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...of supplies from forward supply hubs to forward forces. To address these challenges and requirements, the author suggests the use of remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) as a potential solution. Focusing on existing and quickly emerging technologies as well as the joint operating requirements, the author proposes RPA performance and design characteristics along with a concept o...

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...A call is being made for an aircraft dedicated to the counterinsurgency (COIN) mission within military academic circles and the special operations community. Support for a COIN aircraft needs hard numbers, given the Air Force’s budget constraints brough...

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...ted effort between these communities is necessary to promote aviation safety. I have assumed that the reader has a working knowledge of glass cockpit aircraft as well as a basic understanding of human factors issues. The scope of this project is narrowed to focus exclusively on automation issues arising from studies of transport aircraft. In spite of this specific focus on...

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...uring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. CAS has been a heavily debated topic within the services for decades. CAS doctrine and training issues have affected aircraft procurement, interservice relationships, and the application and effectiveness of airpower on the battlefield. While much progress has been made since 2001, the services must continue to make CAS more effective. On t...

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...CAS has been a heavily debated topic within the services for decades. CAS doctrine and training issues have affected aircraft procurement, interservice relationships, and the application and effectiveness of airpower on the battlefield. While much progress has been made since 2001, the services must continue to make CAS more effective. On t...

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... that the methods of using airpower to take the fight to the enemy and protect our ground forces during small wars need not involve the most advanced aircraft available. This “low-tech” approach does not suggest using lesser technology per se but proposes a different look for the types of aircraft that can perform a specific mission and for their manner of employment—that ...

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...G = 9.80665 m/s 2 ) Such an engine is within the reach of present ideas. Aircraft propulsion started with propellers in the Wright Flyer, briefly fl... ...ach of present ideas. Aircraft propulsion started with propellers in the Wright Flyer, briefly flirted with rockets in the Bell X1, and finally set... ...eed and groundspeed are not the same thing. The first is the speed of an aircraft through the air, the second is its speed across the ground. They ... ...We say that the air and ground, respectively, are speed references for the aircraft. The speed of the International Space Station (ISS) over the gro... ...ean-sailing vessel can be referenced to the ocean waters; the speed of an aircraft to the air it passes thru; and the speed of a starship can be refe... ...n extension of the Smithsonian Institution in a place of honor with the Wright brothers' Flyer, Lindberg's Spirit of St. Louis, and the Apollo moon... ... Two centuries of flight are chronicled now: 1903 Wilbur & Orville Wright achieve powered flight 1947 Chuck Yager breaks the sound barrier ... ...earch, http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/Superluminal.html. [24] Wright, Jason, “Superluminals and the Speed of Light”, Bulletin of Pure and... ...sics), No. 2, 107-110, 2001, http://www.gallup.unm.edu/~smarandache/Jason-Wright-superluminal.pdf. [25] Young, L. Stephen, "G-Dimensional Theory &...

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...The Brothers Orville (1871 - 1948) and Wilbur (1867 – 1912) Wright made the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air flight, on 17th December 1903. They were not the first to build and fly aircraft, but they invented the controls that were necessary for a pilot to stee...

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...n- ings by the standard of a decade of realities. The book is weak on anti-aircraft guns, for example, and still more neg- ligent of submarines. Much,... ...isappear. Gone—no address. First—oh! it’s an old story now—there was those Wright Brothers out in America. They glided—they glided miles and miles. Fi... ...d a flying-machine of considerable prac- tical value, developed out of the Wright model; but it was not supposed that the Washington War Office had ma...

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...ation Editor in Chief Jim Manis Editor Lucy Morrison Associate Editors Liz Wright Suzanne Harper David Russell Best of Freshman Writing is a publicati... ... in Chief: Jim Manis – HN Editor Lucy Morrison – HN Associate Editors: Liz Wright – HN Suzanne Harper – SW Assistant Editor: David Russell – York Spec... ...t task of recovering human remains, personal effects, and fragments of the aircraft. With the nation caught up in these acts of terrorism, my father’s...

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... new President addressed a large crowd in the drizzling rain. Dirigibles and aircraft flew over the Capitol to mark the occasion. MY C OUNTRYMEN: This... ... J USTICE, M R. P RESIDENT, Vice President Quayle, Senator Mitchell, Speaker Wright, Senator Dole, Con gressman Michel, and fellow citizens, neighbor...