William Billiam exam 4

First Naval aviator to die:

Name, what happened, why, what did it cause

First Naval aviator to die:

Name, what happened, why, what did it cause

William Billingsley died June 20th 1913 when he fell to his death after being unseated when the plane hit rough air. This lead to the development of seatbelts in airplanes.

What plane flew in Operation Vengeance, and what did it do

P-38G, killed General Yamamoto on his transport plane in the Solomon Island area

What planes did the Tuskegee airmen fly?

Originally flew P-40s and P39s on patrol and attack missions, and later reassigned to escort bomber planes in P-47 and P-51s (most important plane: P-51)

Voyager Program

This included two probes, Voyagers 1 and 2. They were launched in 1977 and settled around Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and uranus. They still collect and transmit data today. Voyager 2 was launched first! Voyager 1 was supposed to perform a flyby of Saturn’s moon titan but failed.

Buran Program

Buran completed one uncrewed spaceflight in 1988. First operational Soviet/Russian shuttle orbiter. "Buran" was also the designation for the entire Soviet/Russian spaceplane project and its flight articles, which were known as "Buran-class orbiters".

Sir George Cayley

Established the scientific principles for heavier than air flight 

Named things on the airplane, found center of pressure and gravity affects stability of airplane

Sketched the forces of lift drag and thrust

Pushed boy off a hill in a bathtub

Phonetic alphabet (recite it then check the definition)

Alpha, bravo, charlie, delta, echo, foxtrot, golf, hotel, india, juliet, kilo, lima, mike, november, oscar, papa, quebec, romeo, sierra, tango, uniform, victor, whiskey, xray, yankee, zulu,

FAA

Federal Aviation Administration

ICAO

International Civil Aviation Organization

Chicago Conference

Total scam in our favor, rules for air travel for entire world. Allocation of commercial air route, the frequencies of flights over international routes, safety issues, technical matters, navigation topics. Universal rules on traffic patrol procedures, altimeters, etc.

General Aviation Revitalization Act

Also known as GARA, 1994, Insurance underwriters, worldwide, began to refuse to sell product liability insurance to U.S. general aviation manufacturers and US Gov wanted to help revitalize the industry and made GARA, which generally shields most manufacturers of aircraft (carrying fewer than 20 passengers), and aircraft parts, from liability for most accidents (including injury or fatality accidents) involving their products that are 18 years old or older (at the time of the accident), even if manufacturer negligence was a cause.

Second most gangster president

Ronald Reagan. Declared PATCO flight "peril to national safety," he demanded them to get back to work, only 1/10 of them did. Fired 11,345 ATCs.

Range of LORAN

Long range aids to navigation system has a range of 1300 miles

Who are the 4 instrumental people related to GPS

Roger L Easton, Ivan Getting, Bradford Parkinson, Dr. Gladys West

Roger L Easton

Worked on minitrack tracking system which determined previously proposed satellite’s orbit. Also designed Naval Space Surveillance System in 1959. Later patented and developed essential tech for US GPS. Developed time-based nav system. This idea was tested with four satellites from 1967-1977. The fourth satellite was the first to transmit GPS signals

Dr. Ivan Getting

This man advanced the concept of GPS using satellites to calculate positioning data for rapidly moving object. Made this into a reality while working as VP of Raytheon. It needed huge Gov financial backing.

Bradford Parkinson

Chief Architect for GPS, led the original advocacy for system in 1973. He became the first Director of the GPS Joint Program Office.

Dr. Gladys West

Mathematician, in 1956 worked for US Naval weapons lab. Transitioned to other projects, including GEOSAT which was a satellite that she programed to calculate orbits of satellites and by proxy determine the exact shape of Earth. This model and later updates, allows the GPS system to make accurate calculations of any place on Earth.

Airmail Scandal

Related to the Air Mail act of 1935, huge political scandal regarding the 1934 congressional investigation of the awarding of contracts to certain airlines to carry airmail and the subsequent use of the U.S. Army Air Corps to fly the mail after the contracts were revoked. This became even more problematic as the Air Corps was not prepared to take on this task, especially in the winter, causing 13 deaths (caused FDR hate campaign)

Air Mail Act of 1925

Also called the Kelly act for Representative M. Clyde Kelly. Allowed the Post Office to pay private airlines to deliver the mail. payments to airlines were based on the weight of the mail carried. The Post Office later added a subsidy to help offset airline operating losses until more efficient aircraft could be developed. This also established a bidding system for air routes.

Air Commerce Act of 1926

This established the Aeronautics Branch of the Commerce Department, FAA predecessor. Main impacts include safety regulation, required the licensing of pilots and the certification of aircraft, and encouraged the development of navigation aids.Crafted by William P. MacCracken JR. who later became the first Assistant Secretary of the CA.

Air Mail act of 1934

This restructured the Air Mail system of the time. Congressional hearings found many companies guilty of conspiracy and and monopolization of air routes. This act cut payment rates to airlines, returned most air mail routes to the major airlines, and gave some routes to smaller airlines, which resulted in the disolving of many companies.