suicidal but Garros had put steel plates on the rear of the propeller blades to deflect any bullets. The unsuspecting Germans failed to evade the oncoming Garros and consequently within sixteen days he had taken down five German planes and became the first allied flying ace. This machine gun idea was later improved by Anthony Fokker‚ a Dutchman. He synchronized the propeller with the gun firing mechanisms so that the bullets would fire between the blades of the propeller. By the middle of W.W.I‚
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1/18/12 Final How to land an Airplane Landing an airplane is one of the most challenging parts of flying. There are many ways to land an airplane and in all sorts of configurations depending on the conditions of the weather or the runway. There are no set rules to landing‚ but in order to learn the pilot must first learn a process in calm weather with a dry runway in order to have the set basic skills to land in rougher weather. Let’s say the pilot is already approaching the airport. If
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In our days‚ we used to travel a lot‚ most of the time we travel by airplane. If you really take the time to think about it‚ flying by plane seems to be now one of the best ways to travel. But does this mean that traveling by plane is the safest way? As time has passed‚ it has become necessary to travel on airplanes‚ yet in spite of many advancements remains a concern for passengers‚ because it has become common to hear about airplane crashes.The major causes of fallen aircraft are human mistakes
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My Obsession I remember back to when I was a child‚ in which I would constantly dream of flight and its characteristics of freedom and serenity. Throughout my younger years I collected miniature model airplanes of metal and plastic‚ longing to be the pilot of the real machine; this obsession continued until the day my grandfather introduced me to radio controlled flight. My grandfather and I visited his model airplane flying field where he effortlessly controlled a piece of machinery which my
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This material may be prOb0~ !x copyright law. (Title 17‚ US Code) JAMAICA KINCAID JAMAICA KINCAID 365 On Seeing England for the First Time of the most sinister sides of imperialism is the way it pfomotes the ruling nation S culture and rejects the colony ‘s. The effect of this on an impressionable young person is vividly a2xribed in Jamaica Kincaid’s sensitive and angry autobiographical essay about growing up in Antigua with the dark shadow of England continually looming over her
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The First Time I went to a College Football Game Vroom! Vroom! It was a cold and cloudy Saturday afternoon and me‚ my parents and my parents friends Alex and Vince were driving to a 7:00 Missouri Tiger football game. They were going to play the Texas A&M Aggies at home. Whoever wins is going to go to one of the biggest games of the year which is the SEC championship. We had just entered Missouri’s campus and it was packed with a bunch of Missouri fans. As we drove around for a little bit I could
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Crash I was so excited to go home after my three month stay in Chile. It wasn’t that I had a bad time rather that I was home sick. I left my uncles house at six am to depart for the airport. Everything was normal; the sun was bright‚ with no clouds beneath it. I remember the roads in Chile. They were very bumpy‚ and unpaved. As we neared the airport‚ I looked back at all of my memories I had while in the lovely country. Time went by so fast during my stay. I entered the airport and went through
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Sre FYS 8 September 2014 My First Job I got my first job at sixteen because my parents required it. However‚ I had no intention of getting a job and wanted to continue being a teenager where I had little responsibility. As I looked around my hometown for a job‚ I found that there were not a lot available. I finally was able to find a job close to my house at a local Dairy Queen working for minimum wage. Now that I had a job I had to make decisions in time I spent between friends‚ athletics
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My First Marathon By the time I entered Tsinghua University in 2006‚ my life had been occupied by boring studying for several years. There were many things that I never believed I could do like being a monitor of class‚ getting into a fancy relationship or dancing on the stage. If those were things I had still imagined‚ marathon was one thing that I had never imagined. A distance of 42.195 kilometers (about 26.4 miles) was not kidding. In the first month I went to Tsinghua‚ the student union
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What was your first job like? When I was sixteen years old I thought my first job was going to be at Mc Donald’s or some type of fast food restaurant. My mother wasn’t really the type that forced me to work at a younger age. Usually a lot of teenagers don’t work until seventeen or eighteen years old. Some times when I was a child I always wanted to be more responsible by doing things on my own‚ working‚ and driving‚ but at sixteen what can I be responsible at. As a young teenager I always looked
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