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Designed for Disaster: The DC-10 Airliner

John Loughmiller
Posted by John Loughmiller on November 16, 2009

Four Part Series Examines Design Problems with the DC-10 Airliner. In 1966, American and United Airlines were looking for a wide body airliner able to operate from the shorter runways found in tier two cities. The objective was to transport large payloads - more passengers and cargo - to and from those smaller cities. Airline management felt one key to success was to give passengers a feeling of ...... Read More

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Do Bio-Mechanics Hold the Key to Micro-Robot Flight?

John Loughmiller
Posted by John Loughmiller on November 9, 2009

High Speed Photography and Computational Fluid Dynamics may allow Engineers to Emulate Nature in Flying Micro-Robots­­­­. Flying Micro-Robots offer multiple advantages to the military and law enforcement. Low observability in the visual, aural and radar domains, autonomous operation and portability are all highly desirable attributes of bio-mechanically inspired micro-robotic f ...... Read More

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Stealth Technology, Romulans and Teleportation

John Loughmiller
Posted by John Loughmiller on November 5, 2009

So you think stealth technology was born at the Lockheed Skunk Works in the mid 1970s do you? You really believe engineer Denys Overholser developed the equations and the F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighter was the result. You poor, deluded soul. As everyone knows, the U.S. Navy made a ship disappear during World War Two. Known as Project Rainbow and/or The Philadelphia Experiment, the ship, the U.S.S ...... Read More

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Pilot Pet Peeve #1: The Instrument Panel

John Loughmiller
Posted by John Loughmiller on October 28, 2009

Luddite: N. The Luddites were a social movement of British textile artisans in the early nineteenth century who protested–often by destroying mechanized looms–against the changes produced by the Industrial Revolution which they felt were changing their way of life. (Source: Wikipedia) My friends say I’m a known curmudgeon and a suspected Luddite. On the first charge, I plead ...... Read More

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Hello World! Introducing Propeller Head

John Loughmiller
Posted by John Loughmiller on October 20, 2009

Even today, 106 years after Wilber and Orville did their thing; aviation is something that seems apart from other technology based pursuits.If an airplane transits the airspace 1,000 feet above your head, don’t you squint and look up, searching for the source of the commotion? But you don’t do that when a bus or car or train goes past do you? The subject matter involved makes an impr ...... Read More

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