Sport Aviation and Jet Aircraft
To date, approximately the first two-and-a-half years of production aircraft have been sold out. At its full production rate, which the company expects to reach in 2007, Eclipse will be able to manufacture an estimated 1,500 aircraft per year. Fleet customer aircraft delivery commitments extend through 2008. The Eclipse 500 is a six-person jet aircraft that sells for $837,500 (in June 2000 dollars. Eclipse Aviation expects to deliver approximately 140 aircraft in 2004, 500 aircraft in 2005, and 900 aircraft in 2006.
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AWACS Automated Flight Following System for Nuke Bunker Buster Accuracy
This technology, which is currently being used to guide fire fighting aircraft to the drop zone can be used without any problem to guide in a swarm of UAVs used as a multiple warhead strike. Soon we will be able to have many aerial unmanned vehicles fly in swarms keying of one in five, ten or even a hundred aircraft. Similar to a Tomahawk missile attack, but with pin point accuracy into the cavity of each consecutive strike. In the event of nuclear detonation this would have a piling effect on our enemy and easily take out an underground enemy. Since we already have these technologies, we should be practicing with them to hit the exact same spot ten times in a row within a short period of a 3-5 minutes.
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Aviation Lawyer: Whether Passenger, Pilot or Owner, You May Need an Aviation Lawyer
Aviation Law is a very specialized area of law that regulates the operation, safety and maintenance of aircraft and aircraft facilities. The next step that Aviation Law took was in 1938 with the Civil Aeronautics Act which created a five person panel which dealt with aircraft, facility, and aviation law within the United States. Aviation Law began in 1926 with the formation of the Air Commerce Act which regulated the use of aircraft in interstate or foreign business. Aviation Lawyers do not just work for passengers, but for pilots and aircraft owners as well. An Aviation Lawyer will understand law involving the industry, the mechanics of aircraft, types of aircraft, and how defects in these put passengers at risk.
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Is your air traffic control person real?
For instance your air traffic control tower professional maybe in augmented reality, sitting in a room with no windows looking at your aircraft on a TV screen or video monitor. You can also stay up on this information by subscribing the newsletter. Think about this and the virtual reality simulators used in aviation. It will not be long now before many aircraft are flying themselves and the air traffic control personal in the control towers do not even have windows to look outside, as the whole thing will be in a video game like augmented reality which will be recorded for later use in virtual reality training of new controllers in air traffic control simulators. This would be good so that Control Tower operators would not discuss the sightings of UFOs, etc as the reports from pilots come in.
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Inflatable Aircraft Wing Camber Modification
Aircraft are built for many reasons, each one maybe more or less important for its intended purpose. I propose an inflatable wing camber modification system for modern day fighter aircraft to save on fuel and increase range. Some aircraft are made to slightly change in flight to serve a niche or a couple of niches better than comparable type aircraft. For UAVs the performance would allow additional time loitering in the battlespace with increased range and slow flight speeds would allow for better imagery to identify targets before eliminating them from this time period. The performance changes would also vastly assist in close air support or carrier landing handling.
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Airbus to Build $600 Million Aircraft Manufacturing Plant in US
Airbus has announced that it will build a $600 million aircraft manufacturing plant in Mobile Alabama. The Boeing Company has some heavy competition with Airbus in the commercial aviation sector and the future of commercial aviation both in passenger aircraft and cargo or freighters looks bright. This is significant news and will open doors to US based commercial airlines to buy more Airbus Aircraft in the future. Think on the global competitiveness of the commercial aviation sector. Mobile Alabama is growing nice and has been moving forward with new housing tracts, retail centers, tourist destination locations and a growing and vibrant middle class.
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Hypersonic or Ultrasonic Sound to Disrupt Laser Beam Attack on Commercial Airliners
We believe such a device could be easily and cheaply built and installed in airliners. Such a device and use of hypersound might even be an option for those who fly into combat where THEL systems are guarding the region. Once seen by the enemy it maybe too late to dodge the lasers, as it takes such a small time to burn the retinas of a pilots eyes. It is possible that such a method may give the pilots a few seconds extra time to put on anti-laser head gear. As we recently saw with the Delta Airlines scare where the pilots were nearly blinded by what they described as a laser light, we believe that this idea may be the answer.
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Young Men Trying to Imitate the 9-11 Scenario, Part I
It takes a lot of aircraft washes to pay for fuel and instructor and a plane for an hour these days. It worked good and lots of aircraft and lots of people learning to fly. People who had aircraft they bought leased them back to a flight school to afford the monthly payments. At the airport he washed aircraft and he traded for pilots lessons. This caused more aircraft to be sold and Piper, Cessna, Mooney, Beechcraft, Rockwell, Aeronica, Robinson, Grumman all did well in aviation.
