Space flight

Most Filipino families have family living abroad. My family is one of those. My grandparents lived in Barrow, Alaska the majority of their lives. When I was six, they convinced my mom to bring her family to America. After six months of testing and vetting, we were on our way to Alaska. As a six-year-old I did not think much of it, not until it was actually happening. When we were driving to the airport I had a moment of realization that I was going to be riding in an airplane for the first time of

my way on the plane and we were off to Denver to catch our next flight. Inch by inch, the plane made it into Denver. I was amazed that planes can land in an inch layer of snow. It was still pouring snow in Denver and didn’t seem like it would stop. Finally, I took my seat on the bench next to the gate eagerly waiting for the flight to go to New York which would then take us to Bahamas. Two hours later I hear on the intercom, “The flight to New York is delayed for 1 hour.” It was now 10pm and the plane

about an hour for it to arrive and be al set to go. When the airplane arrived, we bored in about 15 minutes, and when we bored we all found our seats and one of us had to sit alone. The person who sat alone was my grandma because she went on many of flights and she didn’t want my brother and I sitting right next to a stranger. When, we were about to take off the wings had some snow and ice on them. It took the workers about an hour to get all of the snow/ice off. In the meanwhile it got hot in the airplane

“Gate 4A is boarding! Next flight boarding is Gate 4A!” the cheery pre-recorded voice announced over the airport’s loudspeakers. “Shit!” Lance exclaimed, his head snapping up to look across the airport. Of course he was sitting by the food court, conveniently located by the C Gates. He sat up, shoved his phone in his pockets, and slung his backpack onto one shoulder. Dragging his rolling suitcase behind him, he practically sprinted across the moving walkways to get to his gate, accidentally shoving

Manuel that came with the aircraft it is very important to get to know your aircraft before the first flight. After you have done these three steps you are ready for your first flying experience. But first you need to find a good safe place for at leas the first flight. What Is The Best Place For The First Flight? It only makes sense that you find a wide open place for your first test flight. A places free from trees, people, buildings, ext. And rather you are a beginner or professional quad-flyer

Alexander Weygers, a man born two years before Orville and Wilbur Wright took to the air, always had a fascination with flight. “My belief was that man had copied the bird under the erroneous impression that the most obvious way to fly is to copy the bird’s flight,” he said. “To me, it was as impractical to make a plane like a bird as it would be to make an automobile look like a horse or a motorcycle like a man.” Weygers first got the idea for his flying machine in 1927 when he was working as

I've been in love with flight since January 3rd of 2014, when I flew with Mach 1's instructor Laura McGhee. That day, I witnessed the beauty of flight in a small plane for the first time. To this day, I still remember the excitement I felt when I sat in the Cessna Skyhawk 172 and the indescribable feeling during takeoff. That was the day I discovered that I want to fly. The freedom in its purest form, the joy that swells within, my personal experience and knowledge I gained in ground school, and

There's not much you can do on a ten hour flight apart from sleep but sleep is what I'm avoiding since feeling jet lagged is not an option. I fill the ten hours with reading, listening to music and watching the film 'Orphan' in an attempt to trick my brain into being too scared to sleep, luckily for me, it worked. The flight time and time difference between LA and London means that the plane is touching down on the runway at 11pm, just after I finish the first book of the hunger games. Looking out

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 as “Gyroplane.” (Scientists and Friends) However, it was not until the Second World War, did VTOL aircraft finally appear into its modern-day incarnation. The Third German Reich was credited with the

`I am walking into my chamber, I sit down on my chair beside the co-pilot and say over the intercom “Hi this is your captain speaking, we are about to take off so please put your seatbelts on.” I push all sorts of weird buttons and turn on the engine. “What a nice day to fly a plane,” says the co-pilot “I wonder what it would feel like to fly like a bird.” The plane starts accelerating and just 3 minutes after take off the plane sucks in several geese in both engines. Then I say over the intercom