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    Frank Whittle, Jet Engine Pioneer “A nation’s ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability.” (BrainyQuote} said Sir Frank Whittle, the inventor of the jet engine. Born on 1 June 1907, Whittle was the son of a working class family, his father was a mechanic and inventor. Whittle had been fascinated with airplanes and engines from the age of four. Since Whittle’s family couldn’t afford to send him to the RAF College at Cranwell, Whittle was determined to enter as an apprentice

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    Arthur Baer once said “A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn’t climb over it.” In the poem ‘Mending Wall’, by Robert Frost, it talks about two neighbors who rebuild a wall between their pastures. One believes the wall is good and neccary but the other thinks the wall is pointless due to the fact neither have livestock or other pets to trespass on one’s land. Fences are good at respecting boundaries though it can cause issues with neighbors, such as lack of communication

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    Boeing’s innovative and intricate aircraft structures would not be used today without the determination and perseverance shown throughout history. Although Boeing has been around for many years, its history lies throughout many decades. Founded in 1916, Boeing acted as one of the first aerospace producers in the United States. The idea for creating Boeing took place in Seattle in 1914, by a guy named William E. Boeing. The company built many different models such as the 707, 727, 737, and 747.

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    You Shall Pass! Both stories have a different but similar theme. The passages both shows how it affects the people both mentally and physically. The authors also show a similar tone and emotion to the wall. First, both text show a theme of separation. In Frost's story the wall separates 2 neighbors, but nature keeps on trying to destroy it. Physically that wall is separating them, but mentally it's keeping away a neighborly friendship. While Reagan says the Berlin Wall is separating the

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    Native Son is divided into three books entitled Fear, Flight and Fate, depicting the final days of Bigger Thomas. The story is set in the Depression-era and Bigger is the novel's twenty-year-old protagonist, a resident of the "Black Belt," a Chicago ghetto that is predominantly black. Bigger lives in a one-room apartment with his mother ("Ma") and younger siblings, Vera and Buddy. The depressing mood of the novel is set in the opening scene: Bigger is awakened by the screams of his sister and mother

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    Richard is an unpredictable and inconsistent character. He is apprehensive yet secure, adamant yet sympathetic, extremely intelligent yet absolutely humble. ‘Black Boy’ examines the life of Richard Wright starting from his abusive childhood and leading up to his oppressive adult life. Richard’s character was sculpted by multiple events during his lifetime. Some of these events affected him positively while others just made his life more difficult. Richard’s greatest trait would be his intelligence

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    All good comes from above, as it was said in 1:17 of the Book of James. In this era in the history of Man, recent innovations in avionic technology has allowed men to fly to distant lands, at rates far greater than what was once feasible centuries ago. Granted, it is true that attempts were made during the early 20th century on the creation of VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Landing) aircraft by Juan de La Cierva of Spain, with a successful recorded flight in 1923. De La Cierva’s VTOL aircraft was known

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    Then, fighters came to the world. Morane-Saulnier L, or Type L, is considered the first fighter in the world ("First Air Battles in History."). In 1914, French engineer Raymond Saulnier and pilot Roland Garros were trying to add a fixed machine gun in front of the nose of a normal two seat plane. They added deflectors between the propeller blades and the gun first time, which was soon replaced by the shooting synchronizer, which could synchronize the motion of the gun and the rotating blades. The

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    Aviation seems to attract those who are looking to put their names in the record books. Ever since Charles Lindbergh was the first to fly solo across the Atlantic ocean, others have followed behind him pushing the boundaries of the possible ever outward. It was as recently as 2006 that American pilot Steve Fossett took the record for the longest non-stop flight ever. He flew just 13 miles shy of 25,000 miles during his flight, which lasted about 76 hours. Fossett will now have to hand this record

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    Born on December 7, 1919 in Cleveland, Ohio, Charles McGee changed aviation in more ways than one. McGee graduated from Chicago’s Dusable High School in 1938 and pursued a higher education by attending the University of Illinois in 1939. It was there that he joined ROTC. When war was declared on Pearl Harbor, McGee applied for a pilot’s slot in an experimental squadron and passed the exams. According to the National Aviation Hall of Fame, on October 19, 1942, he received his orders and made his way

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