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General Aviation Manufacturing is in the Tank; Hang On It is Going to Get Worse
Many light aircraft manufacturers had stopped making aircraft and discontinued several popular lines. The light aircraft market in the US has been dominated by Piper, Beech, Cessna but in the last two and a half decades the finish products liability has skyrocketed as lawyers lawsuits have increased both in number and monetary awards. We still cell our aircraft all over the world, yet also entering the small airliner market is Bombardier, a market niche, which has been dominated for decades by Boeing with many famous models like the 737. Yet Airbus is doing the same thing by building component plants in China, Boeing already builds air surface aircraft components there. Many aircraft had increased in price 100% to allow for the incessant lawsuits.
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Young Men Trying to Imitate the 9-11 Scenario, Part III
But I do point out here and forever that we are simultaneously rewarding those who act out and are not following the program. I am not saying that Teen Challenge, DARE or any of another dozen programs are not totally worthy efforts both in our time spent and the results yielded. Only different in that they try harder or dream more. But those who surpass the program we do not. Those who go beyond what normal kids do and try to exceed the normal realm of their social structure.
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Entering Business Aviation, Part I: Types of Aircraft
Most of the Gulfstream aircraft in flight are under the designation of Gulfstream II, III, IV, and V. Lastly, Embraer has recently entered the business jet fray with their Legacy aircraft. In addition, Embraer has recently entered the market and there are various Hawker 800XPs and other similarly sized aircraft that sometimes will utilize a flight attendant. Although in the past few years, the company has changed the designations to 200, 300, 400, 450, 500, 550 with the lower numbered aircraft being smaller in size. Long a builder of regional jets, Embraer aircraft should start showing up increasingly as they are the low cost price leader in their category.
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Common Cockpit Concepts and Convenient Configurations
Often we see drivers in cars sitting too low and can barely see over the steering wheel, when we rent an aircraft everything is in the wrong place. Now then I am not criticizing the lack of cranial capacity in the modern day human, rather simply suggesting a reality check is needed. We spend too much time in training of soldiers, drivers, pilots, operators with increasingly more complicated equipment. If we borrow a friend's car we are constantly looking for where stuff is, where is the hood release, fuel hatch release and how the hell do I turn off this G-Dang windshield wiper? As machines get more complicated and humans become more brain dead due to bad use of natural selection, we will need counter these issues with better designed standardization such is being done in the CCI. If you gain or lose weight you can then adjust manually the Common Cockpit you are in and it will imprint on your SmartCard the new position.
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American Airlines; Crash: Nov. 12, 2001
It is time to check all military aircraft too for possible fatigue and in flight failures. The aircraft involved in that crash was an old Eastern Airlines plane, which was probably not too sturdy anyway for lack of maintenance back when that airline was falling apart. Remember Chicago O hare disaster with the DC-10, engines are not suppose to fall off airplanes and aircraft should not be born with defects, airlines should maintain aircraft, and pylons which attach powerful engines to wings. If you ask those aircraft to do a maximum climb out which slows the aircraft down on departure then do not take off another aircraft with a fast closing speed directly behind them at a three-minute interval, which may soon be 90 seconds or less. If you want International Trade, you will have more noise from less complying aircraft, get use to it.
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Helicopters - The Multi Utility Machines
Its excellent visibility and the ability to fly low and slow, or hover and land make the helicopter the best patrol aircraft. It provides observers a platform to assess a situation and provide ground units and other aircraft a clear description of the problem and how to combat it. Pinpointing location, moving equipment, finding water sources and rescuing victims from high-rise buildings can also be done much faster. As our society becomes media savvy everyday, new agencies and media groups need to get news faster and crispier. Electronic newsgathering is another major area of thrust for helicopter use these days.
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Inflatable Slots for STOL
Short Take Off and Landing Aircraft are extremely valuable in commercial, private, government and military aviation. Additionally a secondary cartridge could be deployed on touch down, which would act as an airbrake causing the aircraft to come to an almost immediate stop. I propose a kit, which can be installed on any aircraft, which can be run thru ram air and glued to the top of the wing and rapped around the leading edge. In the event of an emergency cartridge would be deployed to slow the aircraft down and allow for a very slow airspeed on final approach and a very small landing distance. I propose inflatable slots to increase the short take off and landing performance of aircraft.
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