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Showing 1 to 20 of 3356 for “"flight"”.
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Flight Signs, Flight Symbols
… the significance of historic events of flight through image making; particularly incidents that captured the collective imagination and became part of our cultural memory. These events have surpassed mere entries in historical texts and become mythic. In the terms of Jungian psychology, …
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Top Flight
Top Flight uses personal memoir and the ordinary experiences of everyday life as a vehicle to discuss privacy, self-awareness, learning and personal growth. The exhibit, comprised of twenty-eight large-scale drawings, took the form of an installation, encompassing one wall twenty-eight feet wide …
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Maiden Flight
Christian novel.
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Transpacific flight
… piece is a projection of my first transpacific flight experience, from Korea to the United States. Every flight is somewhat frightening and bizarre to me, but this long flight was quite exceptional. I used to be emotional, and a lot of anxiety and self-reflection possessed me. However, this …
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Flight Observations for Initial Flight Students: Are They Worthwhile?
… two research questions: 1) To what extent are flight observations beneficial to initial flight students? 2) Does it matter in regard to perceived benefit what type of flight lessons the student observes? If so, which specific flight lessons should be designated as suitable for student …
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Compound Aircraft Transport: Wingtip-Docked Flight Compared to Formation Flight
Compound Aircraft Transport (CAT) flight involves two or more aircraft using the resources of each other; a symbiotic relationship exists consisting of a host, the mothership aircraft and a parasite, the hitchhiker aircraft. Wingtip-docked flight is just as its name implies; the two aircraft are …
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Fight or Flight
<p>Fight or Flight is a one-act, science-fiction opera. Outwardly the story of an astronaut who is marooned on the Moon, this dark comedy is an allegorical tale of forced isolation and loss; and of the anxiety and sadness that inevitably result. Musically, this piece began as an experiment in the …
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Long Flight Home
Long Flight Home follows events in the life of James Van Gogh, who grapples with two fundamental tensions: his split from his adopted family and his dislocation from the society in which he finds himself. The novel begins in Johannesburg with James returning, for the first time since their ruction, …
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Flight deck engineering: impact of flight deck crew alerting and information systems on English as a second language flight crewmembers performance in airline flight operations
There are many pieces of flight deck research on general use of written English language technical information and problem solving using technical documentation. Contributory causes of aircraft accidents have been due to misunderstandings of crew alerts and procedural divergence by English …
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In-Flight Learning Based Flight Control of an Unmanned Aircraft System
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) popularity has increased substantially in the last few years. UAVs capabilities continue to improve as a result of advances in battery technology, communication, navigation systems and electronics. Increased popularity has driven researchers to improve UAVs …
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Fight or Flight? Democratic Consolidation and Capital Flight in Latin America
… US$16.3 trillion dollars as a result of capital flight (Kar 2016) representing a major threat to international development efforts. This dissertation investigates why some democracies in the developing world experience much more capital flight than others. Using the experiences of Latin America …
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Flight performance testing of ethanol/100LL fuel blends during cruise flight.
… O-235 airframe/power plant combination. Flight performance data was collected with an engine data monitor (EDM) augmented by flight crew observations. Results indicate linear-like trends in temperature correlation through a set of pre-determined fuel blends. Engine performance limits were …
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Active Flight Path Control for an Induced Spin Flight Termination System
… their nominal positions to ``slant'' the helical flight path in a desired direction relative to the atmosphere, whether to attain a desired impact location, to counter a steady wind, or both. The effectiveness of the control law was evaluated in numerical simulations of a general transport model …
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The impact of GPS velocity based flight control on flight instrumentation architecture
… System (GPS) receiver to close the aircraft's flight control loop. A novel framework to synthesize attitude information from GPS velocity vector measurements is discussed. The framework combines the benefits of high-quality GPS velocity measurements with a novel velocity vector based flight …
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The Futures of Flight
… been present throughout the history of human flight. Events of the past have continuously changed perceptions of possibility in flight and have subsequently expanded the limits of imagination. As these limits expand a number of potential futures arise. Once a futuristic fantasy, flight has …
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Flight: A Story Cycle
Short story collection.
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Flight of the Dragonfly
Novel
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