Today was the last day of the Instruments section of flight school. I therefore had to take a check ride: a flight with an alternate instructor pilot whose sole job in the flight was to evaluate my performance. The weather was perfect for an instrument check ride: overcast and hazy; just above the minimum weather [...]
A doctor’s predictions about whether or not various victims of assassination could be saved with modern trauma medicine. Casualty rates in american wars. The importance of medicine in keeping people alive is hard to appreciate. It’s easy to say that the US life expectancy has more than doubled since the nation’s inception, but it becomes [...]
Given the right information, it is possible to predict certain aspects of helicopter performance. For example, given the gross weight of the helicopter, the pressure altitude, the height of the skids above the ground, and the outside air temperature, it is possible to predict the percentage of torque you’ll require to hover. Given all that [...]
So the literature I’ve been reading recently is strikingly diverse: Taking Fire, which I returned to the library already so don’t have the author. Vietnam memoir. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith Donald Duk, Frank Chin The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, Vol II, W. C. Williams [...]