Billy Guckian's Adventures

Space Tourism With all of these rockets and shuttles being sent up to space, man has never been so intrigued by space tourism than ever before. From Elon Musk sending his Tesla Roadster to Sir Richard Branson wanting to sell his space vision, I believe that we are getting closer to making it to a reality. According to Sam Blum's The Space Tourism Timeline , Blum says that space tourism during the 1960s was "viewed as an industry that would one day balloon. Defunct U.S. airliner Pan-Am maintained a waiting list to the moon, while futurists forecasted lunar colonies would be established by the year 2000" (Blum, 2015). The U.S. had to get to work by not only being able to send a rocket to space, but also being able to safely send a person in space. In 1984 a man named Charles D. Walker became the first astronaut to travel to space that was not employed by the government. Charles was working for the company called McDonnell Douglass as a manufacturer and as a contractor

The current status of UAVs Unmanned aerial vehicles have been on the topic of discussion for the past few years because of what risk they can pose to the American people. What is a UAV you ask? Well, a UAV is mainly a model airplane or helicopter controlled by a person on the ground. Nick Wingfield of the New York Times goes on and says that drones can have "eight or more spinning rotors. They also are capable of autonomous flights with programmed coordinates" (Wingfield, 2016). On the civilian side of UAVs, people mainly use them for aerial photography from a high point in the sky but as time goes on, the use of these drones is becoming more frequent in our society. From emergency response to even getting packages from these flying machines the demand is only growing. The way that the government is regulating these drones is really simple in a way. Wingfield says that the drones must be "operated by a pilot who has passed a written test and is at least 16 years o

Cargo Carriers: Should they be exempt? The accident of Colgan 3407 was not only a tragic accident towards everyone who's families who were on this aircraft but changed everything in the aviation industry as a whole. The FAA had to commit to a change in how businesses train their pilots and how much rest they need to be able to have. Fatigue has been the number one issue for this industry because of the ever growing demand of travel from customers. Sarah Huston says, "Pilot fatigue has been a real problem since the beginning of air travel. Long haul pilots have reported falling asleep at the controls and Cargo pilots that fly at night face fatigue from challenging the body's internal clock" (Houston, 2017). I agree with these points because before this accident, the FAA wasn't as lenient with how many hours a pilot could fly consecutively or the rest period for their employees. The job was to get to point A to B in the fastest but cost effective approach but a