Monday, June 20, 2011

Gimli Glider


Here is an ACE Project done by me about the Gimli Glider Incident when an Air Canada Beoing 676 ran out of fuel halfway and the pilot managed to sideslip the plane to safety. The near fatal incident was due to a miscalculation of the fuel needed for the journey and also equipment failure. Read on the powerpoint to find out more. To me, this project is one of my most interesting ones as i got to watch videos of the real incident on youtube. For the benefit of you guys, i have posted the videos below with 5 parts in total. Have fun watching!
Part One:






Hope these videos were interesting, now i will procede on to the other similar incident-the Mars Climate Orbiter Failure.

The Mars Obiter had entered Mars at a too low altitude, thus, it had disintegrated due to atmospheric stress. This was also a miscalculation of the distance by the NASA Scientists, as they had converted wrongly using the metric and imperial systems. The obiter could only withstand an atmospherix pressure of 80km, thus, it had exceeded an altitude of 30km and had disintegrated.The ground crew calculating the altitude were not well trained in the metric conversion and got it calculated wrongly and caused the disintegration of Mars Climate Orbiter. Below is also a video of the Mars Climate Orbiter:

So Indeed, you can see the power of atmospheric stress can exert, it can even disintegrate the orbiter, anyway, these are the two related ACE Projects i dont in Term One and i hope you had fun reading through and watching the videos:) As i am coming to the end of this post, i just want to urge people in the US to use the metric scale of conversion instead of the imperial scale!

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