The Fighter

seeing and photographing the area’s systems below. It wasn't long before machine guns appeared and the age of the Fighter Plane was discovered. “A fighter aircraft is a military aircraft designed for air-to-air combat against other aircraft, as opposed to bombers and attack aircraft, whose main mission is to attack ground targets”. The fighters from one side would go up looking for the fighters from the other side and intense air combat would take place with many planes

January 14, 1969, a boy was born David Eric Grohl in Warren, Ohio. His parents were a journalist and English teacher, they got divorced when he was six years old. His interest in music came early, and later on after a lot of bands, his career blasted off, he only played in three big bands. He is a devoted husband and father, and has a very successful career. I've always wondered about his whole life, I don't know about you though, but I know about it now and figured I'd share it with you now. Dave

David Ellison as Eddie Beagle. The genre of the movie is action, adventure, and drama. It was based on a true story. This movie takes place in 1916 in France before America joins World War I. The Americans go over to France to learn how to become fighter pilots to help France against Germany. Their squadron is known as Lafayette Escadrille. The Americans arrive in France and right away have a problem with the language barrier. They

Throughout history, America has constantly looked to the sky in an effort to gain military superiority and it did not take long for the birth of the Army Air Corp after the Wright Brothers famous first flight. Through trial and innovation early aviation progressed rapidly. With lessons learned in WWI America quickly realized that the future of combat would rely heavily upon aircraft and the ability to build better aircraft then our adversary. Over the decades, many great aircraft have set the

more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.’” An example of this philosophy was the removal of a conventional canopy (the glass enclosure around the pilot). Most fighter aircraft at the time were built with the engine in the nose just behind the propeller. To allow the pilot to see past the engine, these fighters were built with raised canopies that sat on top of the fuselage. But having these extra bulges increases drag. Bugatti got around this by putting the pilot in the nose of the

The CIA and the U.S. military have been using drones for more than 100 years, but only in the past 10 years the public has realized how powerful this technology is. Drones should be used to combat terrorism in Afghanistan because they are a step into the future for warfare. Drones are some of the most used technologies that are used to combat terrorism in foreign countries, and there is a reason for that. Drones are used to spy, track, and assassinate high priority terrorists. Regular ways of warfare

sport psychology. I grew up before the term sport psychology was common. However, I was a professional athlete as a warrior and fighter pilot flying the most maneuverable fighter jet ever conceived and it is still, to this date, the only jet in history that can sustain 9Gs and accelerate. This was my sport as an athlete for over 17 years of a 23 year career flying fighter jets. I lost a friends and I’ve witnessed three F-16 crashes. I’ve studied human factors and written proactive safety articles

“When my brother and I built the first man-carrying flying machine we thought that we were introducing into the world an invention which would make further wars practically impossible.” Orville Wright, 1917. Sadly this was not the case. Over the span of World War II, because the technology was so new and could work well, planes were used heavily and mercilessly and because of this, more than half a million people died or were lost in combat. During the war, airplane manufacturing was important to

range escort fighters, disposable fuel tanks and The Thousand Bomber raids had a long-lived impact. The P-51 Mustang was an important aircraft in the war that had an American airframe and a British Rolls-Royce ‘Merlin’ Engine. Disposable fuel tanks, which increased the Allied fighter’s range were loaded onto the P-51 Mustang and by March 1944, the modified Mustang had a 1800 mile armed range and could fly with the bombers to Berlin and back. Richard Ovary said ‘The long-range escort fighter transformed

Co-main event Saturday’s co-main event will be a welterweight battle between Matt Brown and Diego Sanchez, two fighters who aren’t strangers to inflicting and absorbing damage. For Brown, it’ll be the last time he experiences both as he has announced that his retirement will follow the fight. Brown wants to walk away from the sport on a high-note and not be a middle-of-the-road fighter. “I didn’t get into this to be a journeyman, or to be in second place,” Brown said on the MMA Hour in September