help maintain its structure since it’s very heavy. This vaulting type doesn’t allow in much light, making it hard to see at times. A different type of vaulting we begin to see is the intersecting barrel vault, also known as rolling vaults. An example of a place with this type of vaulting would be in the St. Philibert of Cornell. This vault type allows you to have more windows and is constructed more easily since it can be done in segments. It is also more spacious, compared to the barrel vault, which ends up getting its name “the growing vault.” However, there is a downside to this construction. Because it needs a lot of scaffolding, it is often off center. Even with this setback, the development of this type of vaulting moves forward in to the future. Moving forward, we begin to see changes to the growing vaults. These changes lead to our ribbed growing vaults. An example of a place with these are the Durham Cathedral. Ribbed growing vaults have a skeleton with...
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