Flight My report is on the technology of flight. Flight is a really important part in life.Without it we wouldn't be able to travel far places in such short times. One airplane is the airbus. A300-600: Advanced version of A300B4-200; major A300 version since early 1984. Passenger and freight capacity increased by fitting rear fuselage of A310 with pressure bulkhead moved aft; wings have simple Fowler flaps and increased trailing-edge camber; forward-facing two-person flight deck with EFIS; new digital avionics; new braking control system; new APU; simplified systems; weight saving by use of composites for some secondary structural components; payload/range performance ...view middle of the document...
It is truly faster than a speeding bullet; the Concorde is both extremely elegant and incredibly expensive. It has an equally interesting history involving environmentalists, an economic crisis, and espionage. Another plane is the Boeing 707.The Boeing 707 is not strictly speaking a plane of the Super70s. However, it was widely in use then and Nixon flew to China on one. The 707 is perhaps the most important plane in civilian aerospace history. It was the first successful jet and put the Americans in a leadership role that is only now being challenged by the European consortium known as Airbus. The "jet age," when airplanes first started using turbine- jet rather than propeller-based engines, can be dated to the efforts of the Germans in World War II. But it was not until the 1950 test flights of the remarkable Comet that jet travel by civilians became a reality. In April of 1952, the first Comet was delivered to British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC). On May 3rd the first Comet officially launched the jet age with a flight from London to Johannesburg, South Africa. It had been a mere three years since the prototype had first flown. Boeing President William Allen saw a Comet at a an air show in 1950 and, in an effort to catch up, literally bet the company of the development of what would come to be known as the 707. This was a surprise to some as Boeing was then known as a defense contractor while Lockheed, with its Super Constellations, and Douglas, with its DC-6s, were the leaders in civilian aircraft. That concludes my report on flight. Those planes were all good planes and still are.
