Model Airplanes

“Even if you had the best-designed airplane in the world, those small details could cause big losses.”

Flight testing followed the FST exam, with Langley’s pilots taking prototypes into the air after they had been rigged with instruments to record data on their handling and operational characteristics.

That produced still more recommendations that the military and the manufacturers used to milk as much speed and performance as possible from every plane put into production.

“It was very systematic, very methodical, very step by step,” Mark A. Chambers says, describing how the tests zeroed in on the impact of even apparently insignificant details.

“And they were doing it around the clock in double and triple shifts because of the urgency of the war.”

Data warriors

The arrival of World War II brought a tremendous period of growth at Langley that reflected what was happening on the Peninsula as a whole.

In 1939, when the war was beginning to heat up in Europe, Langley had barely 500 employees. By the time the Japanese hit Pearl Harbor in December 1941, it was close to 1,000. On VJ Day in 1945, there were more than 3,000.

The enormity of the war effort also brought new jobs to local shipyards and military bases. All of those new jobs created a sudden need for more new homes and more retail establishments. And unlike the temporary boom from a quarter-century earlier with World War I, this one started early and continued into peacetime.

“The big difference between World War II and World War I,” Hampton Roads

Article source: http://www.dailypress.com/news/NASA/dp-nasa-langley-world-war-ii-changes-20170626-story.html

An investigation on behalf of investors in TransDigm Group Incorporated (NYSE:TDG) shares over potential wrongdoing at TransDigm Group was announced.

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San Diego, CA — (SBWIRE) — 07/14/2017 — An investigation on behalf of current long-term investors in shares of TransDigm Group Incorporated (NYSE:TDG) was announced over potential breaches of fiduciary duties by certain officers and directors at TransDigm Group.

Investors who purchased shares of TransDigm Group Incorporated (NYSE:TDG) and currently hold any of those NYSE:TDG shares have certain options and should contact the Shareholders Foundation at mail@shareholdersfoundation.com or call 858-779-1554.

The investigation by a law firm concerns whether certain TransDigm Group directors breached their fiduciary duties and caused damage to the company and its shareholders.

On January 20, 2017, an article was published claiming that TransDigm Group Incorporated is the Valeant of the aerospace industry. Specifically, the article was alleged that TransDigm Group Incorporated’s business model relies on acquiring airplane parts companies, firing employees, and egregiously raising prices. The report claimed that while the Company’s business model made it a dominant airplane parts supplier, it also burdened the Company’s balance sheet with a sky-high debt load. Then, on March 21, 2017, California Representative Ro Khanna sent a letter to the Defense Department Inspector General asking for an investigation into the business practices of TransDigm Group Incorporated, claiming that the Company appears to be evading certain pricing and cost disclosure regulations.

Those who purchased shares of TransDigm Group Incorporated (NYSE:TDG) have

Article source: http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/3413331

The Sopwith Camel Would Get Fighter Pilots “A Wooden Cross, the Red Cross, or a Victoria Cross”

The featured image of the Sopwith Camels of the U.S. 148th American Aero Squadron at Petite Sythe (today part of Dunkirk), France, on 6 August 1918, is taken from the National Archives and is in the public domain.

The Sopwith Camel became one of the most iconic aircraft in WWI due to its well-earned reputations, both good and bad, with the pilots who flew it. Though the fighter pilots flying Sopwith Camels accounted for the most kills of any WWI aircraft (1,294 – an average of 76 kills a month for the 17 months it was in service)³, it also killed almost as many of its own pilots as the enemy did.⁷ Unlike its predecessor, the Sopwith Pup, or the Boeing-Stearman biplane that would come out decades later, the Sopwith Camel was not a gentle instructor, but those pilots who became proficient behind its controls were the deadliest in the skies. In fact, Canadian fighter ace Roy Brown was flying a Sopwith Camel when he shot down Manfred von Richthofen – The Red Baron⁷. (Not coincidentally, it is also the airplane that comic strip beagle Snoopy imagines he flies when

Article source: https://disciplesofflight.com/f-1-sopwith-camel-aircraft-profile/

Quick: What’s the best thing you can personally do to fight climate change? Convert your house to solar, or switch to low-energy appliances? The answer is neither. Both of those solutions pale in comparison to getting rid of your car or eliminating meat from your diet, according to a new study. Yet most climate action messaging focuses heavily on energy consumption.

In a study published in Environmental Research Letters, Seth Wynes and Kimberly A. Nicholas looked at 39 scientific and government reports with recommendations for reducing carbon footprints that originated from the European Union, U.S., Canada, and Australia. The scientists then correlated how the most heavily promoted recommendations compared with real-world impact—and saw a huge disparity.

Living car-free, avoiding airplane travel (especially overseas flights), and switching to a plant-based diet were three top solutions that weren’t heavily marketed as low-emissions solutions, yet carried the greatest impact. “These actions have much greater potential to reduce emissions than commonly promoted strategies like comprehensive recycling (four times less effective than a plant-based diet) or changing household lightbulbs (eight times less),” notes the study.

But the most effective way to address climate change—and one that is already getting plenty of pushback online and in stories about the study—is something that’s hardly ever talked about: Having one fewer child is the best possible individual climate action a person can take, by far. Better family planning

Article source: https://www.curbed.com/2017/7/13/15961596/climate-change-solutions-study