Essays on Aviation

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is a United States national authority in charge of regulating all aspects of civil aviation, including airport operations and the protection of the nation's assets during the launch or reentry of commercial space vehicles (United States Federal Aviation Administration, n.d). The organization, which was founded...

The United States Navy's behavioral scientists and the HFACS Framework The United States Navy's behavioral scientists developed the HFACS (Human Factors Analysis and Classification System) to analyze performance decrements in aviation workers. The development of the framework encountered various stumbling blocks related to human performance affecting aviation accidents. The Swiss-Cheese paradigm...

This document is an investigation of an aircraft accident involving a Zonk Air Charters aircraft. A pilot and four passengers on board were killed in the collision. The twin flight took off from Tahoe Airport around dusk, when the weather was not conducive to a flight launch. The clouds were...

United Technologies is a worldwide aviation organization with operations and functions all over the world. This paper briefly discusses leadership, strategy, values, beliefs, organizational behavior, structure, and culture. The results suggest that the organization is best for technological breakthroughs and innovation, and its long-term goal is to lead technology to...

Aerial rescue and fire fighting is referred to by the acronym ARFF. The federal aviation authority has set requirements for airports to comply, including the need for them to have a specific number of rescue and fire fighting trucks. To guarantee a sufficient reaction in the event of an emergency...

Amelia Earhart's Flight Across the Atlantic When she took off to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1927, Amelia Earhart was a social worker living in Boston. A transatlantic flight was sponsored by the publishing firm G. P. Putnam and Sons, and Amelia was the first woman to do so. The...

This is an issue that concerns the delegation of permission to overfly international aircraft. Airspace sovereignty remains the property of the state. In particular, each nation is restricted to a few nautical miles beyond which it cannot assert sovereignty over airspace. For example, in situations where the armed forces of...

Sovereignty and Airspace Control Sovereignty is the control of the airspace shared with a particular state. It can be described as the right of a country to exercise regulatory, legislative, and judicial authorities in the form of national airspace. Under Article 28 of the Chicago Convention, supremacy is the duty of...