Word: planes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Take the first airplane. On Dec. 8, 1903, Samuel Pierpont Langley, a leading government-funded scientist, launched with much fanfare his flying machine on the Potomac. It plummeted into the river. Nine days later, Orville and Wilbur Wright got the first plane off the ground. Why did these bicycle mechanics succeed when a famous scientist failed? Because Langley hired other people to execute his concept. Studying the Wrights' diaries, you see that insight and execution are inextricably woven together. Over years, as they solved problems like wing shape and wing warping, each adjustment involved a small spark of insight that...
...interesting experience, not as life harrowing as they made it seem," Shah said. "But you just think it won’t happen to you or your plane...
...bearing’s failure caused the wheel to wobble and tear up additional bearings. "When the bearing failed," Peters said, "it separated the wheel from the axel, exposing the brake pads, causing the sparking." The plane had been in service for only a few months, he noted...
...Harvard students on the plane reported that passengers appeared calm and oblivious to the details of the mechanical failure, which attracted live coverage on several cable networks...
Rachel M. Moore ’08, another passenger, said her mother was flipping channels at home when she came upon CNN, which showed the plane in the air and featured experts giving, alternately, reassuring and gloomy prognoses...