Journeying to Skies Edge: Delving into the world of aircraft

 London and Seattle are two cities that are very well known across the world, in international travel they are both major hubs to and from their respective countries. However, their approaches vary greatly when it comes to performing the task of managing the aircraft to and from airports. One takes a hands-on approach while the other has managed to go completely digital.      Seattle Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON) has a lot of factors to contend with when performing aircraft monitoring and guidance procedures. Its area of responsibility is between the Olympic Mountain range and the Cascade Mountain range which lends it some very difficult terrain management. When you add in high peaks such as Mount Rainier at 14, 416 feet, you have even more to contend with. As I said earlier, this tower performs handing of international flights. The tower also performs monitoring of military operations happening in its area to include live fire ranges, Boeing tests experimental aircraft, and

  Wildlife have always been a major issue for aviation. When we started flying aircraft, a birdstrike on the aircrafts body when your aircraft was made of wood and doped fiber, could lead to severe damage such as the loss of a wing. Now days hitting a bird is generally reduced to dents and superficial damage across the aircrafts body. The same isn't always said of engine ingestion, though engines have taken significant strides forward in being able to ingest and pass birds. Even during ideal ingestion conditions the engine may remain operable for the flight duration but there is still component damage. Hitting flocks of birds can still completely destroy engines, US Airways Flight 1549 is an excellent example of this as both engines were obliterated and failed leading to a water landing (US Airways). The only reason this flight didn't turn into a tragedy was because of the remarkable piloting skills of Captain Sullenberger landing the aircraft with light enough damage that the

  The Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938 was signed into existence by President Franklin Roosevelt. It had many far-reaching impacts on the aviation sector as a whole, but even for transportation itself. Aviation was a largely unsuccessful enterprise until the Kelly Act was signed completely reforming the industry from being run on exclusively government backed mail cargo contracts, to an industry that could bring commercial transportation to fruition. Due to the scandalous nature of merging and shuffling companies as well as signing contracts behind closed doors however, this act was renounced, and Roosevelt again rebuilt the industry and through competitive bidding once again allowed aircarriers to use air mail contracts. This is why I feel that this act is so crucial to the success of airlines.  Many improvements to aviation stem from this act being signed. Firstly, due to the competitive nature of the airmail contracts, aircarriers were forced to look for alternative means to sustain th

 Growing up as a young man I often heard about how women are an enigma that will never be understood. As I have grown older, I came to notice that in every facet of human interaction, there is a level of unpredictability, regardless of associated sex or gender. Sure, you can use mind games or psychology to alter an interaction in your favor but there are always those who will respond in an undesired or unintended way.  When you apply this to a work environment it can become messy. When accounting for the impact of a human on their work environment, specifically aviation in this instance, this is called "Human Factor" (Aviationlearning). The great thing about humans is their ability to adapt and also perform a wide variety of tasks. Yet the quality of the results isn't always consistent. This stems from the way that our brains respond to stimuli. You have emotions, the way our minds wander into thoughts outside of what we are doing, and just events happening in our lives.

 In a world of growing technological advances, it is easy to take the ease one experiences in daily life for granted. You can access almost anything through your phone, the news, the weather, what's playing in theaters, even listen to music or play games. That is all on one device! What is the common link in all that data however? Its need to connect to other servers to gather the requested information. Therein lies the risk we face today. The unseen. Aviation as a whole is electronically intertwined, as such a majority of systems are susceptible to outside interference. This risk has been brought to light by a study done by ImmuniWeb where they checked cybersecurity, compliance, and privacy (The State of Security). Their results were rather astounding, “ 97 out of 100 the world’s largest airports have security risks related to vulnerable web and mobile applications, misconfigured public  cloud , Dark Web exposure or code repositories leaks.” (The State of Security). Even in the la

 The fuel system is probably one of the most lack luster systems for people when you think about aircraft. Yet, it is also a crucial system that requires its due diligence and fundamental understanding of operation. A failure in the fuel system can cause many different issues. One I would like to address is that of biological contamination in an aircraft fuel tank. Being from the aviation community, I have seen on multiple occasions a very carefree attitude towards fuel contamination.  Contamination of a fuel tank can lead to multiple failures of systems as fuel drawn from that tank can cause breakdowns of materials in engine systems such as seals and filters. If not addressed soon enough contamination can lead to clogging of pipes, filters and fuel ports, ultimately causing engine failure and starvation. I have seen aircraft that are sitting for more intensive maintenance be improperly checked by maintenance personnel, one such instance led to a mold of some sort impacting a fuel tank